I have installed a new ‘plugin’ to all our blogs this weekend. It is called Poll Daddy and it is a quick and easy way to create a poll or quiz.

You can have up to 10 questions and input as many possible answers as you want or just click ‘other’ for people to input there own answers.

To set one up just click on the circle that looks like this:

Then it will easily help you to produce a poll just like this:

This is a how to unrelated to blogging!
Lots of people have asked me how to download videos from you tube because it is blocked in school.

I would recommend the website:

www.keepvid.com

Copy the url into the blue bar and then choose the lower version .flv will play on real player which you can download.

Or use www.zamzar.com to convert it to a .wmv which will play it on windows media player.

Hope that helps!

Having just read a blog post by Tom Barrett here I felt truly inspired!

This is something that I think would fit really well into our new curriculum in terms of how we produce a final outcome for each ‘big question’.

Tom was trying to use John Davitt’s Learning Event Generator or LEG for short.

The basic principle is simple. You give the children a variety of learning topics or ‘Do’s and a list of ‘As’‘

They then chose a Do and an As.
Therefore for my year 2 history they could present:

School in the 1960s as a flip book

or

Toys in the 1960s as a series of 5 photos.

There is a fun spinner generator here that could be used to get some ideas!

The possibilities are endless! By giving children the options (as open ended or structured as we want) they become motivated, engaged and creative. I think this is what we were trying to do anyway and here is a great resource that could help support us in this.

What do you think?