AB Tutor Control

1. AB Tutor Control Grove Academy Friday, 25th May CS1 13:00 – 14:15 Definitions Learning Intention Success Criteria

2. What is AB Tutor Control? • A program which enables teachers to interact effortlessly with their students on an individual, group or full classroom basis using a very simple and intuitive user interface. • Formative assessment

3. Why use AB Tutor Control? • Two reasons: • The software allows teachers to monitor, demonstrate and interact with pupils as they participate in their learning. • The software enables teachers to control and supervise a number of student workstations in a computer training room - or remote location - from one central workstation.

4. What can AB Control do? • Features include: Start AB Tutor Control  • Lock the keyboard and mouse  • Show the tutor's workstation screen to selected students' workstations & Annotate the tutor's screen during a Show session • Watch one or more selected workstation screens • Take control of a selected student workstation • Monitor and block remote running applications • Chat with selected students

5. Where is AB Control installed? • CS1, CS2, CS3 • BS1, BS2, BS3 • T1, T2, T3, T4 • Library Help Manual - S:\staff\AB-Control\ABControl.pdf (Double click  My Computer  Subjects  staff  AB_Control)

6. AB Control demo • Task 1 • Write down five simple questions (and answers) that would apply to your subject. • Use Internet explorer to view this page http://classtools.net/ • Choose Click Here to Create a Game! • Enter questions & answers and play game.

7. Workshop Activities • Advanced User Interfaces – demo • Hands on opportunity to try out AB Tutor Control in CS2 and CS3 • Try out Classtools • Explore AifL techniques see next slide

8. Assessment is for Learning • Sharing Practice Try out the Inspiration tutorial and find out :- how to use Inspiration; the key features of an AifL school. http://www.itrackls.co.uk/p7_cssexpress/inspir/IT_inspintro.htm • Collaboration Explore the use of constructivist practice on the following web page: Jigsaw Method The Jigsaw method involves students working in small groups or teams. Each group is allocated a particular topic which they have to learn about and become experts in certain aspects of that topic. Once they have become experts they try to teach the other groups in the class by sharing their topic findings (research). In essence they are researching: trying to find out what they can about their designated topic. • Learning Intentions and Success Criteria What can we say here – ICT 5-14 – got to be clear about the learning outcomes big picture if you like. Online schemes of work - link

9. Formative Assessment Traffic Light Technique for self and peer assessment Click for Instructions

10. Self & Peer Assessment • Use of the traffic light. • Any learning or activity can be assessed using the traffic light. • Move the mouse over the traffic light. When the mouse is over the red light the message – ‘I don’t understand yet’ appears. Similarly, the amber light gives – ‘I’m not sure’ and green – ‘I understand’. • When you click on a light – red, amber or green – a tick appears; click again and it disappears. This can be used to self or peer assess individual progress. • This can be attached to any digitally mapped activity. Once each individual has completed each arm of the map, and ‘ticked’ the appropriate light, the map can be printed out (press alt/Prnt Scrn and paste in a WP document) and used as evidence. This can be used to inform personal learning plans. Back to Traffic Light