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Thursday, September 16, 2010, 1:27 PM

web sources review 1

This website is very useful for the students in their coursework as the tools, data-based and articles are tailored to the Singapore context.

As the website not only covers food and nutrition related topic and resources, but also on other health concerned issues, it is also suitable for all that are health conscious or wanted to find out more about health-related issues to visit!

Since the focus of the review will be on the suitability of the website for teaching food studies, I'll be discussing on the food and nutrition related resource. (Do explore the other sections!)

Here we go!

Apart from articles where students can read up for information, they can also find the Singapore Recommended Daily Dietary Allowance from this website.

As the students need to plan the menu for their coursework, they need to know the RDDA for their target group before the actually planning can be done.

The HPB website also provide a variety of useful health tools for the students to choose and use.

The tool to highlight here will be the Energy and Nutrient Composition of Food.
When teaching the students meal planning, this tool can be introduced.
After the students planned their menu, they can check if their menu meets the RDDA for their target group by selecting the foods and tabulating the data.
One plus point of this is that students can find the energy and nutrient composition of local dishes and delicacies, unlike other food composition data-based by other countries.

Apart from the above tools, there's this section on Educational Materials where booklets and other materials can found.

The above are examples of educational materials (information booklets). Such booklets like All About Fruits and Vegetable can be used to supplement their reading when I'm teaching about the different food commodities. These booklets are colourful and thus might attract the students attention better than the textbooks. Some of these booklets also have recipes, which gives students ideas on dishes that certain commodities are the main ingredients.

The last part of my review is on the DigiTools available.
This section provide resources consisting of videos, games, and others. Something useful for teaching will be the cooking demo found in the Video category, which can be showed to students before their practicals. The negative point is that there's only cooking demonstrations for 3 dishes.

Shall end this review with a cooking demo from HPB DigiTools:

Labels: DCX 130 Teaching Food and Nutrition