Julie Lyst's Blogspot

Software Tools in Content Areas

2006-03-16T23:25:00.000-08:00

Some classroom activities that can be enhanced with sofware are; sweet hypothesis testing, paragraph coherence, process writing, colorful writing, elections concpets, pizza problem solving, presidential comparsions, online surveys, political cartoons and grave thoughts. The types of software that these activities would come from are; material generators, data collection and analysis tools, graphic tools, planning and organizing tools, research and reference tools and content-area tools.

Determining the Relative Advantage

2006-02-21T08:18:00.000-08:00

Relative advantage is where a new method is found and it takes advantage over the old method. For example, a subject might be especially hard to teach, understand or even boring for the student, but by using computers and incorporating games and such. The method may be easier and definitely more fun for the student. More specifically concepts that are abstract or complex like geometrey can now use tools like the geometer's SketchPad and problem-solving software.Graphic display make any subject more concrete for the student, it gives a visual aid for them. Also helps student become formuliar with technology. I believe students are more motivated when technology is at its highest, therefore when students have the opportunity to use computers it opens a door that might not have been open.

I have a blog spot

2006-02-21T08:15:00.000-08:00

Here is my first post