The lovely Kat Crocker spoke about rocketing up your tutor group. She spoke about top tips for tutor time and things that have worked well at Clevedon School... - go vertical - give them jobs to do - get organised by tracking students carefully - plan your time together, quality…
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Ian presented a virtual Teachmeet presentation with a variety of ideas... Manga High - free. You can upload users and students can play different games to accumulate scores. Challenges can be set for the class, students can play other schools and a personal login for your school means no need…
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Jamie 'virtually' talked about in school TeachMeets to improve teaching and learning. Presentations which are 2 or 7 minutes long can take place within a meeting, turning the environment into a relaxing and stress free place and the ability to share ideas and thought easily. The length of the presentations…
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Posterous vs. Homework Noel spoke about how following how his daughter uses social networking has allowed him to learn a lot about how he can use social networking for his students. Posterous can allow you to create an online course for your subject, everything in one place! The students can…
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Cody and Lewis showed a fantastic video on some ideas to use for starters. Guess your number game - a thinking game to get students' minds thinking! http://sketch.odopod.com - create a sketch and choose a brush colour and type, you can then draw something. Concentration memory game - www.mathsisfun.com/games/memory
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Gavin talked about a range of ideas, fun and easy to use in the classroom Linoit - a little bit like wall wisher but fantastic to use for starters, plenaries, reviews and communicating learning during a lesson. Inappropriate comments can be taken off easily. Available on iPad and iPhone, Popplet…
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Donna is a Head of ICT at Filton. She spoke about how great QR codes are, being able to link to texts and pictures. They can be created easily using a QR code generator. Donna's school has used this as a treasure hunt activity for Open Activity, a revision trail…
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Mark spoke about Google Forms and how useful they are in the classroom for tests and surveys amongst other things. Some forms can even be marked for you! Mark advised you'd need a google account and knowledge of forms in some way. But otherwise, it was very easy. A short…
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I’ve been asked to make a case for the use of iPads in English by a member of my PLN, @learningspy (David Didau) or more specifically, how they could be used. This could turn in to a very lengthy post if I was to write my entire case for the…
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Please feel free to have a butchers at my presentation from TeachMeet. 30 iPad apps to engage and inspire Open publication - Free publishing - More ipads http://bit.ly/30ipadapps
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