BYOD in Physics

Leslie Drake and Matt Hudspeth’s Physics students used their own devices (or ones provided by the school when needed) to record videos of themselves performing games from the popular NBC TV show, Minute to Win It. They then included their video in a class presentation that also explained the game and the physics behind it. During the next class period, students will play each other's games. They loved this fun real-world application of the physics principals they’ve been learning all year.

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.

iPad and Microscope

One of Lisa Barton's biology students used her own iPad (Yay BYOD!) to take this picture through the eyepiece of a microscope during a lab.

The picture can now be more closely analyzed and referenced in the future after the lab is over and cleaned up!