In the early stages of planning Tech Talk Tuesdays, it was agreed that
•the sessions be made as interactive as possible,
•a set of protocols be followed each week, including an icebreaker set up by one of the moderators each week.
•three moderators be used each session with as many different ones used as possible to encourage further use of elluminate for both classroom and PD sessions.
•a list of moderator roles be drawn up.
•as many tools as possible be used – chat, audio, whiteboard, whiteboa…
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Added by Anne Mirtschin on December 17, 2009 at 5:49pm —
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It is 12 months ago, that Ekaterina Zhdanova and I used
skype to connect our classrooms from Soglasie School in
Ekaterinburg, Eastern Russia and
Hawkesdale P12 C…
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Added by Anne Mirtschin on December 12, 2009 at 10:00am —
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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…
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Added by Anne Mirtschin on November 27, 2009 at 2:07pm —
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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…
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Added by Anne Mirtschin on November 21, 2009 at 10:00pm —
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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…
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Added by Anne Mirtschin on October 30, 2009 at 5:30pm —
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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 —
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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…
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Added by Anne Mirtschin on September 16, 2009 at 8:00am —
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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…
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Added by Anne Mirtschin on September 8, 2009 at 10:00pm —
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The news on the radio awoke me this morning and alerted me to the fact that Western Java in Indonesia had suffered a major earthquake with some known deaths. There was now a tsunami warning out. Shivers ran down my spine! It is never pleasant hearing about natural disastors, but my good efriend, Endang…
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Added by Anne Mirtschin on September 3, 2009 at 4:30pm —
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Rural and Regional Education
Innovation, partnerships and possibilities
This interesting forum took part on Thursday Aug 13th and Friday 14th at the Deakin Management Centre, Deakin University Geelong. As always, innovation and partnerships are of great interest to me and I was proud to have been asked to give a short presentation on my work re connecting students and schools, on the Friday morning.
The key foci for the research group that were of interest to me were:
-investigate the nature of…
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Added by Anne Mirtschin on August 16, 2009 at 4:00pm —
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How different it is to see the more mature students of our schools link up together on videoconferencing. The conversations hold greater content and depth. The demonstrations are more complex, realistic and therefore the learning deeper. Zainuddin and I both teach computer studies to…
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Added by Anne Mirtschin on August 15, 2009 at 12:41pm —
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Today, I introduced my principal to the acting principal, Mr Andrew Rogers and his students of Beeac Primary School. However, it was an unusual introduction in that it was done with a netbook, MS Communicator and its videoconference feature and a headset.
Reflecting back.…
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Added by Anne Mirtschin on August 7, 2009 at 11:00pm —
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On the last day of the MS Innovative Teachers Regional conference, I got up at the usual time and went down for breakfast. I could not see any of the conference participants that I had befriended, so I sat alone. Next to me, was another lone person. He introduced himself t…
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Added by Anne Mirtschin on July 31, 2009 at 4:30pm —
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Being a member of the
classroom2.0, ning is a great way to see what other teachers are doing, thinking and working on across the globe. This morning I found
Jonathan Chase's page He is using innovative techniques and outcomes for his history classes and is active with the use of music. Here is an excerpt from his page..
Each school year my 8th grade social s…
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Added by Anne Mirtschin on June 30, 2009 at 2:25pm —
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Report as given to the Regional Innovations Liaisons Officers meeting on Friday June 26th
BubbleShare: Share photos - Easy Photo Sharing
Venue:- Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia May 26…
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Added by Anne Mirtschin on June 27, 2009 at 1:30pm —
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It is indeed becoming a global world, or should that be a ‘flat one’. Checking out my blog from the comfort of my hotel room in Kuala Lumpur, I noticed that I had a comment from a parent of one of the 13 students, from NZ, who are also attending this amazing conference. Last night at dinner the NZ and Australian contingent went to a restaurant with the Australian MS Manager. One of the NZ teachers told me that she was there as a chaperone for a student. At lunch today, I met the student and it w…
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Added by Anne Mirtschin on June 17, 2009 at 8:00am —
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Having used twitter for nearly 2 years, now, I only started using
twitter in the classoom in recent weeks, when we discovered that it was no longer blocked. Some argue that twitter will replace google and other search engines. An interesting video to watch is the
The Twitter Experiment where it is used with College students in the USA. An interesting…
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Added by Anne Mirtschin on June 6, 2009 at 4:59pm —
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Day 3 was judging day - that meant that our posters were to be judged by international judges. The Australian and Canadian teams were judged by a Korean and a Malaysian judge. Many of us waited with nervousness and our time was set for judging at 11:00am. There were 5 minutes to speak to our poster and then 3 minutes for questions. However, the judges were interested and asked questions as we went along. All judging was completed by 1:00pm.
After a quick lunch, it was time to return to our poste…
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Added by Anne Mirtschin on May 31, 2009 at 8:00pm —
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My Thai colleague demonstrates multi-point where all students have a mouse that is linked to a data point hub. A central computer is used by the teacher and all mice are linked to this computer through the hub. This gives students, who have a logon, access to software etc.
May 28th…
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Added by Anne Mirtschin on May 28, 2009 at 10:00pm —
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