Looking for help....

I'm doing my graduate work (research project) on interactive science notebooks for my 7th grader science students. I would love to hear from any teacher who has used them, has done any research (data collection) and found any successes that would aid my adventure. Thanks a Hoot, Denise

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Comment by Tammy Moore on October 10, 2009 at 7:33pm: If by science notebooks you mean that the kids make interactive web pages of their activities, understandings, and reflection, we have done these in the past (2003 to 2006). We still have one in web page format in an e-notebooking course at

http://www.virtualhomeschoolgroup.com/file.php/23/Density_E-noteboo...

Let me know if you have any trouble accessing the active web page version. Since it is embedded in a Moodle course, it may divert you to the course instead of the runnable web pages of the notebook itself. Links should be active if you are in the actual notebook.

There is another e-notebooking course at the Moodle site that has additional pages from our e-notebooks, but those will be static images of selected pages from the student's e-notebooks instead of the e-notebooks themselves. Back then we had only a tiny bit of space to actually put the kids e-notebooks on the web, so we ran them only in our intranet, hence just sharing images. You may find the course page interesting though. Much has changed since then. There are a lot of html editors now and access to the web is easier and more affordable. My program recommendation would be different now than what I recommended back then for making e-notebooks. We now have DreamWeaver and a variety of free editors that we use for making web page projects now. The course with those static images is at ...

http://www.virtualhomeschoolgroup.com/course/view.php?id=17

We are not currently making e-notebooks. That is not due to feeling that they were not worthwhile or enjoyable. The kids made them back to back, year-round, in every subject for 4 years. We just needed to do something different for a while. Some of the advantages that I saw in them making e-notebooks was ...

They developed the ability to plan, work independently, research, spontaneously peer review work in progress, discuss the topic, and meet milestone deadlines.

Skills in web design, HTML, creation and editing of 2-D and 3-D graphics, photography

Writing skills

The e-notebooks were a blend of independent and collaborative projects. Collaborative work developed teamwork skills.

Comment by Denise L Lykens on October 11, 2009 at 11:59am: Thanks for your help...but I'm not looking for e-notebooks....it's interactive notebooks. Input/output, left brain/right brain development of science.