Hello everyone, this is Ross teacher toolkit. This is my first ever video that I'm gonna post to my Facebook followers first of all Yes, I always sit at home in my red teacher toolkit t-shirt. Not really. This is just a quick video to kind of Try something different speak to people that are want to engage in terms of teaching So it's gonna be very amateurish to begin with it probably will all stay that way But I just want to say a couple of things first before I kind of go into the video And the reasons what I'd hope to share Firstly to Lee Parkinson who's inspired me to do this if you're not following Lee on Twitter He is at ICT underscore. Mr. P famous for all these ICT Kind of iPad work in primary schools. That's Lee Parkinson. So please follow Lee and Lee. Thank you for the inspiration secondly to all the new teachers in the profession and Newly qualified teachers you can now smile all that stupid kind of advice that we're given it's now Christmas We've got a week to go. It's the 10th of December today when I'm posting this So I've got another five days in school. Some of you might have a little bit longer But when Christmas does arrive, I hope you have a wonderful time at home More importantly to everybody who is working full-time in schools There's some research just come out that suggests in fact, it shouldn't really suggest It's pretty obvious that it is critical that teachers relax and unwind Over the over the any kind of break never mind it being Christmas So it's critical that you do relax and take time to spend time with your your families and your friends and enjoy the festive period I know some assessments mock exams tend to happen at this time, especially in secondary schools And they tend to happen before Christmas So fingers crossed they're all out the way and you have a week or two still in school to mark those rather than have to do Over the Christmas period But the reason I just want to share this my first video is if you do have to mark over Christmas Then I just want to give you five tips There's a blog that I've just written about which is is kind of a spin-off from other people Deputy Headteacher Jeremy Hane who works at the Three Bridges primary Which his school claims to be the happiest school on the planet? So somewhere I'd like to work but Jeremy's pushing the idea that there's no research yet to say that Written feedback is the is the number one We know feedback is the thing that makes the greatest difference, but there's nothing to suggest that Written feedback is that thing. So I'm pushing along with Jeremy and I'm sure everyone else will soon join on The verbal feedback train, please don't stamp you can check out my views on that on my blog But verbal feedback and there's a great analogy on his blog that I've put on my blog About a kind of Sports fixture story where the team are at halftime They're losing the game and they're wanting the coach to give some inspiration And he's writing down the written feedback and telling all the players what they should do next and the whistle Goes and they go back out into the pitch And ultimately lose the game and get back in the changing room and they're a bit peed off with the coach And they kind of look at the verbal written feedback and they realize all the tactics that he would have given or she Was was not incisive enough and it essentially supports that the verbal feedback from the coach would have been more Would it impacted on their performance on the pitch if it was given there and then and that's exactly what we Should be doing in the classroom verbal feedback Instance so students can act on on on on their work So my first tip for everyone if you do need to mark over the holiday period is less Written feedback more verbal feedback. So if you have exams and fair enough you do need to mark them But if you've got some marking to do in school before the you there you break up Make it verbal second tip We hate this saying we hear it a lot especially on social media works smart and not harder now That's quite difficult to achieve. So I'm going to give you a little tip I use a visualizer in my classroom I put the students work under the camera and I'm doing verbal feedback there and then If I need to record anything written students can see it on the whiteboard But a nice little approach in terms of approaching a lesson is Through modeling so I do it first we do it together and then the students do it themselves So I do we do you do it's a fantastic strategy For encouraging a climate in your classroom where kids can work harder than you. So that's my second tip Third tip high challenge low threat. This is a lovely analogy From Mary my it Mary. I've worked with for many years She is fantastic. So if you're not following Mary on Twitter, please do but there's a nice graph that's displayed on my blog Which is looking at challenge and versus their knowledge and skills and how if if the challenge Isn't pitched at the right level students become bored if it's challenged too high It's a bit of a threat and students likely shut off also. So it's a very important Point for teachers in terms of planning is to get the pitch right in their lessons. So in terms of feedback It's it's it's also something to make point of when you're writing feedback for students But also your verbal feedback that we we pitched our feedback based on the students needs. So it's important to keep that In mind as well my fourth tip the yellow box Not my dear from a school. I forget the name. It is on my blog. I apologize to that school It will come back to me shortly Yellow box don't mark all the page Highlight one area that needs to be improved draw an empty box The lock the size of the box determines how much work you want the students to feedback on sorry to act upon It's visual. It doesn't have to be yellow But you're asking for the kids to improve their work. It might be from a Diagnostic question. It might be a spelling exercise. It might be some grammatical work For an essay either way it makes it instant You can give students the opportunity to do it as a homework or in the lesson I certainly won't mark it again, but I would certainly look at it and give some verbal feedback to the student I wouldn't stamp it all I'm doing a stamp in that for An SLT or an offset inspector. It's absolute nonsense. Don't waste your time Just yellow box written recorded feedback. You