Escalate – 10 June 2008
Case Studies of e-learning in
St. Mary’s University College
Case Studies
Frank Hennessey – Experience of using a VLE (Queens Online) with students
Gerry Trainor – Students creating their own courses on a VLE (LearningNI)
Ivor Hickey – E-Learning in Science Education
LearningNI
LearningNI is the official MLE for the Educational Community in N. Ireland
https://learningni.net/ Secure site - Username
and Password required All student teachers given
Teacher permissions on site
Features of LearningNI
Library – contains lesson plans organised by Key Stage and Subject
Net Work – access to commercial educational materials
News – regularly updated news stories and Primary/Secondary activities
Managed Learning Environment - users may join or create online courses
Library
News
Net Work
Courses
News
News Stories written for school children
Updated regularlyPrimary School
ActivitiesSecondary School
Activities
Net Work
Access to Educational websites containing teaching resources such as Encarta Pathe News
Archive Audio Network
Library
Lesson Plans, worksheets and electronic resources organised by Key Stage and Subject
My Courses
Courses on which you have enrolled are listed here.
Click on All Courses to see all courses to which you have access.
Accreditation Pilot
This year BEd 2 Computing & ICT (Subsidiary) students created courses and applied for LNI Accredited User Status by completing 10 Competencies
The remaining slides show exemplars of what the students had to do to obtain accreditation – these slides are provided with the permission of C2K (Classroom 2000) and replace the examples of actual student work displayed on the day of the Escalate conference.
LNI Accredited User AwardApplication Form
LNI Accredited User AwardApplication Form
Email to: [email protected]
*** PLEASE NOTE ***
The red rectangles in this PowerPoint are there for guidance only and do not need to be replicated in
your application
Applicant Details
Forename
Surname
School/Organisation
Town/City
ELB
Position in School/Org
C2k Username
Peter
O’Gara
Yarm High School
Yarm
WELB
Teacher
pogara234
Competency 1Online discussions (a) Example 1 displaying your contribution to an online discussion
Competency 1Online discussions (b) Example 2 displaying your contribution to an online discussion
Competency 2
LNI online resource used (no screen dump necessary)
1. Button on Gateway
2. Identify Resource
3. How did you use it
4. Comment on its
effectiveness (<80 words)
Network
InfoMapper
To identify rivers used in a collaborative course
InfoMapper allowed pupils to see the areas they
were talking about and to start to explore the
potential of adding hotspots to these with images
and other digital assets. It also allowed the rivers
being used by the partner schools to be
identified and some of the mapping and aerial
photographic features explored. Pupils were also
able to access InfoMapper from home, which
many of them did.
Competency 3My SiteCreate a My Site and show one page from it in front of your Site Menu
Competency 4Create a Group Site (a)Insert a screenshot of the second step of the Group Site wizard, showing the people who can view/edit the site with your name as coordinator
Competency 4Create a Group Site (b)Insert a screenshot of the content of your Group Site
Competency 5Publishing into the LNI library (a)Insert screenshot of metadata 1
Competency 5Publishing into the LNI library (b)Insert screenshot of metadata 2
Competency 6Use My Files to store teaching materialsInsert screenshot of your My Files with a folder open to view content
Competency 7 Create an online course (a) Insert a screenshot of the View Members list from within your course
Competency 7 Create an online course (b) Insert a screenshot of the opening page of your course
Competency 8 Act as a tutor in an online course Screenshot showing evidence of how you have created areas for learner contribution e.g. workspaces, course discussions
Competency 9 Create an online quizInsert a screenshot of the Edit Quiz screen within the course
Competency 10 Use Learner Tracking (a)Insert a screenshot of some aspect of learner tracking which has helped in your teaching
Competency 10 Use Learner Tracking (b)Explain briefly how you used the Learner Tracking (< 80 words)
Learner Tracking allowed the identification of the boys in an online course as having made significantly less progress in the evaluation task. On the basis of this information, I approached that group to discuss with them the reasons for the apparent lack of engagement and will review the task to make it more accessible in the future.