tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36932242009-05-19T11:39:11.586ZThe Probe is about information technology in teaching. It covers what's hot and what's not with data logging sensors and science software. Your news and ideas on what's good is welcome. If you have a problem we often reply and always appreciate thanks.Rogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05402998913181145477noreply@blogger.comBlogger54125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3693224.post-7716951671139744592008-10-17T13:28:00.002Z2008-10-17T13:31:13.148Z

a multimedia CD and online compendium with animation, models and interactives - www.organic.rogerfrost.comfor AQA, Edexcel, Salters, WJEC, OCR, IGCE, IB, International Baccalaureate, SQA, Leavers Certificate, CBSE, Singapore O level and A level, AS, A2 Chemistry

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Coach 6 Studio provides a learning environment where you or students can work with models or create models of your own. It cuts through complex maths to do with changes over time to give students ideas and problems to solve. If ever you feel that there should be more to do with the data we collect Coach 6 Studio opens the door to it. In the UK we’ve put a considerable amount of effort into

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It's easy to become a fan of Firefox. It's the alternative browser to Internet Explorer. It is swift, it loads Acrobat files without fuss, it runs Flash (swf) all of which are now troublesome with Internet Explorer version 7.For schools Firefox offers security bonuses which some net managers are looking at with interest. They are thinking of switching the school from Internet Explorer. This might

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GCSE Biology A from JSH is CD-ROM with presentations, animations and interactivity for the interactive whiteboard. The title covers the biology aspect of the new specifications for AQA, OCR, WJEC and Edexcel. Free animations and interactive exercises available at: www.jsheducation.com/KS4BiologyExamples.html (click title above)These sample resoures are also available on a free CD-ROM for schools

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Data logging technology needs to be astoundingly simple to find an easy place in a practical lesson. When there's pouring and heating going on, the LogIT Black box datalogger is a remarkable piece of technology that fits. There are no buttons to press, no drivers to install and no power brick to connect, just a USB cable and up to three sensors and then you are working. It's happy with existing

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Filmed report of a booster day for chemistry when over 160 A level chemistry students descended on Leicester University. And how good they were!I think everyone could see how important chemistry is - and what a great idea this kind of event is. As well as the Science Centre East Midlands, supporting here were the education folk from Nottingham Trent University. If you've no contact to follow, the

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-----Original Message-----From: purchase.ledger@dundeecity.gov.ukCc: purchase.ledger@dundeecity.gov.ukAttachments: Subject: Dundee City CouncilPlease note :-The Dundee City Council payment remittance for the date shown is attached. (IGNORE the headers.txt file). With most email systems you should be able to double click the '.html' attachment and view the Remittance Advice.If you have problems

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From UK newspaper "The Guardian" September 2006:"Faster internet speed has allowed us to show video on demand, such that Google Video has clips of lectures, shuttle launches, explosions and insane high school pranks with lots of science to creatively plunder. Hilarious or not, IT coordinators and local authorities have taken to blocking such sites for want of controlling teacher and pupil access

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Organic Chemistry good for GCSE biology topicsThe last post reminds me that we've created a handful of lovely models and animation for the new UK GCSE to support work on the special topics covering DNA and proteins. Made under the banner of 'Roger Frost's Organic Chemistry' these whiteboard materials show 3D models of DNA; how bases pair up; DNA unfolding and replication; transcription at the

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A message from biochemistry.org about a new website:The Biochemical Society has created scibermonkey, a new free online resource for Key Stage 3 science. Mapped onto the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority's (QCA) scheme of work for KS3, scibermonkey easily searches all units and lesson objectives, directly linking you to the best science resources on the web.Link: www.scibermonkey.org

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Just off the phone from a call where a school has asked IT to install a tiny plugin so that they can get along and do some chemistry teaching. It hasn't happened, I'm unable to help and feel frustrated. It's not the first call of the kind nor a first experience: science teachers in the most relaxed of schools cannot get software installed. It was for this reason that I made my own software easily

