[Yr7-10it] Kahootz in Secondary Schools

[fiona at balmoralhs.vic.edu.au]

We introduce Kahootz through a couple of our year 8 - 10 electives.  I have attended several P.D's plus the dept run mentoring programming.  I also took 3 of the students to a full day student/teacher p.d ran by the dept.  

Now the students know which students to ask for help and it has filtered up to the senior students and down to the year 7's.  They will work on kahootz in their own time but as yet they have not used it within the curriculum. I had intended using it in year 7 French to create animated books and if I return to Balmoral High I will do so during term 4.

I have moved to a primary school for this term and will try to introduce it there over the next few weeks.  Another software to look at in place of powerpointless is producer.  A freebie and part of the office suite (needs office 2003 minimum) but it lets you combine powerpoint, video, music etc to make a more interesting presentation.

Fiona Bain
Casterton Primary/Balmoral High
"Roland Gesthuizen" <rge at westallsc.vic.edu.au> on Wed, 20 Jul 2005 16:29:33 +1000 wrote:
> I set myself the challenge of trying to doing something with Kahootz on my
> laptop in 40 min on a cold and late train-ride home from the city with no
> training, no instructions and minimal ideas about where to start etc. Twas
> easy enough to figure out and this was the product (Kahootz needed to view).
> Have since explored it further with some year 9's. Has anybody else had a
> play in the sand pit?
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> It probably has some scope to replace the 'PowerPointless' activities that
> some colleagues inflict on students in other learning disciplines. They can
> expect students to already have had some exposure to Kahootz as they bubble
> up from the primary.
> 
> Regards Roland
> 
> --
> Roland Gesthuizen - eLearning Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
> http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au
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> [mailto:yr7-10it-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Missen, Stephen J
> Sent: Wednesday, 20 July 2005 11:40 AM
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> Subject: [Yr7-10it] Kahootz in Secondary Schools
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> Hi all
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> 
> Had a query from Peter Maggs (Australian Children's Television Foundation -
> producers of Kahootz)
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> He is looking for schools/teachers who have got their teeth into using
> Kahootz in a Secondary School.
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> They are wanting to get some examples of good practice in its usage with a
> view to having Schools Television (DE&T) make a program of this with some
> location shoots (at your schools).
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> Is there anyone out there who thinks they may be having some success at
> implementing Kahootz in their school(s) who would be prepared to have
> Schools TV shoot some footage of their classrooms and the work that their
> kids are doing with Kahootz?
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> Please direct replies/ further queries to me
> (missen.stephen.j at edumail.vic.gov.au) or Peter Maggs
> (peter.maggs at actf.com.au) rather thay hitting the reply button/link on your
> email client and "bombarding" these lists with your responses. Hopefully, we
> will get a few positive ones :) wishing to take up this opportunity.
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> Cheers
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> 
> Steve MISSEN
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fiona at balmoralhs.vic.edu.au
http://www.balmoralhs.vic.edu.au/