Who wants to be a millionaire!!!

Been relying on my phone to work on publishing my blog. That way any free time I have, it's to try and write n publish on this blog. Once per week is my motto. You must have heard or at least watched who wants to be a millionaire.. Well last week I was going through interactive tools to help students with their revision and came across this game. Rather interesting. All the rules of the game apply, although instead of the insanely hard questions they ask, you replace them with your own subject all on PowerPoint. Pretty cool, huh??

Yap! Ended up being a pretty creative way to revise, n hopefully helped the students learn something. They just did an exam. Now let's wait and see how they fare.

New Class New Ideas

Today I had my first Strategic  Information Systems class. This is a class I have taught for the last many semesters. Normally after introductions we would go and dive straight into the course by defining strategy and having discussions in regards to strategy. I have been trying to ensure that I change my classes a bit. To be more a facilitator than I am a lecturer. Today I decided to have then do a little exercise that sometimes you might find in the corporate world. The students that I was teaching were third year students. I gave them the Think Outside The Box game to solve.

It took a couple minutes before I got any sort of response. No one had a clue, I therefore asked them to discuss with each other to find out if they could get any possible solution. After a couple of minutes, they were still getting nowhere. A clue was given that the lines did not need to stay inside the imaginary box that they had created round the 9 dots. We were finally getting somewhere. We finally came to a consensus that I should show them how it is solved. Before I did that though, I had to find out what strategy they had used and hence the start of a lesson. All in all I used an unconventional tool to teach and it worked. For anyone interested in the solutions find them below.