Learning & Teaching - Transformative
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 Transformative Level you are using ICT innovatively to engage students in a way that was never possible before, leading to learning new things in new ways.
To help you reach your ePotential…….why not...
- Continuously explore the potential applications of podcasting, Instant Messaging, web cameras and any other multimedia or creation software and hardware in your classroom and share new developments and insights with other staff.
- Design and implement ICT-based classroom activities involving mixed ability, cooperative grouping and open-ended project work which focus on effective communication and collaboration and encourage your students to find and discuss alternative views, acquire expert opinions, share knowledge and express ideas and consider become involved in, or starting your own Web 2.0 projects. Encourage different teams (within the classroom, school-wide and beyond) to collaborate, inquire, interact and integrate prior knowledge with new understandings.
- Model lessons to other staff demonstrating how you routinely embed ICT, focus on thinking skills and identifying links and relationships. Utilise software such as Kidspiration, Inspiration or SmartIdeas to develop student-driven graphic organisers that will assist your students in visualising their thinking, clarifying their thoughts and identifying relationships.
Professional Development Programs
- Microsoft Lesson Plans For Students and Educators
- Learning, Online, NOW!
- 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
- Digital Resources Red Earth Cluster
- Broken World - Outstanding Wiki for Teachers
- Digital Portfolios
- iHistory Project
- Students Marked on Writing in Wikipedia
- Analysing Weather Patterns
Student Work Samples
- Student Podcasts
- Podcast of School Event
- Concord School - Web-based Social and Collaborative Learning
- Gold! William's Story
Getting Started
- Online Learning Activities
- Google Docs in Plain English
- Podcasting in Plain English
- Online Mindmapping Tools
- Online Animation
- Smart Copying Resources
- For Sale! Part 2: StoryBoard Pro
- Tabs on Time: Google Calendar
- Shadows of the Day: Google SketchUp
- Tracking Your Topic: Google Reader
- Apple Media Series
Professional Learning Resources
- Learning in an Online World: National Reports
- eJamming
- Learning with Handheld Technology
- AskVille
- Teacher Tube
- Animoto
- Digital students @ Analogue schools: TeacherTube
- Australian and American Students Collaborate on Environmental Research
- Claymation - Jimmy Edson
- Planning-eLearning Strategies
- Tech Learning - Bloom's Taxonomy Blooms Digitally
- Technology Guide For Parents
- Mark Pesce - Those Wacky Kids
- Horizon Report - 2008 Australia - New Zealand Edition
- Murder Under the Microscope
Digital Stories and Case Studies
- Courage to Care - Video Conferencing
- Internet Based Video Conferencing (no sound)
- Web Site Design for Local Businesses
- Video Conferencing in Far East Gippsland
- Data Logging at Princess Hill Secondary College
- TV and Radio Station at Silverton Primary School
- Gaming at Taylors Lakes Secondary College
- Digital Resources at Kensington Primary School
- Music@Vermont
- Webquests - The Journey
- Global Classrooms at Bayswater
- Mac Books at Moreland Primary School
- New technologies at Moreland Primary School
- Broadmeadows Innovation and Learning Lab
- Mobile Phones and Learning in Secondary Schools
