F&N E-learning!

This week is e-learning week and we are tasked to review a total of 5 online resources that are useful for our F&N lessons in future. Here are the 5 that I find useful:

1. BrainPop
www.brainpop.com

Brainpop.com has been around since 1999 as a video resource for many different subjects and thus the content and information covered are considered as reliable. These videos are useful in F&N lessons when the teacher wants to teach topics related to the systems in our body i.e. Digestive system. The content and interactive characters in the video would be able to let students visualize the processes clearly. It would also engage the students during the lesson and make the lesson less boring.

2. Food Craft
http://ediblecrafts.craftgossip.com/

In food crafting, food is usually utilized in a way where it would look like a piece of art. It involves design skills and cooking skills for completion. Teachers can allow students to make food crafts during practical sessions to expose them to a variety of fun ways and techniques to manipulate food in terms of presentation/decoration/garnishing. This would really benefit the students when doing the coursework as they would be able to apply these skills learnt on the dishes during their practical exams.

3. Recipe4Living
http://www.recipe4living.com

This website is useful as a recipes resource for the students when they have to research for dishes to make for their coursework question. It provides recipes from many categories such as Appetizers, Crockpot, Casseroles, Desserts, and Main Courses from its recipe collections. It also contains e-cookbooks covering different categories of food, meal, season of the year, and more. These recipes are usually tried and tested as recipe providers included real-life photos of the dish itself. Thus, this website can be considered as a trusty website for recipes that would be able to 'work out' when tried.

The website also contains articles on different topics related to food, nutrition, healthy eating, and more. Some examples include 'Healthy fast food alternatives' and 'The dangers of sodium'. Students can make use of these articles if the coursework question given is related.

4. Dietary Guidelines
http://www.hpb.gov.sg/HOPPortal/article?id=2758
http://www.nutrition.com.sg/he/hesdietg.asp

These websites on Dietary Guidelines are extremely useful in the teaching of F&N coursework as this is one of the most significant components of nutrition, to eat healthy and right according to Singapore/Asian lifestyle standards. Students are definitely require to have online resources on this for their coursework research to support their recipe choices in the 'Decision making' section.

5. Home Baking Associations
http://www.homebaking.org/

This website contains recipe resources. It has an ' A to Z Baking Tips' section which would give many good reminders and things to note for the students when the teacher is conducting a practical session which requires baking. The education resources provided also give teachers inspiration on how to conduct certain lessons. For example, the website has a lesson plan on how to teach 'Healthy Diet Pyramid' to the student by letting them come up with a meal plan that contains different food groups of the HDP. These lesson ideas are very useful in stimulating students' thinking skills in the F&N lessons.


After doing this e-learning, I realized there are many useful and interesting lesson ideas, recipes and resources available for us, future teachers, to use as reference. It is only up to us if we are willing to take the extra step to research in detail to be able to plan better lessons for our future students!

Adeline :)