Information for Year 1 Study Day, 23 March

From Carol;

Study Day Interest Groups

The purpose of the study day interest groups is to provide a structured opportunity for you to network with other teachers within your subject specialism.  This task has been created to provide an incentive for discussion relating to assessment in your subject area.  The aim of the task is to initiate discussion, however, it is expected that this dicusssion will continue outside of the study days and you will utilise this opportunity to share ideas and good practice with colleagues across the network.   This can be done through the discussion boards which are set up on BREO.

Interest Group Task

Discuss the uses of assessment in your subject area including formal and informal strategies.

Produce information for other teachers on the topic of assessment by producing either:

·         A presentation

·         or

·         A document with the title '20 Top Tips for Assessment'.

This information should be posted onto BREO in the discussion board area.  You will also need to keep a copy of it for your Unit 4 portfolios.

Mark’s bundle of coolness – ILT session (2 March Study Day)

from Mark Tinney:

PowToon.com – This is a new online presentation tool which allows you to create navigable animated presentations or videos up to about 5 minutes in length (for the free version).  There is a bit of a learning curve to getting used to them, but there are a number of templates which make the basics very easy.  You can even publish them straight to youtube.

TED.com – I have talked about TED several times at these events, in part because it is that good.  The site is full of great talks from experts in several fields and even better they also post some of the best and most inspiring videos from across the web.  As if the site needed to get even better, it has.  Ted has added TEded this is a portion of the site that allows you to create learning materials from any TED talk or YouTube video.  Students can create a free account and you can track their results.

PollEverywhere.com – This is another website I have mentioned in several session, it is awesome and allows you to create quiz or poll questions that learners can respond to via text, or a unique web address you can create through the site, they can even respond via twitter.

QRStuff.com – This is the website I use to create QR codes, you know those funny –looking codes that you can scan with your phone and then pull up a website or a body of text of virtually any bit of information you want learners to have.

In one group I was able to look at Morfo Booth, this is an Apple app that allows you to take any picture of someone, that is face front and animate it, adding sound and even making your own video.  This is great for learner projects, mini biographies or just a fun way to present information.  My learners love it. (Also available for Android but possibly not yet in the UK --James)

Playbrighter.com – This is a quiz website (a game website really) that allows you to create groups of learners and quizzes (called missions on the site) for the learners to complete.  Grades are kept, as is your question bank for the next time you want to use it.  It is free to try, although after 10 quizzes it is a fee based site, but it is worth it I promise.

Sporcle.com - We didn’t look at this in either session, but I have done so in previous sessions, this is a quiz website as well, completely free and full of loads of brilliant prebuilt content and you can build your own.  This is great for just a bit of fun as well as some serious learning.

We began each session by playing a game called hungry bat, which is available at this address
http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/Lightnin/1659457

Thank you for your time and warm welcome on Saturday, I hope you found the session useful.  The key is try something new, and see if it works.

Year 2 Study Day--2 March

No usual evaluation report this time, I'm afraid. I can only apologise for not having organised the collection of the forms efficiently enough, and the 24 forms we did collect were not sufficient to have any claim to be representative.

However, you can still read the contributions to the Question Time slot via Twitter (#pce2) and add any write-in comments you wish.

In particular, Shane tweeted thus with the information you were requesting about QTS/QTLS and IfL;

Links for #PCE2: QTS/QTLS advice http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/careers/traininganddevelopment/qts/a00205922/qlts-guidance … & @IFL_Members membership http://www.ifl.ac.uk/membership/renew-now …

 ...but as promised, we shall be circulating everyone with that information shortly.

Thanks to everyone for their contributions to the day, and we hope you took away useful information and ideas for Unit 7.

Second Year Study Day, 10 November, evaluation

(Note that the final option for Question 4, about the Q&A session has been lost in the conversion; it reads "Not relevant to your practice".)

Tech. session; 10 November Study Day

Welcome to Mark's wind-up of the day!

Congeekulations if you arrived directly from scanning the QR image!

