I decided to go through a couple of online courses and tutorials:
Self-Scoring Google Quiz:
- I had previously played around with this a couple of classes ago. I had hoped after watching the tutorial, I would find out how to make it automatically score (I think I misuderstood the word “self-scoring”). Sadly, it still has to be graded by the teacher – unless you only want it to be one question long.
- However, I do think it is a useful tool for homework.
MIT OpenCourseWare: Remixing Shakespeare
- I’m not saying that I know everything there is to know about Biology, but I wanted to learn about something new. Remixing Shakespeare seemed like a fun class – and it was. Basically, they went through how Shakespeare has been transformed on the stage and on the silver screen and how its always being rewritten for the audience.
- There were the occasional technological difficulties.
- The best was the clip from the silent Movie version of Othello – complete with the a horror music soundtrack, lower-than-B level acting, and boards with script. If anyone needs a good laugh, check out minutes 15 – 18!
- If I was a biology teacher, I would most likely assign a biology video for my students to view and write about. I might have them include what they learn, the teaching style of the teacher, and whether it worked for them or not. However, if we were doing a unit on the brain, I may let them choose any of the videos on there. I would have them wrote what drew them to that video, what part of the brain leads to having a passion about something, and whether they were choosing with their frontal lobe or nucleus accumbens
- However, one of the things that I would be cautious of is that before I could let them watch a video, I would need to preview it, which would take a lot of time.
