Tuesday, March 27, 2007

group work

how do we construct a good group discussion?

HOW DO WE MANAGE EFFECTIVE AND EFFICIENT GROUPS?

effective group works need to allow the students to develop a deeper learning

efficient group work allows answers to be reached in a precise way that eliminates time wasting.

jigsaw method and think pare share but in the way that reports back to a different group are most effective and efficient ways to reach outcomes of tasks and help students to best reach depper learning.

JIGSAW- allows student to become a self expert in a specific part of a group topic then report back to the group therefore experience that 90% learning cos you have to teach it and then having to also learning from others to gain a whole understanding on the concept.

Educational Games Link

http://surfaquarium.com/MI/intelligences.htm

Above is a link for a site educational games depending upon what type of intelligence you are. The links to the gamesare all working so thats a positive but most of of the links actually require java or flash so on a big school server it may not work?

games link






little miss sunshine dance

mp3 file

Monday, March 26, 2007

Educational Video


Podcasting in education-





Podcasts could be used in many ways in education for the students to subscribe to class updates etc.

http://www.digitalchalkie.com/2006/08/07/eudcationau/