science software for the home and school (1995)
What’s the good software for learning and why it’s worth having – by Roger Frost, TES 1995. There was a time when the best thing to do with software catalogues was to file them....
What’s the good software for learning and why it’s worth having – by Roger Frost, TES 1995. There was a time when the best thing to do with software catalogues was to file them....
Update – Coach 7 was available in 2018. In 2008 I wrote: Coach 6 Studio provides a learning environment where you or students can work with models or create models of your own. It...
Here is some excellent software that can collect and analyse data and it now works with a huge number of different brands. Called Insight and known to thousands of science teachers, this has grown...
How much of the software used on computers in the 1990s is still being used on them today? One favourite, called Datalogging Insight, lives on today (2016) Insight is a family of primary and...
Q. What is SID? A. It’s a standard file format that every data logging manufacturer is encouraged to support. The results of data logging experiments can be better shared in the ‘SID’ format. This...
The sensors and equipment you buy for school requires software made for it. There IS a generic program, called Insight (below). which works with lots of different manufacturer’s kit. It has the advantage of...
Real results are often messy, but these all offer good material for discussion. This is the page from which you can download the results of other people’s experiments using sensors. Use the files as...
rogerfrost.com is a compendium of ideas for using technology to find answers to sciencey questions. Since 1995 it has provided ideas to school science teachers. Since 2020 we’ve focussed on questions around the home with a new home automation section. So today we look at ways to measure and monitorĀ around the house.
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Roger Frost was a writer from 1988 and this web includes many of his articles for magazines and newspapers. They tell how the early Internet developed; how real scientists work and how real people, like you might use technology at home or school.
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