This week I deserve a 5/5 on the module work/review activity because I have done all the activities and requirements. I personally uploaded the two modules we have for our modules and made changes to each of the activities that were edited by Chris. After meeting with our group and deciding what was required for our Modules, I organized what we had and Steve and I started to piece together what we needed. I also created our TinkerPlots tab on Black Board.
Putting TinkerPlots aside, I worked through Spreadsheets' second module and gave them feedback on my iLocker. I completed each of their activities and commented on what they could do to improve, and what I liked about each activity. Though this did not take a full 5 hours, I feel that with my work on our module and TinkerPlots tab on Black Board I deserve a 5/5 on the module grade for week 10.
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Sunday, March 7, 2010
Fathom Week 8
JOURNAL (BLOG): What is your impression of Fathom - note three specific points
After using TinkerPlots these past 7 weeks, when I started Fathom I was quite surprised on how similar the two were. By the end of the week, I feel as those Fathom has several attributes that I like better. A great thing that I found for Fathom was that you are able to graph multiple attributes on one side of the axises. This was extremely useful when I completed the activity with the rates and distances between the three vehicles. This was a great way to help students compare attributes in Fathom without having to create several different graphs.
Like TinkerPlots, I thought that Fathom was very user friendly. They did a great job writing tours to help people figure out how to use the different functions. They did a great job walking users through activities to help familiarize them with everything Fathom has to offer. I like how the different activities highlighted each activity and focused on each of them individually.
Another thing that I thought Fathom did well was calculation functions. I thought it was extremely easy to use, and I found it very useful. I liked the different formulas that you are able to do using this function. The way that you could make a recursive formula was easy to understand and compute. There are a lot of possibilities using this function and I think it can be helpful in more than just a statistics or probability class. TinkerPlots seems to be limited to these types of classes, but I feel that Fathom could branch off into different classes.
After using TinkerPlots these past 7 weeks, when I started Fathom I was quite surprised on how similar the two were. By the end of the week, I feel as those Fathom has several attributes that I like better. A great thing that I found for Fathom was that you are able to graph multiple attributes on one side of the axises. This was extremely useful when I completed the activity with the rates and distances between the three vehicles. This was a great way to help students compare attributes in Fathom without having to create several different graphs.
Like TinkerPlots, I thought that Fathom was very user friendly. They did a great job writing tours to help people figure out how to use the different functions. They did a great job walking users through activities to help familiarize them with everything Fathom has to offer. I like how the different activities highlighted each activity and focused on each of them individually.
Another thing that I thought Fathom did well was calculation functions. I thought it was extremely easy to use, and I found it very useful. I liked the different formulas that you are able to do using this function. The way that you could make a recursive formula was easy to understand and compute. There are a lot of possibilities using this function and I think it can be helpful in more than just a statistics or probability class. TinkerPlots seems to be limited to these types of classes, but I feel that Fathom could branch off into different classes.
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