Always excites me every time you upload a new video. I know I haven’t been commenting on your videos as much as I used to but I still watch them and they still teach me a lot. Nice to see how often you upload new videos. Keep it up with fantastic work. 😊❤️😉👍
@@SaurabhKumar-dp1rj haha, I love that you think of it as a class. Are you in school right now? If so, are you taking igneous petrology? Or are you just curious about the topic? :)
Hey sorry for arriving late at the party, but not even chatgpt could get me out of this one lol. In the harker diagrams that you show for the alcali-lime index, when there is a rich silica magma there is low CaO and high alkalis. How is it possible that calcic magmas have high SiO2 and high CaO (Compared to alkalis) when in the harker diagram it shows that at high SiO2, the CaO2 is low?
Excellent video! Do you find that making these videos helps perfect your ability to communicate geological scientific information? It may seem like an obvious question but I'm curious? I did my first poster session the other day. I want to be a geological science teacher/professor one day and would like your advice on how to improve communication skills. I anticipate that it takes practice? Also I appreciate the review on the major element indices. And I LOVE trace elements. I'm going to be interpreting some trace element data soon from ICP-MS and am super excited to finally practice this skill and interpret real data!
YES ABSOLUTELY! Making these lectures has greatly improved my presentation/speaking/communication abilities, that is in part why I make them. Congrats on your first poster presentation btw!! That's so exciting! In terms of advice, I would echo that it is practice practice practice. But I also think if that is the route you are going, you will likely get a lot of practice through being a teaching assistant which is often required of graduate students. So I highly recommend fully embracing your teaching assistantship and really trying to connect with your students, because they are going to give you so much feedback (even if they aren't aware), they give you facial expressions, they give either engagement or lack of engagement, all of which can be helpful for you to improve your teaching style. However, sometimes the lack of engagement is not your fault, they are just a quiet bunch, but most of the time, when I have improved my teaching style, my students become more engaged (they ask/answer questions in class, they discuss problems with each other, etc.). The other thing you can do to improve your general communication skills is to continue to go to conferences and present posters and talks. The more you do the more confident you become and you also get a feel for how people interact with you at each type of presentation and you get practice answering questions you might not have a clear answer to (which is a useful skill haha). Lastly, I LOVE trace elements too!! They give us so much information! And congrats on getting some data soon! I plan to get some data soon too, it is so exciting, isn't it?! :D
@@GEOGIRL thank you for the kind words and expansion on your experience. You should consider making a video about your views on education and I’m curious if you have opinions on how geoscience education is conducted in the classroom.
@@anarcho-geologist4528 Yes! I want to do that kind of content so bad, but I feel like I need to get further in my teaching career for people to actually take me seriously haha.
@@anarcho-geologist4528 haha, that's exactly why! Because I am not a professor yet. I literally have zero full professorship experience. But once I do I figure I will have more room to talk :)
How are you pumping a full lecture every few days? Unless you have a small army of cobble-sized minions literature reviewing, summarizing, creating presentations , recording, editing, uploading.. etc) Anyway.. nothing against igneous rocks and volcanoes but are you by any chance going to cover some sedimentary topics?
Haha, no I am not pumping these out that quickly, it takes me foreverrr to do the research for these videos! I made many of these videos that are just coming out now over the summer actually and am only releasing them now ;) And of course! I can't wait to get to sedimentary topics, I plan to do a whole playlist over sedimentology/stratigraphy and another whole playlist over carbonate petrology! I even hope to eventually do one over structural geology, but that may be a bit further out because it is not a strength of mine lol. I actually only started with the igneous pet playlist because it was the most requested, I would've preferred to start with sedimentary;) but I love it all, so it will all be on my channel eventually :D
Interesting Discussion. Were you Legally Eligible to use the "Doctor" Title once you were handed your PhD? Are there any Rules/Laws that Govern this? Just a Curious Question.
Yep! I have done both :D The bowen's reaction series I did very early on in my channel: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qbLASpeXe9s.html, and the QAPF I did in a more recent video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-x1s3TYVcccA.html :)
