Standard+4.3.5

=Assist colleagues to create, select and use a repertoire of teaching strategies and resources, including ICT and other technologies, to make content meaningful to individuals or groups of students. =

I facilitated a workshop at an [|AIS] conference where I instructed the participants on the use of Monkey Jam; a stop motion animation program.

I started using animation with students as it engages the students and makes many concepts more meaningful to the students. While I use it in my Science teaching it has great versatility in other curriculum areas as well.

I have made instructional videos, on YouTube on the use of Monkey Jam media type="youtube" key="n0loL_ZBqXE" height="236" width="313"

and Image Resizer media type="youtube" key="0WFPMn45FLM" height="241" width="318" which is also a free download that enables the user to reduce the size and thus bytes that a photo takes up. [These are provided on NSWIT eTAMS as screen shots and URL's].This is extremely useful when one wishes to make PowerPoint presentation or send images via email. I often send image attachments to my students when explaining certain ideas or describing structures.

 As a presenter I assist colleagues to create, select and use a repertoire of teaching strategies and resources including ICT and other technologies to make content meaningful to individuals or groups of students.

To further assist colleagues I wrote an article “[|Animating Science]” which was published in SEN

In August 2011 I presented a workshop at [|STANSW K-6 Conference] entitled “Kitchen Chemistry” which was designed to encourage primary school teachers to incorporate chemistry, using everyday chemicals. I discussed a number of issues including the idea of basing investigations on real problems e.g. the condensation in the tent scenario outlined in “[|SEN Primary Science]: A Peak into the Kitchen Chemistry Workshop”. This was essentially a discussion of Problem Based Learning strategies.