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news trends 2. SLOW MOTION: Taking video of a reaction or something that happens too quickly for the human eye. One example is the experiment comparing the rotation of helicopter blades made from different types of paper. Students download the video onto the computer and use the slow motion feature to count rotations. 3. STUDENTS CAN RECORD THEIR PREDICTIONS OF RESULTS ON VIDEO. After the experiment, they describe what happened, make changes, and videotape the results with commentary. 4. HAVE OLDER STUDENTS VIDEOTAPE THEMSELVES DOING EXPERIMENTS. Share these videos with younger students. 5. CAPTURE LIVE ACTION. For example, one of our teachers took a ProScope connected to her laptop FIVE WAYS TO USE VIDEO EQUIPMENT IN SCIENCE LABS Science and computer teachers from the Convent/Stuart Hall of the Sacred Heart Elementary School in San Francisco, share the following ways they use video in their labs: 1. INSTANT REPLAY FOR CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL CHANGES. By using the viewfinder of a video camera, students don’t even need to connect to a computer to review the reaction again and again before writing it up in a lab report. and also to a projector. The class was working on an experiment involving the development of fish embryos. To capture the growth of the fish on the days that the students were not in her class, the teacher videotaped the event for later viewing in class or on the Web site. See student video footage at: http:// a l b e r t . s a c re d s f.o rg / ~ m a c a d m i n / unkefer/NECC08/Site/NECC08.html SAVING MONEY WITH VIRTUAL LABS Online courses cost Sites We Like: http://communications.dpsk12.org/reform Denver Public Schools’ School Performance Framework is an interesting model that allows the district to see how much of an impact the schools are having on their students from year to year. The Web site focuses on two areas: 1) Is the educational program a success? and 2) Is the organization effective and well run? The Denver community can visit the site regularly for up-to-date information about SPF. They can find links to general information about SPF, which include framework guides, rubrics, sample scorecards, and a glossary of terms. $300/semester. If a school were to use a “lab kit” to perform labs, the cost of the kit alone would be approximately and would contain enough materials for one student. Assuming a class of 25 students, this would equal $2,250. [Source: Aventa Learning, www.aventa learning.com] $ approximately $90, 18 | TECH & LEARNING http://albert.sacredsf.org/~macadmin/unkefer/NECC08/Site/NECC08.html http://albert.sacredsf.org/~macadmin/unkefer/NECC08/Site/NECC08.html http://albert.sacredsf.org/~macadmin/unkefer/NECC08/Site/NECC08.html http://communications.dpsk12.org/reform http://www.aventalearning.com http://www.aventalearning.com

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