Designing, creating and connecting Online resources Ruth Mason Sydney Region ICT Coordinators meeting

Designing, creating and connectingOnline resources

Ruth Mason

Sydney Region ICT Coordinators meeting

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In designing challenging educational opportunities, we should raise the

floor, remove the walls, and eliminate the ceiling on learning.

(E. Jena Gubbins)


Resources to investigate……

Competitions

• Connected Learning Awards

• Murder under the microscope

Programs for professional development in ICT

• CLAS - Connected Learning Advisory Service (see My Applications in DET Staff portal)

• Intel Teach Program

o Essentials Course

o Thinking with Technology Course

New look TaLe

Projects

Internet projects for students:

• The Adventures of Ebenezer Q Emu

• Through My Window


Connecting in 2008

Competitions you may wish to include in your planning:

Connected Learning Awards

• Web Design Awards• Greeting Card Design Awards• Learning Resource Awards • Digital Story Awards New• Digital Art Awards New• Short Film Awards New

Murder Under the Microscope


Web Design AwardsThese awards encourage students K-12 to utilise their web design skills, their ability to collaborate and work within a team to create a website based on a specified theme. The theme for The Web Design Awards for 2008 is Earth.

These awards encourage students to undertake the following:

Think Plan Create Submit

• analyse the elements of an effective website

• analyse different purposes and design methods

• brainstorm the theme

• explore possible website designs

• register for the competition

• decide on the topic for the website

• allocate team roles and responsibilities

• decide on timeframe to ensure the website is ready to upload on time

• work in teams to design the website

• review website content, ensuring that all competition requirements have been met

• upload website to competition server using the username and password which was sent after registering


Greeting Card Design AwardsThis is a simple and engaging project for students from Kindergarten to Year 12.

Using a template, students create a design that communicates a message of goodwill, harmony and celebration that would be appreciated by all community members.



• look at examples of greeting cards

• analyse different purposes and methods of presentation

• analyse the elements of design used

• decide on a theme for the greeting card

• explore possible materials to be used

• explore possible formats

• work individually or in teams to design a greeting card using the template provided

• submit the greeting card using the submit form on the 2007 Greeting Card Design website


Learning Resource Awards

These awards provide K-12 students with an opportunity to use a variety of technologies to create a learning resource or learning object based on a concept drawn from a relevant syllabus area.



• look at examples of learning resources


• consider possible topics

• decide on the syllabus concept to be taught

• decide on the audience for the learning resource


• work individually or in teams to design a learning resource

• submit the learning resource using the submit form on the 2007 Learning Resource Awards website


Digital Story Awards new in 2008

These awards encourage students K-12 to review the basic principles of storytelling, create storyboards, capture images with digital cameras or scanners, write stories, and post their stories on the Internet.



• look at examples of digital stories


• consider possible topics

• decide on the topic

• decide on the audience for the digital story

• develop the storyboards and scripts

• work individually or in teams to design a digital story

• submit the story with accompanying Design Statement using the submit form on the 2008 Digital Story Awards website


Short Film Awards new in 2008

These awards encourage students to develop an understanding of the film medium and how it can be used for different purposes.

Students will work in small teams to create a short film of a maximum size 10Mb, using the digital technologies available to them.


Planning Pre – production Production Post –

production

• look at the different types of short films

• analyse the different purposes and methods of presentation

• develop the storyboards and scripts

• work in small teams to rehearse, shoot and edit the footage to create a short film using the digital technologies available to them

• the film along with an accompanying Creative Statement will be uploaded to the website .


Digital Art Awards new in 2008For these awards students K-12 are encouraged to use their developing ICT skills to create an original digital artwork. This work can be digital painting, photo manipulation, fractal, digital collage, digital montage or mixed media and digital photography.

For the 2008 Digital Art Awards students are asked to submit their digital art on the theme Portraiture.



• look at the different types of digital art

• analyse the different purposes and methods of presentation

• decide on a theme for the artwork

• explore possible materials to be used


• work individually or in small teams to design a digital artwork using the digital technologies available to them

• the artwork along with an accompanying Artist Statement to the Digital Story Awards website .


