About

Hello and welcome to my website.

I’m Farid Minawi, educational technologist and physics educator.

My journey in education started in 2001, as a physics and math teacher for high school classes.

I built the website Physics Zone (physics-zone.com) in 2005. At that time, I wanted it to be a resourceful physics website for upper high school and undergraduate university students.

My journey with educational technology started in 2007, when I developed several simulations using Adobe Flash™ and the ActionScript language and published them on the site.

When Adobe Flash™ reached its end of support and was sunsetted and phased out of modern web browsers, I had to rebuild the simulations again from the ground up, this time using the CreateJS framework, and I am still adding simulations to the site.

As a physics teacher and a physics lab instructor, I enjoyed introducing the subjects by approaching real-life situations from different points of view that gain interest simply and by integrating the theoretical study with the experimental work and digital learning activities.

My approach to teaching is, in general, to guide the students to discover rather than just receive, which makes the students taste the material, not just understand it.

I also have a passion for electronics, mainly for microcontrollers like PIC and Arduino. One of my notable projects is a PC-based oscilloscope built using a PIC microcontroller, showcasing my interest in combining physics and technology.

My motto in learning is the saying of Henry Ford:

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.”

My native language is Arabic, and I speak English quite well.

You can contact me using the contact form here or on my LinkedIn profile.

Thank you for your interest in knowing more about me.