How was it for you?

Hello colleagues,

 Well the week support is over and we would like to get your feedback as to how it affected you? Please post any experiences , pleasant or not , about the week and any new ideas / strategies you gained.

The team thanks you for all the enthusiasm you showed during a difficult week and look forward to following up any developments. Please do contact us or post below if you need further support.

Websites that use ICT to develop questioning

If you are planning to put pupils together or have groups peer assessing work you may wish to use the following websites to select a group by number.

There is a dice that can be used.  This is similar to the dice function of the Smartboard/Promethean IWB software.

http://www.arcess.com/dice.swf 

http://www.schools.bedfordshire.gov.uk/ngfl/IWB/resources/flash%20files/flash/singleDie.swf

For those wanting to use a timer to give pupils a chance to come up with answers there is the timer at http://www.harmonyhollow.net/ct.shtml

RE and assessment

This document from Cheshire LA isn’t all about peer and self assessment. However, there are some good illustrations of assessment strategies and how to get pupils to reflect on the level they are working at.

Smartboard software

Colleagues may wish to become familiar with the Smartboard software before the training session on Monday 9th October.  It is entirely free to download and can be used to create resources even if you do not have a Smartboard.  Some schools have even added it to the pupil area of the network so that they can have some alternative software to produce homework.

For those of you with slow connections to the internet beware as the file is 76 MB!

Using ICT to support AfL

This article was written last year for the Derby Secondary Strategy newsletter.  Training will be done during the week to support some of the software included in the piece.

sharing-good-ict-strategies.doc 

Peer and self assessment strategies

I have attached peer-self-assessment.doc to share a variety of strategies that colleagues may wish to read before planning lessons for the support week.  Please feel free to comment on the ideas and to share any others on the blog.

Blogs and blogging

What use are blogs and blogging in the classroom?  If you would like a short introduction to the benefits of Web 2.0 technologies find our latest Secondary Teaching and Learning newsletter and read the article.  It’s probably in your staffroom.  If not you may wish to use Ewan McIntosh’s excellent blog as a starting point.