Archive for February 2008
Teaching Sound and Youtube
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: February 29, 2008
- In: doppler effect | junior cert | leaving cert | lyre bird | mr noon | sonic boom | sound | teaching sound | youtube
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I’m teaching Sound with both Junior Certs and Leaving Certs at the moment.It was pretty cool to have ready access to these amazing clipsSonic Boom: very useful when discussing the Doppler Effect.As usual there are loads of related clips: Lyre bird imitating a chain-saw.Not sure about the relevance, but this has to be seen (and heard) [...]
Laptops from €249
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: February 27, 2008
- In: dataloggers | labquest | laptop | projects | Science | scifest | xplorer | young scientist
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This form Dell From €249 plus delivery. I don’t know the specs but I reckon they would be ideal for working with dataloggers in Science projects like Scifest and Young Scientist, and I can’t imagine they are more expensive than the alternative mobile dataloggers; LabQuest and Xplorer GLX You would still have to use their [...]
F = ma youtube clips
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: February 23, 2008
- In: delicious | website | youtube
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I’m in the process of putting youtube physics clips onto del.icio.us There are just a few, related to teaching F = ma Inertia: Slo mo balloon burst Martial Arts: Breaking 100 Cinder Blocks And here’s a nice introduction to Vectors
Interactive Whiteboard Video
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: February 21, 2008
Ruth McElhone gave a presentation during the CESI conference last month on using the Interactive WhiteBoard (IWB). She mentioned that she had put an instructional video on Youtube but I could never find it until it appeared in Ewen McIntosh’s favourites on his delicious site, which in turn get featured when you sign up to [...]
More Scifest Projects
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: February 21, 2008
I have been thinking of some more possible projects for Scifest 2008 Does water-divining work? Do Horoscopes work? How much energy is saved by switching appliances onto ‘Standby Mode’? An Energy-Meter is available for this. Can girls really multi-task better than boys? If any of these grab your fancy let me know!
Youtube and Education
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: February 20, 2008
The excellent Cool Cat Teacher Blog recently posted about youtube being blocked and has given her own top reasons why it is such a great educational resource: 1) Youtube has some great resources. 2) Youtube has valid educational uses. 3) With a rating system (G, PG, PG-13) or even an E rating for education, we could [...]
Youtube in schools (again)
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: February 12, 2008
- In: Education | schools | youtube
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As every teacher knows, Youtube is blocked in schools in Ireland. The problem, as I understand it, is that the NCTE have two levels for rating sites; Conservative and Very Conservative. It’s no that youtube does not qualify for either category and so schools don’t have the option of whether to allow it or not. It may be [...]
Chain Reaction part 2 – Rube Goldberg machines
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: February 11, 2008
One of my very first blog posts was about a Chain Reaction project which I carry out with Transition Year students. The technical term for these things is actually Rube Goldberg machines. From Wikipedia: A Rube Goldberg machine is an incredibly overengineered apparatus that performs a very simple task in very indirect and convoluted fashion [...]
We are all monkeys
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: February 11, 2008
This is a wonderful four minute clip which trys to dispel the myth that humans and monkeys are completely different. Or that we are supposed to be the clever ones. I play this regularly at the end of a class. It doesn’t seem to have the same affect on students as it did on me [...]
CESI conference 2008
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: February 11, 2008
I attended the CESI conference over the weekend. It was a wonderful occasion. I hope to blog about the various presentations over the next week or so. I have been to plenty of conferences in the past but can never one where there was such an amount of energy coming from the floor. I think [...]
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