Learning through Media

Welcome to the St Mary's Learning through Media blog! We conducted a survey of the ways our staff and pupils use the media to enhance their learning. One under-used medium was blogging, although blogs are now a huge part of social media. They are also a great way to present information, record knowledge, keep up to date and enhance literacy skills. Please click on this  PRESENTATION  to find out about our survey.

Travel writer Shereen Sagoo, who left St Mary's in 2012, was a keen blogger as a student. A travel journalist writing for GQ Magazine, she ran the GQ Magazine blog and now runs the blog for the backpacking hostel company, St Christopher's Inns: https://www.st-christophers.co.uk/ Here's Shereen's article on the top London travel blogs: https://www.st-christophers.co.uk/travel-tips/blogs/2017/the-top-8-london-travel-blogs https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/profile/shereen-sagoo

Media used by pupils in order of frequency Headlines from the pupils: Most use OneNote (90%) YouTube and quizzing sites were the next popular, with 86% using YouTube and 83%n using quizzing sites Next most popular were revision apps and streaming services The least popular medium was radio, at 4%, followed by blogging sites and print newspapers (7%). More used online news (27%) Pupils were more forthcoming than teachers about what helps them learn.  Videos were extremely popular, including animated video 'because I seem to remember them well' Kahoot was also a very popular way of testing knowledge, both in class and creating their own Kahoots to use with friends Quizlet was also popular Pupils were also most forthcoming with their top tips: BBC Bitesize Seneca Kahoot Econplusdal Quizlet Kerboodle for science Tyler Dewitt for Chemistry Tassomai Forest Tutor4u for Psychology This pupil was especially articulate: I think that if y...

Different media ranked in order of preference Headlines YouTube is by far the most used form of media, at 97%. Quizzing apps are popular, followed by online news, BBC Bitesize and streaming services such as Netflix. Just under half the staff use TED talks, revision apps, newspapers and magazines. The least-used media are blogging sites, such as Blogger. Recommended media include: https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/  - primary literacy resource Using tablets for independent research massively helps out girls take ownership of their learning https://www.topmarks.co.uk/  - primary maths resource Lots of Languages resources online, Nutty Tilez being particularly popular ( https://www.thisislanguage.com/nutty-tilez/ ) https://uplearn.co.uk/  - virtual tutoring for science, geography, economics, maths and English https://diagnosticquestions.com/  - maths https://www.qr-code-generator.com/  and QR Code Quiz Generator https://nearpod.com/ h...

Here, Nearpod is being used with Year 7 in an English lesson to collect pupil responses on the features of a magazine article:

Really useful video editing site - for annotating play clips, music videos, science experiments, etc. Here's a Year 12 dance lesson where the student is editing a YouTube video on Vibby to use as examples for choreography: And here are the videos the student made to demonstrate her chorography ideas: https://vib.by/v/7yVu_sTKP https://www.vibby.com/watch?vib=7yVu_sTKP

1. How to create your blog First, you need a Google account. If you need to, create one of those. Then go to  https://www.blogger.com/about/ And click on 'Create your blog' 2. This is how you create a post 3. This is how you edit a post 4. How to upload video and label posts 5. How to add sidebars, links, etc to your blog - Gadgets (Gadgets are all the extra bits on your blog page such as lists of other blogs you visit)

Graphs to compare pupil and teacher media use Teachers                Students