Connected Learning

http://cliwww.det.nsw.edu.au/cli/index.shtm


Connected Learning Awards 2008

The CLI intranet also accessed via “My websites” on the DET portal


Murder Under the Microscope K-12

• a live online environmental game for school students in years 5 to 10

• students take on the role of investigators to solve the crime in a given period of time

• students use the web site for clues, videos and information while researching various possible crime sites, villains and victims

• project is designed to support DET syllabuses with literacy, numeracy and ICT cross curriculum content


Murder Under the Microscope K-12

• from April 28, the 2008 Catchment Headquarters web site will be live. In the weeks that follow, clues will be uncovered.

• the possible crime sites, victims and villains are all based on real examples

• the scenario and crime make up the game.

http://www.microscope.edu.au/

Also accessible through TaLe www.tale.edu.au


Programs for professional development in ICT

• Intel Teach Program

o Thinking with Technology Course o Essentials Online Course o Details on the CLI intranet

• CLAS Schools (Connected Learning Advisory Service)

o designed to help teachers evaluate the integration of ICT in their teaching practice

o Accessed through ‘My Applications’ on DET Staff Portal


Intel® Teach Program Thinking with TechnologyThe Intel® Teach Thinking with Technology Course

• offers teachers with intermediate-level technology integration skills (Intel® Teach Essentials Course or equivalent competency) an opportunity to enhance these skills and promote higher-order thinking

• a modular course providing face-to-face, hands-on experiences with online thinking tools which engage students and help them to communicate their understanding of complex concepts.

• each tool features an online workspace where students create and save visual representations of their thinking:


Intel® Teach Program Thinking with TechnologyTools

Visual Ranking Tool

Identify and refine criteria for assigning ranking to a list; and then debate differences, reach consensus, and organise ideas.

Seeing Reason Tool

Investigate relationships in complex systems, creating maps that communicate understanding.

Showing Evidence Tool

Construct well-reasoned arguments that are supported by evidence, using a visual framework.


Intel® Teach Program Essentials Online CourseA professional learning program which:

• promotes the effective use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)

• trains teachers K-12 on how, when and where to incorporate technology tools and resources into lesson plans, including Web 2.0 technologies

• is a new version of the Intel Teach Essentials Course, combining both face-to-face and online elements

• is conducted over two days face to face, followed by 24 hours online for Master trainers and 22 hours online for participant teachers.


CLAS (Connected Learning Advisory Service)

CLAS helps teachers make the most of information and communication technologies (ICT) in their classrooms


CLAS

• has two main parts:

o the Using ICT Framework

o online self-assessment tool (MyMap) help teachers evaluate how they use ICT for teaching and learning

• allows teachers to create their own log of evidence of ICT capability and identify aspects of their practice for further development

• contains learning pathways which provide links to:

o examples of what other teachers are doing

o online resources

o professional learning activities to help teachers explore new strategies for use with their students.

• accessed through ‘My Applications’ on DET Staff Portal


TaLe – new look

www.tale.edu.au


CLI resources - example


Project – The Adventures of Ebenezer Q. Emu

http://www.cli.nsw.edu.au/ebenezer/

Also accessed through TaLe www.tale.edu.au


Ebenezer Q. Emu

Think Write Click Make

• Teachers and students jointly decide on the adventure that Ebenezer has and tasks he is required to complete.

• Explore and create visual and written texts that have Ebenezer as the central character. It will be the students’ responsibility to document and explain Ebenezer’s adventure.

• Compose and take six digital photos to illustrate the written text.

• Use the Story Maker Wizard to create a digital story. Submit the story for publishing on Ebenezer’s website.

The Adventures of Ebenezer Q. Emu is a simple and engaging activity designed to encourage students in Early Stage One and Stage One to talk, listen, read and write for different purposes.

This project encourages students to do the following:


Sample – Ebenezer the Princess


Sample – Ebenezer’s letter to Santa


Ebenezer Q Emu library


Through My Window

Students look through a window, write a short description of the view, email it to the site coordinator to post on the website, and create a picture of another school's description and email it

to the school. • a simple and engaging email activity

• allows students to communicate about their world through words and images

• an excellent way to contact other schools

Documents

Designing, creating and connecting Online resources Ruth Mason Sydney Region ICT Coordinators meeting