I discovered the wonders of Padlet last year. I was looking for a platform for my Media Studies students to use to post evidence of their research and planning for their A2 coursework. There is a requirement for them to post all their evidence on a ‘blog’ and along with this to use a range…
Month: January 2018
Digital Ambassador Recommends: TextHelp Read & Write
TextHelp Read & Write helps improve confidence in reading and writing. My name is Danielle. I am a mature Functional Skills student in the Centre for Lifelong Learning. I use TextHelp regularly and find it very easy to use and it really helps me express myself. Benefits: • You can check through your work and hear…
Digital Leader for the Centre for Lifelong Learning
My name is Pierre Epoh Moudio and I am the digital leader for the Centre for Lifelong Learning at Finsbury and am based in room G12. I have been working for the college for 14 years as an ESOL lecturer. My area of specialisation is designing learning resources using technology. I encourage and support…
Supporting colleagues to use technology for teaching, learning and assessment.
I’ve been supporting two colleagues who are definitely on a roll with using more technology with their students. I met with them for half an hour last week to show them Padlet, Quizlet and the Blended Learning Consortium (BLC) modules available to the College. They were both already using Kahoot! By the end of the…
Quick way to flip learning then assess it!
Step 1: Pick a topic “Definitions of pain” in this instance. Design a “Blendspace” or use one already designed. (The information included should present the main points in a variety of ways e.g word document, You tube clip, newspaper article, PowerPoint to provide a choice for students about how they explore the information and the…
Using Padlet in teaching
I have been using Padlet with students and successfully used it in class recently. Firstly, I set a home work task via Moodle. Students were asked to re-read notes relevant to the task, view a You Tube clip of a case study of a service user and then follow a link to a Padlet page…
Using Socrative to test flipped learning
We have been experimenting in Media Studies with flipped learning as a way of attempting to get through masses and masses of topic content that the new A Level specification contains. There simply isn’t enough time in the academic year for us to even attempt to teach everything that the students need to know and…