| Teaching efficiently with a data projector |
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Free software
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Lesson Loader v1.5LessonLoader
is a free program to help you to plan and deliver your lessons
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It works like this:
| A Planning a lesson |
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| Step 1 | Give
the lesson a name eg. 10P Elec Circuits Monday period 3 |
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| Step 2 | Browse
your hard-disc for files and select which ones you want to use. Files can be your own, or from a CD or the web. The files can be PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Images and Videos. |
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| Step 3 | In
this way you build up a 'Play-List'
of the files you want to project in this lesson, in sequence. You can edit the sequence if you wish. |
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| Step 4 | Click
on the Save button. (You can store up to 1000 lessons.) |
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Teaching the lesson In the lesson, just click on the big button, to play the next file in your play-list. It's as simple as that. It's a free download from here. Although originally intended for use with the Physics for You CD-ROM, you can use it in any subject, with any files: |
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| Images (.jpg, .gif, .bmp, etc) | |||
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Version 2 will
include a free program called CD-Harvester,
to 'rip' files directly from a purchased CD and save them wherever you want.
It's free -- so give a copy to anyone you like -- to other members of the Science
Dept, or the Geography Dept, etc.
Click here to Tell
a Friend or Colleague about this page.
This v1.5 has 2 improvements: (i) you can rename a lesson title and (ii) the
max number of lessons is now 1000.
If you have any suggestions for improvements, please let me know at keith@timetabler.com
It's a free download. Click here.
To view the main Physics and Revision menu of free materials, click here.