This is a great site on showing you how to do things. They give you the opportunity to read articles on the subject, watch videos, even post your own experiences on the site. In order to share your experinces you do have to have an account. I just really fell in love with the fact that you could choose the way you received information. That makes a big difference. You can also search through a variety of topics and find the one that best fits you.
This site like the one before it allows you to search for topics of interest and also lets you pick your delivery of the information. The videos are really great and high quality. I’m not certain, but I do think that they might redirect you to another site for the videos. They had so many videos for the topic I searched for which was the solar system. There are lots of different sub categories that you can choose from to get more specific on a topic. There also quizzes under some subjects to help discover just how much you’ve learned.
This is a professor’s class site that I stumbled upon. He has some good lectures and diagrams to go with them. He also provides links to internet resources to go along with the lectures. If you were actually taking the class there are online quizzes available, but since I’m not I can’t get into them.
This site did not have all of it’s interactive parts working correctly, but if they did work it wouldn’t be that bad of a place to learn about the Solar System. There was this one page where you were suppose to have to ability to click and drag the names of the planets with actual photos, but that didn’t work. Through the site it’s set up to go through three lessons. First you read up on the planets, play the matching game of the planets, and then take a quiz. I kind of get what they were going for, but the execution wasn’t good at all.
This site I’m sure we’re all familiar with, it’s hard to miss going to this school. The best thing about learning stuff through the site is how they actually let you modify the code that they give you as an example to truly understand what it’s doing. They also have quizzes you can take to test yourself and provide you with lots of resources.
rkingston1979 said,
April 14, 2009 @ 12:44 am
I also checked out ehow.com and howstuffworks.com, I didn’t put them in my blog, because I was still in the mind-set of what we use at work as eLearning tools. Both are really good sites and I think their ease-of-use also makes them a handy learning tool. I agree that w3schools is a really good site, too. With the
Astronomy Class site, i thought they had a lot of good information and their use of images really helped with learning. While I did like the fact that they give you a lot of information on each page of the Lectures section. It seemed that a little styling and breaking up of the sections within each page would have made it easier to absorb some of the information.
I like the feel of the Lady K site, though, I couldn’t get the names to drop on the planets either. I do like the amount of content on each page and the navigation seemed easy, too.
fanatiq said,
April 14, 2009 @ 3:04 am
Oh man, I *love* your idea about doing an e-learning site about the solar system. Looking at some of the information on the astronomy site you posted, it seems like you could make something really interactive, fun, and informative with that type of information. I’m not sure what would be the best way to create it- using flash or video or what- but I think you do really well with this topic.
purrfection said,
April 14, 2009 @ 4:26 am
I’m not really sure which way I want to go yet in creating it either. All I know is that if I do it in flash I need to get to work on it very quickly. Maybe I’ll just incorporate flash into a standard html site. Ugh…so many decisions to make.