Recently, I joined a Beginners Forum on Voice Thread. I’m still learning quite a bit about using different tools. I’m not really even sure how best to use VT, but hope to gain more knowledge on this new and up and coming technology. With help, I would like to use this kind of tool in the classroom or for student use on my school website. Eventually this may be useful for students to use when reviewing lectures or to incorporate long distance learning activities into the classroom. I’ll be researching…

From my Beginners Forum, I found a really cool site that celebrates blogging and uses Voice Thread. I think this is a great example of a way to use blogs with Voice Thread. The site is www.celebrateblogging.com

Check this out! So cool…

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I find that we often talk about being innovative and as science teachers it is really not so difficult to find some kind of technology and then create interesting lessons for students. However, one of the most difficult subjects that I find is related to keeping student’s long-term interest. Students often tell me that when we are discussing a topic, let’s say balancing chemical equations or using moles, that they don’t really think that they will ever use this information ever again. Honestly, I can see a connection to the process that students are using to evaluate the information , but for some students, who may not be all that “scientific” I wonder how I can make stronger connections for them. So I’m throwing out some questions for discussion:

1. What have you found to be the best connectors for students?
2. What have you found really brings them in and gets them interested in topics, even if they may never use them again?

I recently saw this video on YouTube and it kind of took me aback… I didn’t really think about lowering student creativity levels until I watched this. The movie is from the TED website. I think that we really need to be challenging the current views of teaching and how children are learning. Watch the video below. What do you think?

Okay WOW! This is cool… I didn’t even know this site existed until today and this is exciting!! I am really pumped to learn how to use this media and I think that this new bloggosphere is going to get things going. I am interested in using this site to discuss all things science related; especially in education. If you have a topic that you want to talk about in Science Education, please free to lay it on me! Looking forward to future blogs!

Check out the video below to get an idea how Edublogs works.