Poll Everywhere

www.polleverywhere.com

My top site for this week is Poll Everywhere, which allows you to send your students a question via email and allows for instant feedback. I posted a question as a trial; " Is grilling a better way to cook than stewing", I then asked students to respond the question.

An example of an open ended question

An example of a multiple choice style question

 Positives about this site
1. It is isntant to create (2minutes to make the poll)
2. Allows for insant feedback
3. Allows the students to be annonymous so the quieter students can have a voice
4. Looks fun and engages the whole class!

Cramberry.net

I love cramberry.net, an amazing online tool to help students study for exams and remember definitions.
Easy to use and best of all the students can download the free app on their iPhones and study while they are on the bus or walking home.

Feel free to email me if you have any questions about how to use it ! :)

Using google Docs

Today I used google docs and have discovered that it is a great  tool to use in and outside the classroom. It is engaging, student centered and also very fun for the students. As for the teacher it took 2 minutes to put it together and the rest of time you can sit back and look at how the students are collaborating and applying their knowledge.
How I used it....

There are many smaller topics in this one unit that I am currently finishing with my class. Using google docs/ presentation  I simply labelled each page with the title of each sub topic. Then students went off in their pairs and answered the questions on their pages. The best thing about this is that I can monitor and see what each student is typing without even being in the room. However I was in the room, but you can move the lesson outside or in any space.

Link to ilearn project 2010

Link to my iLearn Project site where worksheets and resources can be downloaded and used if you are interested in implementing the project into you food technology class.

https://sites.google.com/site/ictinfoodtech/ 

Social go

I have found a great new website called SocialGo which is another free social networking site. Now that NING has become a fee paying membership site I can no longer use it. This new site is just as good, if not better. It allows you to add blog posts, upload video and images

Happy Blogging


www.socialgo.com

Multiple Intelligence

This is a quick 5 minute quiz your students can do in class to identify what type of learner they are. This is a good start to a new unit/ topic as students can really identify how they learn best.
Students can then complete assessment tasks/ class work in this format.

Brimingham Grid for Learning Student Quiz

After attending a TAS network meeting I established a great way to use the results of this quiz to encourage and promote learning from ALL students.

At the start of each unit, allow students to work in Ability Groups for 5 weeks. This enables the students to work together to develop core knowledge and get an understanding of the key concepts of the unit. The next 5 weeks students are to break out into their Learning Style groups. Together they can explore the rest of the unit and assessment task using their learning style.

Its hard to explain in words but if you would like more information please see me. It makes better sense face to face.

NING.com

ning.com is a great site to create online blog pages for your classes. It allows students to discuss topics in class, ask questions and evaluate their work. My year 10 food technology students are using the NING to evaluate their food technology practical lessons, upload photos and video of their dishes. 

Its a fun and interesting way of evaluating their work, especially for students with different learning abilities. I have students on life skills completing the work and are actively engaged in the task! 

My students complete a series of questions called a  RECIPE REVIEW, these are a series of questions which require them to evaluate and reflect on their practical cooking lesson.