eLearning Plan – Teacher targets & strategies.

This week we are going to discuss some of the targets and strategies outlined in our 2009 elearning plan. Tonight we are going to focus on the Curriculum Planning section of our elearning plan with particular emphasis on the  following target practices.

• There is a whole school approach to curriculum planning that integrates the widespread and frequent use of ICT for improved student learning.
• There is explicit integration of ICT across all VELS domains and other curriculum frameworks.

To achieve these targets we have outlined in our elearning plan the following strategies to help us achieve these targets.

• Staff to integrate atleast one dimension of ICT (Visual Thinking, Creating or Communication) into their subjects and assess and report according to VELS in 2009
• PD is provided for staff to investigate how to implement ICT in the VELS domains, with an emphasis on thinking skills and communication.

Here is a link to the ICT concepts and skills charts which you could use to identify areas relevant to areas you are learning this year.

Link to ICT Standards & Progression Points

Intel provides free tools and resources for educators to support collaborative student-centered learning. Online thinking tools are active learning places where students engage in robust discussions, pursue investigations, analyze complex information, and solve problems.

Link to intel thinking tools

Creating a Markbook Database and Rubrics.

At tonight’s meeting we will be looking at how to create a Markbook database that you can use as a tool for creating your class reports, you will need your laptops and examples of your assessment criteria and rubrics that you use for reporting. If you are familiar with how to create markbook databases you may wish to work on completing your PD Journal or evaluate your achievements of your PD plans – setting some possible targets for 2009. You may also like to work on planning a SAGP day.

Performance Development Recording and Journaling.

Tonight we are going to look at the VIT guide to teacher registration and how to meet professional development requirements. We will be focusing on our requirements for recording pd.

Start by updating your PD journal with the PD you have undertaken this year, this can be done on your online journal. The journal entry should include a brief description of the the professional activity and its contribution to your teaching knowledge and practice.

Link to PDI website to help search for PD activities.

http://www.pdi.vic.edu.au/

PD This Year.

Enriching Relationships – Lyn Watts 9/9/08

 

Mathletics  17/7/08

 

Careers in the curriculum -TACTS

Part 1- 14/5/08

Part 2- 21/5/08

Part 3- 28/5/08

 

Restorative Practices Level 1 – 11/4/08

Jane Langley

 

School Noticeboard/PD Diary 9/10/08

 

Elearning Matrix & ePotential Survey

 

VELS Unit Development – using online tool -19/6/08 and 12/6/08

 

POLT Review – 14/5/08 and 8/5/08

 

ICT Goals – 1/5/08

 

Individual Performance Plan development – 13/3/08  6/3/08 28/2/08     21/2/08

 

WordPress Blogging – 7/2/08

eLearning Planning Matrix

Tonight we will look at the elearning planning matrix to evaluate where we are as a College with regard to our use of ICT. Click on the link below to view the elearning planning matrix file. The highlighted areas are where the leadership team believe we are at. This evaluation lines up with the results of our epotential report from last year.

elearning-planning-matrix

Tonight we will do the epotential survey again to evaluate our progress from last year and to help us review our ICT improvement goals outlined in our Performance Development Plans. The information from our ePotential surveys will help us formulate our eLearning plan for 2008-2009.

ICT – Using Google Tools

Tonight you will explore the use of a number of web tools provided by google. Go to the following website and scroll down to week 6 and follow the links to learn about using these online tools.

http://elearning.globalteacher.org.au

ICT Professional Development Sessions

In last weeks session we broke up into groups and focussed on platform specific tools. Staff with macbooks covered the following skills:

 

• Using and modifying the Dock – resizing, hiding, adding & deleting applications from the dock.
• Basic file management.
• Creating stacks in your dock.
• Spaces
• Quicklook
• Expose
• Using system preferences
• My Day in Entourage
• Mail – using the stationary feature to incorporate layout and images in emails.
• Widgets on the dashboard
• Creating web widgets from safari.
• A brief look at comiclife software.
• Using iChat to video conference, using effects, sending files, sharing using iChat theatre and sharing screens.

Last nights sessions covered the following:-

• Setting up smart folders.
• Using ichat to share screens and send files.
• Using iWeb to create a website on your macbook
• How to publish you iWeb site to a folder on your macbook.
• How to share your published iWeb site on the school network with staff and students.

To revise these skills you can visit the apple website and search for tutorials about these skills.

Absence comment for Reports.

In order to be consistent with the way we report our absences on our reports please use the following statement at the beginning of the achievement comment section of the report.

“(Student Name) has attended 20 sessions out of 25 sessions this semester.”

If the students number of absence needs improvement, the above statement can be included in the future learning and improvement section of the report.

VELS Unit Development

Tonight we are going to update the topics that we have covered this semester in each of our classes, using our online curriculum tool. You will need to look through your present subjects and look at the topics outlined in each of them. You need to edit those subjects that need editing and delete any that are not appropriate. Make sure that each of the topics that you cover only outline the VELS standards that you have assessed and reported on in Markbook, delete and domains and dimensions listed that you have not assessed. If there are topics that you have covered that are not listed, please add these to your class.

Here is the link to the online curriculum tool. Curriculum Tool Link.

Link from home.

Unpacking POLT Principle Number 3

In our performance development groups this week we worked together and discussed POLT principle number 3. We used the guiding questions located here to guide our discussions. You may like to comment on some of the points that came out in your discussions by submitting a comment to this post.

Setting ICT goals using ePotential Survey

Visit your epotential survey results continuum by clicking here. Then click on the Login button and use your edumail username and password. Then click on the continuum tab to access your continuum. Explore the areas you need to develop to reach your epotential by clicking on the buttons that are dark green in the continuum. You will be able to view some ICT strategies to adopt to help you develop along the continuum. Record these on the Performance Development Plan. You should have atleast 2 ICT goals on your PD plan.