What can you blog about:
- Review a product, invention or system and relate it to the Design Technology syllabus.
- Post a review of the book, textbook, article from a newspaper or magazine.
- Reflect on parts of the Design Technology syllabus.
- Write a review of a website you have came across. Reflect on its reliability. What does it offer students? What are its strengths and weaknesses? How does it expand what we know?
- Ask a question that shows that you are thinking critically about a concept or idea.
- Make a response to a post in a way that expands on the idea and show you are thinking thoughtfully about it.
- Embed a design technology or science related video, podcast and write a review of it.
- Recommend an animation, or a piece of software.
- Respond to the TOK questions posed in our DT or your TOK class.
Some podcasts worth looking at are: Science Times – from The New York Times Science Section, Discovery News Bulletin – from Discovery Channel, 60 Second Science – from Scientific American, NASACast – one of the many podcasts from NASA, The Naked Scientist – podcast from The U.K, Quirks and Quarks – from CBC Canada and ScienceFriday – podcast from NPR US. Not to be missed are TED Talks.