Student Response Network (SRN) SRN allows you to poll students on DER laptops and the following video gives you a bosic overview http://www.jeffstanger.net/Science%20Teaching/srn.swf For more detailed info on SRN see http://studentresponsenetwork.com/ Educational research has shown that formative assessment (assessment for learning) is the most effective strategy you can use to improve the performance of your [...]
Examples of Assessment Using ICT
Making a Vodcast for the Classroom
Presented with the challenge of finding intersting eductaional uses for my students laptops I decided to try and make use of the webcam, adobe premiere, and itunes to make a vodcast. A video podcast or vodcast is an online delivery of video on demand via an RSS (Real Simple Syndication) feed. An RSS feed is [...]
Word Clouds
Click the image below to see a word cloud for my blog. These could be a nice activity for students to rank words on their importance to a topic? See http://www.wordle.net/ An Update:
Free Mind-Mapping Online and Using FreeMind
A great piece of free mind-mapping software is FreeMind. This is included on the Digital Education Revolution laptops in NSW and you can watch some introductory video tutorials below. Or for a pdf guide to this software go to http://www.open-of-course.org/courses/file.php/10/Freemind.pdf Some of the basic shortcuts shown in the video are: alt + arrow key = [...]
Making Science Education a Science
Noel Laureat Dr Karl Wieman disscusses his ideas on dragging science education into the 21st century on his blog at this address He spoke on this idea and the use of clickers in peer instruction on ABC radio (see http://www.abc.net.au/rn/latenightlive/stories/2009/2766093.htm). See more about my use of clickers and peer instruction at http://www.jeffstanger.net/blog/?p=19 I think this [...]
Interaction and Collaboration in Science
The following information was presented at the annual conference of the NSW Science Teachers Association, CONASTA 2010 and the USyd Science Teachers Workshop for Physics 2010. The presentation covered four examples of techniques that involve interaction and collaboration in science lessons. Peer instruction (PI) and Technology -Enhanced Formative Assesment (TEFA) The information describing these two [...]
Using TurningPoint SRS for Formative Assessment
I have been tinkering with using a TurningPoint SRS (Student Response System) or “clickers” for formative assessment in my high school science classes. I always find it most difficult to track down pedagogies for my classroom that are supported by findings of research but in this case I have found two. I presented these in [...]
Your next mission is …
If this is the first post you are reading on this blog the last 4 posts below introduced some web 2.0 applications for education. Go to the bottom of the page and read through the posts in chronological order from the bottom of the page up. Along the way you can explore the videos, webpages, [...]
Other Web 2.0 Applications
Here is a brief overview of some other web 2.0 applications you can use in your teaching. Social Networking Google provides all DET email in NSW and they have just purchased Facebook. They are now developing a version of Facebook for students to use in school. This will be a great way for students and [...]
Wikis & Blogs in Education Part 2: Wikis
A wiki is a collection of web pages typically designed to enable anyone who accesses them to contribute or modify content. That’s the heart of a wiki: Ease of multiple contribution and editing, whether by all users or some defined subset of users. Firstly, to introduce what a wiki is and how you use one [...]
