Ask a scientist

I submitted my question to the "Ask a Scientist" website to glean more information about my endangered species. I have yet to receive a response from the website.

I believe the website can be a great tool for students when they are doing research for science fair projects or to search for archived questions for homework. Teaching students to seek questions and answers out for themselves is a valuable tool. I believe students rely on others to give them the answers instead of finding the information and working to gain the knowledge.

Evaluating Web tools

The first tool I tried out was the Prezi. I watched the tutorial and decided the application looked pretty exciting to use. Once I logged onto the website, I viewed several of the previously created templates. I found a few of the presentations to be rather intriguing and could help stimulate learning. I think the presentations would be more suited for a older crowd and not my 6th grade students. I do not know how well I would like this tool for my students. I have not personally made a Preze yet.

The next website I visited was PreZentit. I enjoyed this website the best out of all the one's listed on the resources pages. I found it to be the most user friendly when I tried it out and one I was most accustomed to since it is similar to PowerPoint. It is more exciting than PowerPoint, but the premise behind the presentation seems to be similar.

The Zoho link did not work when I clicked on it. It said it was not found. I do not know if I am the only student in the class that had this problem.

I did not try uploading photos to animate slide shows on Animot, Vividex, and Vcasmo.