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Working with Mater Maria

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Welcome!

I’m delighted to have a whole day to work with the staff of Mater Maria College in the northern beaches area of Sydney.

Here’s a set of materials to guide what you do.

Getting input:TypeWith.Me

I’m still convinced that for a school to successfully implement digital learning four conditions must be addressed. They are:

  1. a place to meet online
  2. a set of Rich Routines to do once they are there
  3. a longer process that develops a renewed understanding of Curriculum – shifting from seat time and product to mastery and performance.
  4. finally, a framework that shifts the ownership and management of learning to students (where is has always belonged)

Online Space

  • Get a WordPress Blog
  • Modify the Blog’s Appearance
  • Settings for success
  • Making a Post – embedding YouTube
  • Creating a Page

Rich Online Routines and Examples

All learners (children and adults) come with a range of abilities and experiences.  They progress at different rates.  This truth is one that the Industrial model to schooling has been struggling with for a century.  Fortunately, in the digital era, this limitation doesn’t exist.  1:1 learners can and do progress at individual paces.  What we need are new classroom routines – beyond “chalk and talk” – that nurture and support individuals to achieve their potential.  The “Edge-ucators Way” is a platform for helping students and teachers move in this direction.

Look to Learn:

ClassPortals:

WebQuests:

CEQ•ALL

Varsity College – Gold Coast

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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.

Here are handouts that ICT / Pedagogy people can use.

Collaborative Tools

Some Examples

Look to Learn:

ClassPortals:

WebQuests

Resources

Tutorials

Innovation Expo – Gold Coast for eLearning

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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.

Caroline Chisholm continued

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Ongoing work with Caroline Chisholm Catholic College in Melbourne focuses on 1:1 learning and their Notebook program.  A special CCCC blog has been set up with sample look to learn activities, links to ClassPortals and WebQuests as well as an 1:1 ICT Skills survey.

AGQTP ClassPortals

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Introduction

(review Day 2 outcomes)

Great “ClassBlogs:“

A “ClassPortal” Twist

Resources & Activities

Workshop

  • Create new blog at WordPress.com (from your current account)
  • Brainstorm and Choose YOUR topic for a ClassPortal (see sample?)
  • Create a Diigo Bookmarks Group on your Topic
  • Add at least one Look to Learn Post
  • Copy and paste the Web 2 Tools Panel?
  • Copy, Edit ClassPortals Feeds Pageflakes and add a link to a Pageflakes feed page
  • Add Core links (search engines, collaborators, core tools, etc.)
  • Adjust Sidebar Widgets
  • Write your About page to describe your classroom integration plan
  • Produce content (Podcasts, Videos / YouTube Channel, VoiceThread, Dipity timelines, Flickr streams, etc.)
  • Leverage the  CEQ-ALL (“seek all”) – personal learning framework? (download)

Resources

Works in Progress

Edge-ucators Team Meeting #1

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Welcome!

Good the see you all again – in person!

Here’s a handout / agenda

Action Research

It has been said, “Teachers often leave a mark on their students, but they seldom leave a mark on their profession” (Wolfe, 1989). Through the process and products of action research teachers will do both.

Use the handout above and this digest from Eileen Ferrance‘s chapter to get started. The links below provide additional background and more in-depth guidance.

Resources

Mapping your Plan and Data Collection

Studies of Asia Workshops

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Welcome!

I look forward to working together for two days to enhance professional practice around Digital Learning and Studies of Asia.   Lindy Stirling, State Advisor, Studies of Asia (see the Studies of Asia Wiki) has organised a series of these two-day workshops for Melbourne and Gippsland.

We will focus on four main categories needed to support every Digital Edge-ucator:

  1. Online Environment
  2. Rich Resources
  3. Digital Learning Pedagogy
  4. Curriculum Continuum

Activities

Let’s begin by introducing ourselves and sharing our backgrounds and interests Stixy

The specific activities and links can be found in this Set of Course Materials and focus on Web 2, creating Blogs and getting easy access to rich resources.

IWB blog tools and panel page

Create a Pageflakes account

Studies of Asia Links

Adding Users and Staying in Touch

Having Users Register at WordPress.com or add students through Dashboard > Users – Invites set to “author”.

Paste the Web address / URL of your WordPress blog

in the comments here so we can not lose your great work

5 Day Workshop Series

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Welcome to the first day of this year’s 5 day workshop series on integrating Web 2 tools into authentic learning experiences for students.

Module 1 above will get you started.

ACEC – Workshop

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Welcome

Thursday, 8 April 2010 4:00 – 5:30 in room 207

Use Typewith.me to post questions, interests, issues, etc.

Here’s the Workshop blurb: This session follows on from the keynote “It’s broke, so fix it” and details the main strategies discussed. Find out how Web 2.0 tools and rich media can be integrated into a research based framework that finally makes the shift from teacher-directed to student-managed learning that spans a student’s school years and results in greater achievement and preparation for their futures.

Take a targeted Self-assessment for skills related to the strategies below: Digital Learning Skills List Checklist (doc)

Here’s a snapshot Roadmap for  integrating Web 2 tools into these three strategies.

Look to Learn

ClassPortals

WebQuests

A New Take

Readings

Background

ACEC- Melbourne

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speaking-at-acec2010_0Many of us in the EdTEch world in Australia will spend much of this week in Melbourne at the Convention and Exhibition Centre to attend The Australian Computers in Education Conference 2010. I’m looking forward to seeing many colleagues and friends, including Alan November, Lynn Davie, Jenny Luca, Greg Gebhart, Geoff Romeo, Adam Elliot, Trudy Sweeney and Sue Urban.

Tom March Sessions

Wednesday, 7 April 2010

Thursday, 8 April 2010

You can download a handout of links for the sessions.

Comment on the Keynote, especially Wikicademy and iPademy

Alan November, Lynn Davie, Jenny Luca, Greg Gebhart, Geoff Romeo, Adam Elliot, Trudy Sweeney, Sue Urban
Tom March Sessions
Wednesday, 7 April 2010
1:30 – 2:30 Plenary Hall Choose Your Own Keynote: Tom March – “It’s broke, so fix it” – re-making education for our digital era
4:00 – 5:00 Soapbox Tom March on his Soapbox
Thursday, 8 April 2010
16:00 – 17:30 207 Tom March “It’s broke,so fix it” Tom March Workshop