Ask a Scientist Website

The question that I posed on the Ask a Scientist website was,is there any type of diet that would effect how quickly the ATP is drained from our cells, and would that have any benefits on our health? I asked the same question in our discussion for that week and I found that my colleagues gave me just as good of answers as I received from the website. I was pretty much given the same answers by both. I was provided with a link to a couple of good articles on the subject which I found to be very useful. I was able to read those articles and deepen my understanding of how ATP works in our body, and how nutrition can affect ATP. At this point in time I would not use the Ask a Scientist website with my students, because I teach Kindergarten. The only way that I could use it was if we came up with a question together and I posted it. When we got our answer I could then read to them the response. The only problem with that would be that the questions that we would come up with I could probably find the answers very easily myself. I would mainly use it as a way to show my students that there is a way that you can connect with scientists out there in the world. That might be useful for them.

References

Ask a Scientist
http://www.askascientist.org/

Course Project Tools

I liked looking at all of the different presentation tools. I thought that the Animoto tool would be good if you were trying to upload video in your presentation. It seems very user friendly and they give you step by step instruction on what you are supposed to do. I liked that. PreZentit was another one that I checked out. They also gave you step by step instructions and seemed rather user friendly. I liked that you could work with a team on it and not have to actually be on the same computer. I think that is a good feature. Those were the main ones that I checked out, but I look forward to reading my colleagues thoughts on what they looked at.