White Hills
There's snow on them thar hills! The excellent Winterhighland forums have photos - here's one.
ActiVote Walkthrough Part 1
At my visit to Musselburgh Grammar this morning, I spoke to some of the maths department about using Activote. They were enthusiastic about the potential of the technology, but said something like "it looks easy as you stand there and explain it, but we'll forget everything you've said by the time we next come to use it".
So.... to provide a bit of backup, here's a step by step guide to using Activote with your class.
The following assumes that the voting pads have been registered with your PC. If not, chase up IT!
Setting up the User Database
You'll want your pupil names to be stored in the system, so that their names appear at the top of the screen when you run a vote. Here's how....
In East Lothian, we have a problem - we don't have write-access to the place on the C drive where the user database is stored! To get around this, we need to copy the default user database to somewhere that is writeable, then tell ACTIVStudio that we've done so:
In ACTIVS…
So.... to provide a bit of backup, here's a step by step guide to using Activote with your class.
The following assumes that the voting pads have been registered with your PC. If not, chase up IT!
Setting up the User Database
You'll want your pupil names to be stored in the system, so that their names appear at the top of the screen when you run a vote. Here's how....
In East Lothian, we have a problem - we don't have write-access to the place on the C drive where the user database is stored! To get around this, we need to copy the default user database to somewhere that is writeable, then tell ACTIVStudio that we've done so:
In ACTIVS…
Time to sharpen the ice axes!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bring on the winter!
ReplyDeleteDon't you mean "sharpen your edges"? I'm always torn between boarding and winter climbing/walking. Well, to be honest I'm not torn at all - I'd always rather go boarding, but I feel a slight twinge of guilt when I admit this to fellow climbers.
ReplyDeleteI don't know why it should bother me - snowboarding is simply the most fun you can have with snow. I've climbed , skied, snowboarded, sledged, had snowball fights and built snowmen and I can categorically state that snowboarding is the most fun :)
7 weeks and counting 'til New Year in Austria.......