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

Laptop – Global Supply Chain

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Here is a map of how the parts of a typical laptop are sourced globally to create what ends up with consumers.

View an expanded version? Here’s an image with a more basic description of where parts of it came from.

All this (and more) has been done to bring your this amazing tool. What will you do with it?

Story Telling

Look into the future three years and then tell the story of what amazing things you have done with this laptop.

E-Waste Story

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Here’s an explanation of up e-waste from The Story of Stuff

What could you do?

See – Think – Wonder

  1. What did you see?
  2. What did  you think about it?
  3. What did it make you wonder about?  What could you and your friends do?

“I Can”

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This video is from a TEDTalk by Kiran Bir Sethi of the Riverside school in India. She believes in helping students take charge and contribute to making the world a better place. This clip gives background on what she calls “The I Can Bug” a way to infect students with a love for learning. You can watch the whole video from TED.

What problems could you say “I Can!” to? How could a laptop make the project even bigger and better?

A laptop connected to the Internet can be used for many things.

What might you use yours for?  What could you do to make a difference?

Working with St Joey’s

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Welcome!

Today I get to spend the day working with the staff of St. Joseph’s College in Hunters Hill, Sydney.

The main focus will be on supporting their 1:1 MacBook pilot and roll-out.  The challenges in such an endeavour and great, but even greater are the opportunities.  I have come to see that four key pieces must fit together to make the puzzle work.  These are:

  • Rich Online Routines
  • A Culture of Collaboration
  • An Approach to Self-managed Learning
  • An Empowered Vision of Curriculum

Ignoring any one of these will jeopardise success.  In fact, delete any one of them and technology may become the problem, not part of the solution.

My job is to persuade that this is true, to offer effective and rewarding strategies for each of the key factors and to encourage staff to create interpretations that will work at St. Joeys.

After the whole-staff presentation, groups will form by choice around the five main Digital Challenges I’ve put up for discussion.  Their ideas will be posted on a wiki that we will visit and can be a launchpad for future conversations and task teams.

Later, I will meet with a core team.  In anticipation of the kind of things that might come up in this session, I’ll offer the following links.

Resources

Working with Caroline Chisholm Catholic College

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Welcome!

It is indeed a pleasure and honour to work with a school and its staff who have so dedicatedly focused itself on serving its students through continuous reflection and improvement.  My goal is to share some questions, ideas and strategies, then work together to see how well they fit with a culture that is already successful.

The main question is:

“how does teaching and learning change when all students at a school have their own laptop?”

My main suggestions are that three elements are required for a successful outcome:

  • A New vision of Curriculum
  • Online Learning Spaces
  • A Self-managed Learning Framework

Download this handout packet as a guide to the day and here is a full screen Flash version of the slides or a movie version you can download.

Online Resources and Examples

Look to Learn:

ClassPortals:

WebQuests:

CEQ•ALL

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

AGQTP Day 2

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Welcome back!

(Download the handouts)

The main purpose of today is to get familiar with WordPress and then to understand and develop Look to Learn activities.

Review Module 1: Kay, Steve, Vin, Natasha, Mark, Patrick, David, Lisa, Anne

The main spaces we will use are:

Creating ClassPortals

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Introduction

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