Below is a
screen cast of my recent presentation at the Scottish Association of Geography
Teachers 2007 Annual Conference. Sorry it’s taken so long to get finished,
edited and posted on line. I'm also sorry about the audio quality.
During the presentation I refer to
the following websites
Generators
The Generator Blog – 100’s of generators to make learning tasks fun!
Curriculum for Excellence (ACE)
ACE
Draft Outcomes and Experiences (I use Science
as an example)
Science Experiments
Here are links to some videos the
science experiments that I demonstrated on the day:
Exploding
Film Canisters – Demonstrates the build up of pressure (volcanoes)
Rulers
and Air Pressure – Helps children understand the weight of air
The Egg in
a Bottle – Helps children understand the force of air and high pressure and
low pressure air systems.
VideoJug: How To Suck An Egg Into A Bottle
Cloud
in a Bottle – Helps children understand how clouds form and how temperature
can effect cloud formation.
Imploding
Drinks Can – Helps children understand the force of air.
Tornado
in a Bottle – Helps visualise what a Tornado or whirlpool looks like.
Temperature
Inversion – Uses hot and cold water to demonstrate the effects of a frontal
system.
The
Jet Stream – Helps children understand how jet streams move so fast.
Dehydrated snow – Provides a fun context for learning.
You can
find lots more simple science experiments on Steve
Spangler’s website or on the Video
Jug Education Pages.
Redefining Literacy
During this part of the presentation
I mentioned the following web sites and web 2.0 tools:
Search Engines:
Google – The biggest search database on the
planet. Always use the Advanced
Search function and remember that a Google Advanced Search
can return searches for specific file types (including PowerPoint and flash
animation).
Google News – Searches the latest and
historical news on the web.
Google Scholar – Searches academic
journals and papers.
Searchmash – A Google Side Project that
shows normal search results but also image results, blog results, video results
and Wikipedia entries all on one page.
Qunitura – A visual search – great for
project work.
Clusty – specialises in searching the deep web.
Searching the future
web (trapping)
Google Alerts – provide Google with key word searches and it will search the Internet each day for you and deliver and new results straight to your in-box.
RSS – Use RSS Readers like Google Reader to deliver you up-dates when ever a webpage is up-dated.
Social Book Marking – Share bookmarks and favourite internet sites with your colleagues and students by using sites like del.icio.us.
iGoogle – Get everything delivered to one place by creating your own custom home page – that is the same on every computer that you use.
Google Mobile – All of the above but on your mobile phone.
Internet safety
Think You Know – Useful information on Internet safety.
Please leave me a comment below or send me an email if there is anything you think I have missed anything out or if there is anything you would like me to go over.
you do such great work. where are the places that you travel too.
Posted by: geography information source | April 06, 2009 at 07:35 PM