Some of the Best Online Darwin Resources

Linda la Velle

Journal of Biological Education Vol. 43, No. 3 (2009)

Ask most men or women in the street who Charles Darwin was and the chances are that they will know something of the work he did: the work that has revolutionised our understanding of the living world and our place in it. The 200th centenary of his...

Animations and Resources

Linda Baggott la Velle

Journal of Biological Education Vol. 41, No. 2 (2007)

With what is technically possible increasing apace, this Webwatch brings some topical and spectacular animations to use in your teaching. You may have to customise them to your own systems but, providing your equipment is reasonably young, you...

Devices and Desires: Subject Subcultures, Pedagogical Identity and the Challenge of Information and Communications Technology

Peter D. John; Linda Baggott La Velle

Technology, Pedagogy and Education Vol. 13, No. 3 (October 2004) pp. 307–326

This article reports some findings from the United Kingdom Economic and Social Research Council-funded InterActive Education project, in which teachers, researchers, and teacher educators have worked together to develop, perform, and evaluate...

Teaching and Learning with ICT within the Subject Culture of Secondary School Science

Linda Baggott la Velle; Jocelyn Wishart; Angela McFarlane; Richard Brawn; Peter John

Research in Science & Technological Education Vol. 25, No. 3 (November 2007) pp. 339–349

This paper reports some of the findings from the science subject design initiative team in the ESRC Interactive Education Project at the University of Bristol. The subject culture of secondary school science, characterised by a content-laden...

Pedagogical approaches for technology-integrated science teaching

Sara Hennessy; Jocelyn Wishart; Denise Whitelock; Rosemary Deaney; Richard Brawn; Linda la Velle; Angela McFarlane; Kenneth Ruthven; Mark Winterbottom

Computers & Education Vol. 48, No. 1 (January 2007) pp. 137–152

The two separate projects described have examined how teachers exploit computer-based technologies in supporting learning of science at secondary level. This paper examines how pedagogical approaches associated with these technological tools are...

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