NHC Science animations probably would have been good. The link didn’t work and I don’t know if my google search provided the right page… seemed to be, but I wasn’t going to download the plug-ins to make the animations work.
Dissect a frog was interesting, if the voice wasn’t ridiculously digital, it might have been worth watching all of it. I’m sure the rest would have gotten better, with more interaction which seemed to be going down the right path, asking questions and getting the student to click and then giving descriptions. Good approach.
The Gizmos was very similar to a program we had the students use in undergrad Physics, ‘Mastering Physics’. I think the Gizmos are great. Fantastic, especially in a teaching package. Subscription fees and issues seemed to be the biggest problems we had. Should the students have to buy it? Should it be provided? Another problem that was never looked into was that students would be getting 95% or better in the embedded assessment, but over half the class still failed the exam. How good a teaching aide was it really? There was no transfer to problems outside the system. This would have to be used with care. I still think it is excellent and quite unparalleled for distance and online learning. Just perhaps not by itself.
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