CMIS Evaluation Technology Focus

Thanks to Jane Hart [ @c4lpt ]

Read the original blog post here

Congratulations to Paul Fuller who has been recognised for excellence in the national NEiTA 2009 ASG Inspirational Teaching Awards

The following information about Paul is taken from the
NEiTA Awardee profile document.

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 the Educating 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:

The CMIS Podcasts in the Classroom page provides background information and support materials useful to teachers new to podcasting.

Mashup Australia

Our Mashies post from 14th October alerted readers to the The Government 2.0 TaskforceMashupAustralia competition.

Many of the entries are suited to educational use  including:

• Historic Australia – Interactive photos

  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.

• Mildenhall’s Cloud

  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.

• Fridgemate

  Fridgemate is a customisable directory of the public services closest to your address.

The MashupAustralia Contest is open for entries until 4PM Friday, 13th November 2009.

Live & Online!! National Youth Conversation

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.

Students need to register in order to participate. Check out the registration details here

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.

To download the promotional flyer, click here.