24. Tori Scott
This is my class website! I’ve always loved science, but this year was a whole new experience
for me. In our class Mr. Nash gives us multiple ways too look at science. There are so many
new things to learn that it’s truly fun to experience it in different ways. I came into this class
thinking it was going to be him lecturing and us taking notes. This year was the first year for
me that it’s all been so hands on.
This class really makes us think. Mr. Nash will just give us something, for instance a visual, and
ask us to write about it. Like what we think it represents and our thoughts and opinions on it. I
really enjoy doing this. It allows us as students to share what were thinking. That’s one of my
favorite things about the website. We’re able discuss and blog about the things we do in class.
We each get to share as individuals, which is pretty amazing because each one of us think
differently. This also allows us to learn on a completely different level.
I’d have to say that if there is one thing i’ve learned this year would be that science is not black
and white. Thats a big misconception i’ve had. Through the year though i’ve began to learn and
realize that there is always a gray area. The site gives us the opportunity to talk about it and
understand more.
Tori Scott :)
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25. Rachel Huntsman
I am a student in the dual-credit biology class that uses the blog you have been discussing. I just
wanted to let you know my thoughts on our use of the network.
I really think it is a beneficial way of learning, and would recommend it to any teacher in order
to get their students to actually think about learning.
I will admit I was one of the students who took the class just to get this major required science
class out of the way before college. However, this coming from a person who really doesn’t
enjoy science at all, I have found that I enjoy this class. I feel like I can analyze what I learn and
discuss things with other students rather than simply fill out a work sheet and answer test
questions.
I honestly think I will retain things from taking this class, and I can say I have benefited a great
deal from it.
I also like the idea that other people, such as yourselves, are actually reading this blog and
looking at what we are learning and how we are learning. It makes me think about what I will
post because I know someone from the other side of the world might read it.
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30. STUDYING
OUR OWN
WORK
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31. “Writing Online:
What Really
Changes?”
the full story
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32. (Table 1) Students who constructed comprehensive summary of
nutrition unit via online blog post for a wide and potentially global
audience (even group):
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33. (Table 2) Students who constructed comprehensive summary of
nutrition unit via online blog post via MS Word document handed in
directly to teacher (odd group):
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34. A closer look...
traditional online
average exam score:
43.2 43.4
readability: 9.1 8.2
word count: 638 399
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35. a typical
“traditional
report”
count:
566
score:
50
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36. a typical, “blog post”,
or “post”
count:
399
score:
51
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37. *in contrast
to the blog...
here we see a
“discussion
thread”
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49. “I think it would be really cool to have a
sweet coral like Osha found that was 350
millions years old. (Rugosa spp.) I also
found it interesting that there were some
freakin ancient corals in IOWA!”
~Torin McKinley, 2008
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53. “...by using the ning site, while just thinking
my thoughts out loud into cyberspace, an
author heard and sent me a piece of
ancient history.”
~Torin McKinley
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54. “What if school wasn’t like real life...
what if it just was real life?”
~Chris Lehmann, SLA principal
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55. "This instrument can teach, it can
illuminate, yes, it can even inspire. But it
can do so only to the extent that humans
are determined to use it to those ends.
Otherwise, it's nothing but wires and lights
in a box."
~Edward R. Murrow, (about television)
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56. This presentation:
http://www.slideshare.net/nashworld
My blog:
http://nashworld.edublogs.org
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