Bring Your Own Data

For Mrs. Tuck's 8th grade science lab this week, students had to record data in an unusual way. For this lab, the data actually needed to be visual. In the past, students have drawn pictures on their lab sheets to illustrate the data from their experiment. This time though, students were encouraged to bring a device to help them create their data in a different way. Instead of drawing pictures, some students took pictures with their cameras. Students who wanted color pictures then printed them from home and attached them to their lab sheet. Some students made videos, and used Google Docs to share the videos with Mrs. Tuck. Here are two great video examples of the data that students took during class with their own devices.

Making Videos

Students in Debi Brown's Digital and Interactive Media (DIM) classes at Centennial HS used their phones and other devices to take images and/or videos outside of school then transferred them to the PCs in her classroom so they could edit the images/videos for their projects. The video assignment was to make a commercial, public service announcement (PDA) or how-to video.