Week 8 thing 19

I "flew" to a prefecture in Tokyo where I lived some years ago (the year shall go nameless). It's called Nakano and I found the subway station where I used to get off to walk to my apartment. I then flew all over the U.S. visiting my siblings and mother! I can see this being a "wow" tool to show students a global perspective on a particular issue. For example, in science, as we talk about habitat loss in environmental science and endangered species, we could 'travel' to the region where the species are endangered just to give a better sense visually and making the content more relevant to students' lives.

Week 8 Thing 18

Slideshare is great. Saves a lot of time if you find a slideshow that fits exactly the info you need. The one I chose is one on population ecology. It is a good, basic but entertaining slide show presentation of factors which affect population density. See below:

Population Ecology Intro

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Week 7 Thing 17

I added a subscription to a science podcast called Science on the Wild Side. It would be great to refer students to Google Reader and give them a choice of reading or listening to an article about a content-related topic. For students who are not great readers and better audiologic learners and who have their Ipods attached to their ears at all times, this might be the way to go. There are many resources out there. Pretty impressive.

Week 7 Thing 16

I posted a video from You Tube showing immune cells at work. I chose the video because the graphics are amazing and students these days are used to being wowed visually! I can see video postings as being very useful for library sites to help students navigate through information. This generation couldn't use a library catalogue to save their lives. Might as well get comfortable with technology tools that students are far more likely to access.

One thing I don't like about youTube is that it takes time to sift through the thousands of videos that are posted in order to find just the right one.

Below is the video: