Wicked D&T Site

Our Projects and Design team have done some cool stuff for Rastrick High School and their Design & Technology (DT) collaborative exhibition.  You can take a peek at http://design2010.co.uk

This is the third year the project has run – the site shows off students’ D&T work from all the Calderdale secondary schools and is open to the public. Visitors can view students’ work by key stage, including a photo and description of what the student has created.  Visitors can then post comments against each exhibit and then vote on their favourite work from each key stage.

The project is live for two weeks, and ends with the exhibits who have the most votes getting a prize.

A really strong way of engaging the kids, their parents, and creating competition between a number of schools, which is bound to increase motivation (although I know nowadays competition isn’t supposed to be allowed until you leave school ;0)

Froggy World Cup Fever

A few schools are using Frog to build their own World Cup portals and catch the buzz to get the kids engaged, which is a great idea.

Here’s a pic of Costello’s Portal – it gives students and teachers the latest match reports, tutor time activities, news, forums, all sorts of bits and pieces.  And Dominic, with a fancy new hair-do by the look of it.

de Ferrers in Staffordshire have a World Cup quiz, and pages where they can view facts and stats about the World Cup finalist countries and the South African stadiums in their interactive Google Maps mashup.

For more details on this, see the de Ferrers blog at http://www.deferrerstv.com/frogblog/ It looks like de Ferrers did the same thing with the election.

This is a fantastic way of making learning relevant, and of engaging students (and their parents) with learning.  Well done to both schools !!

Not seen any Wimbledon portals yet, though, but then I didn’t realise Wimbledon was on until last night….