Government response to the Wolf Report

Just getting down to work on your submission?

You might be interested in this new tool I review on my own blog here: http://recentreflection.blogspot.com/2011/05/on-next-step-beyond-wikipedia.html

Useful tools

For once, I have posted something potentially useful on my other blog (follow heading link)--it may particularly be of interest to those of you thinking of preparing your submissions. On the other hand, it may lead to hours of time-wasting...

A different take on resource design

This is the other side of the coin (although from a different angle) from this post.

Do you make your handouts and slides clearly legible and easy to read? This article argues (inclusivity considerations aside) that you may be doing your students a disservice.

Up to a point, perhaps... But it's always interesting to entertain a counter-intuitive angle.

Evaluation reports from Study Days in March

Thanks to all those who contributed in whatever way to the Study Days.

Evaluation 0500311

Evaluation 260311

View more presentations from James Atherton.

More information for the Year 1 Study Day 26 March

The schedule for the Study Day is available to download here.

As a reminder, the activity from the first Study Day is here.

Format for presentations at next year 1 Study Day

The heading links to a PowerPoint file for download.

At the Study Day, one of the Interest Group tasks (you may remember), is to report back to the rest of the group on the work you started in those groups at the first Study Day.

There is no obligation to do so via PowerPoint: but we know from experience how difficult it is to contain such presentations, if you do choose to use it. So if you do use PowerPoint, we have set up a template for you to use.*

It will help you to produce a five-minute presentation, based on 15 slides, each showing for 20 seconds and progressing automatically, which means that you will need to rehearse and practise the presentation. Download and save it, and then open it and run it as a slideshow, and all will become clear!


* It's not actually a template file, for reasons of flexibility, but you can use it as such. Just open it, delete the existing content, and replace with your own.