Welcome EME 5404! This is blog number two for me...in the other one I have a pretty good record of where I've been mentally over the course of the last year or so. Feel free to check that out at http://spring06eme5207.blogspot.com/. Some of the entries are a bit long, so I'm working on that aspect.
Throughout the instructional computing II class, I would like to look into the facilitation and expansion technology into the classroom. I would really like to know about the ideas and findings involved in the use of varying strategies in the science curriculum. What's out there? What has been tried? How did it work? It would be interesting to see how the ideas can be gathered and combined to try other things.
This is my initial thought. I'll see how it stands up...too broad? too refined? Maybe in the wrong direction? We'll see soon.
There is also some interest in how sims are used for education. I found a space station sim that seems like it would be a great idea for use in my space/astronomy sections...just have to map it to approved curricula and state standards.
2 comments:
Hi Mark! Just wanted say hello, since we're in the same blog group.
I think it's it's great you're a science teacher...I actually started college on that path but switched to math instead. I love the sciences.
Anyway, my url is khensberry.blogspot.com, in case you don't already have it. I look forward to reading and learning about what you've discovered this semester. Good luck!
Hello Mark! Sounds like some neat things going on in your class. In keeping with my theme of WebQuests, I took "planets" and did a search at the San Diego State U site and found a lot of elementary and MS 'Quests. The one really neat HS 'Quest had a broken link. I thought that if you taught both space and earth science, perhaps earthquakes, tsunamis, and other natural disasters (that might result from meteor or asteroid impacts!) might have some interest. One that looked neat had the studetns research the impact various natural disasters could have on different regions of our country (esp. California). It can be found at:
http://www.lifestreamcenter.net/DrB/Lessons/RagingWaters/index.htm
I promise not to bombard with too many WebQuest ideas as I am about to move forward with my Ed Tech interests. Still, they have some use and there certainly seems to be literally thousands of them out there for easy use. Good luck!
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