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…
Em, I am the first to admit I am a bit thick when it comes to technical stuff; but What the **ll are you on about here? Have I missed some thing....
ReplyDeleteSorry again,
Tess :(
LOL! Sorry about that Tess. By day I'm a mild mannered maths teacher, but by night I take on a dark and sinister alter ego - web application developer! FreeMIS is a free, open source management information system for schools that I've developed. I noticed from my blog stats that quite a few visitors were coming from the freemis Web site, so I thought I should let them know what was going on.
ReplyDeleteAh, I see! Thanks for that. I wasn't sure what you were talking about. See you soon,
ReplyDeleteTess:)