Welcome!
Jacquie Bourne has arranged for a two-day workshop for 18 of her colleagues at Launceston Church Grammar School. Although it’s near the end of the school year and everyone is likely to be a little groggy, it’s also a great chance to reinvigorate an area of study with rich online resources and authentic personal learning. So let’s get to it!
Please begin by using the comments link on this post to introduce yourself: share your name, teaching areas, current use of technology and at least one goal for these two days.
This can be brief, but it starts the ball rolling.
After adding your comment, you might like to download a digital copy of the handout packet for this 2 Day Workshop.
Activity 1: Great examples from previous Workshops
To get a sense of what we will be creating over the next two days, please explore the work created by participants in previous sessions. Try to notice the features, strategies and benefits gained from such a learning platform.
- Literature, Teacher Professional Learning
- Year 9 Class Portal for Civics and Citizenship
- Mrs Williames Year 5 Blog
- Mr Bates’s Online Space
- iDesign
- Thinking Tools 4 Me
- International Studies
- Jasmine
- Carolyn C
- Maffra Indo
- Wild’s Epic Nihongo Blog!
- Mr Barlow’s Blog
Works in Progress
- Jacquie Bourne – https://jacb.wordpress.com
- Fiona Wills – https://fhwfhw.wordpress.com
- Jeffrey Clarke – https://jeffstevec.wordpress.com
- Mark Cox – https://www.markandrewcox.wordpress.com
- Fiona Hickman – https://fhickman.wordpress.com
- Barry Dudgeon – https://bdudgeon.wordpress.com
- Patrick Moroney – https://pmoroney.wordpress.com
- Geraldine Hussey – https://ghussey.wordpress.com
- Pushpa Kunasegaran – https://pkuna.wordpress.com
- Jami Lane – https://jlane2.wordpress.com/
- Michelle Cooper – https://mcooper77.wordpress.com
Brainstorm what you noticed using a shared Stixy board (try working in pairs or threes and then adding your shared responses)
Activity 2: Discussion on 1:1
Year 9 & 10 students and teachers each have tablet computers for over a year. How does that change teaching and learning? Please add your personal thoughts to this shared writing space. Do you want to consider Tom’s take on the 4 essential requirements for successful 1:1 learning?
Activity 3: Creating Your Smart Online Space
- Get a WordPress Blog (Tom’s Sample blog)
- Change the theme
- Make a Post
- Embed YouTube (remember &rel=0)?
- Try TubeChop.com (see the Tubechop Update tutorial)
- Get Firefox for extensions like the video downloader?
- Embed all kinds of media in WordPress (maps, images, documents or polls?)
Fine-tuning your Blog
- Comment Settings
- Siderbar widgets
- Various How-to Videos from WordPress
- Add as a link to your Sidebar (video) or Add a link (page)
Activity 4 – Integrated Emerging Technologies and Pedagogies
Tom’s pedagogy presentation (download .mov 16 mb)
Look to Learn : : Learn to Look
Online Samples
- Which is the Real China? (taggalaxy)
- Nuclear Giving (PSA)
- Chris Jordan (Visual Arts)
- There’s Data in them ther Kids (political cartoon)
- The Global Rich List (interactive site)
- Miniature Earth (video analogy)
- VisionShift: Whose Future? (1994 Internet promo)
- “I Can” (TEDx)
How-To
- Look to Learn – overview
- Look to Learn Web site
- Look to Learn Sample Prompts
- Thinking Routines from the Visible Thinking team at Harvard
Task: Create 2 – 4 Look to Learn Activities for your students
Enrich your site with content and rich media
Web 2.0 Tools
- Download the Web 2 Tools Overview handout
- Copy and Paste the Tools Panel into a page for your site
- Choose from different Web 2 icons
RSS Feeds
- RSS in Plain English (Common Craft)
- Tom’s Strategies and Podcasts, YouTube Channels, etc.
- Tutorial: Add a Netvibes Feed
- Tutorial: Add a Link
Other Media
- iTunes – Embed a podcast with a player
- Add Flickr images through Creative Commons Advanced Search
- TED / YouTube Channels & TED site content by Tags
- Add the Tools Panel for your site (and use these icons to edit it for yourself?)
- Use Dropbox for online file storage (podcasts)
Manage your Rich Media Links
- (Social Bookmarking explained by Common Craft)
- Diigo Social Bookmarks: get the toolbar, login and start bookmarking!
- Consider joining or pinching from the Look to Learn Diigo Group
The ClassPortal Twist
- Child Slave Labor News (see also “Slavery Footprint“)
- PodKids Australia
- Possible Topics?
- Brainstorm your passions
- Contribute to Wikipedia? – Simple English Wikipedia on China vs. regular China page
References:
For Ideas
- Change.org: Social Network For Social Activism
- OXFAM – Reshaping our World – Poverty Maps (+ Complete Story Library from OXFAM)
- Idea Index from the Buckminster Fuller Challenge
- The Girl who Silenced the U.N. for Five Minutes
- End Homelessness
- 10 Revolutionary Acts of Courage by Ordinary People
- 50 Items That Should Change the World
C E Q • A LL / Seek all!
