Kick It Up A Notch

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Kick It Up A Notch
with
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What are Interactive Websites

• Animated GIFs http//www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/gbss
  ci/phys/mmedia/
• Java Applets/Physlets
• http//www.hazelwood.k12.mo.us/grichert/sciweb/ap
  plets.html
• http//www.ies.co.jp/math/java/
• http//matti.usu.edu/nlvm/nav/vlibrary.html
• Shockwave/Flash animations
• http//host.explorelearning.com/ESClassic/interact
  .htm
• http//www.concord.org/biologica/webtest1/web_labs
  .htm
• http//science.nhmccd.edu/biol/animatio.htmgenera
  l
• Mpeg, avi, mov
• http//science.nhmccd.edu/biol/animatio.htmgenera
  l
• http//www.chem.lsu.edu/htdocs/people/jchogan/CHEM
  _1201/animation_links.html

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What are the magic words?
To search for interactive sites
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Enter your concept

• Animated Gif
• Applet
• Physlet
• Flash animation
• Shockwave
• Mpeg
• Avi
• Quicktime movie
• Interactive
• Multimedia

• Example
• Evolutionanimated Gif
• Evolutionapplet
• Evolutionflash animation
• Evolution

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Why use these sites in your class?

• To provide
• a risk free environment
• additional exposures to a concept
• a visualization of an abstract concept or one
  that cannot be viewed via normal experimentation
• an interactive introduction/explanation/summary
• opportunity to repeat or control the speed of
  investigation

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How can you use this in your class

• Engagement
• Exploration
• Explain
• Extend
• Summary piece
• Assessment
• Tutorials

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Engagement

• Introduce a new concept with an introductory
  question and a visual

Draw your prediction for the location of a brick
every .1sec as it falls from the top of a
building
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Explore

• What is the difference between a closed and open
  circuit?

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Explain
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Extend
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Have fun

• Created by
• Misty Belmontez
• Instructional Technology specialist,
• North East ISD
• http//learn.neisd.net/tweb/central/mbelmo/index.h
  tml