Comments on: Plasticine, Salt, and Melting Snow http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/plasticine-salt-and-melting-snow.html Science Blog from Freelance Science Writer David Bradley Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:41:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Tc320 http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/plasticine-salt-and-melting-snow.html/comment-page-1#comment-628139 Tc320 Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:53:51 +0000 http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/plasticine-salt-and-melting-snow.html#comment-628139 thanks, this is going to help me with my science fair project! thanks, this is going to help me with my science fair project!

]]> By: flub http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/plasticine-salt-and-melting-snow.html/comment-page-1#comment-346985 flub Mon, 25 Feb 2008 01:23:00 +0000 http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/plasticine-salt-and-melting-snow.html#comment-346985 i heart science i heart science

]]> By: David Bradley http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/plasticine-salt-and-melting-snow.html/comment-page-1#comment-312855 David Bradley Wed, 30 Jan 2008 07:25:28 +0000 http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/plasticine-salt-and-melting-snow.html#comment-312855 Cristina, why couldn't Facebook or MySpace be used as a teaching aid? Students are already highly active on sites such as those, why couldn't a teacher set up a page or group with enticing, interesting stuff that engaged. News outlets, such as The Guardian, are very successfully engaging a previously disinterested public with their science podcast page on Facebook and other such efforts. I cannot quite picture what a teacher might include on a MySpace page, but gathering together great edutainment in the form of Youtube clips, as you mention, could be one way to begin. A whole standalone website requires all the attendant start-up and search engine optimisation to get it seen. Also, I think a proportion of student would find it quite amusing that a teacher was on MySpace, even if they scoffed initially, at least some of them might find it fun and potentially informative...you never know, it could just work. db Cristina, why couldn’t Facebook or MySpace be used as a teaching aid? Students are already highly active on sites such as those, why couldn’t a teacher set up a page or group with enticing, interesting stuff that engaged. News outlets, such as The Guardian, are very successfully engaging a previously disinterested public with their science podcast page on Facebook and other such efforts. I cannot quite picture what a teacher might include on a MySpace page, but gathering together great edutainment in the form of Youtube clips, as you mention, could be one way to begin.

A whole standalone website requires all the attendant start-up and search engine optimisation to get it seen. Also, I think a proportion of student would find it quite amusing that a teacher was on MySpace, even if they scoffed initially, at least some of them might find it fun and potentially informative…you never know, it could just work.

db

]]> By: Cristina Gutierrez http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/plasticine-salt-and-melting-snow.html/comment-page-1#comment-312768 Cristina Gutierrez Wed, 30 Jan 2008 03:34:47 +0000 http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/plasticine-salt-and-melting-snow.html#comment-312768 When you say; "...that is how all this new technology (MySpace, Youtube, Facebook etc) might best be used to engage students more effectively than conventional teaching methods". Do you mean that maybe these websites should be used to engage students in learning or be used as new teaching methods? I think it is too late to change the way Myspace or Facebook is being used by teenagers, but the idea to form a website that is designed to teach children in different ways that are not taught at school is very interesting. For instance, that youtube video did explain things very well. When you say; “…that is how all this new technology (MySpace, Youtube, Facebook etc) might best be used to engage students more effectively than conventional teaching methods”. Do you mean that maybe these websites should be used to engage students in learning or be used as new teaching methods? I think it is too late to change the way Myspace or Facebook is being used by teenagers, but the idea to form a website that is designed to teach children in different ways that are not taught at school is very interesting. For instance, that youtube video did explain things very well.

]]> By: David Bradley http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/plasticine-salt-and-melting-snow.html/comment-page-1#comment-311835 David Bradley Tue, 29 Jan 2008 07:38:54 +0000 http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/plasticine-salt-and-melting-snow.html#comment-311835 Cristina, although perhaps you're being a little flippant in the hope that your teacher might use clay models, you do actually hit on an important point about which educators and educational reformers should be thinking seriously and that is how all this new technology (MySpace, Youtube, Facebook etc) might best be used to engage students more effectively than conventional teaching methods. db Cristina, although perhaps you’re being a little flippant in the hope that your teacher might use clay models, you do actually hit on an important point about which educators and educational reformers should be thinking seriously and that is how all this new technology (MySpace, Youtube, Facebook etc) might best be used to engage students more effectively than conventional teaching methods.

db

]]> By: Cristina Gutierrez http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/plasticine-salt-and-melting-snow.html/comment-page-1#comment-311629 Cristina Gutierrez Tue, 29 Jan 2008 04:00:15 +0000 http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/plasticine-salt-and-melting-snow.html#comment-311629 I thought the video was actually informing. While our AP. Chemistry class continues to bore me, yahoo chemistry videos entertain me. haha. Very funny. Maybe if our teacher would make clay figures to show us chemistry, then I can actually stay awake during class. haha. I thought the video was actually informing. While our AP. Chemistry class continues to bore me, yahoo chemistry videos entertain me. haha. Very funny. Maybe if our teacher would make clay figures to show us chemistry, then I can actually stay awake during class. haha.

]]> By: David Bradley http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/plasticine-salt-and-melting-snow.html/comment-page-1#comment-287168 David Bradley Wed, 09 Jan 2008 07:19:30 +0000 http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/plasticine-salt-and-melting-snow.html#comment-287168 Nice find Robert. The key, of course, is that sugar is soluble in water too, Raoult's law applies equally well regardless of the solute and despite the sheep. Nice find Robert. The key, of course, is that sugar is soluble in water too, Raoult’s law applies equally well regardless of the solute and despite the sheep.

]]> By: Robert Bowen http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/plasticine-salt-and-melting-snow.html/comment-page-1#comment-286617 Robert Bowen Tue, 08 Jan 2008 23:24:09 +0000 http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/plasticine-salt-and-melting-snow.html#comment-286617 I managed to overcome my slackerism and tracked down this link: http://pubs.acs.org/cen/newscripts/85/8509newscripts.html It's about a sugar based road grit that's got sheep in Wales wandering the streets licking up the treats. I managed to overcome my slackerism and tracked down this link:
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/newscripts/85/8509newscripts.html

It’s about a sugar based road grit that’s got sheep in Wales wandering the streets licking up the treats.

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