Science

[[image:http://www.maljones.com/images/illustration/moviemonsters/madscientist.jpg width="267" height="401" align="left"]] **General Interest**
At the recent ISTE meeting in Atlanta, Jared Mader and Ben Smith from EdTechInnovators (www.edtechinnovators.com) gave a workshop on incorporation of technology into science courses principally through lab activities. They created a template for students to fill in to do lab reports (Inspiration software), collected data, and incorporated pictures, video and audio explanations into lab reports.Software mentioned that might be useful for you to explore:

Inspiration ([|www.inspiration.com]) is particularly useful for visual learners. It will convert visual concept maps into outlines at the click of a button. They created "fill in the box" l ab templates to guide their students through the steps in the scientific process. (30 day free trial. Cmap is a free alternative.)

Vernier is now selling stand-alone probes that connect directly to the Macs and don't have to go through Logger Pro or CBL software. Price/probe is around $50.

Zoho (www.zoho.com) is free. You can use this to share and manipulate data with lab partners to transfer to each others reports.

Audacity--an open source sound editor and recorder. I have sample labs incorporating these ideas if any of you are interested in seeing them.

//**Note:** I heard that our own Garageband is actually better than Audacity. We have this already installed and ready to go.//