[MUSIC PLAYING] INSTRUCTOR: I wanted to go more into Active Learn again. But I'm only going to
just show the digital books, whether that's from Active Learn or whether that's Kerboodle or any
other digital book, that's quite useful to have access to digital books because
at that point, you can then share the screen immediately. Otherwise,
you're going to have to take a phone and take photos and so on.
And within Active Learn, by the way, you'll notice there's also PowerPoints,
videos that you can use as well. So if you do have
a subscription with that, make sure you have a look at those things as well.
But that's the same, as I said, with Kerboodle and any other digital books that you have.
And the other thing is getting yourselves an emulator. And they're free now from Casio. Last
time, in May when we were mentioning it, they said they were putting in that place. They're now free.
So you can go on to the website. The website's at the end. And you can get both the CG50,
the graphical one, which is also allowed in GCSE, as well as the other one. And you can use them.
And you simply just have to go to this website. And then go onto Emulators,
and download them. They're quite useful because then you can show students
how to use the calculators as well at the same time and how they can benefit from them.
I'm going to leave the Active Learn now. I do go into details. Before I do,
actually, they do have an annotation symbols as well, which is great.
So if you can just load the book there and then start using the interactive pen
and then circle it. Right now, I'd like to do that. But because it's only a video as a
PowerPoint that I'm sharing, I'm having to just try and explain everything verbally.
If I can move my mouse or I write something there, that's quite useful. It really helps.
I'm going to skip that. We mentioned Kerboodle as
well. And that's similar to Active Learn. You can see the book there.
I did mention last time, as well, variation theory. And you can get that. You can get
all these different other PowerPoints are help. Dr. Frost has a great website with interactive
tasks for your students. But also he's done really nice videos as well that you can use.
By the way, the reason I'm mentioning videos a lot,
you don't always have to make PowerPoints. And we did say that to our teachers as well.
You don't have to record yourself every time there are so many resources out there.
You could just create a PowerPoint where you start with a starter. You then have a video that
models and deconstructs a problem and then shows and models how you can answer it. And a lot of
those videos do. And then it gives tasks for them to do. So you could set up a lesson like that.
And that's why I'm mentioning Dr. Frost as well,
because they link with our schemes of work. And he's done a great job with putting exam
questions as well. And they follow the same order as the books as well.
These are just some examples here. And that's the interact. That's the videos I mentioned
earlier on. What's nice, if you notice back at Active Learn as well as Dr. Frost, it's getting
some feedback. And I told this. We talked about marking earlier on. If you've got a full timetable
and you've got many here grouped out, it's difficult to mark everyone. It's good to combine.
One homework can be on a digital platform, where you get immediately feedback and you can
see it from here. And one could be about marking and, as I said, not the whole page of questions.
It's got a digital whiteboard as well. The Live Mode here is great. If you've ever had Kahoot,
it's similar but with maths questions, or you can setup your own self there. And students
did enjoy that when they were home. That's what that shows.
These are the diagnostic questions. And, as I said, on live lessons,
they're quite useful because if you don't have the
pause feature on Zoom, you can use one of those PowerPoints. And then you can ask the students to
put their answers in the chat, for example. And so again, you can use that feature.
Desmos has done a lot of activities which help for remotely and, again, with the blended learning.
And I think a lot of those activities are good for in-class class as well. So if you haven't gone to
this website, go on to teacher.desmos.com and have a look at their activities. You can get student
logons as well. And therefore, you get responses. But I'm going to just fast forward to that.
Hegarty has its own videos as well. And basically, if you go on to Google or any other search and you
just put anything you want to think about maths and put his name afterwards, the video comes up.
TLMaths for GCSE transition to A level. So those more able students, he's got videos of
explanations that you can then set for some remote learning as well for students who are at home.
If you haven't seen Oak National Academy,
they start all their lessons with a survey to get some feedback of how students went.
Then they do the lesson. And then they have another-- you fill, at the end, another survey,
which is similar to the ideas I mentioned earlier on. And that's what I just mentioned there.
Our Maths Emporium. Please don't forget our Maths Emporium. There's a lot of new content there as
well. The one that I think Pietro mentioned last time as well, and I'll mention it because I really
like it. If you go onto the GCSE Maths in Emporium and go specifically to our GCSE linear one there,
then you can go on to practice questions.
And then within that, look out for our new themed practice papers. And then you've got
them between higher and foundation as well. So if I just show you the higher and take one,
so you've got the algebraic fractions here. And then you've got the mark schemes as well.
What's really nice about them is because if your students do some of those online tasks
or you know that you've seen or you've marked one or two questions and you found gaps
of knowledge, you can then go find the specific booklet and send it to
them through either Google Classroom, your Teams, or whatever other platform you have.
You can now send it to them for them to do. And you can either get it back when they come back
to school. Or you can then mark it if they send you some of those questions as well.
What also Sarah mentioned to me earlier on, there's also some interactive PDFs.
I think it's worth showing you this if you haven't seen this. I'm going to share my
screen again just to show you this because I don't have a screenshot of them. But what's
nice with interactive PDFs-- if you ask in the chat below, I can send you the link to them.
What's nice about them, you don't have to go and search for them. You can go straight
as you can see here. You can just go click on one of them. And then you'll download the specific
one you have. So if you've done any diagnostic kind of task and you know that they've got gaps
or you want them to practice this, you can then just download it and send it to them.
And then they can either submit the work-- it depends how you want to use this. Or you can give
them a test as well. It really depends on how you want to use it. But I thought that was great, the
fact that they pulled a lot of questions and put them all like that and made it clickable as well.
The other thing I should mention, back during remote learning back in the summer
term, we had some free online videos that were being recorded
for year 10's and year 11's. So if you want to put a lesson together and you don't want to
record yourself teaching it, you might find the appropriate video.
And then put a link to that in a PowerPoint or send it to the students to watch as well.
They're all on YouTube still. Just find the playlist or ask them. And you can then select it.
And some of the tasks they've done are quite creative as well. So you
might get some ideas as well if you watch those for some of your students as well.