For some months we've been adapting the Learning Clip activities to work with Learner Response Systems. After successful initial trials we are now making available all the voting enabled content for Beta trials Participation in the Learning Vote beta trial is free to anyone with Promethean Activote or Activexpression. To join in please complete our beta application form.

Learning Clip + Learner Response Systems

The Voting enabled content has been wholly integrated into our standard Interactive whiteboard activities and offers great potential for engaging pupils and enhancing formative assesment.

Because everything takes place within the Learning Clip web site results from voting sessions can be stored online as part of your Learning Clip account, over time building into an excellent resource for assessing pupil progress.

Benefits

Stimulating use of technology - for children growing up in a world full of mobile phones and games consoles, voting systems are a natural way to interact and communicate. Learning tasks become games.

Encourages participation - every answer from every child counts and because each child gets feedback they know their answers count. Children no longer try to put their hand up the furthest because they're bursting to give their answer nor do less confident withold their answers for fear of being seen to make an error.

Personalises Learning - each child's contribution is recognised, children can instantly gauge their own levels of acheivement and then begin to invent their own targets taking responsibility for their own learning.

Give equal attention to every answer - immediately identify those children who are not participating, struggling or not being challenged enough.

Use time to the full - every time a single child puts their hand up to answer a question 29 others waste time.

Streamline and improve both formative and summative assessment - Learner response takes care of marking providing instant feedback for teachers and students, making students feel valued and giving teachers the time and information to target their efforts to maximum effect.

How does it work?
	When you launch an activity with the 'voting enabled' icon you have the option to use the activity with or without voting and to select the group you will be teaching.

The learning clip will launch and run as usual. When you want to start voting just click the voting device icon in the bottom right hand corner.

A Learning Clip Voting enabled Activity
	Once in voting mode You'll see three new features. - A side panel listing members of the group - The voting control panel - The voting options

The group member side panel		The side bar lists all the members of the current group it also indicates whether or not a vote has been received for the current question. The panel expands to show the full student name and also reveals a check box used to temporarily remove or include pupils from the current voting session.

The vote control panel	The start vote button The stop vote button - you can click this at any time to stop the current vote The progress pie chart - as votes are received the pie chart shows what proportion are correct Set the length of time before a time out Start a timed vote or set a time out for a vote in progress. Click and drag to move the voting control panel around the screen End the current voting session View the results panel
When using an activity in voting mode all the key tasks are controled from this one easy to use panel.

The vote results panel
	The results panel is a simple table designed to quickly show each pupils progress and can be sorted by pupil name, individual question outcome and over all performance