Hey! Try this game (programmed in flash, found by Toby Booth in our course). This is a typical internet flash application that will get you addicted in no time. It may be that you can use it with junior years to explain some simple physical applications of mechanics laws in Physics.
Another one called ouverture facile [...]
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For our university Digital Learning course we did an immersion task which consisted in creating an ‘infomercial’ for the use of technology n the classroom. It is available in this previous post, and you will find below the mind maps which reflects upon the main features and issues of digital video in our KLAs (science [...]
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See here how some simple videos and ipods can be used as a “take home message” for specific scientific vocabulary or concepts.
Essentially, teaching vocabulary the ‘old way’ as a list of words to “memorize” and “regurgitate for the test” is certainly not the most effective way. I know, for I was a good science kid, [...]
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This article from Hoffenberg and Handler (2001), is not the most recent we can find about the benefits of making videos as an educational tool… but surely the principles described there still hold today!
The main idea is that video-making must have a purpose, which means it must be oriented towards the curriculum or, as the [...]
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