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April 12, 2005
Henrico Schools Go Gizmo!
Henrico County Schools in Richmond, Virginia have really started going Gizmo!
Three
unique after school inservices were held for the Henrico teachers to help them
align Gizmos to the Virginia SOL’s and match them out to their daily practices.
These sessions were a huge success for the teachers as they got a chance to
learn how to
use the screen capture and exporting data charts utilities to take information
from the Gizmo and paste it into their word processing software.
The teachers got a chance to collaborate both within their buildings and across the district. Teachers were allowed to share ideas about how they had been using Gizmos and what kind of success they have had in their classrooms. From there they looked at building off that success and integrating Gizmos more and more into their instruction. By the end of the third session the teachers had more than enough information to take Gizmos back into the classroom to enhance their teaching.
Way to go Henrico, and GO GIZMOS!
Posted by Thom O'Brien at 09:50 AM in Training and Professional Development | Permalink
Comments
Nice story....
Posted by: Thom | Apr 15, 2005 9:53:09 AM
The vector addition gizmo is really great but please consider changing the colors. I have students who are red/green color blind and they would not be able to distinguish between the two vectors. Also, blue is not an intuitive color for the vector sum of red and green. If you wanted to use blue and red as the component vectors, then purple would make a great sum.
Thank you.
Posted by: Lisa Starrfield | May 10, 2005 1:29:11 PM
