Week+6

click here to jump to material related to the lessons which were presented on February 22nd 2010.

Here is a final thought on i-whatevers from the February 11th 2010 edition of the Kanata Kourier Standard.

copyright:
Having worked at the Canada Science and Technology Museum for 17 years, I have had fair exposure to copyright rules since we must follow them. Having written a thesis (even though it was nearly 20 years ago) I have also been made aware of the need for referencing and citing. You will notice that I do reference my material. Also, where possible, I use materials which I have generated. We have a digital camera and I am prepared to photograph what I don't have already. This makes it easier to have the materials which I want and not have to worry about copyright. I will source other material when necessary but this can actually take quite a bit of time! On one exhibit project I sourced images and secured the permissions. It was all I did for weeks! Anecdote: ** Do today's students know about copyright? YES ,** I think so. My son (Grade 7) made his dad a birthday card today. He found a poem on the web. There was a request to give credit in a certain way. My son printed out the reference and glued it on the back of the homemade card. As he said, he buys cards with writing from Hallmark so it is no big deal to give credit for somebody else's work on the card which he has made.

content control and filtering:
I support content control. It may be frustrating not to be able to use you tube in an OCDSB classroom, especially when my brother can in a Lester B Pearson School Board classroom in Montreal. But that's life! I'm not sure that I want my government to control the content but I have fewer issues with schools protecting the students. Many years ago, when the internet was newer, one mother searched the word 'bunny' for a Grade 1 project on rabbits. You can imagine which sites were found!! There have been other times when a second or other meaning has made a search more difficult. The Museum blocks some sites, but will unblock them if we need to go there. Sites with comic strips are usually blocked as are sites with games.

oerb:
​This is what I found on the oerb site. It is similar to what we were planning on the students creating for themselves. It is for the first 20 elements while our activity was to go as far as there were students, and we had more than twenty.

**Periodic** **Table**: SNC1P Resource ID : ELO1031290 Description : Students will have an opportunity to learn more about the **periodic** **table** by working their way through this interactive object. Specifically, they are shown a **periodic** **table** of the elements. Scrolling over reveals the family in colour code, clicking will reveal properties and useful facts about the first 20 elements. Keywords : **periodic** **table**, elements, atomic structure, physical and chemical properties, compounds Resource Type : visual aid, interactive learning resource Creator Name : Ellis, Clayton Creator's School Board/Organization : Peel District School Board Learning Style : Visual-spatial, Verbal-linguistic Uploaded Date : 2006-10-25

This second reference is to a set of activities which support the learning and are 'fun'. They would be useful for those who finish early. **Periodic** **Table**: SNC1P (Catholic) Resource ID : ELO1003085 Description : This object provides several web based interactive sites for further development of the knowledge base of elements and their characteristics leading into the **Periodic** **Table**. Teachers using this resource are advised to ascertain the availability and suitability of the recommended website(s)/hyperlink(s) beforehand. Keywords : **Periodic** **table**, elements, characteristics, links, websites, Catholic, SNC 1P, games, chemistry, interactive learning Resource Type : exercise Creator Name : Wilson, Dan Creator's School Board/Organization : London Catholic District School Board Learning Style : Interpersonal, Verbal-linguistic, Visual-spatial Uploaded Date : 2006-01-10

osapac:
Wow what a list of software. One of the first software packages which I mastered ahead of my husband was **// Photoshop //**. That is one software which makes it possible to take nearly any photo and make it presentable. I use it to straighten, to brighten, to crop. Whatever! The photos of the Colt's Armory printing press for braille were taken by me. I think that this is a software package which I will use as a teacher, and will direct my students to if they think that they will include photos in an assignment. Colt Press on Flickr

Lesson Presentations:
Great Canadians who have contributed to our Canadian identity http://greatcanadians.wikispaces.com/Great+Canadians+Homepage

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald poem - with images http://shannonped3119.wikispaces.com/Week6+Reflection

Aboriginal Spirituality - using Prezi http://lucaped3119.wikispaces.com/Week+6

Grade 10 Optics web quest with Jesse and Allison http://whitmorepage.wikispaces.com/Optics+WebQuest

Grade 9 astronomy SNC1D with Celestia http://ped3119b-mpacitto-wiki.wikispaces.com/Lessons+and+Information

Values in Relgion - Gospel Values http://jaetech.wikispaces.com/Week+6 = = = Thoughts on those lesson presentations (Sat Feb 27th 2010) =

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Overall, I enjoyed the lessons. Some were more engaging than others. I did not know that there were so many versions of the Bible available on-line. That's great. I am a product of the public system so I received very little religious instruction at school but, since it was the 1970s, there was a Christian undertone. I have seen Gizmos in action in the Learning Diabilities class where I volunteer, but I am pleased to see it in use at the high school level. Optics is a new unit so the more support for teachers, the better. I just hope that I can get it set up easily when the time comes. I had not seen Prezi before. That lesson, by focussing on First nations, is much more relevant to all of us. The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald was a new way to look at poetry. It would be particularly appealing to boys, in my opinion. The Great Canadians lesson got us off to a good start. This is a topic which is dear to me. I have always been interested in current affairs. My role in GIrl Guides of Canada has often involved teaching girls about Canada and its people. I have worked on the Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame too. I am least sure on how I would use Celestia in the classroom. I am sure that if I revisit their wiki it will be clearer. ======

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Did the presentations drift towards abstract? Yes. Will those of us presenting this week work to avoid that 'trap'. I'm sure that we will. While the lessons may not have been quite what the prof was looking for, they still fulfilled the objective of giving us resources to use in our own classrooms in the future. ====== = =

If I decide to use comics, some of these may end up in my multimedia assignment, but for now you can enjoy them here :-)