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The ultimate classroom tool. WordWall makes your lessons more participatory. Say goodbye to static information-giving slides and create dynamic exercises that encourage active learning. In seconds, you can create activities using the WordWall wizards - just type in the information and the formatting is taken care of. You can also draw on millions of online resources using our image and text banks. Sharing your own creations can be done with one-click, via the in-built activity bank. The WordWall sketch tools make it easy to scribble class notes and annotate over web pages or office documents. Powerful and simple-to-use, WordWall will work with any interactive whiteboard, wireless slate or even just a data projector. More than just a voting system. Used in conjunction with the WordPad response system, every student can get involved. They can interact with the board using gamepad controls; categorizing keywords, rearranging comprehension exercises, matching-up definitions or creating opinion scales. Or have them contribute ideas using phonestyle texting - so everyone gets their opinion across. The WordPads also make it easier to assess pupil progress. They include support for self-paced multiple choice tests - where students can independently progress through questions via their handset screen. WordWall helps you make interactive lessons. Where learning is fun and every students voice is heard.
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what is wordwall? installation and help making a simple wordwall what can I do with tiles? importing pictures and text how can I convert between wizards? sketching and the wordwall interface where can I find ready-made resources? getting started with the wordpads what can the wordpads do? running a multiple-choice test texting and opinion scales tracking and analyzing results 01 02 03 04 05 06 08 09 10 11 12 13 14
3 Accept the default directory. For network installs you may wish to change the destination. 4 This screen simply confirms the choices youve made so far. Click next to execute install.
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The interactive interface. The ability to manipulate tiles allows you to create really tactile activities for interactive whiteboards. You can select the mode via the tools toolbar. The four main modes are:
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select (E) puts a red border round the selected tile; you can also use it to swap tiles around mark (F) flips the tile round to reveal alternative text or pictures on the back of the tile; click again and the front of the tile will be visible. hide (G) makes the tile disappear; click again and the tile will reappear peek (H) gives you a short peek behind the tile Theres also the option to use the spinner or swapper. This randomly selects or moves all the wall tiles. Right-clicking on the tiles brings up formatting options (I). As well as standard features such as colour, border, text settings, clipboard and image insertion, you can:
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Create and recreate. You can amend your activities by clicking on the WordWall icon (top-left) and selecting revert to wizard from the modify menu. You can also convert information between wizard types (p6).
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change the tile style; the first of these tile options is a transparent tile (01) change the position of the tile text (02) you can duplicate objects on the front and back of tiles, so they appear when you use the mark tool (03) Right clicking on the wall background, brings up a tile menu (04). This adds / removes tile rows, shrinks the wall to fit the tiles and turns the tile grid on or off.
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Resources at your fingertips. Fed up of flicking back and forth between your web browser to paste in pictures? Ever get half way through creating an activity and need a bit more information? The purpose of the text and image banks is to save you time. You can make them appear (and hide) by clicking on the info icon (01). They can also be pinned permanently out (02) for continual use. To search, simply type your term in the text box. Alternatively click on a tile and the text will automatically appear. Then click on the search button (03).
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The image bank. This searches through nearly two billion online images - all you have to do is drag the ones you want onto your wall or a tile. You can also access images on the clipboard or load in images stored on your computer (04). The window drawer can quickly fill up, so you may also want to clear items (05). When picking a file to add to your wall, if you want to have it displayed quite large, as in the example opposite, you should check the file resolution (06). In addition, when you drag the file into a receiving tile, you can choose whether the image is stretched or cropped (07). The text bank. Providing access to millions of data items, this encyclopedic resource drags and drops just like the image bank. Although it has short 50-200 word abstracts (08) that are suitable for information slides, its real benefit is for finding related keywords. You can find these in the folders (09) or by loading up an associated article (10). For example, to create a metals wall, you could search for iron, open the metallic elements folder and drag it into the wall. There are also other data items related to each article, such as translations (11), dates and scientific properties.
