WelcomeToday is an important day as we begin another year-long, five-day series of workshops at Independent Schools Victoria. During the series we will develop a robust online presence to explore Web 2 applications and strategies like Looking to Learn, ClassPortals and WebQuests. Today people will begin by setting up a WordPress blog and finding Web 2 apps they want to try out with students.
You can go to the Workshop page elsewhere in ozline.com.
St Peter’s College Junior School, North Terrace, St Peters.
Melbourne Grammar School
Santa Maria College, Attadale WA
Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre Darling Harbour
Download the Program (pdf)
Brighton-le-Sands Novotel, Sydney
St Aidan’s Anglican Girls’ School – Corinda
WelcomePlease begin by using the comments link on this post
to share your personal learning goals for this workshop.
I have the pleasure of facilitating another 2 Day workshop for the Studies of Asia group at the Victorian department of education. Lindy Stirling, State Advisor, Studies of Asia (see the Studies of Asia Wiki) has organised this session at the Clifton’s in Melbourne’s beautiful CBD.
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.
Brainstorm what you noticed using shared a shared Stixy board or Twiddla
and debrief Web 2.0 terminology
Fine-tuning your Blog
Download the pdf for Tom’s strategies.
3. Digital Learning PedagogyImportant – please complete this form (made with jotform)
The Blurb: Experienced teachers know that positive routines form a foundation to classroom learning. However, routines can also be used to engage students in critical thinking and knowledge building, activities often considered beyond the abilities of early years learners. Participants in this one-day session will experience what it’s like to ‘Look to Learn’ from the inside and then use and create such activities for their own students. See how rich digital media like blogs, videos, podcasts and images stimulate interest that is then developed through routines that prompt critical and creative thinking. This hands-on workshop provides the theory and practice to enhance the spirit of inquiry and appetite for learning that is already alive in your classroom.
Given “The New Default”, what are our challenges? (stixy)
examples 1: Mankind is No Island, Miniature Earth, Global Rich List
examples 2: Slides
Welcome & AgendaToday is a celebration of participants’ learning. This is the fifth and final session of the workshop series that began in Term 1. We have focused on trying out new Web 2 tools and strategies like Looking to Learn, ClassPortals and WebQuests. Today people will share something they have created and we will review our learning.
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Download the Edge-ucators’ Way Skills List
Taking banner ads off YouTube Videos
Don’t show related videos after yours plays
Thanks to Cecilie Yates every few years I get to work with Teacher Librarians from the Sutherland area. This time we’ve organised to meet at Cronulla High School to spend the day looking through strategies particularly suited to the role of the teacher Librarian as the chief Information Manager of most schools.
This set of handouts was provided so that participants don’t have to worry too much about writing down Web addresses during the sessions. An even more complete set with descriptions of Web 2 tools and advice about CEQ•ALL is also available for download.
After an initial Presentation we’ll move through the following topics with plenty of time to analyse examples and discuss integration.
I’m not sure this is needed with this group, but just in case…
- Easy YouTube downloader for Firefox
- TubePrompter
- or move down the list to WordPress
C E Q • A LL / Seek all!
Today is a second face-to-face meeting of my favourite group of “Cutting Edge-ucators.” It’s been my pleasure to work with these folks for several years and watch their contributions to students and their schools. Here’s a list to a description of the projects they are currently working on.
Our purpose for today is threefold:
Before we begin, would you like to do a little reading?: The Learning Power of WebQuests
WebQuests all started with this page posted by Bernie Dodge: Some Thoughts About WebQuests. I was team-teaching with Bernie in a teacher prep course on creating interdisciplinary units. I soon began a three year fellowship where the first thing I did was to post the first (non) WebQuest for use outside of our course: Searching for China (version 0.9). This was, “good, but not a WebQuest.” Why? A few years later it became this updated version of Searching for China.
Take a short period of time (20 – 30 minutes) to review one or more of the WebQuests below. Then brainstorm what you consider to be the critical attributes of a good WebQuest.
Return to the “What are WebQuests?” Stixyboard to update your ideas
solutions? Choose at least one that makes the most sense for your topic and also sings with some excitement for you and your students.Use the above process to draft together what could become a great WebQuest. Use your favorite platform like WordPress to develop the WebQuest and tap into all the great Web tools you love to flatten the learning hierarchy so that you can join in on the learning fun and role-model the joy of learning for your students.
If you want to use this approach (or begin a new blog for a WebQuest) you might want to copy/paste this template into a Page on your blog.
On Monday I’m presenting Day One of a conference for primary principals from the Outer North Western area of Melbourne. The task for the day is to inspire — to bedazzle — these leaders with how ICTs can excite learning for themselves, their teachers and students.
Although we will explore plenty of dazzling ICTs, my goal is to do more. I hope to empower participants with a customisable roadmap, one where they use the exciting aspects of technology to promote a sustainable culture of Real, Rich and Relevant learning in their schools.
Let’s begin with sharing vision our challenges and goals by getting input via
My unhidden agenda is that technology needs to do more than “sex-up” traditional lessons. Here are examples of how an educator frames a task so that it inspires students to stretch to their best.
Here are examples:
Over the next two days the Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre will become the hub for digital learning in Australia. A great group of keynote speakers has been assembled to complement an outstanding cast of local experts. I’m fortunate to present to the conference on The New Curriculum: when Learning goes 1:1 and a session unpacking CEQ•ALL.
I’m making my 2 Day Workshop handouts available because they bring together my work and a good collection of supporting links.
In addition to the Innovation Expo, I have the opportunity to share my school-based approach with Varsity College on the Gold Coast. They are leaders in 1:1 implementation with further expansion coming in 2011.
