Jun28
Jun28
Of course i’m entitled to a refund…
Dudley Trading Standards demonstrate how to do the 'perfect reveal'. We’ve all been there. You’ve bought a new top, take it home, and on getting it home realise that: a)lime green isn’t the colour for you and b)it fits like a sack. So, you return it to the shop and ask for a refund but the shopkeeper informs you that you aren’t entitled to one. You tell them you’ve had a refund before but they say they’re well within their rights not to give you one. So who’s right? It’s scenarios like these, Dudley Trading Standards team have been posing to students to challenge their...
Jun28
Man of the People
Put yourself in the shoes of this CEO: He wanted to turn what was traditonally a very formal presentation(profit forecasting, competitor info, new product developments) into a very informal session, with a view to relaxing staff and making them more honest and open. What did he do? Well, for a start he ditched the traditional approach of standing at the front, clicking through a presentation and taking questions at the end. Instead, armed with his Qwizdom Q5 instructor remote he delivered his presentation while sitting among staff. Using the Q5, he was able to move through his slides(which were kept to a minimum)...
Jun28
Students drive their way to Qwizdom prize
A team of budding enthusiasts from Bay House School, Gosport, Hampshire, have just drove their way to a class set of Qwizdom Q4 handsets by becoming the 2010 Overall Champions prize in the Jaguar Cars Maths in Motion Challenge for Schools, the UK’s biggest maths challenge for schools. In all, 92 students from all corners of the UK took part in the Final, representing Age Groups ranging from 9 to16 years. The teams had to set up a virtual racing car using a range of maths, science and strategy skills and then race it in a computer based simulation against the...
May11
More Than a Handful.
Picking up on a great article by Derek Bruff on using Classroom Response Systems in language instruction. He was picking up on a blog entry from Ellen Johnson, a PHD student at Georgetown University! He makes a few important points: Firstly, students enjoy seeing instant feedback. Secondly, Interactive questions made it difficult for students to take notes. Here Derek calls for more “clicker questions” to be made available after the class as it allows students to review questions later. He says: “Knowing that clicker questions will be available online after class also frees students from having to take as many notes during class, which...
May11
Mind The Gap?
Attending a conference last week got me thinking about another possible use for Qwizdom’s audience response systems. It’s around the area of gap analysis. Imagine a company who wanted to examine the difference between the quality-level of management expected by staff and the perception of those expectations by management. Not only could you conduct a staff survey using Qwizdom’s audience response systems, you could then use the system to ask questions of management and compare and contrast the data. Firstly, using Qwizdom for staff surveys and gap analysis allows the audience to see the results in real-time: they won’t have to wait 2-3...
May10
Time For A Makeover
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Apr29