- JDe shared an example of an interesting example from trench warfare in WWI. This was based on ‘Kim’s Game’ where students are put in groups (by ability to aid differentiation) and one student comes up at a time to view the diagram of trench warfare for 30 seconds. They returned to their group and had to describe the image to the rest of the group and one person drew what they were told. After 1 minute, they then go to the front to view the diagram and so on.
- Stretch and challenge questions would then be employed at the end of the activity
- It was noted that this would be a useful activity in many subjects. This was a very ‘accessible’ activity as you could choose to focus on labels, overall structure, small details etc.
2. Playposit.com (FD)
- FD shared a website that would be useful if a teacher were attempting a ‘Flipped Classroom’.
- A common problem when setting students a video to watch as their homework is in knowing whether they have done it or not in preparation for the lesson.
- This website allows the teacher to insert questions into any YouTube video and track responses, thus knowing whether pupils have completed the activity.
- FD demonstrated the website and it was quite straightforward to crop videos, embed questions etc.
- At first glance, it did not seem possible to upload your own videos to the website, but it may be possible to upload videos to YouTube as ‘private’ videos and then use them.
- The marks from the questions can be imported into Google Classroom.
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