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Virtual Classrooms

Virtual Classrooms. ICTEV In Touch Conference 2011 Anne Mirtschin mirtschin@gmail.com. What if?. ??????????. Students can come to school without leaving home or hospital? Students could ask all those questions they have immediately ?

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Virtual Classrooms

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  1. Virtual Classrooms ICTEV In Touch Conference 2011 Anne Mirtschin mirtschin@gmail.com

  2. What if?

  3. ?????????? • Students can come to school without leaving home or hospital? • Students could ask all those questions they have immediately ? • We could encourage the quietest of students to have ‘a voice’? • We could blend our classrooms vertically and horizontally? • Flip our classrooms? • Enable powerful 24/7 learning?

  4. Who’s that in our Classroom?

  5. Earth Science Week Two guest virtual speakers – one from Hong Kong; one from South Australia using elluminate to present to Years 2 to 12, across schools and countries. Young C Y Ng: Hong Kong GeoPark Ian Lewis

  6. The chat/backChannel Provides • sharing of experience • sharing of opinion • a platform for discussion • an outlet for questions • an opportunity for feedback • Enables peer to peer mentoring

  7. Participants have lots of questions • The quietest students can be the most vocal in chat • Engages students as they can interact actively • Misbehaviour, any bullying is easily identified • Record of achievement, misunderstandings, degree of interaction etc • Leads to deeper understanding of students

  8. From the chat! Kanawinka presentation on local volcanoes and wildlife • Wow • Turtle: sick as • Ha look at that! • Turtle: been here • Grade 2/3 Woodford: Could you tell us more about the sink hole Ian? • Cara hawk: hey bj they probally go through records from when they first evolved

  9. And also.... • Joshua: i like red rock • ihAVE BEEN UP THEIR • we are going there soon • It's pretty :) • do you know where mteccells?? • water looks awesome • Looks good to swim in ;) • wow thats blue, how did it get blue? • do you know where mteccells is?? • How many years ago did the volcano at Mt Gambier erupt? • Theres heaps of thoose rocks in Hawkesdale and Penshurst • James to Turtle: caught a barracuda there

  10. The Bats • Cara hawk: his wing looks like it's going to brake • 4B DGPS: what age do the bats learn to fly? • Billy-Jo Hawk: Did it try to escape from you? • Grade 2/3 Woodford: How many teeth do bats have? • Trevo hawk: what happen to it eye • Cara hawk: how easy is it to brake a bats wing • smithy: arent they posisoness • Grade 2/3 Woodford: What do bats feel like? • jasmine .j: do they hurt • scottinea: are the bats dead or did u catch them alive? • Grade 2/3 Woodford: What do bats eat? • 4B DGPS: are they really blind? • Billy-Jo Hawk: Is there black bats, like full black? • Moderator (Miss Iro, Mrs Gow and year 6/7): do bats carry any diseases • Grade 2/3 Woodford: What sort of fauna and flora live in the sinkholes?

  11. You cannot ask questions of textbooks

  12. Friends of the Earth

  13. All learners in one classroom!

  14. Hong Kong visitors take over the teaching, using the whiteboard whilst presentation is uploading!

  15. Meeting the Minister for FinanceListening to members of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

  16. Asian Connections Taman Burkitt Maluri School, Kuala Lumpur

  17. Say hello

  18. What skills are important to learn?

  19. What symbol best describes your country? The emu

  20. Flatclassroom Project Student SummitGlobal Education Conference

  21. Students from China and Australia share learning and experiences in the one classroom, offering advice to each other etc.

  22. Global Classrooms- School’s in at 9pm! Students from Germany, China and Australia all in the one classroom with their teachers!

  23. Grade 6 student teaches year 10 IT classHalloween

  24. The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

  25. Ping Music Project • Demonstrating instruments • Answering questions • Recording short clips for students to create musical stories

  26. Volunteers in Haiti – earthquake aftermath – volunteers in USA share with Australian students virtually.

  27. Techno Parents Bringing in the Community • Broad representation of staff including Principal • Parents of Preps through to Year 10 • Students, staff, parents all learning in the one room • Share happenings in classroom and school • Darwin teacher linkup • Feedback

  28. Accounting – face to face students and three virtual students Cash Journals

  29. Chat records progress • Moderator (stefan 1): ined to start 10 • Moderator (BCC - James Mutch): agreed • Moderator (BCC - James Mutch): I need to start too.

  30. Peer to peer mentoring • Moderator (BCC – James M): Did you put the opening Balance in?? • Moderator (stefan 1): 19000 • Moderator (stefan 1): sales • Moderator (stefan 1): pl on the botom • Moderator (stefan 1): advertising • Moderator (stefan 1): a loss • Moderator (stefan 1): no wait • Moderator (stefan 1): a loss

  31. Sharing applications

  32. Teaching anywhere/anytime

  33. Virtual Teaching Rounds

  34. Teaching anywhere/anytime!

  35. Walking through elluminate • Chat • Interactive whiteboard • Video • Web tour • Share applications • Polls etc

  36. Impact for Education • Digital Literacy • Globalisation • Anywhere, anytime, anyhow • Peer to peer mentoring and teaching • Students can choose their subjects

  37. Learning is changing • Teacher increasingly becoming a guide and facilitator • Flipped classrooms • Virtual classrooms • Blended classrooms • Vertical classrooms • Little Big classrooms • Global classrooms

  38. Underlying issues/requirements Oh! What a tangled web we weave!

  39. Web conference coaches • Four Web Conference Coaches are now available to provide you with one-on-one support on how to run a web conference using Elluminate. • The Web Conference Coaching Program is free, online and open to: • teachers in Victorian government and non-government schools, • DEECD staff in central and regional offices, and • DEECD strategic partner organisations.

  40. To contact a coach:- • Web Conference Coaching Program • contact the Web Conference Coaches directly to express your interest in the program

  41. Value • Learn anywhere/anytime • Ability to record • Create tutorials • Peer to peer mentoring

  42. Personal learning network

  43. Tech Talk Tuesdays 4:00 to 5:00pm, Melbourne Aus time http://techtalktuesdays.global2.vic.edu.au http://guidetoinnovation.ning.com

  44. eT@lking Wed 8-9pm (Melbourne Aus time): part of the Australia series http://learncentral.org http://www.australiaseries.wordpress.com

  45. Facebook groups egAustraliaseries • classroom20LIVE:- http://live.classroom20.com • Online conferences

  46. Contact Me Anne Mirtschin • mirtschin@gmail.com • Skype: anne.mirtschin • Twitter/plurk id: murcha • Teacher blog: http://murcha.wordpress.com • Class blogs: http://murch.globalteacher.org.au • Delicious and diigo: murcho/murcha

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