I feel that Interactive learning objects will play a large role in my teaching of science. As a lot of concepts in science aren't visible it can be really hard to describe and give the learners and accurate visual picture. Not only will these tools give students a visual but they are able to show the mechanisms by which they work. This will hopefully help to obtain higher order thinking. I loved the interactive frog dissection. There are times where it may not be possible for each and every student to be able to participate in the dissection and it can be hard for the teacher to assist everyone in the process and supervise at the same time. The digital dissection enables every student to see what they are suppose to see whilst giving them a description. It allows them to be interactive choosing the correct parts and the procedure will not move on until the correct response has been given. Also it takes time to perform that actual dissection hence reducing the time spent actually examining the organs, the digitilisation of this enables more time to be spent examining the specimen.
I used Bubbl us as the online concept mapping tool. It was really user friendly and enabled organisation of thoughts. It was easy to undo and add bubbles. It was good to be able to save the map for later use. I think that it would be a good way to get students started with assessment tasks. They could brainstorm and then organise their thoughts, whilst it is all being put on paper and saved
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