Using a Visualiser to Support Learning

This week Swap Shop was led by Julie Hampson (Second in Humanities). Julie explained how she uses the visualiser in lessons to support students' learning. Here are some of the tips that she shared with us:

1.Visualisers can be used as a tool in most lessons to 'spotlight' good work and to model exemplar work. 

2.The visualiser can also be used to record videos, in order to play back on a loop whatever you may wish to model for the students. Chris Dunleavy showed us how he uses this function when teaching Art. The picture below shows how to select the camera and video options from the Ladybug menu...

3.The Lady bug can also be used alongside Active Inspire; you can annotate over whatever you are visualising by using this method.

4.Using the visualiser can be a great way to get students to engage with teacher and peer-marking, as shown below...

5. Students' work can be selected using the random name generator to be visualised, in order to provide instant feedback. This also encourages students to produce their best work as they are constantly mindful that their work may be visualised.

6. Finally, we discussed how it could be beneficial to visualise a pupil working in real time, during the lesson to encourage engagement and to share the learning process. Students could be selected to work under the visualiser at random points during lessons.

 

The PowerPoint presentation from this session can be found in the shared area, in the 'Swap Shop' folder.

Do you have any other suggestions for using a visualiser in lessons? Please share...