Archive for the ‘Plenaries’ Category

Twitter as a starter or plenary?

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009

A bit of a follow up from my Facebook profile template.

I’ve used Twitter live in the classroom before, I really like the need for students to think carefully, and prioritise, the text they use. But we don’t always have net access -so as with the Facebook profile, I’ve produced a template on PowerPoint, I’ve orientated the slides to portrait, looks better and there is more room for students to insert text.

Student twitter template
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I thought this could be used to summarise the main learning points of a lesson, the key points made in a video, or the most important facts to remember about a case study. You could also use it creatively for a character/place/process within a lesson.

I also liked the idea of using the Twitter template as a more formal starter or plenary, so produced this guess the Twitter user template, I’ve animated it, so people only need to change the text. Both can be downloaded from Slideshare.

[slideshare id=1947208&doc=startertwitter-090903090414-phpapp02]

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What if they had a Facebook Profile?

Saturday, August 29th, 2009

I’ve been working on several schemes of work, it’s surprising how uncreative you become under pressure. One of my escapes has been reading about people having much more exciting times during their holidays on Facebook.

I was working on a R.S. scheme of work and wanted students to produce a summary of their thinking about Lucifer, for some reason I wondered what Lucifer’s Facebook profile would look like. It’s just how I think ;) .

I’ve devised this profile outline, I thought it might get students thinking creatively. Students could justify their thinking.

[slideshare id=1923315&doc=facebookoutline-090829050334-phpapp01]

I then thought it could be adapted to non-supernatural entities, how about Old Harry?

harryface

I think it might be a nice little starter or plenary activity, alternatively teachers could create one and ask students to justify their decisions.

Do you think this would be useful?

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Starters and Plenaries

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008

I’ve now started my starters and plenaries page on R.G., I spent some time developing different strategies last year, so much more to come here.

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