[Informatics] FW: Timeless music & Melbourne Water Data

Mon Dec 7 17:29:08 AEDT 2015

FYI everyone – some more beautiful data sets.

And a gentle reminder – it’s Lucas ;)

From: Russo, Frank R
Sent: Monday, 7 December 2015 5:23 PM
To: Garth, Lucas A
Subject: RE: Timeless music & Melbourne Water Data

Hi Garth and others

Here’s another great source teaching science and being interested in our local wetlands melboune water have a lot of data from all over the state for us to download and some interactives to use as well as make our own from csv files.

http://www.melbournewater.com.au/waterdata/rainfallandriverleveldata/Pages/Rainfall-and-river-level-new.aspx?SiteID=123

This is from our local weather station just around the corner from the school.

I am sure you can easily find some local data for your areas

Frank

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From: Garth, Lucas A
Sent: Monday, 7 December 2015 4:44 PM
To: Russo, Frank R
Subject: Timeless music

Hi Frank

Yes I loved it particularly when showing teachers in the staff room and having discussions about what is a timeless song.
And if you’re not sure about the song, clicking on the images plays a sample.  Just brilliant

I reckon http://fivethirtyeight.com/ is another great place to look at data visualisation.  Politics and sport, two of my favourite areas of interest.

This one’s a classic ☺
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/our-favorite-examples-of-how-the-internet-talks-on-reddit/

Lucas

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HI Garth

Thanks for that polygraph link very impressive website and amazing interactive graphs music never fads out great topic!

Frank Russo
Mobile: 0409022197
Work: 9781 7700
Daily Organiser
Teacher:- IT, Game Design, Robotics, Maths & Science
AEU Branch President
Consultative & Planning Committee Member
[Monterey_Secondary_College_logo]
Silvertop Street
Frankston North
Victoria, Australia

From: informatics-bounces at edulists.com.au<mailto:informatics-bounces at edulists.com.au> [mailto:informatics-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Garth, Lucas A
Sent: Monday, 7 December 2015 3:59 PM
To: Year 12 VCE Informatics Teachers' Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Informatics] SAT hypothesis - example

Hi Mark and fellow Informatics teachers…

Thanks Mark for an interesting article which does use some of the key features of the Informatics SAT

The ABS has a range of information that are similar, without a specific hypothesis but containing information in a like format:
http://abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/Lookup/4102.0Chapter10002008

What I’m wanting to see though are examples of why students are using a multimodal online tool – students need to have some sort of video and audio in the project (from my reading) to justify why teachers don’t just ask for the information to be placed in a Word document.

I’d think this is getting close to what we’re after:
http://poly-graph.co/timeless/?

•         Reasonable hypothesis if not stated (finding the popularity of older music)

•         Images/interactive features

•         User choice through the search filters

•         Really clear/clean design

•         A range of infographics

Would like to know other teachers’ ideas for SAT-styled examples.

Lucas

From: informatics-bounces at edulists.com.au<mailto:informatics-bounces at edulists.com.au> [mailto:informatics-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Mark
Sent: Thursday, 3 December 2015 1:50 PM
To: Year 12 VCE Informatics Teachers' Mailing List
Subject: [Informatics] SAT hypothesis - example

http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/12/6/365.full

This report enquires whether the Australian 1996 ban on certain firearms has reduced homicide and suicide rates.

It contains many of the features of the ITI SAT - hypothesis, variables, statistics, conclusions, graphics, bibliography.

It might be a useful topic for students (and teachers) to practise with.

Cheers
Mark

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