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Bei, thinking about creating some online energy training modules
on my website like what I described about the music theory book.
A short lesson, multiple choice questions with link to each choice,
the correct choice would segway into the next lesson. Could do it
with just pdfs and links so that it is printable. What do you think?
Here is my table of contents: 1. Energy, what is it and how does
it work? 2. The building and you, what does it need? 3. Keeping warm
4. Keeping cool 5. Draw a hot bath 6. The lights are on 7. Modern
conveniences aka appliances 8. Is solar for you? 9. Where has all
the water gone? 10. Safety first!
I had an instructor whose method was, tell them what you are going
to tell them, tell them and tell them what you told them. I will make
a bullet point list first and a brief summary paragraph. This I will
post on linked in. Then I will follow with the lesson, a review
and the mutiple choice question.
Yes, one lesson at a time. Trying to keep my readers engaged and drive
traffic to my site. Will take work/time.
Visual aids/graphics are vital and the most difficult piece for me.
You will need a computer with Word in order to help.
Help is my middle name. Going to be getting "Word", and MORE, on
the Second. Trade-in is in the bag.
Draft for lesson 1: +defined +source +measure +btu +kwh +conduction
+convection +radiation +energy-comfort-climate. The +s are dots for
bullet points. The summary paragraph will take some time, get back
to you.
Here is draft of 1st summary, Welcome to our first lesson of Energy,
Your Home and You. We hope it will help you better understand how your
home uses energy and then investigate ways to be more energy efficient,
spend less on utilities and do your part to help preserve our big home,
planet earth. We will begin each lesson with a list of topics, a summary
paragraph and then get into the details. The entire content is
a collection of pdfs so you may print a copy if you chose. Each topic will
include a multiple choice question at the end. If you answer correctly
it will lead you to the next topic, if not it will direct you to review
the topic again. Please have fun learning. Lesson 1. Energy, what is it
and how does it work? +defined +source +measure +btu +kwh +conduction
+convection +radiation +energy-comfort-climate. Taking a break now.
Update(questions):
New(different) choice letters, Link back to "Home", what is home?,
Lesson 1, change "Next lesson" to "Lesson 'N', PDF version and link to.
So each topic (a section in a lesson) would have 4 pdfs. The topic,
the correct choice followed by next topic and 2 incorrect choices.
So we have lessons and topics under lessons. I am working on lesson 1
Energy, What is it and How Does it Work?, topic 1, Defined. By the way
the title of the course is "Energy, Your House and You". A picture
is worth a thousand words. That why we need pics and graphics in
the lessons. This is going to be a long project, a book really.
You would not need a link back to the lesson because that is where you
are. Let's say there are 3 choices, pick the right one, you get an "at
a boy" and the next lesson. Pick the wrong and you get an oops and
a link back to the lesson you were on.
I see you are collecting my script. You have the bullet points for lesson 1.
Here is more for the summary paragraph.
"Energy is everything, well in a way. I believe in creation and everything
was made from energy and embodies energy. That's the only bit of philosophy
I will offer and I know many have different theories. Henceforth this will be
a technical study. Lesson 1 focuses on textbook definition of energy. As you
read this entire course it is important to visualize how what you are reading
relates to you and your home. Step away for a moment, walk around your
house, look at it from the street and meditate on energy, your home and you.
I often like to go to Wikipedia for definitions and discussion but when you look
up Energy there, you come up with a bunch of high falootin' words from a physics
professor. Granted energy can get complicated but we will strive to make this
a collection of lessons for the ordinary man and woman and remember our title,
Energy, Your Home and You so we will stick to energy as it relates to
a commonplace home. Look at the bullet point list of 9 topics in this lesson again.
Ok, let's dive in! Bei, my idea for a picture here is a confused student looking
at a professor with a complicated chalk board.
On your mark, get set. Go! Feel the energy? The human body is a marvelous and
beautiful organization of systems all working together to use energy and we will use
it again as an analogy in further lessons. Our example here illustrates the two
forms energy takes, potential- on your mark, get set and Kinetic- go! Some
synonyms for potential and kinetic are
Static & Dynamic
Still & Moving
Stored & Released
Water behind a dam & Water flowing through a dam
An unlit match & A burning match
So, what is energy? It is work, light or heat. Most often we will be thinking of
energy as heat. Try this experiment:
Rub your hands together, fast, faster, keep going. How do they feel? Warm, right?
You worked to generate heat or energy.
Some science is required here. Thermodynamics is the study of heat energy and
how it works and moves. The first law is: energy is neither created nor destroyed
but just moves around from place to place, object to object. The second law is:
Heat dissipates or moves to cold.
These laws apply to our physical universe but to try and understand it on a smaller
scale imagine that you, your house and the space around it like a bubble out to
your property line is the universe. You were granted 1,000 forever hot burning
coals for energy. Let’s say 100 are in your house and the other 900 are in the
bubble. You are cold so you get to work moving coals inside until you are warm.
You wind up with 200 inside and 800 outside. The energy in your universe is the
same 1,000, you just moved the energy around. Can you see the relationship
between work and energy or heat? Do you see we are just moving energy or heat
around like moving furniture until we are satisfied?
Here is another example that helps us understand potential and kinetic energy. Get
your Crochet set out. Your opponent lands his ball right up to yours touching it.
Now you can smash him away by placing your foot on your ball, hitting it with the
mallet sending your opponents ball away. Now picture this: Your ball with your foot
on it is your house. Your opponents ball is the heat from the sun causing you
discomfort. The smash from the mallet is the work of your air conditioning system
sending it elsewhere. At some point all three objects, your ball, your opponents ball
and the mallet had potential or embodied energy and at some other points they all
had kinetic energy even your ball with your foot on it because that kinetic energy
from the mallet was moving through it to knock your opponents ball away.
The two most important things to remember for our purposes are, think of energy
as heat and that we are just moving this energy around so we can be comfortably
warm on a cold day or comfortably cool on a hot day.
elesson = energy lessons. It is a web page. A web page is a medium to dispense
to the World Wide Web, information, in the form of text and pictures, and interface
or interact with the web page and the web page’s source or author. The visitor reads
and sees and interacts, navigates pages, operates applications, such as games
and videos, makes reservations, orders and pays for goods and services,
and communicates with others. But you know all this.
"Tell me more about elesson."
The web page, "elesson" can be linked to "hersratingservices", with a simple line
of code, placed into the hersratingservices code.
Typical code:
<button onclick="openelesson()" type="button">
<img src="http://elesson.com/access.jpg" /></button>
The button will be an image of the words "ENERGY LESSONS", or something similar.
When the visitor clicks the button, a new window opens with the elesson web page.
The code(function), to open the page is inserted in the head/script section of
the hersratingservives code. The code to open the page is this:
function openelesson(){
window.open("http://elesson.com");
}
The button will be an image of the words "ENERGY LESSONS", or something similar.
When the visitor clicks the button, a new window opens with the elesson web page.
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