Ask A Scientist

Hello Everyone,

            I still have not recieved an answer to my question from the Ask-A-Scientist. I had my Astronomy students do the same assignment and they asked a question until they found an archived answer. Maybe that is what should be done in this situation. Ask A Scientist a question that they have previously answered.

 What do you think?

                                                                 Thanks, Adam

Internet Tools

They are called WEB 2.0 tools. There is a site with a list of wonderful interactive tools teachers can use to make presentation fun and exciting.
Here are a few I reviewed:

WEB 2.0

http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/Presentation+Tools

Google Sites

http://sites.google.com/

https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin?continue=http%3A%2F%2Fsites.google.com%2F&followup=http%3A%2F%2Fsites.google.com%2F&service=jotspot&passive=true&ul=1

Google sites is a wonderful place to build free web pages for school or for students. Once again, the word free is a wonderful word to use in the teaching profession. I currently have a Moodle site that I use to place all of my information on but this site is a wonderful share for teachers to use.

PreZentit

http://prezentit.com/

It is no longer available and they are working on a new version.

Animoto

http://animoto.com/

It is a site that takes videos, music, or pictures that you own and creates a video presentation.

Vuvox

http://www.vuvox.com/

Uses pictures and images and can create a moving slide show with music.

Youblisher

http://youblisher.com/

Can take any pdf that you have and basically make an online interactive flappable book.

Prezi

http://prezi.com/

It is like a giant canvas that a painter could work with to store pictures of his work and connect them all together into a slide show. Of course the pictures are like power point presentations slide with video, and music embedding capability.

Snip Snip

http://snipsnip.it/

It’s as simple as choosing a youtube video and shortening it for viewing. I download a lot from youtube so this tool is a great idea to shorten up or snip out the parts I need.

Most of the ones I reviewed are free and I always enjoy a free day of shopping on the internet. Take a look at these sites and tell me what you think.



                                    Thanks, Adam

Investigating Living Science

Wonderful chance at getting hands on into research. I am going to study praire dogs in my local area. If you are interested in doing a study with me or have any input, Let me know.