de Ferrers Specialist Technology College – Frog Blog

Following on from the success of our Young Designer KS3 voting website, we have now opened it up to Young Designers at KS4.

Four pieces of work are on display from the Young Designers who have each been assigned an anonymous number to make the voting fair. Every student at de Ferrers is invited to decide who deserves to be the Young Designer, so get voting.

You can access the voting centre by going into the VLE and clicking the Young Designer button under the “Subjects” section.

You can now view this week’s poll on the Frog Box. To coincide with tomorrow’s Safer Internet Day, the Frog Box topic for this week is “How safe do you feel online?”. To cast your vote you will need to log on to the VLE and head to the Student Voice section where you can find the Frog Box.

Find out more about Safer Internet Day and the 2010 topic “Think B4 U post!” by visiting the website at http://www.saferinternet.org/web/guest/safer-internet-day.

We have recently posted about a couple of new VLE sections, but there is more..!

Design & Technology now have their curriculum area website up and running. The website has resources, a gallery and forums. You can access this website through the “Subjects” area on the main menu.

In a recent post we mentioned the new IAG Portal. If you enter the IAG Portal and go to the Careers/Connexions section, there is a survey about the Careers Exhibition which took place last week on the 6th January. Please take a minute or two to complete the survey and give us feedback about this event.

Finally, the latest Frog Box vote is active within the Student Voice area. The topic this week is about the recent weather in the UK… head on over and get voting!

More updates soon…

This week in Frog we have grown even more:

- Several dozen students have signed up for jobs next term as radio station presenters, news crews, sports reporters, games designers and FrogAgents…well done!

- You can now enter the FrogBox..our interactive suggestion box & voting booth. You can find the FrogBox in the Student Voice section of the VLE. This week’s topical vote…who will win X-Factor? Vote now…

- Gifted & Talented now have their own mini-website for students to access resources and links.

- Science have added the Science Blog to their revision pages. Read it here: http://defscience.wordpress.com/. You can check out what the science staff & students have been looking at and recommending…

COMING NEXT WEEK…improvements and additions to the Student Voice section, including the Council Pages and IAG gets activated…!