Sam’s Online Journal

This online journal is a requirement of the Computer’s major subject for primary education course at UTS. The various responses found here are my comments about specific readings, my experiences in Practicum and any other interesting issues I come across.

Week 6: Activity 1

September 5th, 2005 · 11 Comments
Computing Tasks




The week six activity required us to analyse some websites and rank them according to their level of active engagement. A lot of the sites would not load on these Macintosh computers however I did manage to explore two contrasting websites.

Crocodilian - I would rank this at 1 maybe 2 because the only time the students are engaged are when they are working on the crossword and find-a-word, and this isn’t really what I consider to be “deep learning”. To view this site go to http://library.thinkquest.org/04apr/01293/

Pinture Art Detective – I would rank as 4 maybe 5 because the students can determine the path they travel. They are the actual detective and their decisions will affect the outcome. This enables the student to learn! To view this site go to http://www.eduweb.com/pintura/

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