Flexible and a time-saver. One of WordWalls unique features is the ability to easily move information between different activity types. So for example, you could start your lesson with a text grid (M) and then recreate it as a labelling activity in the match-up wizard using the same data (O). You could then finish the lesson by rating keywords in the opinion wizard (N). It means that during a lesson, if you find that an activity isnt working with a class, you can quickly try something else. It also gives you more options with resources found in the activity bank. Converting an existing wordwall is easy: 1 Click on the WordWall icon in the top left of the screen. Select modify and then convert. 2 Select the wizard type you wish to create (not all will be available). 3 Alter the text as required. Via the right-click menu you can remove blank entries or switch columns. Then generate the activity by clicking create.
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Share and improve. WordWall includes thousands of resources to help you get more from your interactive whiteboard or data projector. Contributed by teachers, nearly a hundred are being added each week. Some of these are entirely new resources, but others are improvements on existing files - through a process of peer review, the resources dont just increase in quantity, they improve in quality. The resources can be accessed through the activity bank (02). Type your search term into the text box (03). This will keyword-match with words within the file, not just the file title - so, for example, it may be more useful to search for igneous rather than rock if you want a file explaining rock types. Press enter and then double-click on the thumbnails to open the files. Contribute. You can add your own activity bank with just one click. When you save your file, just select allow sharing from the popup window. Within seconds, the file will be added to the database and will be available for other teachers to use.
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3 Return to your chosen activity and click on the start game button. The available games will be listed (01). A single-click will allow you to see a short description and demonstration (02) of each game from the teachers perspective. Select the handset demo tab to see how the handsets are used in each game (03). 4 Press the play key to start the game (04).
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5 When completed, you can use class record and analysis to show the results. These are available in the handsets toolbar menu.
Dynamic and topical. Another source of online content are the webwizards. These are accessible through at the bottom of the wizards tab (01). They draw from online data repositories to create wordwalls, based on your specification. So for example, you can get the days news in a variety of different formats suitable for an interactive whiteboard. Theres a global photos database which produces image wordwalls, 24hr webcam snapshots and dictionary-generated word grids . You can also access encyclopedic wizards such as the CIA factbook, which allows you to compile resources based on country data, maps and flags. The webwizard list is updated online every time the program starts, so new wizards appear regularly.
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More than voting. With WordWall there are eleven games that can be used in combination with the different wizards. So its not just about multiple-choice quizzes. To get you started, were going to explore how students can make choices on a simple text wall. First, you need to create a simple text wall (B), register the WordPads and select the following games from the start game menu (p11).
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6 The correct answer can be revealed using the mark tool (F). How students have voted can be shown via the change display icon. You can move through the pages by using the page controls. 7 Click the graph icon in the handsets menu, to view result charts by student, question or class. A personal chart is also displayed on the handset (H). You can copy the results to the clipboard or export as a spreadsheet, via the edit menu.
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1 Students can vote by pressing the number of the tile on their handset followed by the send key (A). 2 By pressing the change display icon, the teacher can reveal how many students have voted for each tile. By pressing it again they can reveal who voted for each tile. 3 View results by clicking on the class record icon.
1 Students move their chip around the tiles by using the joypad keys (A). They enter from the left. 2 The teacher can reveal player names (p14) by hovering over the chips with their pointer. Chips appear in the order in which they entered the tile. 3 The teacher can stop the student chips moving around by pressing the pause button.
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Assessing pupil progress. As you complete activities with the WordPads, the results are entered automatically into the class record as a new column (M). If you open a class record before each lesson, you can track results over the school year. You can also use the class record to track attendance and collect personal details, rather than using paper forms (N). To access a more detailed analysis of each activity (O), simply click on the records column header and select analysis (01) from the column drop-down menu. Via the edit menu, you can also export this data to a spreadsheet or to your schools student database.
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Add data directly into the record. Each data field adds a column into the class record and a new page on the handset screen.
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1 Use the mode select key (A) to change from normal to predictive text. The abc pencil icon will go from clear to black. 2 Type your sentence. Use the 0 key to add spaces and the delete key to correct. 3 If the desired word doesnt appear (e.g. waves rather than water) then use the rotate key to select from the dictionary. 4 Press the send key to submit your text to the board.
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1 Press the play icon and select public poll. (B) 2 Students can use the left-right joypad controls to rate the first item. They can move through the remaining items by using the up-down keys. (A) 3 Displayed on screen is the average of the class opinion. By selecting the tile (e.g. clean water), you can see how each student voted.
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