If you were reduced to typing in a URL to get here, then go to:

• Here for an iPhone, Android or Windows app. 

• Here for Blackberry

to get a QR reader app. (No obligation, of course. It's just a useful facility for all kinds of things. All our stuff is accessible from www.bedspce.org.uk the old-fashioned way.)

Go to www.tinyurl.com/awayday12 to complete a short survey which will be discussed in this afternoon's presentation

Please add to your paper evaluation of the day on Twitter @bedspace1.

Thanks. Enjoy.

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Update from Mark: 12 November

Useful Websites

Flipping the Classroom

• http://www.khanacademy.org/
• http://Teded.com
• http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/teaching/resources/tools/xerte-online-toolkits.aspx

Screencast tools – Screenr, Presentme, Camstudio

Cool Stuff

• http://www.stumbleupon.com/
• http://www.gapminder.org/
• http://www.ted.com
• http://www.benettonplay.com/toybox.php
• http://www.qrstuff.com

Presentation Tools

• http://www.slideshare.net
• http://www.prezi.com

Assessment tools

• http://polleverywhere.com
• http://Playbrighter.com

Online Storage and collaboration

• http://gmail.com
• http://dropbox.com or http://www.box.com/
• http://titanpad.com

A list of Apps to consider and install:


This is a working list so if you have any to add please share.

Apple	Android
RED LASER – reads bar and QR codes.	QR CODE READER
Put things off	Assignment planner free
Imovie – paid app, but great movie editor.	Magisto – Magical Video editor
Ianki flashcards - – Gapped recall app that allows you to create flash cards on a system that learns what you know and what you don’t.	MemoDroid – Gapped recall app that allows you to create flash cards on a system that learns what you know and what you don’t.
Google Drive or Gdrive – 5gb of free online storage and allows you to create and edit Microsoft word, excel and PowerPoint files.	Google Drive – 5gb of free online storage and allows you to create and edit Microsoft word, excel and PowerPoint files.
TED – Great talks from remarkable people free to the world.	TED – Great talks from remarkable people free to the world.
HD elements The Elements (£4.99) – awesome worth every penny.	Elements – periodic table and/or periodic droid
Imathematics	Mathematics
A Level maths core 1 -	Dropbox – 2gb of free online storage.
Morfo booth	Lookout mobile – virus security and theft tracking.
Evernote – allows users to create to-do-lists, take notes and record voice reminders.	Evernote – allows users to create to-do-lists, take notes and record voice reminders.
Dropbox – 2gb of free online storage.	Color Note – a note taking app that allows users to take notes and edit them on the go.  Offers a sticky note environment, a calendar and to-do-list options.
Google Maps	Google Maps
Educreations interactive Whiteboard – interactive recordable whiteboard.	Sync  Space – whileboard app – used to create drawings and documents.
Mobile Podcaster – (£1.49) – podcast creator. Iblug is free, but new so unrated.	Audioboo – a free web tool where users can record their audio clips and share them with others.
Idea flight – allows you to send presentations to other users logged in on their ipads.	Tape a talk – allows users to record voice notes, voice memos and several other audio formats.  You can even record when the display is off.
ITunes U	AndroidMedia – a video editing app for Android that allows its users to create and edit their videos on the go.
Revision App – The Ultimate revision app.	Minus – allows its users to upload and share files between their Android devices and their computers. 50GB
Khan Academy – Mobil access to the Khan academy and all the educational videos available from Khan academy.org.	WiFi file transfer – allows users to transfer files from an Android device to any other device on the same WiFi network.
Edmodo – this is a VLE website which you can set up for your learners.	AnyDo – allows users to create to-do lists by speaking into their device.
Mindjet - allows users to create awesome mind maps and diagrams.	Mindjet – allows users to create awesome mind maps and diagrams.
Qwiki – great app that talks through Wikipedia articles in two minute videos.	One Note – enables users to take notes very easily and on the go. Windows live ID required.

 
And the Survey results are here.