I found some really great microscopy videos on YouTube as well as some examples of great student project videos. Below, is an example of a student project that made me laugh! I can just see my students creating something similar. Overall, I found many more useful videos on YouTube versus TeacherTube.
Here is a nice animation review of protein synthesis that I can use with my biology students...
Sunday, August 3, 2008
Thing #19: Web 2.0 Awards List
http://www.myheritage.com/face-recognition - this has a feature that can tell you what celebrity that you look like the most and a feature that can tell you which parent you look like more. This may be a fun introduction to a genetics lesson. The kids will love it!
http://www.revolutionhealth.com/ - great blog links and great, useful info in general on health and fitness; allows you to track health and store health info...not sure how secure it is. Another possibly useful site is http://www.peertrainer.com/ - looks interesting, but I haven't tried it. It tracks weight loss and fitness invididually and in groups.
http://www.mothersclick.com/ - lots of useful info here for moms out there
I love the tools below...have already commented on each in previous posts.
http://www.flickr.com/
http://delicious.com/
http://docs.google.com/#all
http://www.revolutionhealth.com/ - great blog links and great, useful info in general on health and fitness; allows you to track health and store health info...not sure how secure it is. Another possibly useful site is http://www.peertrainer.com/ - looks interesting, but I haven't tried it. It tracks weight loss and fitness invididually and in groups.
http://www.mothersclick.com/ - lots of useful info here for moms out there
I love the tools below...have already commented on each in previous posts.
http://www.flickr.com/
http://delicious.com/
http://docs.google.com/#all
Thing #18: Online Applications and Tools
Once again, here is another tech tool that I like! Google Docs is an excellent way to access documents from the web without emailing or putting the document on a USB drive and carrying it around. This past year, I assigned PowerPoint project that had to be presented in class. It was somewhat chaotic trying to open all the different USB drives , and open email attachments on my computer due to Mac/PC and microsoft version differences. Possibly this is the solution. I will have the students upload their docs to Google Doc!
Thing #17: Rollyo
I love the idea of refining searches to several trusted sites rather than having students search billions of sites! Rollyo increases the efficiency of finding information and the accuracy of information by searching only reliable sites.
In this assignment, I divide my students into groups and have them research a specific disease and present their findings to the class. Each group is assigned a different disease.
http://rollyo.com/barrasj/disease_project/
In this assignment, I divide my students into groups and have them research a specific disease and present their findings to the class. Each group is assigned a different disease.
http://rollyo.com/barrasj/disease_project/
Thing #16: Wikis
Added comment to sandbox (comment #6 under "Using Wikis")
Wikis are a great way for teachers and students to collaborate. Teachers can modify assignments or syllabi together by putting it on a Wiki site. Also, students or groups of students can gather information and modify it by creating a Wiki site for a project. For example, each year I assign a different disease to a group of students. This year I think I will have each group create a "Disease Wiki" for their assigned disease and each student in the group will contribute information their wiki site without having to physically meet together, which is usually a problem.
Wikis are a great way for teachers and students to collaborate. Teachers can modify assignments or syllabi together by putting it on a Wiki site. Also, students or groups of students can gather information and modify it by creating a Wiki site for a project. For example, each year I assign a different disease to a group of students. This year I think I will have each group create a "Disease Wiki" for their assigned disease and each student in the group will contribute information their wiki site without having to physically meet together, which is usually a problem.
Thing #14: Exploting Technorati
1. Take a look at Technorati and try doing a keyword search for “School Library Learning 2.0” in Blog posts, in tags and in the Blog Directory. Are the results different? I found that the search results were similar in blog posts, tags and in the blog directory. In all three cases some of the student blog for this course came up.
2. Explore popular blog, searches and tags. Is anything interesting or surprising in your results? I was surprised to see "janet jackson" and "animal testing" in the top 10 searches. Some of the most popular blogs are related to technology. This is not a surprise. There is very useful technolgy information available on blogger sites that may be more helpful than calling customer service when you have a technology problem.
3. Create a blog post for Thing #14 and express your thoughts regarding how Technorati and its features could assist you. Since you have now looked at several tools that use tagging (Technorati, de.licio.us, & Flickr), add your thoughts about the value of tagging information.
Technorati is an excellent searching website for avarage people like us to locate blog sites that we can use to share news, information and lessons. Technorati opens up the world of blogging so that we can all share news and information with each other, rather than relying only on traditional news media for news and information. Tagging information with relevant key words is an great way to find useful information, especially on del.icio.us.
2. Explore popular blog, searches and tags. Is anything interesting or surprising in your results? I was surprised to see "janet jackson" and "animal testing" in the top 10 searches. Some of the most popular blogs are related to technology. This is not a surprise. There is very useful technolgy information available on blogger sites that may be more helpful than calling customer service when you have a technology problem.
3. Create a blog post for Thing #14 and express your thoughts regarding how Technorati and its features could assist you. Since you have now looked at several tools that use tagging (Technorati, de.licio.us, & Flickr), add your thoughts about the value of tagging information.
Technorati is an excellent searching website for avarage people like us to locate blog sites that we can use to share news, information and lessons. Technorati opens up the world of blogging so that we can all share news and information with each other, rather than relying only on traditional news media for news and information. Tagging information with relevant key words is an great way to find useful information, especially on del.icio.us.
Friday, August 1, 2008
Thing #13: Tagging and exploring del.icio.us
3. Create a blog post about your experience and thoughts about this tool.
Del.icio.us is a great website for saving my own favorite or useful websites. It is much easier to search for needed links by searching with tags than searching through hunderds of saved favorites. However, it is even better to have the ability not to just access my own sites that I have saved, but also similar sites that others have found. Often the sites that others have saved provided more information than the sites that I found. Again, social networking on the computer increases the effienciency of finding useful and relevant information. Teaching is now a community effort to find the best resources.
Two heads, or millions in this case, are better than one. Using tags such as "biology animation videos genetics" I was able to find several very useful sites for my lessons.
Teachers and students can share useful websites for student learning very easily on del.icio.us. Also, small groups can share useful websites by creating and using an unusual tag.
Del.icio.us is a great website for saving my own favorite or useful websites. It is much easier to search for needed links by searching with tags than searching through hunderds of saved favorites. However, it is even better to have the ability not to just access my own sites that I have saved, but also similar sites that others have found. Often the sites that others have saved provided more information than the sites that I found. Again, social networking on the computer increases the effienciency of finding useful and relevant information. Teaching is now a community effort to find the best resources.
Two heads, or millions in this case, are better than one. Using tags such as "biology animation videos genetics" I was able to find several very useful sites for my lessons.
Teachers and students can share useful websites for student learning very easily on del.icio.us. Also, small groups can share useful websites by creating and using an unusual tag.
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