LWICT at GSC

I passed on an interesting link to Bec last week (http://www.mcvideogame.com/) that I thought she might use with her Year 10 S&E class. Bec has taken the idea and developed it. She is using the game as a stimulus to explore the various aspects of business. Students initially play the game on [...]

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Bec has expressed some interest in using IWB and laptops with business simulation game – http://www.mcvideogame.com/ to engage her Year 10s in her current economics program. We are meeting next week Tuesday Block 4.

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I used the IWB to help the Year 11 students revise.  I find it especially useful for stepping through the algorithm of a program.  I have one student at the board acting as the program counter/ instruction register and another acting as the ALU/ control unit (although I didn’t use these terms with them because they haven’t yet learned them- they will in 2007) .  The rest of the students [...]

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Sarah and Olaf have both installed all of the IWB software, GridPic and Geogebra.   They have also connected to the IWB to fix the driver problem.  Ricada and Shawn have installed all software but have not yet connected to the board.
Next step – get a trial with IWB and Year 10 students.

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Today I presented an afterschool session on using the IWB and some specialised maths programs to engage maths students.
First we looked at how the IWB works briefly.
Then we looked at using GridPic with images.  GridPic has several equations built into it.  A picture of a shade cloth was chosen and the group worked together to [...]

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Alana is doing an awesome job with the careers classes.  She has arranged some team teaching with Claire and Cherie.  They are now fired up to use the IWB.
Follow-up Required:
Meet with Cherie re:  Year 11 English Exam prep Week 4 Thurs Block 3/4
Meet with Claire re:  creating a Year 10 program for the last two [...]

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Alana has used the IWB to show her Careers Video about motivational individuals – such as Layne Beachley shown here. They then used the IWB to note interesting facts from the video. Students were able to write directly on the IWB using the IWB software. Alana used a flip chart that I created as a [...]

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Installed IWB software on Alana’s computer.  (Problem connecting IWB to computer – Kevin discovered that IWB must be switched off before connecting to USB, connect USB and then power on the IWB)
Alana saw heaps of potential and is going to have a play with the software over the holidays.  I will continue to try to [...]

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I took my own Info Sys 12 class to the IWB.  We covered some hard algorithm trace table activities.  Students took turns highlighting the algorithm code and then translating that into an action on the trace table.  They were the quietest and most engaged that I have ever seen them.  They also enjoyed working together [...]

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The “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” Year 10 Class used the IWB today to play a simulation at http://www.mcvideogame.com/index-eng.html.  The purpose of the site as explained by the site is below:
 ”For decades McDonald’s corporation has been heavily criticized for his negative impact on society and environment.There are inevitably some glitches in our activity: rainforest [...]

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