Learning & Teaching - Innovative
The Learning & Teaching Key Area refers to the ability to integrate ICT into your learning and teaching - Powerful learning enabled by ICT.
This Key Area has particular reference to the Interdisciplinary Strand ICT within VELS.
At the Innovative Level you are modelling and supporting the use of ICT to enable powerful learning.
To help you reach your ePotential…….why not...
- Present opportunities for your students to develop effective problem solving, collaboration and communication skills. Facilitate exchanges of student ideas via the Internet by using email, online threaded discussion groups, wikis and educational blogs and encourage collaboration trhough web 2.0 tools or international information exchanges - Connect Web 2.0.
- Involve your students in solving a problem using ICT or creating an information product, or using ICT for communicating, investigating and building knowledge. You could use data processing and logging software or Internet-based projects such using Web 2.0 and research tasks. Your students could access experts via email, online threaded discussions or through web-camera enabled video conferencing.
- Work with your students to manage their files into folders in an appropriate space on your school network, enabling them to efficiently retrieve files when needed and to record evidence of their learning into dynamic and evolving digital portfolios.
Professional Development Programs
- Learning Web2.0
- AdvenTURE Calendar
- Microsoft Lesson Plans For Students and Educators
- Using Flip Cameras For Peer Assessment in Physical Education
- Interactive Whiteboards at Baranduda PS
- Stephen Heppell - Teaching in the Online World
- inspirEd
- Matrix helps students weigh internet research
- Apple DVDs - iLife and iWork
- The Redback Project
Teacher Work Samples
- Visual Literacy Contract
- Ascot Vale Primary School Multimedia Festival
- Using Writely to Moderate VELS Assessment Maps
- Red Earth Koalas Visit the UK
- Globalisation Webquest
- Subject Sampler: World War One
- Bolshevik October Interactive Task
- Going, Going, Gone
- Growing Pains – Do they Hurt?
- Destination Australia
- Getting to Know You
- Great Wall of China
- Digital Portfolios
- German School Film Festival
- Atmospheric Chemistry
- The Adventures of Ebenezer Q Emu
- India - Past, Present and Future
- Amazing Students Investigating Asia
- Asia Education Foundation Australia: Online Resources
- The Region and the River
- Franklin River
- Evaluating Advertising Webpages
- Sample Classroom Blog: Room 20 @ WPS
- Using Video for Skills Analysis
- Analysing Weather Patterns
- Tag Galaxy
- Play Against All Odds
- Tobacco - A Case for Action
- Under Age Drinking: Rating the risk
Student Work Samples
- Virtual Reality - 3D Model
- React Film Festival
- Top Screen VCE Season of Excellence
- Student Reflective Learning Blogs
- Powerful Student Investigation Using ICT
- iPod Reflections
- Water Saving Advertisements
- Virtues Movie
- Claymation Samples
- Student Digital Storytelling
- Eltham College E-Zine
- Assembly Broadcast
- Student Podcasts
- Digestive System Movie
- Gamemaking
- Grade 5 Gamemaking
- Grade 6 Gamemaking
- Student Design Using Sketchup
- Wikis in Australian History
- Podcasting History
- Using iPods and Podcasting
- Podcasting and Interviewing
- X Factor FM
- Morphing
- Rationale: Aristotle
- Erwin and Trevor's Online Classroom
- Inside Class 5AR
- Blogging - The World According to J9
- Podcasts about Minibeasts
- PhotoStories by Grade Prep/One/Two Students at Coral Park Primary School
- Animation for Learning in a Year 7 Science Class
Getting Started
- ICT and the Prep Classroom
- Blogging Basics
- WebQuest Basics
- Wikis
- Open Source Gamemaking Software
- Making Mobile Phone Movies - A How-To Guide
- Protopage
- Podcasting- Who, What, When, Where, and How.
- Learning a Language With Podcasting
- Smart Board: Tips and Tricks
- Getting Started with Edublogs
- Wikis in Plain English: TeacherTube
- Online Learning Activities
- Google Docs in Plain English
- Podcasting in Plain English
- Online Mindmapping Tools
- Online Animation
- Smart Copying Resources
- More Ideas for Interactive Whiteboards
- Podcards
- For Sale! Part 2: StoryBoard Pro
- For Sale! Part 3: Movie Editing
- Podcast Poem: Garageband - Mac
- Tour My School: Photo Movie
- Tabs on Time: Google Calendar
- What does sound look like? Audacity Project
- Longitude & Latitude: Google Earth
- Australian Screen Online - DIY Doco
- Apple Media Series
- Importing Footage into iMovie08 or iMovieHD
- Online Diabetes Map
Professional Learning Resources
- Student Centred Classrooms
- Tom March - WebQuests, Podcasts, Wikis
- Wikipedia
- All About Blogs
- Hotlist of Technology Tools
- Education Podcast Network
- Using Writley in Literacy Blocks
- Web 2.0 In Education
- Stop Motion Freeware
- Flash Freeware
- Learning with Handheld Technology
- Bamzooki
- FreeMind
- Simply Science
- Netvibes
- Mobile Sign
- Running with Nike
- Clipmarks
- Rationale
- Connect Web 2.0 Competition
- Digital students @ Analogue schools: TeacherTube
- Claymation - Jimmy Edson
- Planning-eLearning Strategies
- Tech Learning - Bloom's Taxonomy Blooms Digitally
- Visual Thinking Software
- Technology Guide For Parents
- Dingo Creek
- Mark Pesce - Those Wacky Kids
- Horizon Report - 2008 Australia - New Zealand Edition
- WIkiEducator
- Murder Under the Microscope
Digital Stories and Case Studies
- Robotics in the Classroom
- Digital Microscopes
- Robocup
- Interactive Whiteboards in the Classroom
- Data Logging at Princess Hill Secondary College
- Peer Teaching
- TV and Radio Station at Silverton Primary School
- Gaming at Taylors Lakes Secondary College
- Podcasting at Wanganui Park
- Digital Resources at Kensington Primary School
- Animation Techniques
- Mind Mapping Lesson - Video
- Rangeview Primary School - Community Engagement
- Youthcentral DoE - Digital Storytelling
- Student Led PD
- Webquests - The Journey
- Global Classrooms at Bayswater
- Virtually Farming Pilot Project
- Bee-Bots at Ascot Vale Primary School
- Mac Books at Moreland Primary School
- New technologies at Moreland Primary School
- Broadmeadows Innovation and Learning Lab
- Mobile Phones and Learning in Secondary Schools
- ICT in Grade Prep at Moreland Primary School
