Friday, December 18, 2009
Blogging 101
Dipping our toes in the online world…
or diving headlong into the ocean of online reflection and communication
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Breakout 7
Spotlight - Leading with ICT as a change agent (Niki Davis)
- We are change agents in a global arena
- We work in interconnected ecosystems
- We (teachers) are the keystone species
1. An ecosystem occurs anywhere there is interaction between organisms and their environment (e.g. classroom)
2. Individuals select behaviour to fit the ecosystem
3. Ecosystems interlink
4. Ecozone is a group of similar ecosystems
5. Keystone species in education is the teacher.
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Sorry, had to give up on this one as the net access was so awful! :(
- We are change agents in a global arena
- We work in interconnected ecosystems
- We (teachers) are the keystone species
1. An ecosystem occurs anywhere there is interaction between organisms and their environment (e.g. classroom)
2. Individuals select behaviour to fit the ecosystem
3. Ecosystems interlink
4. Ecozone is a group of similar ecosystems
5. Keystone species in education is the teacher.
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Sorry, had to give up on this one as the net access was so awful! :(
Breakout 6
Developing community capacity through the use of ICT
Dimboola Memorial Secondary College
- Rural serving, small student popn. (205)
- Motto = Facta non verba (Deeds not words)
- Think... What is the community?
- Silverton Primary - offer radio and TV programmes to local community (45min radio broadcast in morning - notices, interviews etc; 3km radius)
- Netbooks: students pay $200/yr for 3 years, then $1 at end to complete purchase of unit)
- seeing opportunities and seeing the potential of those opportunities
- students developing websites for local small businesses
- VCAL Inc: non-academic students work on 5 areas/projects which they have developed themselves (building & construction, car restoration, catering, community gardens, community gymnasium) - developed full business plans, applied for funding (from the 'bank mgr' principal), sold their services/products to the local/wider community.
Student presented results/learning outcomes at the parent information evening - normal attendance was ~55%. When students presented, attendance was 98%. Outcomes related to VCAL qualification (VCAA)
School has run an ICT conference in the school during school time ('living school')
School data has improved significantly (satisfaction surveys, attendance data, suspensions etc)
Best way to gain suport is to give it!
Dimboola Memorial Secondary College
- Rural serving, small student popn. (205)
- Motto = Facta non verba (Deeds not words)
- Think... What is the community?
- Silverton Primary - offer radio and TV programmes to local community (45min radio broadcast in morning - notices, interviews etc; 3km radius)
- Netbooks: students pay $200/yr for 3 years, then $1 at end to complete purchase of unit)
- seeing opportunities and seeing the potential of those opportunities
- students developing websites for local small businesses
- VCAL Inc: non-academic students work on 5 areas/projects which they have developed themselves (building & construction, car restoration, catering, community gardens, community gymnasium) - developed full business plans, applied for funding (from the 'bank mgr' principal), sold their services/products to the local/wider community.
Student presented results/learning outcomes at the parent information evening - normal attendance was ~55%. When students presented, attendance was 98%. Outcomes related to VCAL qualification (VCAA)
School has run an ICT conference in the school during school time ('living school')
School data has improved significantly (satisfaction surveys, attendance data, suspensions etc)
Best way to gain suport is to give it!
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Breakout 4
Open Source School
Read "Catching the knowledge wave"
Slides available at theopensourceschool.blogspot.com
The school vision informs ALL aspects of the school.
Education is ALL about freely sharing information.
Timetabling is very simple - 3x100min lessons, 1 day a week is student Impact Project time - must make impact on their learning, an on the wider community.
Some open source tools being used:
Read "Catching the knowledge wave"
Slides available at theopensourceschool.blogspot.com
The school vision informs ALL aspects of the school.
Education is ALL about freely sharing information.
Timetabling is very simple - 3x100min lessons, 1 day a week is student Impact Project time - must make impact on their learning, an on the wider community.
Some open source tools being used:
- Ubuntu
- Open Office
- Gamemaker
- KDenlive; Pitivi (video editing)
- Inkscape
- Gimp (and Gimpshop (?)
- Freemind
- Scribus
- Blender 3D
- Lilypond (music)
- Audacity
- Geogebra
- Kanatest (Japanese language tool)
- Anki (flash cards)
- Moodle (moodleinschools.org.nz)
- Mahara
- Drupal
- Koha (library mgmt system) (capable of hosted for $25/mth)
- living textbooks (YouTube, OER etc)
- OERNZ (featuring Kaltura)
- Linux Phones (HTC Magic running Android OS)
- m-learning
- Xibo (digital notices etc)
- Plumi/Plone (YouTube style video sharing)
- Arduinos and Mindkits.co.nz
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