How one high school teacher is using the net to take school home
Posted by: John in online educationAn article in a local newspaper reports the efforts of a high school chemistry teacher to allow students to revise their work and parents to see how their children are going.
First year chemistry students at the El Diamente High School in California are able to review their work by going to Andy Allen’s website. Parents can check their child’s progress through a password protected log in.
This is not web 2.0, though. Mr Allen has been providing the service for 12 years according to a former student. It is mainly Powerpoint and PDF. Not surprisingly the site receives visitors from far afield and its host is happy to have other students use his resources. He draws the line, however at answering their homework questions. He restricts that service to his own students.
It strikes me as a model of how the net can be used to help school students learn.
All of the materials had to be prepared anyway, so the time requirement is minimal. Even the amount of time required for posting could be turned into class activity for computer science students.
How I found this:I have set up a Google News search for PowerPoint. there were about ten items in today’s results, five of which looked like job ads. This one looked interesting. I don’t know what the others were about. I may have missed something interesting, but if I did not have the search I would have missed it anyway.
My aim is not to know everything, just to find out something new and interesting every day.
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