The Cool Wall in my classroom
9:42 pm on the 26th of August, 2009Yesterday I started a new wall display in my classroom – an idea I have blatantly stolen from Andy McSwann. Back in December last year he blogged about the Cool Wall in his room, a wall where pupils can suggest gadgets to be displayed. They get put into categories like on the Top Gear cool wall.
Only a couple of suggestions from pupils so far, but I’m trying to get them to find products and examples of architecture that show really good design.
[Obviously there are some rules so that we aren't over run with Charles Rennie MacKintosh imitations 
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September 2nd, 2009 at 10:49 pm on the 2nd of September, 2009
pleased to see my idea has caught on, I’m not sure how to run with the CW this year, I will be nicking your idea of rules but one of the ideas I brought in after teachmeet was that the pupils had to write a paragraph about the item or it wouldn’t make it onto the wall.
How are you running it with the pupils?
Have you had a Clarkson moment and overruled your classes yet? (They are fun to have!)
September 3rd, 2009 at 8:31 pm on the 3rd of September, 2009
I had wondered about a piece of writing to go with it, but so far we’ve not gone that way.
It’s very informal at the moment, if pupils find or see something then they let me know at the start of the lesson and I make a few minutes available for discussion at the end. I’ll try to take a few photos over the year.
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