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Friday, September 17, 2010, 12:48 AM

Review 4 & 5

Review 4 - Foodtube.net / YouTube

These websites hosts a collection of video recipes and basic cooking skill demonstrations. These various cooking demonstrations range from very basic dishes/cooking skills, eg cooking of pasta (1st video), to more advanced dishes/cooking skills, eg making of roux(2nd video).

Using of videos for cooking demonstrations is a more efficient way to impart cooking skills to students as compared to traditional cooking demonstration by the teacher during the practical sessions.

Here are some reasons:
1. Can pause/replay steps to emphasize certain important steps
2. The video will have added captions which allow more visual learner to better relate the various steps in the recipe with the actions.
3. In a typical classroom cooking demonstration, only the first row of students can get the best view and the rest who cannot really see will lose their interest in learning. Thus, they miss out on noting down the important steps and proper way to prepare the demonstrated dish.

Therefore, I would search and include cooking demonstrations for the recipes that I would teach for practical and show them to the students taking Food Studies before actually conducting the practical session.

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Review 5 - TeensHealth from Nemours: Food Safety

This article from the site summarizes the various aspects of food safety in an easy to read manner with short paragraphs. Apart from using it when teaching Food Safety, this way of organizing the key points can also be thought to the students so that it helps them in the preparation for the written examination.

In a systematic way, food safety kicks in from choosing:

To storing and cooking:

To cleaning up:

To storing leftovers:

There is still more information available on the site for teens, there is not many articles related to the syllabus of Food Studies. Also, there is not many graphics or interactive activities available that can help to engage the students.

Labels: DCX 130 Teaching Food and Nutrition