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Battle of Britain Lesson by Jenny Hutton
Jenny Hutton has very kindly donated a brilliant lesson on the Battle of Britain. Jenny was one of the (great) PGCE interns I worked with in 2009-10. Please take a look, and have a go!
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Films for Learning
About 5 years ago I was working with a friend, Dan Raven-Ellison, on using video in the classroom using mobile phones. The whole thing was quite hard really, and if I’m honest, we didn’t really get our heads around how … Continue reading
Writing for Wikipedia as an assignment
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Great Value INSET from the SSAT, and Me!
Regular readers will know that I was recently appointed as a Lead Practitioner by the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust. Lead Practitioners offer great value, amazingly practical and inspiring INSET under the SSAT Lead Practitioner Programme.
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Blogging with students
Somebody is reading! Ali from Rohampton sent a very nice comment, which I’ve only just picked up.
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Creating personalised worksheets using mail merge.
This is easy, and I can see a huge range of applications. In a recent lesson I taught using wiki (which in itself wasn’t totally successful) I made individual worksheets that contained; personalised instructions, a list of resources tailored to the personalised task of each students and login and password information. Each student needed different instructions (depending on their topic). Obviously they all needed differe Continue reading
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What to do with a wiki?
Last thursday Jane and I ran a third lesson with my year 9 ‘Zeldin’ class. This was a second go at using the wiki to study the links between events and factors behind the development of surgery in the 19th and 20th Centuries.
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Wiki Woes
After a recent triumph in which many members of the class leapt at the wiki that we’d been introduced to, a second lesson in which we used it fell very flat. I’m trying to work out exactly why, and I think I may have hit upon the reason. The lesson was designed to use the mind-map / wiki interface to encourage students to make ‘links’ between factors and events to do with solving three main problems of the development of surgery, pain, blood-loss and infection.
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Students using wikis!
Wow – a wiki that works!
Jane Shuyska from the Department of Education at Oxford Uni has been showing my year 9 class (whom I call Marwick cos I can’t retain the complicated computer numbers that they go by in the school timetable) the wiki / mind map combination she’s working on called "thinkspace". Jane is doing some research as to how / if students use this combination to aid their learning in history.
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Enquring Minds: Year 8 Local History Projects
Phew!
I’ve had another couple of year 8 lessons, and before they fade from my memory I thought I’d try to put down some thoughts
- Pupils in and out of lessons;
- Engaging interest
- moving from collecting to ordering / analysing
- pressure of time
Pupils in and out of lessons
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