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Anne Mirtschin 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

Added by Anne Mirtschin on November 27, 2009 at 2:07pm — No Comments

Adrian Camm Webcasting & Virtual Classrooms

Here is the recording of the live stream from the presentation I delivered at VITTA. Session Abtract In the global, networked environments of the 21st century, student learning is expanding beyond the four classroom walls. It is with these online learning environments that teachers can surmount the barriers of time and distance to communicate, reflect and collaborate with students and colleagues. This session will focus on the tools and basic functionality of webcasting and virtual c… Continue

Added by Adrian Camm on November 25, 2009 at 1:51pm — 2 Comments

Anne Mirtschin 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

Added by Anne Mirtschin on November 21, 2009 at 10:00pm — No Comments

Jeff Evans 2009 Adobe Asia Pacific School Innovation Awards

From an Adobe email newsletter comes this competition announcement: "The stage is set for 14-19 year old students in Asia Pacific region who have unique stories to tell about their world. The 2009 Adobe School Innovation Awards will honor the most innovative print, web, and video projects created with Adobe software. Students can win valuable Adobe software - while schools and teachers will be honoured and rewarded! Students should start preparing their entries today." Deadline for submission… Continue

Added by Jeff Evans on November 18, 2009 at 4:00pm — 1 Comment

Jeff Evans What Matters: Using technology to improve workforce collaboration

From consulting firm McKinsey: What Matters: Using technology to improve workforce collaboration. This is a long article about using collaboration tools to improve productivity; it includes a Flash interactive to align collaboration tool with type of knowledge workers. While it's written about "knowledge workers" in general, many tasks undertaken in schools are appro… Continue

Added by Jeff Evans on November 10, 2009 at 12:00pm — No Comments

Dion Parsons Technology in Education

Digital Microscopes The Use of Digital Microscopes can enhance the interaction for kids. The ability to deliver the results digitally enables many applications to branch from this such as Digital Port Folios for students to show of there work.

Lego Robotics Lego robotics is something that can open the minds… Continue

Added by Dion Parsons on November 5, 2009 at 7:29pm — 3 Comments

Adrian Camm Learning Adventures

In order to model constructivist, non-coercive educational practice, Gary Stager coined the term 'learning adventures' to replace 'assignment' in describing classroom activity. He argues that this simple rhetorical shift has a profound impact on teachers spirit and effectiveness in teaching. The notion of a learning adventure is simple: -start with a prompt or an essential question -make the task real-world and ensure it is intrinsically moti… Continue

Added by Adrian Camm on November 3, 2009 at 3:00pm — No Comments

Anne Mirtschin 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

Added by Anne Mirtschin on October 30, 2009 at 5:30pm — 4 Comments

apetersen Australian Schools on iTunesU

Three Australian education networks are now publishing on iTunesU. Catholic schools in Australia, WA Dept. of Education and Scotch College/PLC (Perth) are all now publishing content accessible to all the world's iTunes users. Greg Whitby summarises the benefits like this: "As with everything on iTunes U, the new audio,­­ video and text files from Catholic schools are free to anyone visiting the iTunes Store. Students, teachers and lifelong learners can download items of interest including t… Continue

Added by apetersen on October 21, 2009 at 2:46pm — No Comments

Rod Clarke The eKids program – so far.

The eKids program (orchestrated through the Country Education Project) is about engaging students and staff throughout a number of Victorian rural schools to offer enhanced learning opportunities. It enables children to select learning topics that they would prefer to tap into at a particular time. Each activity has a rotation period of between 4 to 6 weeks, though these are not set in stone. As we are catering for kids from grades 3 to 6, with a diverse range of learning needs, children are abl… Continue

Added by Rod Clarke on October 18, 2009 at 11:22am — 3 Comments

Adrian Camm Gaming: Using text-based adventures in education

Text-based adventures describe software that simulates environments in which players use text commands to control characters and influence the environment. These types of adventure games with text-based input and output were popular before the advent of personal computers with strong graphics capabilities. Perhaps the most influential text-based adventure of this era (early 1980’s) was a game titled Zork. The game is set in the ruins of an ancient empire lying far underground. You are a dauntles… Continue

Added by Adrian Camm on October 15, 2009 at 11:24pm — 1 Comment

Jeff Evans Use of electronic media and communications: Early childhood to teenage years (Report)

Use of electronic media and communications: Early childhood to teenage years brings together the ACMA’s research on media use by 8-17 year olds and new findings about 3-4 and 7-8 year olds from the Australian Institute of Family Studies study Growing Up in Australia; The Longitudinal Study of Australian Children. Continue

Added by Jeff Evans on October 13, 2009 at 3:46pm — 1 Comment

Erik Keith Black Eyed Peas “Youth Voices” PSA Empowers Youth Through Digital Arts

The Adobe Foundation and The Black Eyed Peas Peapod Foundation today unveiled a new public service announcement called “Plant Inspiration.” The PSA promotes the launch of Adobe Youth Voices, a non-profit that stresses the pow… Continue

Added by Erik Keith on October 8, 2009 at 9:21am — No Comments

Durff K12Online2009 LAN Party

Please join us on September 26, 2009 for the first live event of the 2009 K12Online Conference On September 26, K12Online Conference will host a LAN party from 2:00PM to 5:00PM EDT and encourages everyone to get together with colleagues in order to engage in lively discussions. Past presentations will be shown… Continue

Added by Durff on September 23, 2009 at 3:42am — No Comments

Anne Mirtschin 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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Added by Anne Mirtschin on September 23, 2009 at 1:00am — 2 Comments

Maurice James Sheehan Student Learning Division

Please find below two key strategies from our Business Plan we are working on. 1. Develop and promote evidence-based online resources to support government schools to improve literacy and numeracy outcomes for students: • Differentiated Support Framework – Phase 1 – 35043 (P) • Premier’s Reading Challenge -34240 (SD) • Literacy and numeracy resources -34241 (SD) • ESL online resources -34231 (SD) 2. Develop online curriculum resources to support implementation of a contemporary curriculum framew… Continue

Added by Maurice James Sheehan on September 22, 2009 at 5:30pm — 1 Comment

Mark Cruthers ETCon : Communities and the Power of Crowdsourcing

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Added by Mark Cruthers on September 20, 2009 at 2:13am — No Comments

Anne Mirtschin 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

Added by Anne Mirtschin on September 16, 2009 at 8:00am — 2 Comments

apetersen SMR's latest Innovation & Next Practice Vodcast

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Added by apetersen on September 11, 2009 at 10:25am — 1 Comment

Anne Mirtschin Obama speaks to students, our premier speaks with students

Obama speaks to students, our premier speaks with students What a very special day it was! Year 10 students from 20 Victorian schools all came together in the one virtual classroom with the Victorian Premier and the Minister for Education. The premier discussed with the students, issues they face w… Continue

Added by Anne Mirtschin on September 8, 2009 at 10:00pm — No Comments

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