The theme of the Safer Internet Day 2010 on 9th February encourages students to consider their ‘digital footprint’ and ensure that they protect their online identities.
The K-12 Online Conference invites you to join with educators from around the world to explore how Web 2.0 tools and technologies can be used to improve learning. The FREE conference is run by volunteers and is open to everyone.
During the two weeks, December 7-11 and December 14-17, over fifty presentations will be posted online to the conference blog and conference Ning for participants to view, download, and discuss.
Australian contibutors to the event include Chris Betcher – watch his conference teaser below – and view others on the K-12 Conference ning video page [This link requires you to log in to ning]
The flagship project for Paul and his students is Podkids Australia, the most successful school based podcast in the country. The Podkids Australia podcast provides an authentic worldwide audience for the students’ writing and has subscribers in more than 50 countries. In the podcast, Paul’s students have interviewed the Western Australian Premier, leading authors, federal ministers and famous sportspeople. The students’ work has been downloaded more than 60,000 times.
Paul’s achievements in harnessing new technologies to inspire his students have been internationally recognised. Politicians, educators and administrators from Australia and overseas have flocked to the school to observe Paul’s innovative teaching practices. Representatives from Apple Computers have even visited the small public school and, in 2006, Paul was awarded the status of Apple Distinguished Educator.
Paul gives generously of his time to contribute to the professional development of his teaching colleagues. The following Prezi, on Blogs and Wikis was delivered at the ECAWA State Conference 2009
Paul also maintains theEducating the Digital Generation wiki where you will find a wealth or resources on topics including podcasting, blogs and wikis, Scratch, 1:1 laptop programs and Race Around the World. Paul is an active twitterer.
Want to know more?
Through the Department of Education Portal Western Australian teachers are able to access Teachers have Class! the Department’s FREE online professional learning program to support teachers to integrate ICT into teaching and learning.
Teachers have Class! provides relevant and practical self paced, online, on demand or instructor-led courses focused on technology integration with best practice pedagogies.
As well as Anytime Workshops and Self-Paced Books the following Instructor-led classes are available this year:
Wikis in the Classroom
Nov 18 -
Dec 2
Explore the world of wikis:
plan and create a wiki for use with your students
Using Sound to Stimulate Writing
Nov 25 -
Dec 9
Discover how technology may enrich a linguistic/logic based curriculum:
create an electronic scaffold in PowerPoint that includes music/graphics stimulus
and prompts that motivate students’ creative writing.
Podcasts
in the Classroom
Nov 25 -
Dec 9
Learn how to become both an effective consumer and producer of podcasts.
The CMIS Podcasts in the Classroom page provides background information and support materials useful to teachers new to podcasting.
The Interactive Photos Map is a flickr + google map + wikipedia mashup for Australian War Memorial Photo Collection, Powerhouse Museum Photo Collection, State Library of NSW Photo Collection and State Library of Queensland Photo Collection.
A tag cloud which represents the descriptions of Mildenhall’s photographs as provided by the National Archives of Australia. Each word is sized according to the frequency of occurence in the archive descriptions. Clicking on the tag displays a gallery of related images.
By displaying the information in a cloud as opposed to a tradtional search, the user is able to visualise the contents of the collection without any prior knowledge, making the collection more accessible.
Teachers are encouraged to allow their students to register for and participate in the youTHINK webcast on Thursday November 12th. 10 am – 12 noon in Western Australia.
They can aslo be part of the webcast audience and participate in the live online polls during the event.
Gary Hayes [PersonalizeMedia blog] created this embeddable Flash app which demonstrates how active & dynamic the Social Web is. Watching the numbers scroll ever-upward reinforces the rapid growth and change happening in online social communication.
Use the links for ’social media’, ‘mobile’ and ‘games’ at the top of the application window to view the number of new social media counts recorded since you clicked on the link.
And speaking (or should that be blogging…?) about social media… the CMIS Fiction Focus twitter account @cmisevalff now has over 100 followers? Readers of this blog may like to participate in some simple social networking via two new CMIS twitter accounts: CMIS Primary Focus @cmisevalpf and CMIS Technology Focus @cmisevaltf.
Want to know more ?
The Professional Learning Institute and Leadership Centre is offering a great opportunity for educational leaders to lean more about ‘Effective Leadership through Technology’.
Internationally recognised educators Sheryl-Nussbaum-Beach and Steve Hargadon will be in Perth for a one day event on the 20 November 2009. The day will start with a dual breakfast presentation; Steve Hargadon ‘School 2.0: Where We’re Headed and What to Do About It’ and Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach – ‘Effective School Leadership through Technology: The 21st Century Administrator’. A breakfast presentation will be followed by your choice of workshop with either Steve or Sheryl.
Teams from around the world are participating in the World Solar Challenge
aiming to drive from Darwin to Adelaide using the power of the sun.
This year’s entrants include vehicles from two WA high schools – Willeton and Leeming.
Currently Willeton’s Solar Flair is ranked 10th and Leeming’s Hammerhead is placed 18th overall.
You can follow the Leeming team’s progress on their blog and to find out all about the technical side of their entry.
A great video and information about Willeton’s entry can be found on the 100 People: A world Project website
To be eligible for the Student’s Prize [$2,000 for the best entry] you must be enrolled in a recognised secondary schooling or tertiary institution (e.g. TAFE, Uni) in Australia.
Even if you don’t create an entry yourself drop by the Categories page to check out the entries which currently include:
Victorian Schools Locator
Broadband Locator
Geocoded List of Medicare Locations
Postcode Finder
The MashupAustralia Contest is open for entries until 4PM Friday, 13th November 2009.
We are seeking entries from students or schools to produce design work for an electronic edition of the 2010 Schools calendar. The calendar is extensively used by early childhood, primary, secondary teachers and schoollibrarians across Australia and promoted to over 80,000 educational institutions, ensuring that your design work will be seen by many people!
Get your winning entry in by Monday 30 November 2009 for your chance to win an Adobe Creative Suite 4 Master Collection and a Wacom Intuos 3 design tablet valued at $900, kindly donated by Scholastic Australia.
Further information about the competition can be found in the competition brief.
The Technology Focus Blog, published by Curriculum Materials Information Services, Department of Education and Training, Western Australia is designed to provide news about current events, resources and research about the use of ICT to support learning and teaching.
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