don't have to mark the whole piece of work It's just a little zone that the students can act on and it's a visual check to see if they're actually doing what you ask them to do the last tip and I just realized I don't have the image with me so never mind It's gonna be a book plug last week. I put online my new book that's coming out mark plan teach I'm gonna finish writing it over the holidays It's gonna be online from February and published from next September in a nutshell It's 30 ideas from Mark planning and teaching and what I look to to do is Discuss ideas that I know work from my 23 years experience in the classroom There'll be linked to some evidence-based research, which is not just a fashion But it's important that teachers are working from evidence-based ideas And secondly, I bring in an expert. I'm not gonna announce who it is at the moment But a psychologist I've been working with it kind of explains the ideas Of why they work better than others and what kind of tactics we use as teachers that we might not be aware of To make students do the things that we want them to do All the things that we give to the students what makes them act upon the certain strategies that we put in the classroom So that would be my last tip so check that out on my blog a couple of things I'm gonna be reading over the Christmas period just to finish off Firstly one of the most controversial books of the latest year is the Battle Hymn of the Tiger teachers I'm only about two or three chapters through. I know a few others have already been Writing about online, but it's a very interesting book. I'm really enjoying it lots of provocative ideas So I'm gonna put that on my blog over Christmas. That's that's my education reading Something that I'm reading that's not related to teaching at all Although it is related to what I do as a teacher how to be free So this is a book by Tom Hodgkinskin, which was recommended by a colleague who Who now works part-time is looking to do other things with these life with all the demands that I have as teacher talk on Twitter for 23 years Working in schools in challenging situations in London and the demands that I have as a blogger I am considering going part-time in the future. So this is my first kind of public announcement. It's very early days. Nothing's been confirmed My colleagues don't even know yet So if you're watching here, then you've just found out But I'm looking to just go one day out so I can do a lot more things with schools across the country because I'm getting asked all The time it's something I love to do in terms of teacher training, but I just can't get out and help people So I'd like to try something different. So this book what the colleague that suggested to read it He said once you read it after the weekend, you made a part-time request. So I've done it the other way round I've made a part-time request and now I'm going to read the book. So I'm taking a risk So that's it. I hope you like my first video. Please write some comments Please send me some feedback I'd happily blog about other things here in this format if you think it's useful And maybe I'll put another one on over the next week or so over Christmas But I wish everyone watching a very happy Christmas. Please get some rest And if you like some of the ideas, please like this video and share with your friends So bye for now. This is Ross and I'll speak to you soon Teacher Talkit one of the most followed teachers on Twitter in the UK Find out more at teachertalkit.me


Hey what's up guys welcome to Trending Reviews. So this is the Yealink CP900 Bluetooth speaker phone It's a portable Bluetooth speaker phone for business professionals to take with you on the go Or if you do a lot of huddles and meetings, then this is the perfect solution for you So I'm going to give you a quick unboxing of this and give you an overview of all of the features and capabilities So the main thing you're going to be interested in is the sound quality There's a lot of ambient sound reduction that comes with just this small device So I'm going to give you a test and sample audio of that as well So let's just go ahead and get straight into it. All right guys So this is the zipper bag that comes with the Yealink CP900. It's actually quite high quality It's durable and it's actually very compact. So you can take this with you. It comes with a little strap there So let's go ahead and open this up and Here you can see is the Yealink CP900 device So it comes with a indents there for the top part of the speaker as you can see And inside this you have the Bluetooth dongle as well that you can use to connect the device which I'll showcase in a second So let me go ahead and pull this out There you go. So just to cover a bit of the design. It's actually quite a nice Design here. So I've just turned it on there on the back. It's got the information The USB cable is actually tucked in there. So you can actually take this out It's about 0.8 meters in length So let me go ahead and give you no view of the different functions that come with the device So obviously you have the power button there at the top. You have the mute button here You have the plus and minus there on the right and the left for the volume You have the answer phone and the end call button is just there on the left and the right And the unique thing about this device is that there's a button here at the bottom This is the Microsoft Teams button here So you can actually use this as a voice assistant to try and connect to your teams directly using the application Microsoft Teams So I'll leave a link in the description below on how you can download that and the different types of things you can do with this as well Now in terms of the design, it's actually very elegant. It's quite light It's only 320 grams and it's completely ideal for professionals that are on the go So if you are running business meetings or you want to use this speaker phone wirelessly to make phone calls Then this is the perfect thing you can just take with you and just chuck it straight into your backpack or your suitcase There's actually six speakers that come with this. So you have a 360 degree field of audio So no matter where you're standing around the table You'll be able to pick up and speak clearly to anyone that's on the other end of the call So going ahead and turning this on again There's three ways