Our first learning lunch!

After the fabulous MiniTeachMeet twilight, we embarked on our first learning lunch of the year!!!  The Best Practice team cannot take credit for the Learning Lunch, this was an idea nicked from Beaumont School in St. Albans, who have a fabulous teaching and learning team I have stolen a great many ideas from. 

Sian Hampshire was super excited to be running her side of the Best Practice programme of #sharingiscaring - like the uber-stationary geek she is, she was prepared with all her best pens/post-its/sugar paper to kick the session off!

We started the session with everyone's best ideas for using tech in the classroom, split into 5 minute, 10 minute, 15 minute and a bit longer! ideas.  The image below shows how many ideas were gathered in the learning lunch session:

Loads of fantastic ideas were shared and talked about in small groups, before the Best Practice Team took the lead in sharing to the whole group our ideas.  Sian began this with her experience of using apps in the classroom like Stick Pick, which she uses like a virtual pot of lolly-pop sticks to pick pupils to answer questions or for presentations.  Sian also shared the types of apps she's used on her phone to allow pupils to assess how long they will live, Test of Life. 

I followed up with how I use Ted Ed for flipping my classroom - http://ed.ted.com/lessons and in general how I like to use http://www.ted.com for inspirational/informative video clips to bring an expert into the classroom. 

 

Graeme shared how he uses Classroom Tools random name generator and  how he is beginning to use Symbaloo.  Quick links to his ideas can be found here:  https://www.dropbox.com/sh/wgiiyxejxx3bs1u/8n6-vQstay/Learning%20Lunch%201%20-%20Thu%2013%20February%202014%20-%20Technology%20in%20the%20Classroom

 

Again so much sharing led to time flying by and before we knew it lunch was over and period 4 beckoned!

 

Thanks to all who joined us and took the time to share their great ideas.

 

TTFN!