Jul28
Jul28
Technology-Enhanced Formative Assessment
This research paper came to my attention yesterday. In it's own words, it's a 'research-based pedagogy for teaching science with classroom response system. Click Here to Download What's interesting is the question cycle -" an iterative pattern of CRS-based questioning that can serve multiple instructional needs iterative pattern of CRS-based questioning thatcan serve multiple instructional...
Jul21
Putting the Brakes on Boredom
Are you a Driver Training Manager tasked with CPC training? You probably don’t need me to tell you that drivers don’t like sitting in a classroom and if they can, they will sit quietly all day, nod when they have to and answer when they must. More and more Driver Training Managers are using Qwizdom's Audience Response Systems/Interactive Voting Systems in their training sessions to make their presentations more interactive, get drivers involved and to ensure they're both learning and getting the answers correct. As well as seeing the results appear live on the screen, post session results are available in...
Jul21
Qwizdom Already Working In A Big Society
David Cameron announced this week his vision of a Big Society, a drive to empower communities. It turns out Qwizdom has long been involved in empowering communities long before the Big Society moniker. From Housing Associations to Resident Involvement Groups to Community Engagement Initiatives, Qwizdom has been used and is being used to empower communities. Tower Hamlets used Qwizdom’s Audience Response Systems to enable 800 residents to decide what they wanted to spend council money on. Close to 70 Housing Associations, such as Derby Homes, Barnet Homes & Croydon, use Qwizdom to engage with their residents, with a view to finding...
Jul20
Participatory Culture & Student Response Systems
Have a look at this great presentation from Derek Bruff on Participatory Culture & Student Response Systems. It's at the concept that students are now co-creators rather than passive...
Jul15
Maths Busking
How street performers used Maths to attract punters. It's not essentially a Qwizdom related thing but it's quite good.
Jul15
Our Slideshare Site
If you haven't already, you can check out some new Qwizdom presentations over on our Slideshare site. Currently, there's a bit of everything there, all to be used alongside your Qwizdom student response systems. There are ICT quizzes, You Are The Ref Games, Maths Presentations, History, Literature and a few more beyond that. keep reading
Jul7
Engaging with Communities
The Community Development Foundation has recently published a paper entitled 'Engaging with Communities: Lessons from the frontline' The paper looks at the impact of different empowerment activities and includes details of how Qwizdom's Audience Response System was used in Tower Hamlets' participatory budgeting project.
Jul5
Qwizdom to feature in Shanghai World Expo
We've just heard from the team in Qwizdom Australia, that the Qwizdom's classroom response systems is to feature at the World Expo in Shanghai. A Victorian classroom(think of the Australian Victoria, not the British Queen) complete with the very cutting edge technology deployed in Victorian schools, is to be packed down and re-built in Shanghai as part of the Victorian displays at the World Expo, where 60,000 people a day are expected to wonder through. In preparation, 20 students from Balwyn North Secondary College and Glen Waverley Secondary College prepared presentations on their work on the local area of Melbourne to show during a media day. These...
Jul5
At the 2nd Annual Children’s University Conference
Monday 8th December saw the Qwizdom team take part in The Children’s University’s 2nd Annual Conference. Qwizdom, the market leaders in classroom response systems, were invited to the conference to take a space in the conference’s’ Market Place’ area. The Market Place was established to bring top CU suppliers together under one roof.
Qwizdom demonstrated their classroom response system (interactive voting system) to nearly 100 conference delegates, showing them how the system is being successfully used by the Children’s University in Kent to engage and interact with students and obtain honest, timely feedback.
Qwizdom would like to thank Ger, Triinu and Guy from the...