The de Ferrers Academy – Frog Blog

For those that haven’t looked at Frog yet, here is a sneak look at your new student homepage:

New Student VLE homepage

It’s been a busy few days. Moving from another VLE to Frog is like trading in your microlight for a Boeing 747…lots of things to keep an eye on & control, but far more powerful with enormous potential to get learning moving quickly…

So what will you be able to access on Frog?
- The Dove & Trent campus learning centres now have their own mini-websites – check them out!
- The Maths area now features resources on Mr Brown’s mini-site
- You can look at useful revision links and web 2.0 learning sites for students
- Got Science questions? You can send them to Mr Hughes via Twitter…
- You can go straight to revision movies on Clipbank, access L2L resources and check your progress with Realsmart
- More coming soon!

Just checked the stats for Friday 23/10/09 and we had 505 visitors to Frog – about 25% of de Ferrers – and we still haven’t officially launched yet…

…there’s clearly some very keen people out there…keep it up, folks!

The new de Ferrers Frog VLE is almost ready to launch…this will be our second VLE, after a very successful few years using Netmedia’s MG4L, making us one of the country’s most experienced VLE users. There is already considerable excitement building, with 200-300 people logging in everyday to check it out.

On 2/11/09 we officially make the move to Frog for all de Ferrers students and staff. Parents will be able to access Frog in January 2010.

So what have we been doing behind the scenes?
- Trying various tools out with the New Technology Development Leaders, our resident ICT experts
- Checking different login profiles
- Adding learning resources in many subjects and curriculum areas
- Starting to build mini-websites for some subjects, including the learning centre

What will we be doing over the next few weeks?
- Adding even more learning resources for students to use
- Advertising for student ‘Frog Agents’ to help develop the platform, build webpages and modferate forums
- Creating widgets that can be added to your Frog area

Got any questions or suggestions about our new VLE? Why not e-mail us at frog@deferrers.com, or send us a tweet (www.twitter.com/deferrers).

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