Movie

For my movie, I'm going to demonstrate how to do a specific lab the students would be performing. The lab is "Law of Conservation of Mass" (fulfills core requirement Standard 4, objective 2). Technology is useful for this project because it is difficult to demonstrate a lab for the whole class without having everyone crowd around a lab bench. If a video of the lab can be projected, it is much more useful. Then I can post the video on my website and students who missed or didn't understand the lab can go view it whenever they want.

I've done my storyboard and started gathering materials. The storyboard took about 30 mins. I might have to add another part to the movie (there are 2 parts to the lab, I've only storyboarded the first part) depending on how long the movie is. So yeah...that's how far I am so far.

My class website!

So for project 1 in IP&T class we had to create a class website. Mine's pretty great! It's all about how chemistry is cool. On the lessons and the syllabus I didn't make them completely finalized...hope that's ok. I think the project was just to learn about embedding documents and making a website in general. Well...I think it's pretty cool anyway....so check it out:

http://sites.google.com/site/highschoolchemistryiscool

Websites in the Classroom

Classroom websites can be pretty dang useful I decided. There have been multiple times in high school when I wished I could see the assignments or the syllabus. I probably am going to have a website for my classroom. I am going to post assignments and a class calendar so there is no ambiguity among students about when things are due. I am also going to put my lecture notes online, so that absent students can catch up. One of the chemistry teachers at Springville High School, Steven Haderlie, has a class website and it's fantastic.

Technology is a wonderful thing, makes everything easier.