Interactive voting, internet shopping and the Euro

Yvonne Gall teaches modern languages at Wallace Hall Academy. In today’s French class the subject is the euro. She uses presentation slides and a French internet shopping site projected on to the interactive whiteboard. She also uses an interactive voting system – the Classroom Performance System (CPS) - with which pupils answer questions about the euro using remote handsets.

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Yvonne Gall studied at University of Edinburgh and has been teaching since 1979 and is she is now principal teacher of modern languages. 

She has had in-school training in the use of the interactive whiteboard but has otherwise acquired her ICT skills through help from family and friends. 

Yvonne is very enthusiastic about the use of ICT in her teaching and finds it a very useful tool as it stimulates and encourages pupils of all abilities. She finds it good for the presentation of new materials, for access to authentic resources (she is beginning to get pupils to access foreign websites for information) and for interactive games, which the pupils enjoy. Her pupils use ICT to improve the presentation of their work. 

Wallace Hall Academy is located in the town of Thornhill, Dumfries and Galloway and is a modern two-storey building. 

There are approximately 500 pupils in the school, 31 of whom have free school lunches and 39 are registered as having special educational needs. There are five pupils with English as their second language. 

There are 166 computers, all connected in a local network, and five ICT dedicated rooms. There is a very supportive full-time ICT technician. 

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