Educators' Guide to Innovation
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Anne Mirtschin
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- Hawkesdale, Victoria
- Australia
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Anne Mirtschin's Discussions
Getting The Most Out Of Interactive Digital Learning Objects
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Going 1:1 - getting ready for student laptops/netbooks
Started Nov 25
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Hi Krystie I am happy to do any of, or all of the following sessions:
Wed 27th Jan - session 3B, 5A (or the alternatives)
Thu 28th Jan - session 1A, 2A,3B and/or 4c, 6B
Fri 29th Jan - all day or sessions 1A, 3A, 4B, 5A (2A if needbe)
Hope this mak...
This was the final session for Tech Talk Tuesdays in 2009. This is the link to the recording although it can also be found by searching throught the past events. Participants were asked to add their thoughts on "what are digital learning objects" ...
Thanks Anne - getting them to add reports to blogs is valuable. I use blogs for students to review their work and to assist others with suggestions. In both cases I use the 3.2.1. matrix.
Here is an interesting site with 101 tips that will make your blog sizzle. Great for teachers, possibly students
Thanks Martin for the updates. When the facilities are fully functional, have you considered ways of connecting with eg rural schools. Would you consider offering videoconferencing or virtual classrooms, so schools, such as mine (which is rural re...
The first 5 tools that I would trial if starting out with web2.0 would be
1. delicious - everyone uses bookmarks and this one is social as well as accessible anywhere there is internet access
2. wordle makes beautiful word clouds. It is user frien...
Profile Information
- Do you work in the education sector? What is your role?
- I teach ICT from years 7 to 12 and accounting to years 11 and 12 in a small rural government school in SW Victoria.
Blogs: http://murcha.wordpress.com, http://murch.globalteacher.org
Twitter/plurk id: murcha Delicious/diigo id/murcho Slideshare id/:murcha
Teachertube id: murch
- Describe any innovative projects that you have been involved with (include weblinks if possible)
- Project involvement in 2009 include:
-netgened project: http://netgened.wikispaces.com/
flatclassroom project: http://flatclassroom09-3.flatclassroomproject.org/
-digiteen project: http://digiteen09-2.flatclassroomproject.org/
-on africa: http://onafrica.pbworks.com/
- ping an online music project: http://www.pingmusic.com.au
-Pictures of the Floating Worlds: http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/ngvschools/FloatingWorld/fweducation/
-member of the plpnetbooktrial project
- Describe any innovative projects that you would like to pursue for which you are seeking collaborative partners
- As part of the plpnetbooktrial project, our school is teamed with three other country schools to work on a joint project. The project is "Doors to the World" A wiki has been set up at http://doorstotherworld.wiksispaces.com
Students and classes from other countries are encouraged to team up with two other schools. Each student will take a photo of, or draw a picture of a door. The other two students in their group will write a story about "what is behind that door"
Aims:
-to encourage creativity and writing skills
-improve ICT communication skills and learn the netiquette of using a wikif
-foster global connections
-learn about other cultures and worlds.
- What are your preferred communication/collaboration tools?
- Blog, Wiki, Discussion forum, Skype, Elluminate
- Is this the first social networking site you've joined?
- no
My presentation for the Innovations Showcase
A glimpse at a 21st century classroom
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What AM I doing here again? -reflections on the flatclassroom project Sept to Nov 2009
As the flat classroom projects enter the final weeks, levels of anxiety start to run rather high amongst the student body – anger, frustration, confusion, indecision, lack of understanding, complacency are many of the emotions and feelings that run high at this stage.
So, as a teacher I need to coax, cajole, coach, encourage, teach all over again, explain, facilitate, survive etc to keep the project’s momentum going.
Some students
•get angry when a wiki war means that they have lost their hard e… Continue
So, as a teacher I need to coax, cajole, coach, encourage, teach all over again, explain, facilitate, survive etc to keep the project’s momentum going.
Some students
•get angry when a wiki war means that they have lost their hard e… Continue
Posted on November 27, 2009 at 2:07pm —
School's in at 9pm
Year 9/10 ICT elective students who are part of the flat classroom project were offered the opportunity to meet with their class mates from Dusseldorf, Germany and… Continue
Posted on November 21, 2009 at 10:00pm —
Australian Excellence in Teaching Awards
The annual "Australian Excellence in Teaching Award" reward innovators in a number of categories - including excellence by a teacher, beginning teacher, leading teacher, principal, support staff member and schools and its community. A number of highly commended educationalists were also given awards. These awards were given to the winners by the Federal Minister for Education and Deputy Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, in a recent ceremony at Parliament House in Canberra.
