Learner Response Systems
This group is for all teachers in all subjects K-12, to share their ideas and successes of using Learner Response Systems as well as other creative uses in the classroom.
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Do you need clipart for a lesson and don't know where to find it? Always willing to help out a fellow teacher, Pat Verhoeven shares her favorite sites for finding the perfect clipart to accompany any lesson.
Great teaching takes more than a little planning. Equip yourself with strategies that engage all students and encourage mastery of any objective by following these top teaching tips from Planet Super User, Tabitha Savage.
Are you looking for advice on how to introduce classroom clickers, such as ActivExpression, to young students? Early Years Practitioner, Lorraine Munro, is here to help with hints and tips on using the handsets with younger children, picked up from her own experiences in the classroom.
Serge Tasic has been tracking down mathematics apps suitable for young children, but finding apps that provide opportunity for exploration and learning from experience has not been an easy job! In his latest blog post, Serge shares his findings and opens a debate on how such apps should be quality controlled.
In order to know what to teach, we need to know what our students understand. Formative assessments are a crucial part of every successful lesson. Get your students thinking about the objective with these formative assessment ideas from Planet Super User, Tabitha Savage.
Secondary teacher Caroline Marshall explores the concept of the "Active Classroom". Caroline shares how she's been using technology (including Promethean's ActivClassroom solutions) to promote student and teacher engagement, turning her own classroom into an active learning environment.
Now that ActivInspire includes the functionality to embed HTML into flipcharts, a whole world of possibilities has opened up. But it's also left a lot of educators asking questions, such as "What does embedding HTML mean?" "How does it work?" and even "What is HTML?" Never fear, Lisa Dubernard has been investigating and her latest blog post aims to answer all these questions and more!