Posted by tropin on 22nd October 2009
Naives” with minimal prior Internet search experience (top), and “Savvies” with a lot of Web search experience (bottom). Images show patterns of activity for first brain scans (left) and second brain scans (right). Note during the second brain scans, which is after Internet training, both Naives and Savvies have similar brain patterns.
First-time Internet Users Find Boost In Brain Function After Just One Week
ScienceDaily (Oct. 19, 2009) You can teach an old dog new tricks, say UCLA scientists who found that middle-aged and older adults with little Internet experience were able to trigger key centers in the brain that control decision-making and complex reasoning after just one week of surfing the Web.
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Posted by tropin on 5th October 2009
100 Ideas for Data Projector and Document Camera
Ideas for the classroom from Umatilla-Morrow teachers
- Demonstrate math manipulatives
- Show visuals for science experiments
- Modeling of the physical process of writing – hand movements
- Art – Modeling
- Audio visual resources from internet
- Whole class participate in practice state test
- Isolate new vocabulary
- Show and Tell
- Book Reports
- Highlighted good vs bad grammar in writing
- Showing selected DVDs or Videos
- Going over tests
- Glyphs
- Graphing, charts, tables
- Showing science experiment results
- Creative writing – add a line
- Use Visor to go over practice tests/problems highlighting one item at a time
- End-of-Year video showing progress of work
- As an overhead projector
- Step-by-step math problem solving
- Displaying student work
- Comparison activities using split-screen
- Slide show presentations
- Class Web-Quests
- Vocabulary & Decoding/Comprehension with box feature
- Storyboarding
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