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ISV Series Wrap-ups

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Welcome Back!

Welcome to what is a bitter-sweet day where we get to see what great work everyone has done this year, but also have to say good-bye.

The main focus is giving people enough time to share what they have trialled (and mastered!) in terms of integrating ICTs and authentic student learning.   As such, I’ve asked participants to send along links to illustrate their journeys.

I’ve asked participants to reflect on the following:

  • your own learning,
  • how you have supported collegial learning, or
  • how you have fostered student learning

Real, Rich and Relevant

 

Thursday – AGQTP

Madhuri Noah

Ian Daw

Anne Tonga

Amy Thompson

 Susan MacKay

Sandra England

Renee Hall

Mike Dye

Michelle Nachsatz

 

Joel Halperin

 

Lisa Duggan

Daryl Davey

EtherPad Collaboration on Choice, Competence, Challenge and Culture

 

Trial ClassBubbles (oxley)

Review Concepts & Links

Looking to Learn

Example: History Compressed – See – Think – Wonder

ClassPortals

For Ideas & Inspiration

WebQuests

Recent Samples

Older Examples

Tom’s WebQuest Resources

Transformation Tweakers

C E Q • A LL / Seek all!

Self-managed Learning Framework for students

Web 2.0

Tools

Platforms

Additional Challenges

  • Create Collaborative Partnerships
  • Prepare Staff PL / Presentations
  • Tweak WebQuest Transformations
  • Explore Twitter
  • Build a Netvibes Feed page

 Preparing for 2013

 

Working at St Paul’s in Port Macquarie

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Welcome!

It’s a pleasure to be working with teachers in the St Agnes’ Parish in Port Macquarie.

Getting Started – Any Questions?

Because the schools already serve courses on Moodle, support student learning with laptops and will launch an iPad program for Year 7 students in 2013, let’s focus on integrating Web 2.0 tools to advance student learning and success.  In other words, you’re already quick a ways along your journey.  So to begin, let’s see what questions people have.  Let’s take a risk and try some new software – go to this forum (if it stuffs up – come right back and use the Comments function for this post! – or you can always use the Contact Form)

Brainstorming the Challenge

What are the positive and negative aspects for having students pursue learning through 1:1 digital devices?  Or Plan B with Stixy.  (By the way, in case you want a quick fil-in on Web 2.0 here’s a clickable tagcloud)

So how do we keep to the positive and avoid the negative?

Background Presentation

I’ve been working on this challenge for many years, so let’s make sure we understand the real issues.  This is where I do a presentation.

Pedagogical Validation

People rightly want to validate the research – as they should – so here are some direct links to fields of research that I find most powerful for 1:1 personal learning: Self-Determination Theory, Cultures of Thinking, Habits of Mind, Flow Theory, Grit and Authentic Happiness.  Which integrate into the two core frameworks below.

Introduction to the Edge-ucators Way

Look to Learn examples

Tom’s Archive, stream and prompts + the “About Page“

Snapshot of ClassPortals and WebQuests

  • Tom presents

Your Learning Session

Orientation

  • ROWE – Results Only Work Environment: Time, Team, Task, Technology
  • SOLE – Self Organising Learning Environment – Sugata Mitra TED Talk
  • The CEQ•ALL Rubric to guide your process.

C E Q • A LL / Seek all!

Self-managed Learning Framework for students

Immersion Activity

You can choose any of the three levels to achieve results on (ROWE) during this hands-on workshop session.  So that we get an idea of how many will choose each level, use the poll here to indicate your choice.

Other support

1. Looking to Learn

Required Result: Find or make 3- 5 Look to Learn activities you can use with students or colleagues

Example: History Compressed – See – Think – Wonder

The Tumblr Twist

To “Work the Web” for education, we need a flexible space that empowers us to easily work with rich media. Our first stop will be Tumblr.

Full Tumblr Tutorial page – new!

Web 2 Tools – Social Bookmarking

Web 2 Tools Sampler Panel

RSS Feeds

Other Media

3. WebQuests

Required Result: Review examples and online resources below, meet with Tom and complete the Designing a WebQuest handout for a specific unit of work.

Recent Samples

Older Examples

Tom’s WebQuest Resources

 4. Other?

  • Come chat with Tom

Conclusion

Feedback?