you can actually connect this to your laptop or your mobile phone So the first one is the wireless Bluetooth connection. So if you hold this Bluetooth button down Bluetooth pairing device disconnected So now it will start to pair with the device of your choice So you can go to the Bluetooth settings and connect it through that The second way to connect the device is via the Bluetooth dongle that comes in the carry case So let me get this out So this is a USB Bluetooth dongle All you need to do is connect this directly into the USB port It should automatically pair with the Bluetooth on your laptop Device connected as you can see it's an instant connection because it automatically picked up the the dongle in the USB port directly with the Yealink CP900 And finally, if I disconnect this You can connect directly using the USB cable that comes tucked in underneath the device Device disconnected So as you can see it's now disconnected But as soon as you plug this into your USB port on your laptop It should automatically pick up the connection without you going into any Bluetooth settings Like so Device connected And as you can see the CP900 is connected to the computer directly with the USB cable In a completely plug and play Compatibility So a quick focus on the Teams button here at the bottom So in addition to the Microsoft Teams feature The CP900 has a built-in feature which activates the Siri voice assistant When connected to an iPhone via Bluetooth So if you do press this button and you've got this connected to your iPhone Then you can also ask Siri to call anyone or play some music or check the weather Anything you like and it can be done via this So very similar to having an Amazon Echo or a Google Home You can actually do Siri commands directly through this Using the Microsoft Teams button there So the last thing I'm going to do is play a new music file through here So you can actually see how the audio comes out on this Bluetooth speakerphone Alright guys, so the main feature is the audio quality on this So I'm going to make a phone call to my friend Mike And I'm going to see how the audio quality comes out And obviously I'm going to ask him as well For how my audio is coming out on his end So let me go ahead and dial his number And I've connected it to Bluetooth to my phone as well So I'll be dialing him through there So I'll put the volume up Hello Hey Mike Hey, what's up? Hey, how's it going? Can you hear me clearly? Yeah, I can hear you really well Cool, so I'm using this new device called the Yealink CP900 And I'm just testing out the audio quality on it So I just wanted to see if actually you can hear me Even though I'm about maybe a feet away from the speakerphone Yeah, I think it's audio quality is really good Can hear you and it's really crisp Yeah, OK, so if you just stay on the line I just want to do a quick test I'm basically going to go around the table And see if you can hear me clearly from all different angles Because this speakerphone has microphones all around And it's got a 360 field of audio quality in there So you can hear me clearly at the moment So I'm in front of the Yealink So I'm going to move over to the side OK So can you hear me clearly now? Yeah, I can hear you Your voice hasn't changed or the sound OK, so hold on, I'm going to move to the back So I'm about two feet away from behind the speakerphone So can you hear me now? Yeah, it's still the same It's still the same, not the most difference OK, so I'm actually going to go to the right-hand side But I'm going to be about five feet away from it So how about the audio now? Yeah, still the same, yeah Yeah, cool, so there's no loss in quality of the audio in general, right? No, it sounds good That's awesome, all right, so I'm back here now So if you speak over with me at the same time Let's just see if there's any stuttering Or any feedback being relayed onto the phone as well So how's your day being at work today in general? Yeah, it's been really long It's been really long, yeah, so, I mean, I've had loads of meetings as well I mean, how many meetings have you had today? I had just one meeting Was it quite a long meeting? Not really, just a short one Just a bit of an update Yeah, I know that type of thing as well, yeah Yeah, I mean, I'm obviously speaking over you a little bit So hopefully you can still hear what I'm saying, right? No, yeah, yeah, definitely, I can hear everything you're saying It's still clear, even though we're talking, job up Cool, so the last thing I wanted to do is just make some ambient noise in the background to see if actually you can still hear me clearly while I'm talking So I'm going to move my laptop keyboard closer to the speakerphone and I'm going to start clicking the keys I'll start making some noises on the table So just let me know if it interrupts quite a bit and it's too loud or it actually cuts off a lot of the background noise for me OK, so I'm typing on the keyboard now I'm just going to slow it down Yeah, yeah, I can still hear you, although I can hear the background noise it still picks up your voice Yeah, so how bad is the background ambient noise coming? It's not bad, but it's there It's there, OK Would you say it's out of 10, how clear can you still hear me with the background noise? I think it hasn't changed from previous Oh, so it's still quite clear, even though I'm talking over whilst typing very loudly Yeah, yeah, which is quite impressive I'd say probably out of 10 I'll give it a good 8 OK, that's very good, I appreciate that Yeah, all right, cool So I'll leave it there, Mike, so let you carry on with your day Thanks for taking the phone call No worries, man, enjoy Hi, I see you man Cheers, bye Bye All right, guys, so that was about it I hope you enjoyed that review I've got the links in the description below on where you can find out more information about the Yealink CP900 and I've got other links that might be useful for using this anywhere you go in terms of business meetings, huddle rooms and that kind of stuff So if you have any other questions, then do drop a comment Otherwise, I hope you enjoyed this video I hope you give it a big like and do subscribe I've got a lot more speakers and audio quality videos coming up for various different devices, which I know you're going to like So until next time, guys, take care


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