{"id":27064,"date":"2017-04-07T09:34:55","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T16:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=27064"},"modified":"2017-04-07T09:34:55","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T16:34:55","slug":"friday-fun-making-math-fun-no-fooling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/07\/friday-fun-making-math-fun-no-fooling\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Fun – Making Math Fun … No Fooling!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A few days late, but I just can’t resist a good April Fools’ Day<\/em><\/strong> prank – and Math & Computer Science professor Matthew Weathers<\/strong> of Biola University in California has honed his pranks to a fine art-form! <\/p>\n

He began about 7 years ago using a Halloween prank to liven up his lesson, but decided that they’re better suited as an April Fools’ Day joke.  And he has really become a master. <\/p>\n

The class starts as any typical college math class does.  (zzzzzzz)<\/em>  And like most teachers, he frequently uses a video screen for a lesson.  But for Prof. Weathers, the screen morphs into his stage – and before you know it, things escalate rapidly when a twin “Professor” in the video starts interacting with the real one!<\/p>\n

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Sometimes he’s in front of the screen, and sometimes he goes “inside the screen” to “become” a part of the video itself.<\/p>\n

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Weathers explained that he uses Adobe Premiere<\/em> along with Adobe After Effects<\/em> to create the video skits.  And as one can imagine, he admits he spends a great deal of time practicing to ensure everything works perfectly to get the joke across.<\/p>\n

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"I practiced about 20 times to get the timing right."  And he admits he learned to add audio cues to the video because “that helped a lot" – especially when he’s behind the screen.<\/p>\n

So let’s see him in action, noting that as the years went by he became more elaborate with his creative skits:<\/p>\n

2014 – The Quickest Way to Buy a Book from Amazon<\/strong><\/em><\/u><\/p>\n