Redlands

It’s nice to return to Redlands, Sydney Church of England Co-educational Grammar School.  I had the pleasure to work with the staff and ICT Integrators at the end of 2008 and return to share some new ideas regarding what I’m seeing as the four piece puzzle to truly supporting the 1:1 digital learning that is often available at school and almost invariably from home.

A Closer Look

1. A Culture of Collaboration – Welcome to Wikicademy
2. Rich Routines and Smart Online Spaces – The Edge-ucators Way: Look to Learn, ClassPortals and WebQuests & WQ 2.0
3. An Empowered Vision of Curriculum – Disintermediate me?! and The Greek Sculpture Question
4. A Framework for Student Self-managed Learning – CEQ•ALL (Seek All) rationale and Rubric (pdf)

Some Examples

Look to Learn:

• 1984
• The Global Rich List
• Learned Helplessness
• What will you do?
• Nuclear Giving

ClassPortals:

• Basic ClassPortal Demo
• CSLN
• PodKids Australia
• Holocaust Literature
• Digital Citizens
• Discovery Centre
• Learning on Asia
• Modern Fairy Tales
• Phillip Island

WebQuests

• Freedom Fighter or Terrorist?
• DebtQuest
• Searching for China
• Antarctic Ice – Water for Oz
• Globalisation

Resources

• Harvard Thinking Routines
• Sample Prompts
• Look to Learn Diigo Group
• TubePrompter

• Possible ClassPortal Topics
• Pageflakes Sample
• Web 2 Tools Panel

• CEQ•ALL Overview, Profiles (pdf)

Tutorials

• Get a WordPress blog
• Add a Post to a Blog
• Make a Pageflakes RSS Feed Page

Collaborative Tools

• TypeWith.Me
• Stixyboard

Task #1

• Beyond Cut & Paste
• Essential Questions
• Assessment Criteria
• Look to Learn
• ClassPortals
• WebQuests