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Planet Science lives on as the soul of 'Science Year' and the link on this post takes you to the Planet Science Newsletter - a weekly blast in your email box with among other things a link to a really good Whiteboard resource for science teaching. These sites are are rare as rocking horse dung so do check them out. On the other hand, if you do know of a good site please lets know as the pool of '

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This collection of kits offer practical illustrations of wind power, solar electricity (photovoltaic cell) and solar heating. The wind power unit has a useful clamp and two wires from a motor on the 'mill' can be fed to a voltmeter, LED unit or motor unit. The solar panel is an 20cm square piece of metal attached to a short length of copper plumbing tube. Filled with water, a digital thermometer

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Intrigued by the title I was as here was some free software from Microsoft's Download Centre. First attempt to install - "Sorry, this only works on a Tablet PC"Second attempt to install, this time on a Tablet PC - "Sorry, you need Net Framework installed first". There was no third attempt. Physics cannot be this hard but if you're using this software, please click below, tell us how useful it is

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Just as data loggers got that bit more reliable, in comes the wireless connection known as Bluetooth. While recent devices use a USB lead to connect a data logger to the PC, several manufacturers offer the extra feature of a Bluetooth wireless connection. USB is mostly good. USB not only transfers data, it can power the data logger and this is how logging is becoming more reliable. (See for

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From our 'Contact' page: Dear RogerHave just bought a Philip Harris eLog II datalogger (before I looked at your website!). I am having problems.The A3 sheet sized quickstart guide (there is no manual yet) says you can charge the internal batteries through a connection to the USB port on the laptop PC (with the laptop USB power saving features turned off). 8 hours should be needed.However this

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It's been a while but at last this web now has a section of favorite experiments as well as a guide to the various brands of data loggers.Choosing Equipment - an annual article on what's new together with a look at the track record of each brand.Experiment Gallery - a set of experimentsData handling - worked examples of what to do with data you collect

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If you thought that work with digital video needed fantastic equipment or that it was for some other subject, Reading Boys secondary school sets the record straight. Teacher Mary-Clare Maunder has been trying an unusual teaching strategy - editing video to raise issues in science. Given an assortment of video interviews about homeopathy, the year nine class assembles a short film. They sift

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Adding computers to labs doesn't prove easy - you need space for experiments, sensors and data loggers. Add a dozen computers, and two dozen loudspeakers, and it can get messy. As every teacher has a view on labs and great tips to pass on, it's timely that the ASE and Royal Society are collecting some definitive advice on lab design. They've commissioned education specialist 3T for the job,

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You've read about nanotechnology or seen the space shuttle crash. Set beside the news, school science seems centuries old. But at Garth Hill school in Bracknell, science teaching gained a contemporary edge with the help of "Upd8" from the Association for Science Education (ASE). The Upd8 team produces topical lessons based on current news and then beams out weekly emails and text messages to

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We come to expect computers to change often and get us to upgrade but with data loggers I wonder. The need to take readings from experiments is pretty much the same today as it was fifteen years ago. In other words the kit you had then really ought to work now. I am still looking for a good reason any firm should change the design of a temperature sensor. The reason for change that I can see is

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Dave writes: Have you tried this? Wrap a piece of sellotape around a microscope slide, sticky side up. Use pieces of copper wire to construct the branches of a simple tree on the sellotape. Add a few drops of about 0.1M silver nitrate. Use a microscope and computer to display the crystal growth. Call it the 'fastest growing bonsai tree in the world'. (Could someone try it and send us a

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If you've yet to use them in earnest, Microsoft Word styles are fabulously helpful. They not only make documents consistent, they speed up the business of changing the look of a document when it's done. To make them even more useful, add some style 'buttons' to your Word toolbar. Right click a toolbar and choose 'styles'. You ought to see this: Just drag the style names 'Heading 1' and so on to

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Roger Frost's Dataloggerama

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  www.rogerfrost.com is undergoing spring cleaning as we add a massive data logging section and archive old articles. We've used the opportunity to help you find all you need from the front page  

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