Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Educational Sites
We have a nice engineering program at Thomas More. I really enjoy teaching in it. The problem? I'm not an engineer. (Don't tell my students.) The program (Project Lead the Way) doesn't give you quite enought to work with. I rely heavily on sources other than what they have given me. For me, it used to be books and stuff, but now I look for things online. That is where I am finding educational sites to be so useful. Right now we're working on Thermodynamics. In the past, I would have Googled it and gotten a lot of information for scientists and engineers that would sail right over my head. Now I can use engines like those found on the Knowledge Network, and my search becomes much easier. I am teaching Thermodynamics right now, and I using the sites that I found to relay information, but also to have the students do some exploring of their own. It made things a lot easier this year.
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Hey Ben,
Don't worry I won't tell your students. I agree that some of these new search engines have filtered out unnecessary info you can't use.
Sounds like you are finding good curricular sites - keep up the work for th students
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