MHS ICT Update
Term 1 Week 9 2013
Websites to check out
Studies of the impact of iPads and mobile devices on learning - This site has a collection of educational research studies on the impact of iPads on student learning and engagement. An excellent read for evidence-based practices.
10 fun tools to easily make infographics - 10 webtools for you and your students to present data in interesting and engaging ways
Apps of the week
Heart Rate (free) - This app is for iPhones and iPods and it measures your heart rate by scanning the colour of your finger. Students can use their own mobile devices to measure their heart rate for science and PDHPE activities.
Solve the Outbreak (free) - An iPad game developed by the Centre of Disease Control and Prevention, where students play a game as disease detectives to learn how diseases work and how to control mass outbreak of diseases. Great for science and PDHPE.