[IAEP] [FIELDBACK] Etoys

[Simon Schampijer]

On 02/25/2010 02:59 AM, K. K. Subramaniam wrote:
> On Thursday 25 February 2010 04:13:52 am Simon Schampijer wrote:
>> I am teaching on a regular basis in the Planetarium pilot in Berlin,
>> Germany [1]. I have been using Etoys now for several weeks and here is
>> some first feedback.
>>
>> First: The kids do like it a lot! I want to encourage everyone to
>> include it in his curriculum.
> Etoys can be more than just a topic in a curriculum. It is the swiss army
> knife of the 21st century.

Sure, it is a tool in the end. And then you need to decide how you use 
it and how you integrate it into your curriculum. That is why I gave the 
examples of what you can use Etoys for to reach certain goals. Teachers 
do not to see those possibilities to get interested, in my opinion.

> An interesting possibility is to get old students to create animated
> flashcards/sounds clips to teach a topic (say English) to younger students.
> Traditional flashcards just present a letter as a block. Instead, one can use a
> bug to create letter shapes with its trail so the children can also perceive
> how letters are formed.

Thanks for that idea. Is there a tutorial for creating flashcards you 
know of?

Thanks,
    Simon