Student Refection

VOX Tool

A nice suggestion from the Life as a Professional Athlete.

We are using the Vox tool while watching instructional videos. Students post questions using their tablets (or some students used mine as didn’t have one) while watching the video. This enables us to prepare for quality answers, students don’t forget questions, don’t have to be start stop on instruction video.

Vox can be found in the Project class blog in Frog. 

Student reflection from Crammy Wipeout Project

Student Reflections

The Students in the Fantasy Writing Project have used Weebly to create a website to collate their reflections. Keep an eye on http://thewritersoftheroundtable.weebly.com/  for updates on their progress and thoughts.

Scenes from Project fortnight

Here students are in the "Wind Power, I am a big Fan"prototyping Wind Turbine blades, and calculating Power output to make an evidence based decision on design.

Skyping an expert.

A nice example of using experts and ICT to support learning from the Transport Media project . Students had a Skype Q&A session with Green Party Activist NicK Best with students asking questions about economical and environmental issues relating to the re opening of the Ashington/Blyth Tyne Line.

Project Blogs

Each project has a project blog, which teachers are using to share the resources the students needed to complete the project.

This great example is from the Life as a Professional Athlete project. It has video clips, lesson resources, online specialist tools such as http://www.myfitnesspal.com/.

Flipped Learning in CLV Music Project

As part of our project students are tasked with writing an original song (or songs!) within two weeks.  The songs will be recorded, produced, promoted and sold on iTunes, Amazon and Spotify to a very real audience.  Students will also create a dance performance to go with their tracks which will be performed with a live version of the music on our exhibition day.

In order to meet this challenge the students will need to learn a variety of skills.  To support them with this we are running workshops in the first two days of the project on Promotion, Dance and Songwriting/production.  We decided that there was a great opportunity for some independent learning here.  Whilst staff will facilitate the workshops on Promotion and Dance we will expect students to use technology to carry out an ‘independent’ workshop on songwriting.   The aim of this is to give them the chance to research this area and build up an initial understanding before the Wednesday where they will get their hands on recording equipment and will be supported by a teacher to begin the writing, production and recording of their music.  There are tasks included here which they can do at home to help them prepare for their learning in school (similar to the flipped learning concept but it’s up to them whether they do this in school or at home).

The access to technology makes this simple.  Students access a google form created by the teacher.  Embedded within this form are videos, tasks and questions.  The students work through these sessions at their own pace (with an extension workshop available for those who want it) and the comments they make are returned to the teacher so we can track their progress, understanding and initial thoughts.

The three workshops are below.  Note they spread onto more than one page so feel free to fill them in to get to and see the following pages.  The forms below are copies so I have no problem with you filling in answers of your own and submitting if you feel the need.  And no comments on my introduction video thanks – I had time for one take – it is what it is!! For anyone interested the video was made using Screencastify – a free recording tool)!

Workshop 1
Workshop 2
Extension workshop

Note you can still buy last year’s track on Spotify and iTunes.  Search for “CLV Music” and look to ‘Nothing to Say’.  If you are a cheap skate and want to watch it for free you can see their music video here (although this is only one of the three tracks and the sound level drops throughout the video).  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcjinVwmjGA

This year’s song will be released ready for purchase by Monday 30th June.  Please keep an eye out for it (we will post the link here when it is ready) and please support the students by buying it.  The money raised will be going to a charity of their choice.



 By

Phil Spoors.

Pic Collage

One project is planning to use Pic Collage  as a way of reviewing learning and process each day. " Is just like Lino it but more user friendly. Great review tool though for the tablets. Worth exploring." says Scott Bowman. 

It might look a little like this. 

Expect updates from this project in this form!