Monday, March 15, 2010

Educational Blog 3

Educational Blog 3

Virtual Laboratory.  http://www.virtlab.com/

Vitrual laboratory is the chemistry set you always wanted or a flight simulator for your ideas. Your students will be able to experiment with chemistry safely and independently, and supplement classroom exercises to improve their understanding. They will also be able to review classroom laboratory work in the comfort of their homes and fun while they are studying.

Virtual Laboratory is not only for student, but for teachers as well. It provides visual aids for for your lectures, where you can give students homework that is fun, motivating and an insight builder. It creates opportunities for independent explorations for your highly motivated students and for your struggling students, a thoughtful visualization to help get them where they need to be.

This site uses the Tutorial method where it gives the student the information and he/she now as to apply what they have learnt. It is, therefore, very similar to a lesson being taught, just on your computer and without the teacher.
My friends Shomari has used a very similar tutorial. His website is http://www.unitedstreaming.com/ and Tracy used http://www.sheppardssoftware.com// and Shellist  used http://www.sunburst.com/, which uses the similation method.