Tag Archives: presentation
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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Geographical Information Systems
Geographical Information Systems are used to visualize any kind of geographical data. They can be very complex, but their main advantage (in my eyes) is that the information can be arranged (and rearranged) in a very personal way by each … Continue reading
Creating WebQuests
Today I tried to start a WebQuest via PowerPoint. It is really not too hard. I can’t give you the complete example by now, I hope to be able to do so some time. So I’ll just add an example … Continue reading
WebQuests
The first time I heard of WebQuests is about one year ago. WebQuests are guided online research tasks covering a special topic. The teacher designs (or finds an already designed) webpage with an introduction, the tasks and processes, the goals … Continue reading
Projector problems
Today I already had a nice (ok, for the others it was perhaps not so nice) experience of problems with new media: A group was giving a presentation and they wanted to show a video. The sound was working, but … Continue reading
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