Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Food & Nutrition Sites Review (Nufail)
So what is this website about? Well basically it's about trying to make lessons more interesting by incorporating the Internet. Cyberbee acts as an online mascot for the website. Under "curriculum ideas", they give examples as to how the internet can be used for various subjects. The subjects include: Cross-Curricular, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, Language Arts, Reference, Science Fair, Teacher Ideas.
I clicked on "Science" and scrolling down, wowwww, they did have a topic about food!

So I clicked on it further to check if it was any relevance to F&N. It is relevant, however, more so for Home Ec. The task given is very similar to us given as a coursework question. It is about food labels. Click on the picture if you want to read further.


They do have a section on how to cite from electronic resources, so that's pretty useful for proper referencing. And then there's "WebQuest", which is actually "a framework for research and exploration on specific topics utilizing Websites as resources."

There does seem to be quite a variety of links, and some do prove to be useful. However, I feel that the main website, (cyberbee.com) needs to be updated! There are some websites which actually don't exist anymore. Lol.

Overall, this website isn't too bad actually. They do provide other good websites in trying to incorporate IT into the classroom. But the downside? It has very little resources for F&N. I'd say none, but there's a tiny bit for Home Ec. Another downside is that the website hasn't been updated recently, as you can see from the picture above. I hope there will be some updates soon, and they'll include more resources for F&N. But for now, in my opinion, I wouldn't exactly recommend this website to teach F&N for students or use it as a resource. Again I repeat, it's due to it's limited resources and lack of updates. My rate? 2.5 / 5.
But for personal exploration, and to take some relevant here and there, there are a few, and by all means, use it if it's relevant to you. Enjoy exploring everyone!
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Labels: food and nutrition, research tools