Archive for August, 2006

Summary - August 11 & 15

Mathematics - Ms. Culey
After more discussions with Ms. Culey, it was decided to pull back and start more simply. The following page was created to engage students as they master finding the average speed of a range of animals. Extension links allow students to find the average speeds for fast cars, jets and other animals. [...]

A Range of School Web sites

The IT Committee at Oxley College is looking at revising the school Web site. I’d like to offer three as examples:

Professional Web design
The Abbotsleigh site is a terrific example of a professionally designed and developed school Web site. Besides its very pleasing appearance, it uses flash animations for interest and navigation as well [...]

Summary - August 1 - 4

Maths
After more discussions with Ms. Culey, Tom developed a Subject Sampler on Statistics for year Maths classes. The idea is to get students engaged in some number crunching around topics that might be interesting to them. Music sales, box office receipts, Web site statistics, and personal wealth are used as the raw materil [...]

Maths - Ideas for Statistics

Staff - Ms. Culey

Ways to make classroom lessons more dynamic through the use of projected 3-D images to illustrate mathematical concepts. This would require a data projector and learning objects created with Geometer’s Sketchpad.
Enriched and extended activities to allow for more differentiation of instruction. This might take the form of links to Web sites or [...]