How to promote IRIS Connect both within and outside your school Lot’s of you have asked for some recommended text and images that you can download to promote IRIS Connect on your websites. So we’ve done just that. The text informs others about your work with IRIS Connect, how our system works and how we […]
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Crowdsourced video library connects thousands of educators
Texas Education Service Center (ESC), Region 11 is taking steps toward solving the challenges of collaboration caused by providing professional development across 7,843 square miles. They are making the most of the excellent teaching that’s happening every day across the region by crowdsourcing a video library of examples, available to all 70,699 educators. (more…)
Learning Forward seminar to explore effective professional learning
What does effective professional learning look like? Find out during Session L20 at this year’s Learning Forward Annual Conference. Did you know that less than 5% of what a teacher learns at a ‘sit and get’ workshop makes it into the classroom? (more…)
Add discussions to your Groups
Ever wished you could discuss higher level concepts with other members of a Group within IRIS Connect? Introducing discussions! What are they? Different from comments, which can only be added to reflections and allow you to closely analyse specific practice, discussions are embedded into Groups to encourage and facilitate wider online conversations between members of […]
More expertise and resources available in IRIS Connect Group Store
This summer we’ve been collaborating with more education partners to make their expertise accessible via IRIS Connect. You can now access more teaching and learning research, video examples and resources, via our Groups Store, to underpin your professional learning. You can even get feedback from experts without paying out for a consultant’s day rate. New […]
Add a comment to your video while teaching
Our latest update to the Discovery Kit means you can now add a comment to your video as it’s recording! We chose to use iPods as microphones for our latest version of the Discovery Kit because it opens up opportunities for you to interact with your video, as it’s recording. Our newest feature allows you […]
Flipped classrooms made easy with IRIS Connect
Making flipped classrooms, sharing of revision resources and homework materials quick and easy. We’ve been asked regularly over the past year whether our professional learning tools can be used for educators to share videos and resources with their students. (more…)
