Economics and Business Resources

A Selection of Tools for Continued Professional Development and Teaching / Learning in Economics and Business

Geoff Riley FRSA, tutor2u and Eton College

Auckland, New Zealand , May 2013

Welcome! Warm Up Quiz (1)

Which is the only country which can by typed on a QWERTY keyboard using just a single row of letters?

Welcome! Warm Up Quiz (2)

Name a city or town in Britain or New Zealand with no letter that you can colour in!

which one is me?

BA

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dedicated to sharing great ideas and encouraging colleagues to network

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teaching & learning should not just be about exams and

assessment…

So we’re investing in effective teaching & learning

approaches & resources…

We love building partnerships…

…which enable us to engage face-to-face with our student communities

…wherever learning takes place!

We’re exploring the potential for games-based learning with our sister company

our investment in is taking us into learning on mobile devices…

CPD is a big priority for us…

we’re helping colleagues create the classroom resources they

dream of using…

to help bring learning to life…

we’ve expanded the team…

To bring in some new skills!

and taken tutor2u on tour…

even added a Non-exec!

where next?

Every new business needs to be mobile

Student Narrative

Trips and Exchanges

Practicals and

Simulations

Student Developed

Apps

Mobile Courses Online

Games for Learning

Flipped Classroom Resources

Problem Based

Learning

Free Spirited

Learning

Tried and Tested 90% - 10% Experiment

I used to plough a furrow for VLEs

And lots of schools love top down “systems”

I now prefer the organic approach

Finding tools and experimenting

Wordle in Action from an A2 essay

Is the UK better off outside the Euro?

Linda Yueh’s article on China

@lindayueh

Linda’s article turned into a Wordle

Luke Johnson article on profit margins

Snag-It – Screen Capture – Resource Creation

Snags become great prompts for discussion

Zondle: Games for Learning

Zondle – Currencies of the World

Discover Your Inner Twitter

Twitter: Connecting with a Community

Twitter: Connecting with Subject Experts

Twitterverse for Teacher Enrichment

Sharing: Slide Share

Scoop It

Scoop It – Pre U Microeconomics

Welcome! Warm Up Quiz (1)

Which is the only country which can by typed on a QWERTY keyboard using just a single row of letters?

PERU

Welcome! Warm Up Quiz (2)

Name a city or town in Britain or New Zealand with no letter that you can colour in!

HULL