Wiki The Science Classroom

https://thescienceclassroom.wikispaces.com/The+Science+Classroom

This particular wiki encourages collaboration and communication of natural science topics (Robyler, 258). This particular project appeals to my ultimate goal in teaching of preparing students for their post high school experience in today’s technology heavy educational climate and work place. It allows students to develop a personal ownership to their comprehensive knowledge in Natural science and also physics.

EARTHWEEK-A Diary of the Planet Widget

http://www.earthweek.com

This widget provides daily up to date current events and news in Science and Nature. The widget provides an automated information experience on your browser with current science content (Robyler, 224). This widget would allow me to let students choose their own current scientific event from the constantly streaming widget. Since the events are current, students could further research and then present their results on the topic.

Albert Einstein Quotes Widget

This would be a “no brainer widget” to have in a high school science classroom. To have access on a daily basis to such content would encourage my students and their interest in science (Roblyer, 225). The man is arguably the most influential scientist of all time and is also a personal hero of mine. His quotes are insightful, encouraging, and of course brilliant. For my students to see a new quote of perhaps the greatest scientist of all time on a daily basis with this gadget would contribute so much to their knowledge and perhaps their lives (Roblyer,258).

Web Based Lesson National Museum of Natural History Web Based Student Activities

http://www.mnh.si.edu/education/studentactivities.html

M4 stellar Web Based Lessons from the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History one example http://t.co/ETwTswc6aX #ED527UM

— David Iradji (@DavidIradji) October 18, 2013

As an educator, my students engaging in distant collaborations will be a necessity (Robyler, 258). These web based student lessons and activities are created by the mecca collection of Smithsonian Science. These activities would continually encourage the development of scientific inquiry and critical thinking skills. These are the foundation of web based lessons according to Roblyer and Doering (pg.225). I would incorporate these activities into my classroom lessons and units.

Module 3

Module 3

Urls:
Uniform Resource locators are internet addresses (Roblyer, 2013, p.216). The most essential part of an URL is who the server belongs to and its domain designator. The domain name tells you who the server belongs. The designator allows an educator to determine what kind of group owns the server such as .org, .gov, or .edu (Robyler, 2013 p.216). This is the basic foundation of a website and provides the essential knowledge of its content to an educator/student.

Search Engine:
The Search Engine is the revolutionary tool that allows us to locate information on the Internet. It’s a vital part in most people’s lives especially educators and students. An educator and student must master the art of using search engines by being familiar with all major search engines and also Metacrawlers. Metacrawlers are programs the use more than one search engine at the same time to locate information (Robyler, 2013 p.219). Search Strategies must be developed and taught based on subject and keywords. This will ensure efficient and adequate information retrieval from the Internet.

Internet Tools:
A Podcast is a very versatile Internet tool that can be very useful in the classroom. In an era where virtually every student has access to an audio file and headphones all day every day, for an educator to supply a podcast of a study guide, keywords, basic lectures, etc. could be very beneficial. This allows the student access to material and review all the time. There are many studies that show if you’re studying in the evening as soon as you wake up review that same material it will better retain in your memory. I used this technique throughout college and it became an essential tool especially in upper division science courses. If students have podcasts of information at their fingertip then they can constantly be reviewing material.

Favorite Websites:
Two websites that I feel are personally my favorite especially for education is Merriam-webster.com and google.com.
www.google.com
Google.com is most peoples major search engine of choice. Google is a very simple keyword search site and displays an instant list of websites with URLs that contain the word or phrase searched (Robyler, 2013 p.219). It also includes images, various advanced search tools, maps, and many other search capabilities. It’s my personal and also the greater population go to website and search engine.
 www.merriam-webster.com
 Merriam-Webster.com allows students to have a dictionary and thesaurus at their fingertips. It also contains an audio feature which pronounces the word as well. I personally use it constantly and believe it’s a vital website in expanding ones vocabulary and knowledge. Everyone should have this on their browser based list or bookmark file in order to utilize this site on a regular basis (Roblyer, 2013 p.218).

M3 http://t.co/zxNPF5B3Dg check out Merriam-Websters website geared for student/educator word power #ED527UM
— David Iradji (@DavidIradji) October 3, 2013