Using the Class Blog to do Product Analysis.

 My Year 11 DVC class are starting to do prodict analysis as part of their design project. In order for us to have some practice at doing this, I have decided to use the class blog so we all pratice analysing the same products while being able to see each others analysis. This is a follow on from when we used Google Plus communities to suport each others analysis work. Link to blog post here. I like to use SOLO to structure the questions as it builds up the complexity nicely. 

We continued doing this as a class even when they stopped the communities. We sat around the front and did it all together on the TV screen.

This week, I put up one image of a procuct onto the class blog. Along with this, I put a set of questions that the students have to answer in the comment section of the blog. These questions still use SOLO as the structure. I have been publishing the comments as soon as the students have completed the task so they can see each others analysis. I am aware that they can copy by dong this but I want them to feel confident when they have to write an analysis. As we get more practice, I will keep all the comments unpublished untill they are all done.

Link to blog post

The questions I added to this image were -

1. DESCRIBE what SHAPES do you see.
2. DESCRIBE what colours you see.
3. LIST the PARTS of the design.
4. LIST what material is it made from.
5. EXPLAIN why is this material a good choice for this design.
6. EXPLAIN how you use this design. 

The words in capitals are taken from the SOLO posters that are in every classroom at school. Link to resources