Thursday, August 19, 2010

1) What did you learn today?

TONS!!!! I am thrilled at the progress I have made in analyzing data with Fathom and at knowing enough of how to make it work so that I can explore extensions. My confidence level in being able to use it with my students, even with one input is much better. I also am tickled with being able to connect directly to Fathom instead of having to go through the TI first for data collection.

2)What questions do you still have with regard to content, technology, and pedagogy?

I still need to work out some bugs with specific ways to maneuver around on the calculator and in Fathom, but I need to practice.

Also, can we get more info on how to "download" YouTube presentations so that they can be accessed and included in a presentation.

3) How can you apply this to classroom practice?

The sonic ranger will be of huge use in physics, as I have not had a real life way to model these motion graphs before. But it would also improve the reason for graphing in my basic algebra classes. The Fathom skills will vastly improve data analysis, letting students EXPLORE, leading to questions and "how else can I look at the data?" Models provided today on data collection gave great prompts to use and give ideas for lessons.



1 comment:

  1. Linda,

    I really enjoyed learning along with you today. Amazing what we can accomplish when we all put our minds together. Also, the feedback from you and your colleagues the other day was invaluable when it came to planning for today. I'm sad tomorrow is the last day (but its time to get back to the family). Enjoy the rest of your summer and best of luck this school year!

    Angie

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