I am going to comment on the use of discussion boards in schools and how useful they can be.
Would the children be able to use them effectively? I find it useful although there is somethimes too much to be able to look at what everyone is saying, and I think children would find this very overwhelming and might be out off using the board if there is too much going on - at school I think the format would need to be simplified for children to find them useful.
However, I would be happy to introduce them to a class of children competant on computers. I would explain to the parents what this would involve as I feel parents can sometimes be nervous of their children writing on the internet as they may not be fully aware of how the information is shared.
Children would be able to comment on the topics being covered in school and develop their own discussions through this will can be rewarding and will help in their understanding.
Wednesday 12 December 2007
I found a problem!!
I have just found an issue with this blog - it will not let me copy my graphs onto my post for you to see. Any advice s welome!
Using graphs - how useful are they? What do you need to include?
Graph 1 - Comment on the shortcomings of the following graphs, and suggest improvements which might be made.
How useful is this graph? What are its main shortcomings?
Graph 1 is not very useful at all. There is no title, no units for the values displayed and no description of what the graph is showing.
Graph 2 again displays no heading, units for values or description. Furthermore, the two sets of data for distance and time have been displayed separately rather than correlated together to produce one line.
In Graph 3 this mistake has been rectified, but the other limitations still exhist and make the graph rather unhelpful. The data could be better represented as follows:
Graph 4 could represent an offroad bike race, which would account for the increase in time to cover the same distance at points on the graph, as the ground may have become more uneven at these points and have taken more time to cover. The data could be displayed as follows:
How useful is this graph? What are its main shortcomings?
Graph 1 is not very useful at all. There is no title, no units for the values displayed and no description of what the graph is showing.
Graph 2 again displays no heading, units for values or description. Furthermore, the two sets of data for distance and time have been displayed separately rather than correlated together to produce one line.
In Graph 3 this mistake has been rectified, but the other limitations still exhist and make the graph rather unhelpful. The data could be better represented as follows:
Graph 4 could represent an offroad bike race, which would account for the increase in time to cover the same distance at points on the graph, as the ground may have become more uneven at these points and have taken more time to cover. The data could be displayed as follows:
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