As I was fortunate to be… Continue
As I was fortunate to be… Continue
Posted on October 30, 2009 at 5:30pm — 4 Comments
Bringing the Globe into the Classroom
This is my presentation given at the 21st Century Learning conference at Hong Kong in September 2009. Some images were removed in order to keep the file size down.
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Posted on September 23, 2009 at 1:00am — 2 Comments
Virtual debating
Today grade 4/5 Hawkesdale P12 College netbook students met, virtually, with students from Beeac Primary School for an online debate. This was the first time that our grade… Continue
Posted on September 16, 2009 at 8:00am — 2 Comments
Comment Wall (74 comments)
- At 7:50am on December 2, 2009,
Robyn Scanlon said…
- Hi Anne,
I set up a wiki for the Level 3, then supported staff with Level 4 kids. I have used glogs extensively to tailor the Internet to suit what we are learning about, Gizmoz, Toons, Google Calendar, photo sharing, forum discussions, Shelfari, videos, student e-portfolios and lots of interactive learning. We also link digilearn activities each week. All good fun. Would you be able to post a link to the archive of last night's tech talk sessions? I registered successfully but didn't receive an email with the link. Looking forward to joining the team,
Robyn
- At 10:01am on December 1, 2009,
Paul Jorgensen said…
- Hi Anne
Elluminate seems fine for quick calls to DEECD members and has been a good tool for participation in delivering some ICT PD type discussions and forums. I used Interwise for videoconferencing for a while and found that to be quite good when the technology was set up correctly (Which is fairly simple) at all ends. It allowed for videoconferencing outside of DEECD and allowed for quick access through an emailed link to the conference. Lots of file sharing, whiteboard space, interaction, but only 4 people/locations could actually be on the video, the rest is a larger group could only have sound and view others but not be seen and of course access to the whiteboard and other applications.
Paul
- At 9:11am on November 16, 2009,
Rachel E said… - Hi Anne
I have never used elluminate. I only just found it cos a friend emailed me a link about the tech-tuesdays. This is the reason i joined. Unfortunately tuesdays are our staff meetings, so i may not be able to join in regularly. I would love to become more ICT savvy, so im hoping this is the way!!
Thanks for the comment,
R
- At 9:33pm on November 15, 2009,
Helen Edmonds said…
- Hi Anne
Some recent work with my coaching schools on transferring Think Boards into an electronic environment. Students have used various level of sophistication with powerpoint and expored Scratch software to enhance other aspects of visual thinking.
- At 8:39pm on November 13, 2009,
Dan Copping said… - Really sorry I think dim dim was an accidental selection - mind you now I want to know what it is and how I can use it at my school!
- At 4:27pm on November 10, 2009,
Sheree Beattie said… - Thanks Anne. Although I don't think my health is going to improve anytime soon. I have rheumatoid arthritis in my hands and feet and osteoarthritis everywhere else. Nothing seems to work. I joined todays session for the first time. I mainly just listened today, but hopefully I will join in in later sessions. I am a qualified primary school teacher with 3 nieces who are 11, nearly 4 and 2 1/4. Some of this stuff I might be able to use with them. Anyway thanks for your offer of help if I need it. I might take you or someone else up on it sometime. Bye for now.
- At 3:04pm on November 10, 2009,
Mark O'Meara said…
- Anne, I got the link and tried to use it. I followed the process until it kicked Java off. At this point, nothing happened. I tried it in Firefox and Internet Explorer. I tried for about twenty-five minutes, but after 4 o'clock came and went, I gave up.
- At 6:06pm on November 9, 2009,
Judith Way said…
- Thanks Anne, it should be great. Good luck to your year 12s.
- At 10:57am on November 9, 2009,
Mark O'Meara said…
- Anne, Red Space Rocket is a site that I used to help my students. The centrepiece is a blog that I use for information for them. It also has a wiki that we use for collaborate work and a discussion forum, although that it rarely used these days.
I am signed up for tomorrow's session but I am unclear about where exactly I go to take part. I got a confirmation email but did not contain a link.
- At 2:52pm on November 7, 2009,
Adrian Camm said… - Thanks for alerting me to the comment Anne. Brendan is a great guy - have you had the pleasure of meeting him?
Glad to hear you recieved Google Wave. I have been using IE and it has been working quite well. Ive just installed Google Gears as apparently it makes the experience richer. Im still learning how to use it, so I can't really comment on it just yet..... Its a matter of finding the time at the moment, but I need to figure it out before VITTA!
Events
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Secondary Science Teacher's Conference
November 17, 2009 at 4pm to December 3, 2009 at 5:15pm – Online in Elluminate
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