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Frog: the first INSET day for all teachers

  April 5, 2012 - 07:50 |
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Frog learning platform comes to Bennies I have to prepare for our first Frog INSET day for 80+ teachers – 17/4/12. I had an afternoon with our excellent Frog Champions to discuss the detail of the day. We got to here: Time Duration Activity 0900 10 Intro and overview 0910 80 Breakout rooms for compulsory activities book a room upload file and multiple files create workspace if finished consult lesson plan 1030 15 Coffee 1045 50 Breakout rooms for differentiated activities. Feedback forms 1135 25 Cloisters Where have we got to and where do we go from here? Frog Champions. 1200 30 Mass   You can see all the planning and prep work that needs to be done on this … Continue reading →

Frog: hiding your personal feed from prying eyes

  March 22, 2012 - 19:52 |
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One of the great things about the Frog VLE is how it delivers personalised information to it’s users. A personal feed can be set up on the front page which lists all your activities and contributions and messages. However, for a teacher in particular - displaying their Frog feed on the IWB in a classroom – there may well be some banter or some messages to pupils that you do not wish to be publicly displayed. We hadn’t thought of this – we had addressed the issue of it displaying a teacher’s forename – but I saw James Shackley (@journeywithfrog) tweeted he had fixed it using a collapsible container frog brick. One tweet later and here I am with a video guide on how … Continue reading →

Frog iOS App –> for the Win

  March 10, 2012 - 21:58 | ,
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A company called PixelBit builds apps for schools using Frog. They sent out a half price offer for their smartphone app solution which includes android as well as iOS, and mobile web friendly access to make sure any device can use the handheld functionality that might well prove a game changer for Frog because it’s strengths are in communications – pushing the right data to the right person at their convenience. They are developing refinements to the app all the time, and unlike a lot of other development companies, they use the app for their day jobs. In my mind this means they are designers and users which always helps to make a good product. First up is a set … Continue reading →

Nothing a kiss from a princess can’t fix

  June 15, 2011 - 20:27 | ,
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Frog calls it’s conference the ‘National Learning Platform Conference’. That is daft. There are many other learning platforms. Are there not rules against misrepresenting the facts in marketing material? If any Froggers are reading this, please do not despair at my critical tone. I am aiming to make Frog win at my school. To do this I will be it’s worst critic so I know where the pitfalls are. I’m not apologising. My tweets on the day were deliberately challenging Frog to show their teaching and learning credentials. I want to see the work; the value added to learning. I am not going to go through the sessions one-by-one. My incomplete notes are here (I used simplynote on my iPad … Continue reading →