I am not one for blowing my own trumpet, this blog is used for sharing thoughts and ideas on education, particularly those to do with ICT and computing. However sometimes you need to look at what you have achieved and remember you are doing a good job. For this reason, and to make myself feel better about my teaching abilities, I have set up a section on the blogĀ for Success Stories. The first success I would like to mention is via the use of ExamTime. I have been using the site to aid my Year 10s in revising for the Cambridge Nationals in ICT exam for Unit R001. This has been done by getting students to create mind maps of exam content, making flash cards with key terms and definitions on them and providing them with quizzes I have created. Using ExamTime students can add each other as friends and check out each other’s resources as well as doing group collaboration on said resources. I have also set up a group within ExamTime which students can use to access resources I have placed up. At the present moment in time we have not used the discussion board features but I intend to do that later on. After explaining how I have used ExamTime, and linking to some resources via my twitter account, the creators of the site have seen me as a success story. They placed some information from my tweets into a brief quote and included me on their Success Stories page. I am really proud that I have been noticed and glad that their system has helped my student’s revision. Here’s hoping my Year 10s now all get As and A*s!
