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Teachers using the RAG live in lessons and planning

davitt — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:54:49 +0000

A number of teachers are telling us that the RAG is becoming a useful planning tool, especially at this time of year when you sit down to plan a lesson, module or a year’s worth of activities. Just load up the RAG and give it a shake. Thanks to Jonathan Furness for our most recent review..
“a brilliant tool that injects spice into planning learning and teaching. My kids loved afternoons using the RAG why isn’t it in every teachers toolkit”

Do Hamlet as an opera (with optional Wordle)

davitt — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:23:44 +0000

Do Planets on way to sun as an animation

davitt — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:22:06 +0000

Tewkesbury High School

Do the idea behind the RepRap Machine as an icon design

davitt — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 21:30:28 +0000

Thanks to Iain Kilmurray who received his RAG via the wire using the new “email a RAG challenge” and responded with this neat bit of drawing, design and words overlaid on the wonderful RepRap Machine
Find out more about the RepRap here - it’s a prototyping machine that can duplicate itself!

Do Glaciation as a 10 second Movie on a mobile phone

davitt — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:54:17 +0000

This challenge took just 20 minutes at a Naace Conference in Blackpool in early March 2009. At first the group were quiet, then somebody had an idea, and soon they were stripping the tables of their starched white covers!

Do Darwin’s Legacy as a Wordle Diagram

davitt — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:29:39 +0000

A topical RAG challenge on the man’s anniversary - the task think about the man’s achievements and then type the key points into Wordle (Image acknowledgement) Want a word to be more prominent type it in more until you are happy with the look and feel of the word tapestry. Produced in Loughbourough UK Jan 2009

Do a Whale as a GPS shape walk

davitt — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:17:59 +0000

The challenge in Newquay UK in January 2009 was simple - even though it was blowing a gale “walk the shape of a whale” and take the GPS recorder with you.

More ideas here

Do Glaciation as a 10 second News Item

davitt — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:32:14 +0000

December 2008 Salford Manchester

Do sedimentary rock as a 10 second movie

davitt — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:46:42 +0000

A plastic cup, some silt and lots of imagination - shot on a Nokia mobile phone June 2008 Boston Lincs UK

Do the Heart as a mini opera

davitt — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:33:51 +0000

Four teachers take the RAG challenge do the heart as a mini opera (the vena cava) is hiding round the back. Completed November 2008 Worcester UK