How I used Studywiz successfully so far

I am new to the blog but going to have a go at sharing one way I have used the multimedia activity and assignment in Studywiz.

I am currently working on the Fire of London with a year 2 and 3 class. For the children to have an understanding of how big London is I used Google Maps and the multimedia activity to allow children to view aerial pictures of both London and where our school is (a village). I then asked them to complete an assignment to let me and others what they had found the differences were between London and our village.

This activity was successful for the main part but it did highlight rather well how many of my children didn't read the question - with answers like there are Chinese people in London. Because it was all on Studywiz we were able to view each others answers though and I was able to question how they found this out from looking at the maps!!

I added the google maps using the links but if I remember rightly you can embedd the maps but I couldn't remember how to do this!

Myself and another teacher are launching it to the parents of our classes this week which should be interesting!!!! We have set up a discussion board for them to comment.