Self-managed Learning Framework for students
- Overview / Rationale
- Profiles (pdf)
- Rubric (pdf)
Hi Tom
I would like staff to go a way from here with new enthusiasm for using online tools and having kids use their tablets more purposefully to direct their own learning.
Hi Jacquie, Yes – “directing their own learning” is the key in a 1:1 environment.
https://jacb.wordpress.com/
Senior Science teacher ( Chemistry/Physics)
Hope to enable more links within TCE curriculum to ICT tasks
Meaningful, enrichment tasks for Chem/Physics
Hi Darren – if you can link to or bring in the TCE curriculum, we can link it to ICTs, no worry.
Hi
I’m Pat. I teach grade 9 science and senior physics and physical science(physics and chem).
I’m looking for continued inspiration using the tablet as an effective teaching tool.
Hi Pat – are you familiar with TED Talks? Sometimes little sections of these videos are a great way to inspire students to the very cutting edge of what’s happening in the worlds of science and technology.
https://pmoroney.wordpress.com/
Hi Tom,
I teach ICT, Commerce and Indonesian at the school.
Hope to learn new digital teaching and learning skills from this workshop.
Thank you.
Pushpa
Hi Pushpa,
Please feel free to ask me to push you if you aren’t not feeling stretched enough. Welcome.
This is my wordpress site address:
https://pkuna.wordpress.com/
with new posts.
Pastoral Care
Senior Chemistry
Junior Science
Cricket
Would like to be able to access interactive activities for practical activities and break out activities; mental energises.
Hi Mark,
Yes – a thinking curriculum is a key to 1:1 learning.
https://www.markandrewcox.wordpress.com
I am not related to the Michael Hussey the cricketer!
I teach Psychology and Sociology + Geography
I teach all Grade from 7 to 12
I have a dream to be good at IT but I know that it will never happen!!! It wont stop me trying
pity about Michael Hussey.
my father is John Fairfax, but that doesn’t cut it with the media any more.
Hi Geraldine – don’t give up that dream yet! (the ICT genius one, not the relation to MH).
I am very pleased with myself. I am now in cyberspace without safety belt.
I’m currently Director of Music and from 2012 will also take on the role of Curriculum Coordinator. In music we use ICT in a variety of ways for music theory, aural traning, composition and notation. Students record their performances and present research projects using ICT. I’m interested in expanding school use and understanding of ICT in education and the flexibility it provides for teaching and learning + differentiation.
Hi Barry – I’d like to see some of your students work in research projects or if you want to bring in a task, we can further develop it if you like.
https://bdudgeon.wordpress.com/
Hi, I’m Jami.
I teach PE, Maths and am Head of Educational Support.
I am fairly competent in using technology.
My goal for the next two days is to have time to explore a range oftechnology tools and to develop a greater understanding of these.
Welcome Jami – you might like to spend some time with the Web 2 Tools.
Currently an administrator teaching only senior classes, I am looking forward to more time in the classroom next year, including a Grade 9 class. All my classes for next year are in the English area.
I am fairly good on the theory of 1:1 computing; my goal this week is to become as confident as possible with the relevant software.
Welcome Bruce – I hope you come away with some Web 2 tools you find you can rely on to promote the 1:1 learning.
Grade 7/8: English and History
Grade 7 – 10: Drama
Using ICT to engage learners at present so anything to expand my knowledge and continue using ICT effectively with students to enhance communication skills and opportunities
Hi Jeffrey – I imagine you are already using video to inspire analysis of great performances? If not, let me show you a few tricks. Welcome.
https://jeffstevec.wordpress.com/2011/12/05/using-a-setprop-piece/
jeffstevec.wordpress.com
Hi, I’m Fiona. I teach English and Dance/Drama. I would like to find ways of using the tablet in Dance because I haven’t really used it other than as a journal. I’d also like to see new ways of using the tablet in English.
Welcome Fiona – I’m confident you will find more ways to support English and Drama beyond the useful practice of journaling.
Hi Tom, I have enjoyed today’s work and have found some new ways to approach my teaching. Here is my link:
https://fhickman.wordpress.com/
Hi im Doug
I teach mathematics and science.
My goal over the next two days is to become more aware, and confident to use, different types of programs etc as a learning tool within the classroom.
Hi Doug – Keep me posted whether you are finding the tools and strategies useful. Welcome.
I’m wanting to share worthy resources within my classes and have students continue to communicate readily about what and how they’re learning.
Excellent – peer-to-peer communication is one of the great assets of 1:1 online learning – tricky to get the culture right, but then very powerful. Welcome!
https://fhwfhw.wordpress.com/2011/12/05/look-to-learn/
Keen to improve differentiation
https://jlane2.wordpress.com/
mcooper77.wordpress.com