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My son and I are sitting in Cafe Bleu enjoying the free hotspot and waiting for Ellis Brigham to open so we can get some essentials for our day's boarding. The weather is a bit grey but the road to the Lecht is open! Can't wait!
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: I
It looks like Gordon McKinlay is also up there enjoying the wifi at the moment. Have you spotted any other edubloggers sipping their lattes?
ReplyDeleteLet me know what the snow is like. I am contemplating it next weekend myself. Make sure you boarders don't create any sideways collisions for us skiers now! lol ;)
ReplyDeleteIt was Gordon's tip that brought me to the Cafe Bleu Ewan :)
ReplyDeleteCairngorm was great today Tess. Ptarmigan Bowl, Ciste Fairway, Traverse and Upper Cas all in splendid nick. The Lecht was slushy glue yesterday.
I am glad you enjoyed Caffe Bleu - they seem to have managed to get a fair amount of free advertising over the weekend!
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