Edmodo – RVHS Teaching & Learning Blog

May 23, 2013

RVHS Teach Meet Presentations and Resources

Please find below all the presentations and resources from our Teach Meet

Please trial one idea in your classroom and for more information or help then please ask the presenter, I am sure that they will be happy to help.

Camscanner app by Marius Vermaak

Class Charts presented by Shahidur Rahman an excellent tool for preparing seating plans

Judith Bentley and Tara Preston present on the excellent Mind Mapping Skills promoted by Positively Mad.

Can be an extremely useful technique to help students revise for any subject.

Sharon Jenner presents on Why Blog ?

What is the purpose and how relevant is blogging to teaching and learning…..

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Matt Cocker on the story so far with Edmodo

Nicholla Chambers presented on effective feedback methods in MFL

Emilie Darabasz presents Tweachers!

Melanie Wright demonstrated how to create a literacy friendly learning environment

Karima Lasfer showed us how to inject zest into the classroom using Task Magic

Jackson Home and Tamie Kyriakou show us how to use Tarsia across the curriculum

Jon Quirk presented on using Google Play for education

Chris Bently demonstrated how to use the fantastic screencast-o-matic to provide feedback
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Kumers Naidoo showed us five online web tools in 5 minutes

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Dee Sexton shared some differentiation strategies

Emilie Darabasz presents on…

Tweachers– Why teachers should be using twitter?

What’s the point of Twitter? Why should educators get involved? What difference does using Twitter make? Well here are some ideas I wanted to share.

Twitter is like a virtual staffroom, we are at times too busy in school to sit down and share ideas and resources. Twitter helps you to do so. In the search tool bar Hash tag # follow by what you would like to search for (#AFL) and in seconds you can access a stream of links, ideas, opinion and resources from global professionals.

Twitter is no string attached– you can step into it when suits you: on the train or waiting for the kettle to boil you do not need to be logged on all the time for Twitter to be beneficial to you.

Twitter helps teachers to reflect on their own practice in order to improve and develop ideas. Teachers on Twitter share reflections and both support and challenge each other. This is a free and very efficient CPD!

With Twitter you get instant feedback – Posting an idea or a resource on Twitter means you can gather a range of opinions and constructive criticism within minutes: which is a great help when planning a learning experience or writing a policy.

Twitter helps me to stay up to date on news and current affairs, as well as on the latest developments in my areas of interest. By following leading individuals and organisations, Twitter users can stay at the bleeding edge of innovation and creativity. (Think about your own CPD )

So where do you start? Open an account for your personal CPD only. Think about the leading individuals in your subject area for instance Sue Cowley for behaviour – seach for their name and read their ‘Bio’ (The way they introduce themselves on the profile page). If you are interested follow them. Have a look at who they are following as well (as most of the time they will follow professionals in the same area if interest) and follow them too.

Do not forget chats and forum like @ukedchat: every Thursday night at 8pm on education ideas and issues, @BehaviourTeach: Monday night at 8pm chat on behaviour strategies in classroom or @STLchat on Sunday night at 8.30 pm (you do not need to be STL to follow this very interesting forum)

March 13, 2013

Teach to Learn: Issue 2 – Literacy at Roding Valley High School

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March 6, 2013

Feedback on Edmodo to DAZ Group

Student feedback through Virtual Learning Environments

Having taken the challenge to revise my use of virtual learning environments over the last half term I thought it was about time for an update. Having used Edmodo as a space where students can be set homework or interactive classwork, it was surprising how quickly the students were able to adapt to using the new technology.
One of the main issues with the old VLE was that information really only went in one direction, from the teacher to the student, and was limited to chunks of text or links to websites. Edmodo allows the students far more opportunity to comment on the work they are set and for teachers to give feedback on completed assignments. Below is an example of students explaining what they thought the assessment was like and my comments and feedback to them: All helpfully shown on a single page.

Edmodo has one other trick up its sleeve when it comes to student
feedback. The website allows teachers to simply annotate students work without
the need for printing the work off and handing it back. As can be seen the
students work can be annotated with tools which are at the top of the screen.

Although, some students are still finding their feet with this way of working it has provoked discussion and allowed students access to a range of resources that they would not otherwise have found. I am still a long way from using Edmodo with all my classes or even every week with classes. However, if we expect students to feel confident in a world where many jobs require social media skills it is necessary to challenge both ourselves and students to engage with their school work online, at home and at school.

Update on Edmodo to DAZ group

Matt Cocker

March 6, 2013

Safer Internet Day 5th February 2013

Students participate in e-safety learning for safer internet use.

See below for presentation with advice and tips as shown to our students in a week of assemblies.

Prepared by Ken Joyce

Head of ICT and Business Studies

February 7, 2013

Teach to Learn: Issue 1 – Effective Feedback

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January 4, 2013

The RVHS Learning Puzzle – Be part of it…..ZEST via media

We have just started to work on our vision for the spring term. Our T&L groups will be working on the following:

Group A – Teaching and Learning e-newsletter

The aim is to publish at least 3 newsletters this academic year. These e-newsletters will be available on our website and twitter and will publicise the excellent work here at RVHS.

Effective Feedback
Collate examples of best practise – student questionnaires
Track journey of new marking policy and current evaluations
Impact on progress
Differentiation
Review of best practise at RVHS
Research current practice – focus SEN/ students arriving on 4c
Trial innovative ideas, paired observations
Literacy Focus
Writing frames , showcase literacy across the curriculum, literacy intervention, accelerated reader, promote use of key words, use of reading ages to aid progression in the classroom

Group B – Digital Leaders

Consider… Do the students know more about the technology than most of us?
What can we learn from the students?
What will happen if we give the students a voice in their learning?
How can we use technology in the classroom?
What ideas can groups trial in the classroom:

Create a group of digital leaders – Work with students to identify areas of the curriculum that could be enhanced – ‘Zest’ by the use of technology
Students help to plan lessons in these identified areas, train the teachers in the use of technology
Case study – students i.e. Gaming in media
Trial the use of tumblr.com , Edmodo or google.docs as a platform to run a group project
More Able students – working independently on extended project using platforms such as Tumblr, WordPress, Wikispaces or Google docs

We will keep you updated…

S Jenner
AHT T&L