Category Archives: School examples
A lesson with Gapminder
Our task was to design a lesson with any of the services we looked at in the first half of the semester. I chose Gapminder and designed a lesson for a year 12. I’ll just briefly repeat the structure of … Continue reading
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Map Mashups
Map Mashups simply use an existing map and add information of any kind on a second layer. Thus this is comparable to a GIS. Mashups can be produced by everyone, although Google Mashups has been taken offline. Our task was … Continue reading
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Gapminder
<Gapminder is a very useful tool for presenting statistics of any kind – even for the English classroom! As they say themselves, they are “unveiling the beauty of statistics for a fact-based world view”. Well, this sounds a bit like … Continue reading
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My old school
At the end of this seminar I’d like to analyse some schools I know. The first one is the school I attended as a pupil from year 5 to 13. It is a rather small school, with round about 600 … Continue reading
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Media labs
Last week our course visited the Alfred-Wegener-Schule in Kirchhain near Marburg. This school combines several different schools on one area and therefore has 3 media labs to meet the needs of the different pupils. Find a report in our group … Continue reading
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