Working at Hopetoun in the Mallee

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Welcome to Hopetoun educators!

Interaction! Let’s begin by adding some of your experiences using digital learning as comments to this post.

During our one day together we will focus on successfully using online resources to increase student achievement and learning.  In other words, we’re going Digital and becoming “Cutting Edge-ucators.”

To do this most effectively, I have come to see you need four things to be successful:

  1. A vision (or reason to bother)
  2. An online platform (where the learning takes place)
  3. Some strategies guaranteed to succeed
  4. And a framework for student ownership of learning

1 – A Vision

There are two documents I’d suggest:

The Powerful Learning framework by Professor David Hopkins that has been adopted regionally and the Melbourne Declaration:

To achieve these goals, consider the following pedagogies:

Interaction! What about ICTs & Learning? Use this EtherPad / Primary Pad to share your thinking.

2 – A Platform

Although every Victorian teacher has a learning space on the UltraNet, another platform could be used to more easily link to rich media and learning resources.  It’s called WordPress.

3 – Strategies Guaranteed to Succeed

4 – A Framework for Student Ownership of Learning

C E Q • A LL / Seek all!

Self-managed Learning Framework for students

Breakout Sessions

Level: Use & Create

Resources for Sessions

Sign-up for WordPress

Studies of Asia & ICTS

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Welcome

Please 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.

After adding your comment, you might like to download the handouts for this 2 Day Workshop

Studies of Asia Links

Activity 1: Great examples from previous Studies of Asia 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.

Brainstorm what you noticed using a shared Stixy board

Activity 2: Creating your Online Platform

Fine-tuning your Blog

Added Bonus?:Web 2 Tools

Presentation Interludes

Activity 3: Look to Learn

The Tumblr Twist

To “Work the Web” for education, we need a flexible space that empowers us to easily work with rich media.  Our first stop will be Tumblr.

Full Tumblr Tutorial page – new!

Work Period

Task: Create 2 – 4 5 – 10 Look to Learn Activities for your students

 

Activity 3: Enrich your site with content and rich media

RSS Feeds

Other Media

Activity 4: Manage your Rich Media Links

Activity 5: The ClassPortal Twist

References:

For Ideas & Inspiration

C E Q • A LL / Seek all!

Self-managed Learning Framework for students

Feedback – links!

Studies of Asia – Melbourne, May 2012

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Blogs, rich media, embeds, social networking, podcasts, and RSS?

Whatever happened to just “the Internet” and when did “Web 1” pass its use-by date?

This hands on workshop is designed as an engaging and friendly exploration of Web 2.0 technologies to support authentic global learning. You will leave with materials ready to use in class with your students. Discover how easily you can access the latest news and opinions on subjects of your interest, quickly embed compelling videos into your classroom activities and engage students in a culture of critical thinking and self-initiated learning. Web 2.0 puts real, rich and relevant learning experiences right at your fingertips and into the hands of your students.

Participants, welcome! Please go to the Workshop sub-site to begin our activities.

CEGSA MasterClass

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Welcome!

We’ve got a great day ahead of us (see the blurb), but as a warm-up and introduction, use the Comments link at the bottom of this post to:

  • Introduce yourself (your role at your school, previous use of ICTs for learning)

Formal Introductions & De-brief

Now that we have used ICTs to support learning, let’s do a face-to-face introduction and de-brief the advantages of online comments and input.

Immersion Scenario

No one has to tell us that technology is changing our culture and the lives of our students. How will it impact education?  How should what we do in schools change to best serve our purpose?  What is our purpose?

  • Presentation: Sixth Sense & Beyond?

Question: if learners have 24/7 anywhere access to information profiled just for them, what are 3 – 5 main knowledge, skills or values they will need to succeed?

Use this Stixyboard to post the ideas generated at your table.

Getting Started

Two main game-changing developments both support and require education to change.  One are the emerging technologies that personalise access to rich information (such as Sixth Sense).  The second area of amazing developments is psychology and the related pedagogies. If we tap into the right research, here’s what we can expect:

Those who know my work are aware that these bullet lists derive from Self-Determination Theory, Cultures of Thinking, Habits of Mind, Flow Theory, Grit and Authentic Happiness.

