WASLA Conference in Perth

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School Library Conference – Western Australia

Santa Maria College, Attadale WA

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Next Era Ed is about Learning

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Keynote Abstract

We are entering an era when it can be stated truthfully that a self-motivated student with broadband access to the Web can learn more than he or she could in school. Society has changed around us and one of the few certainties is that these changes will continue. Some of the main changes undermine cultures focused on standardised outcomes and the myth of uniform excellence. In other words, a culture like “school.” The world surrounding schools has moved from a “one-size-fits-all” mentality to one where digital customisation creates a world “all-fit-to-one’s-size”. In this new reality, the Next Era of Education will require re-vision of four main dimensions to “schooling.”



Digital Learning Pedagogy

Look to Learn : : Learn to Look

Online Samples

Visible Thinking Tools

 

Create a ClassPortal

Site to visit Regularly

RSS Feeds

Web 2 Tools

 

WebQuests for Constructing Knowledge

WebQuests by Tom

Resources

Articles

Self-managed Learning Framework for students

C E Q • A LL / Seek all!

Studying Asia & ICTs in Ballarat

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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) and local educators have organised this session in historic Ballarat.

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

Participants’ Completed Web sites (in 2 Days!)

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

(debrief Web 2.0 terminology?)

Activity 2: Creating Your Smart Online Space

Fine-tuning your Blog

Activity 3: Look to Learn : : Learn to Look

Online Samples


Day 2 – Personalising Your Learning to Personalise Student Learning

Paths to Personal Success – Twiddla EtherPad

Path 1: Create 3 – 5 Look to Learn Activities for your students

  • Export / Import to begin new blog?
  • Copy / Paste this Post into your blog?
  • WordPress Lessons

Path 2: Web 2 Tools

Path 3: Enrich your site with content and rich media

RSS Feeds

Other Media

Path 4: Manage your Rich Media Links

Path 5: Create a ClassPortal

Path 6: Create Specific Learning Activities

Path 7: CEQ•ALL – Student-managed Learning

 

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Introducing Next Era Ed at ICTEV

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It gives me great pleasure to publicly share what I’ve been working on since last years (really my whole life).

Next Era Ed is about Learning

Share a great learning experience on this Stixy board or add your comment to this post.

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Piecing together Digital Learning

1. Smart Online Environment

2. Rich Resources

3. Digital Learning Pedagogy

Look to Learn : : Learn to Look

Online Samples

Create a ClassPortal

WebQuests for Constructing Knowledge

WebQuests by Tom

WebQuests by Others

Return to the  “What are WebQuests?” Stixyboard to update  your ideas

Resources

Articles

Visible Thinking Tools

Site to visit Regularly

4. Self-managed Learning Framework for students

C E Q • A LL / Seek all!

  • CEQ•ALL
  • The Remembered 20%
  • Map Skills to Hit 50
  • The Students’ Half

Studies of Asia

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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

 

Work Completed by Participants of this Session

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 or Twiddla

(debrief Web 2.0 terminology?)

Activity 2: Creating Your Smart Online Space

Fine-tuning your Blog

Activity 3: Look to Learn : : Learn to Look

Online Samples


Day 2 – Personalising Your Learning to Personalise Student Learning

Paths to Personal Success

Path 1: Create 3 – 5 Look to Learn Activities for your students

Path 2: Web 2 Tools

Path 3: Enrich your site with content and rich media

Path 4: Manage your Rich Media Links

Path 5: Create a ClassPortal

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Day 2 for ISV

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Welcome to Day 2

Today provides a chance to review and embed skills related to using an online space as the platform for rich and authentic learning. The main focus for the day is to add rich resources through RSS feeds (using Netvibes) and podcast players. We will work toward creating a robust set of tools and interactions that can lead to implementing a ClassPortal.

Day 2 Activities and links at the Workshop page.

ISV – 5 Day Series: Day 2

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Enriching the Your Site

The main purpose of today is to explore Web 2.0 tools and resources that enrich your main online platform – for most of us this is our WordPress blogs.  There are a lot of great things to explore and get familiar with and immersing ourselves in this is the first purpose of the day.  The second is to brainstorm how you might use the construct of a “ClassPortal” to engage students in ongoing personal learning and knowledge-building.  Let’s get started!

Review Look to Learn

Before getting started on new things, let’s review the Look to Learn activity format and see if anyone had a chance to use it with students or colleagues.  Here are the Help Links again:

Adding Rich Feeds with NetVibes

Podcasting & Audio

Web 2.0 Tools Review

Social Bookmarking & Personal Research with Diigo

ClassPortals

Participants Sites

AGQTP Group

Real, Rich and Relevant Group

Real, Rich and Relevant – Day 1

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Welcome

Today 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.

Upcoming Keynotes

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May

CEGSA & SLASA – May 14 – Adelaide, South Australia

Computers in Education Group – South Australia
School Library Association – South Australia

St Peter’s College Junior School, North Terrace, St Peters.
saslacegsa
 
 
 

ICTEV – May 2 – Melbourne, Victoria

ICT in Education Victoria

Melbourne Grammar School


 
 
 
 

June

SLC-WA – School Library Conference – June 11 – Perth, Australia

School Library Conference – Western Australia

Santa Maria College, Attadale WA

 
 
 

CEFPI 2011 – June 15-16

Council of Educational Facility Planners International

Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre Darling Harbour

Download the Program (pdf)

 
 
 
 

September

DET Head Teachers Conference, 5 September

Head Teacher/Executives DER Professional Leadership Conference

Brighton-le-Sands Novotel, Sydney

 
 
 

QSITE – September 29 – Brisbane, Queensland

Queensland Society for Information Technology in Education

St Aidan’s Anglican Girls’ School – Corinda

ISV – AGQTP 5 Day Series: Day 1

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Welcome

Today 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

something they have created and we will review our learning.

Presentations

 

Day 1 – ISV 5 Day Series

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Welcome!

Here begins a great opportunity for us: 5 days spread across the year to develop deep and sophisticated ICT and pedagogy insights and skills.  In other words, fun!

Here’s a set of handouts that mirrors the links below and adds a bit of detail.

The main purpose of today is to set up an easy but powerful online space.  This will be the launch pad for everything else we do.  Think of it as your digital file cabinet, your grab bag of Web 2 tricks, your online classroom.
To begin, let’s see that others have done along these lines.

Activity 1: First Impressions

Skim through some of the links below.  Pause when one catches your attention.  Look more closely.  Consider how you could use something like it for your self and your students.  After about 15 minutes, we’ll brainstorm what we’ve seen and thought.

Examples from 2010/2011

Brainstorming First Impressions (using Stixy) (AGQTP Group)

Activity 2: Creating Your Smart Online Space

Fine-tuning your Blog

Pause for Reflection

From the Dashboard or your blog, go to “Pages” and edit the “About” page.  Use this to reflection on how you think you might use your blog in a range of ways for yourself, your students and colleagues.

Activity 3: Look to Learn : : Learn to Look

Online Samples

Activity 4 – Web 2 Tools

Pause for Reflection #2

Now that you have explored Look to Learn activities and a range of Web 2.0 tools, return to the Dashboard or your blog and edit your “About” page reflection.  Add your further insights gained from the last sessions and what strikes you as useful tools and strategies. Specifically, describe how you think you could use what you’ve learned today.

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