This
week in our lecture we discussed different online resources that are useful to
both teachers and students. One resource that stood out to me was the Power
House Museum Website.
After
visiting the site myself I found it to be a great resource for students with
unlimited information on a variety of topics. One idea that I could use as a
teacher would be to set as a case study assignment on a particular subject that
the powerhouse offers. The website also offers an Education Program for
teachers to check out what is happening in the current semester at the
powerhouse. This is a fantastic resource as it enables teachers to organize
excursion for their class as well as themselves as they powerhouse run sessions
for teachers.
Software
Development and Programming
This
week in our tutorial we had a presentation of software development and
Programming. Within the activity presented I was introduced to a new program
called scratch.
Scratch
is a programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive story.
It is an easy to use program that is free to download. This is great program
that you could use with the younger students in years 7 and 8 to give them an
idea of basically how softaware programming would work.
References:
LifelongKindergartenGroup. (2012). Haunted Scratch.
Retrieved May 1, 2012, from Scratch: http://info.scratch.mit.edu/node/165
LifelongKindergartenGroup. (2012). Scratch. Retrieved
May 1, 2012, from Scratch: http://scratch.mit.edu/
Powerhousemuseum. (2012). Education Programs.
Retrieved April 2012, from Powerhouse Museum:
http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/education/
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