Weekly Reflection – Topic 3

Hi everyone! For my blog post today I wanted to discuss whether the H5P tools would potentially be useful for my teaching area. I think that this tool would be super useful in any class to be honest. I hope to teach science 9 or 10, as well as chemistry 11 and 12. I think it could be used in any of those classes because it could be a great study tool. The teacher could create study videos that have multiple choice or short answer questions embedded in them in an interactive manner so that students can answer as they follow along with the study guide. This would be a very easy way for students to check their understanding of the material before a test or a quiz. The teacher can have the correct answer in the videos so that students can check their answer, and then the teacher could demonstrate how they got to that answer in the next portion of the video to make sure the students really understand. Overall, I think this could be a very useful tool in a science classroom that will be more interactive than just taking a booklet of questions home!

This is my H5P tutorial video (not the best of videos but it gets the message across!). I created it using a periodic table website (which I have linked here) that is very interactive and gives a lot of extra information that a regular periodic table would not give. This would be a super useful tool for chemistry 11, 12 or even science 10 classes so I wanted to use it in my tutorial to introduce it to any other science teachers!

Lastly, I just wanted to discuss how video or audio editing could be used as assignment mediums for chemistry 11 or 12. Although I have never really seen it done before, I think this assignment medium could actually be used for a chemistry 11 or 12 class. It could be used to create some sort of inquiry or research project where the students have a lot of freedom to use a different format to demonstrate their learning. Video or audio editing would not be able to be a common assignment in chemistry 11 and 12 I don’t think but for an end of semester project or large research project, it could be very beneficial. Students could demonstrate their findings and results in a video format rather than a presentation in front of the class. Another benefit of that is it takes the pressure off of some students who are not as comfortable in the classroom. In conclusion, the tools we were using this class seem like they will be very useful in my future teaching career!