All of which get integrated through the new Classroom Routines of the Edge-ucators Way and the Seld-managed Learning Process of CEQ•LL

Look to Learn

Getting Started: Tumblr

To “Work the Web” for education, we need a flexible space that empowers us to easily work with rich media.  Our first stop will be Tumblr.

Full Tumblr Tutorial page – new!

Work Period

Task: Create 2 – 4 5 – 10 Look to Learn Activities for your students

Added Bonus?:Web 2 Tools

Online Spaces

WordPress Blog

The ClassPortal Twist

References:

For Ideas

C E Q • A LL / Seek all!

Self-managed Learning Framework for students

Feedback – links!

Why I Love WordPress (again)

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I’ve been using WordPress since 2004 and have become a broken record lauding it as an exemplar of open source software and community.  I’ve used every flavor of WordPress and still do for a variety of different applications: wordpress.com, wordpress.org, network version, softaculous installs, etc.  For this site and almost everyone I create I use my own installation, but for workshops – so that people can get started within minutes and develop content that can later be exported and imported to their own full install – I use wordpress.com.

What’s prompted this post is that I’m getting ready for a new series of workshops and wanted to see how the .com version might handle Pinterest embeds.  Those who use this version, know that embeds can be limited because nasty coding can be injected that could harm the shared hosting and servers.  But the WordPress team has been great about keeping up with the dominant trends in Web 2.0 and creates shortcodes that convert the embed into WordPress-friendly content.  All the major video sites work this way as do Google Maps.

So imagine my delight when seeking new rich media for Look to Learn posts that I learned WordPress.com already accepts Pinterest embeds:

Look to Learn

Imagine this fellows drawing board were an iPad – how might this be symbolic for our “All Fit to One’s Size” digital culture?

Source: domusweb.it via Ben on Pinterest

See-Think-Wonder

  1. What do you see?
  2. What do you think about that?
  3. What does it make you wonder?

King’s College

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Welcome to 2012!

As my first school-based work of the new year, I get to begin on a special initiative.  The principal of King’s College in Warrnambool, Victoria has organised a multi-tiered approach that’s very exciting to be a part of.  First, I will spend the day working with both the whole staff and then two separate smaller groups focused on more beginning and more advanced technology using educators.  What’s we hope will make this day really useful, however, is what comes after:  several staff members will join the 5 Day workshop series I run at Independent Schools Victoria and all Year 7 students this year will get an iPad to support their personal learning.

After a King’s College variation of my It’s Broken (So Let’s Fix it!) presentation, the two smaller sessions will target CEQ•ALL and The Edge-ucators Way.

CEQ•ALL

The Edge-ucators Way Strategies

2 Days at LCGS

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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.

Works in Progress

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

Fine-tuning your Blog

Activity 4 – Integrated Emerging Technologies and Pedagogies

Tom’s pedagogy presentation (download .mov 16 mb)

Look to Learn : : Learn to Look

Online Samples

How-To

Task: Create 2 – 4 Look to Learn Activities for your students

Enrich your site with content and rich media

Web 2.0 Tools

RSS Feeds

Other Media

Manage your Rich Media Links

The ClassPortal Twist

References:

For Ideas

C E Q • A LL / Seek all!

Self-managed Learning Framework for students

Resources for Creating Your Smart Online Space

WASTAA Conference – Perth

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This Sunday and Monday brings a quick trip to Perth where I get to work with The Western Australian Secondary Teaching Administrators’ Association.  It’s a particular honour to share my thinking here because the audience are Level 3 educators, meaning they are “exemplary teachers recognised and rewarded for their exceptional teaching practices.” I’ll present a variation of the keynote I’ve been doing this year with particular focus on the pedagogical / practice frameworks in Next Era Ed.

One thing I may gloss over too frequently, I will focus more attention on with this audience.  Here’s a list of the predictable outcomes embedded in my Edge-ucators Way and CEQ•ALL approaches.

Those who know my work are aware that these bullet lists derive from Self-Determination Theory, Cultures of Thinking, Habits of Mind, Flow Theory, Grit and Authentic Happiness.

All of which get integrated through the new Classroom Routines of the Edge-ucators Way and the Seld-managed Learning Process of CEQ•LL

Look to Learn : : Learn to Look

Online Samples

How-To

Self-managed Learning Framework for students

Resources for Creating Your Smart Online Space