Archive for the ‘Project Work’ Category
Book-buying spree tonight
Posted by: gimster on: February 11, 2008
Bought 5 books from Borders tonight, 3 of which are more immediately relevant to GP:
How to Write Essays: A step-by-step guide for all levels, with sample essays
by Don Shiach;
How to Write Better Essays
by Bryan Greetham; and
How to write Essays & Assignments
by Kathleen McMillan and Jonathan Weyers
Milestones for my new students
Posted by: gimster on: January 20, 2008
To help you think beyond today, tomorrow and the next GP lesson; with an assessment orientation:
Practise writing paragraphs
Writing your first GP essay
(Mid March – release of PW question)
Practise the components of Paper 2
Completing your first Paper 2 (collaboration, solo effort)
(Mid April – submit PW PI)
JC1 Mid year exam – 23 June
(Mid September – submit PW [...]
Online Survey Services
Posted by: gimster on: January 2, 2008
I’m looking to use an online survey service to collect information on my students.
Wikipedia has an article on online questionnaires
Free services and some of their limitations
Zoomerangbasic
Limited to 100 responses per survey
Maximum 30 questions per survey
See survey responses for 10 days
Tried to create a survey based on the demographic template but hit a bug while trying [...]
Notes from research on Innovation: Nokia and Mini
Posted by: gimster on: January 2, 2008
Took a couple of hours to search for stuff on the Web to use in the Innovation and Enterprise course for the IP1 students next week. Here’s what I found:
Did You Know 2.0 YouTube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMcfrLYDm2U
This page on the wiki promoted in the above presentation links to other similar presentations.
Comments [...]
The Story of Stuff
Posted by: gimster on: January 1, 2008
This website was made known to me by Mr James Ho.
3 teaser videos:
You can download the whole video (about 20 minutes) to view offline, but you’d lose the interactive features that you get when you view the video on the website itself.
Good Oral [...]
Google Search Tips on YouTube
Posted by: gimster on: December 30, 2007
Thinking of playing these videos in class for both GP and Project Work.
Click here for the complete playlist. Found via Teaching Hacks.com
The video also references penmachine.com which provided the music through a Creative Commons license. Sounds like a good idea for people who want to add music to their videos and [...]
Standing on the shoulders of giants
Posted by: gimster on: April 27, 2007
I first got to know of this phrase as part of a quotation from Isaac Newton and I’ve actually posted it as one of my quotes of the day. You’ll find on Wikipedia many contemporary references to the phrase; the dialogue session I attended today reminded me of it.
It was a dialogue session between some [...]
A seminal idea?
Posted by: gimster on: April 23, 2007
Miss Ong MY over at MI posted about a mnemonic system to help in generating ideas. I have seen this in handouts for essay planning from at least one junior college (not mine) but wondered if might be too risque. Well, since so many people are doing it…
Miss Ong refers to ‘concept/topic areas’, but I [...]
Quote of the day
Posted by: gimster on: July 31, 2006
If I have seen further [than certain other men] it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
Isaac Newton (1642–1727).
Letter to Robert Hooke,
February 5, 1675.
With reference to his dependency on
Galileo’s and Kepler’s work
in physics and astronomy.
Survey and questionnaire design resources
Posted by: gimster on: May 23, 2006
Resources for Project Work
Concise guides
Leung, Wai-Ching. Conducting a survey. Student British Medical Journal
Leung, Wai-Ching. How to design a questionnaire. Student British Medical Journal
Something more extensive, in Word document format
Walonick, David S. (2004) Designing and Using Questionnaires. Statpac
Or you can view sections of the document online by clicking the appropriate links on this Web page.
Demographic [...]
Bibliography and the list of references in Project Work
Posted by: gimster on: April 22, 2006
A bibliography is a list of works read for a project (but not necessarily cited in the document proper). It can be annotated to indicate how each source is useful to the project. See this page for an example of an annotated bibliography. The format for the bibliography is similar to the reference list.
A reference [...]
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