Sunday, April 22, 2007

One last time for this course....

This is the last blog post for this course, and I've really enjoyed it, and gotten some really meaningful and thought provoking feedback in the last 6 weeks. As my role in teaching has recently changed, my target has shifted a bit. My last link is physics related, since I'll be teaching physical science along with chemistry next year. The site I found was http://www.learner.org/exhibits/parkphysics/. It talks about the physics behind different parts of an amusement park. The interactivity isn't as high as there has been on some of my sites, but it does a pretty good job of instructing, then giving the kids a fun way to be assessed.

I'm really looking forward to next year, as I design lessons, and I take the time to integrate the things I've found (or new things I discover) into my teaching. I can't see anything but benefits to using these ideas, and though there have been setbacks, I look forward to expanding my teaching with this technology.

1 Comments:

Blogger BIS said...

Matt,
I look forward to working with you in the near future. In one of Clayton's comments he was puzzled why the simulations were not effective. I wonder if it has something to do with the fact we are not a visual society and may have a hard time visualizing them. I do think they can be useful in conjunction with actual experiments, and hey, maybe you could just design your own - or work with an AP Computer class to help you out!

Also, could you e-mail the final piece we did together a few weeks back?

Thanks,
Beth

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