PD+Provision

This page contains information about Professional Development activities conducted for teachers associated with the Wimmera Virtual School.

Sessions Preparation for Virtual Provision - Nov 2009 Digitisation - May 2009 Online Management Systems - March 2009 Student Orientation Day - 2008

Weekly Professional Development Sessions using the online meeting tool - Elluminate - Click here for More The aim of the sessions are to expand the skill base, pedagogical thinking and development of a virtual network of sharing and collaboration for teachers, particularly for those in Rural and Remote areas. At the start of August 09, over 80 educators had registered for the sessions. Sessions are recorded and can be listened to at anytime, anywhere by whomever.

 = Preparation for Virtual Provision - Nov 2009 = Aims: [|Preparation_Program.doc]
 * Prepare students for Blended Delivery Approach, confidence in V/C, online resources.
 * Prepare Teachers to further develop a Blended Approach, online resources, other communication tools. Develop/share skills and strategies.
 * [[image:NZ1.jpg caption="Eddie Reisch from New Zealand via Elluminate."]] || [[image:russell.jpg caption="Russell video conferencing in from Birchip to deliver his session."]] ||
 * [[image:meet1.jpg caption="Teachers and Students meeting"]] || [[image:meet2.jpg]] ||
 * [[image:stud1.jpg caption="Students on Moodle"]] || [[image:stud2.jpg]] ||
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 * [[image:staff1.jpg caption="Teachers discussing possibilities"]] || [[image:sharing.jpg]] ||

 = Digitisation - Blended Learning Provision - May 2009 =

Digitisation of Sight and Sound
Lets develop our capacity to produce Vodcasts/Podcasts - to share them locally, system wide, world wide. Lets develop our capacity to share our desktop, laptop or Interactive-whiteboad (IWB) screen across the internet using Elluminate Live. Number of Participants - 20 Venue - University Ballarat - Horsham Campus

**Session 1** _ Keynote - Andrew Monson - How podcasts and vodcasts can be used to support the classroom.
Andrew Monson, Gary Schultz, John Scott _ Use software to produce podcast - Audacity, Quicktime, Sound Studio, Record Pad.
 * [[image:001.jpg caption="John Scott demonstrating Audacity"]] || [[image:008.jpg caption="Gary Schultz"]] ||
 * [[image:002.jpg caption="The group working on Podcasting"]] || [[image:007.jpg]] ||


 * [[image:004.jpg caption="Andrew assists Jo Day"]] || [[image:003.jpg align="center" caption="The group hard at work."]] ||

**Session 2** _ Continue production of podcast/vodcast. _ Make Instructional Vodcast using Smartboard Recorder or Jing software.
 * [[image:009.jpg]] || [[image:010.jpg caption="Gary showing some of the different tools that can be assist in producing better quality products."]] ||

A Test vodcast by David Staehr - Kaniva College [|Test_Vodcast.mov]

**Session 3** _Elluminate Live - Gary Schultz - participate in an Live Elluminate meeting. _ Get own Elluminate vRoom, invite others within the session to come into their own vRoom.



 Online Management Systems - March 2009

SESSION 1: Carol Skyring, LearnTel – Thinking Visually and Engaging Students: Effectively Using Video Conferencing for Student Learning **Carol Skyring** Founder & CEO, LearnTel Pty Ltd PO Box 307, Lutwyche, AUSTRALIA 4030

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 * Carol Skyring is an experienced educator and videoconference trainer who has been involved with all forms of teleconferencing since 1986. Since 1992, Carol has been involved in the design, application and effective use of videoconferencing. She works with lecturers, teachers, trainers, health workers and management from many government departments and private organisations throughout Australia, New Zealand, USA and Europe. Carol holds a Dip T, Grad Dip Dist Ed, B Ed & M Ed (Research) - her thesis investigated the nature of interaction in educational videoconferencing. She has been published in numerous journals and is a frequent speaker at international conferences, having most recently given papers in seven countries both in person and via videoconference.======

• Colour – try: yellow text on blue; apricot text on black or soft grey background, black on mauve


= SESSION 2: Graeme Oswin, ICT Regional Coordinator – Using Personal Conferencing Technologies =

VICSMART Network Firewalls and their impact on our use of the system.

=== • Command prompt • run cmd • Free trial – 5 minutes limit (just redial for another 5 minutes!) • ***$155 single user licence • Just need IP address at both end points i.e. allows you to talk to all schools with Polycom systems e.g. principal to principal; principal to region; teacher to teacher • (and WebCam e.g. ~$60 or [|http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/digitalcommunication/]Cam Microsoft LifeCam $99.95)** ===

=== • use data projecting to screen to the whole room from your NC/PC • can use to develop relationships with feeder primary schools • value adding e.g. visiting authors – author for the day: engage students from a range of sites • lote provision potential • care with auto answer • free firewall ===

COMMUNICATOR
=== • interacts with our email system • will only work to those with Edumail address, online • green icon, bottom right hand corner • video call • just in time PD (e.g. teacher rings in e.g. Kahootz) • Wiki space PD – classroom to classroom • just place camera on top of monitor • Web sharing • Live meeting – free download: Edumail  support  Communicator  live meeting • 2MB limit Edumail c.f. Communicator (can ‘see’) – can send large files: video call, text chat, audio call • If haven’t got Communicator go to: http://www.edumail.vic.gov.au/cwa • cwa = Communicator Web Access ===

SESSION 3: Larisha Rowney, Hopetoun Secondary College
MOODLE TUTORIAL LINKS – Carol & John: //• TWO MINUTE MOODLES online tutorials// [|http://human.edublogs.org/moodle-tutorials]

• [|www.atomiclearning.co.uk] online tutorials with lots about moodle • http://[|wiki.rscwmsystems.org.uk/index.php/Moodle]//

//• http://[|www.moodle.org]

 STUDENT ORIENTATION DAY Friday 5 December 2008

Feedback Comments from Students.** “I’m more confident with it now. (I know more about) how it’s going to go.” “(I’m) more confident about it than when I first heard about it. (VC) seems better than Distance Ed. It seems heaps better than that.” “We will get to talk to teachers and through Moodle.”



MORE INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND ON THE WIMMERA ICT WIKISPACE - AGQTP Blended Learning Project