Tony Bunn from Central media gave a presentation on what resources were available to use in lessons as an alternative. I was fascinated by the resource "Turning Point" from the moment Tony Bunn introduced this resource I began to think of several ideas of how useful it can be for my lessons. Ideally I had an observation in the coming week so I opted to arrange a meeting with Tony to find out more and how effective it is. It was easy to use and all the data that I wanted on the Turning point quiz I gave to Tony and he converted the data into multiple-choice questions.
How it works is interactive learning a remote control is provided to each student and a programme is set on PowerPoint, which contains all the multiple-choice questions. Once the question appears the learners can use the remote to answer the question. The remote sends a signal to the laptop and the answer is stored. The good point about this resource is that the answer is given after every question. The learners will be able to see for themselves if the qu3estion was answered correctly. At the end of the game a total is given to each student. The student can identify their score on the board by the number of the remote; the remote has an identification number. This resource worked wonders in my class and the learners thoroughly enjoyed it.
Great advantage of this resource is its reusable several times and also the most beneficial factor is it requires little marking as it’s already done after each question.
Disadvantages I found was that the programme does not function on windows 2007 and on vista therefore it had to be used on an alternate laptop, which had windows 2003. This programme can not be ran on any laptop it has to be on a 2003 windows plus it requires a dongle to work. Another disadvantage is that only 24 remotes can be used on at one time due to the frequency so if the class contains more students than 24 it can be a problem. This resource does require a lot to set up and needs to go through thougher checking before it is used this can be time consuming and has high chances of going wrong.
Turning Point quiz is fantastic for inclusion every learner has to have an attempt at the question, plus with the questions being multiple choice it gives the learner a chance to to guess the answer if the dont know it. The questions get answreed with a push of a button it is an easy method.
Overall I will defiantly use this resource again and again because I found it very useful and effective.
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