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1. Grampians eLearning Forum November 26th2007 Cara McCarthy mccarthy.cara.v@edumail.vic.gov.au DigiLearn @

2. Digilearn: What is it? • Over 2000 quality assured multimedia objects and 3000 digital resources • Provided free to Government school teachers 24/7 • Free to students while they are on school intranets (not available for students from home)

3. Victorian Government Schools can freely access TLF resources & objects at digilearnhttps://www.eduweb.vic.gov.au/dlr/Pages/default.aspx The Le@rning Federation http://www.thelearningfederation.edu.au/tlf2/ Find & Explore: Showcases,Catalogues; Help; What are the TLF objects? What are the TLF resources?

4. How can I access the TLF Digital Objects and Digital Resources? • Go to the Digilearnpage. You will need to login using your edumail (TO number) login and password. • Select search • Click on the title of the learning object or resource you want.You will be given an address in an orange box. COPY and PASTE this address into the browser • Alternatively you can Download the resource/object by adding it to Cart below (does not cost)

5. Ways to find what you’re looking for on Digilearn • Searching (different ways) • Catalogues • Showcases (on TLF webpage-use title as search term) • Download Cart (zipped objects)- to unzip: right mouse click-extract to folder

6. STUDENT Access (one possibility) Put address on Word document on network Students will need to CUT AND PASTE THE ADDRESS INTO THE BROWSER – don’t make it a link - http://www.eduweb.vic.gov.au/dlrcontent/4c383637/index.html What are some of the other possibilities?

7. Ideas/ Support for teachers • Help menu • Showcases • Teaching ideas How schools give students access • Add addresses of objects to Favourites • Give students address on Word document saved on intranet • Put address on your intranet for students to access

8. Using digital content effectively: • digilearn showcases onhttp://epotential.education.vic.gov.au/showcase/ IWBs + digital objects & resources What’s New? http://www.thelearningfederation.edu.au/tlf2/showMe.asp?nodeID=242

9. Activity Locate one or a set of objects that would be useful in your context. Identify it/them and make a comment about how you would use it/them in the wiki at Use DIGILEARN or the catalogues on the TLF site (or the DVD if no internet) (Websites linked on wikihttp://ballarat-digilearn2007.wikispaces.com/)

10. Evaluating Digital Material …encourages thinking about place value and provides opportunities for mental addition and subtraction. The number line and counting frame help students to visualise the problem and helps them (check their thinking) …

11. TLF (digital) learning objects enable … • active and critical learning • decision-making • experiential learning • experimentation • visualisation • game formats • investigation and inquiry • modelling • problem-solving • research • simulation

12. Maths VELS level 4 & 5 See MAV website for Ian Lowe’s differentiated units for yrs 5,6,7 & 8 Circle 0 From US- The National Library of Virtual Manipulatives

13. Local learning ……… Stephen Heppell talks about now as a ‘learning age’ where we need to ‘build recipes locally to reach a target, using what we know works locally.’ Howcan we adapt digital material to our local educational purposes? How can TLF digital material be integrated into locally effectivelearning sequences?

14. tlf material as entry point Yr 5 ...all I wanted the kids to be able to do was to say "How do you look after an area - how do you look after the environment? What steps do you take?" I used Old Bernie's Story first to contextualise it - put it up on a data projector like this, sat (the kids) down...Old Bernie talked about his pond and...how there used to be birds here and how there were lots of trees, and these days, it's not looking like it used to. (This) led on to (discussions about) how to fix up Old Bernie's Pond, which was another learning object. In their groups (because kids were in groups to develop their ad campaign) they had to look at three areas, and I just made one of them environmental. So to promote their areas, they'd have to look at an environmental idea. And this...learning object did it, because they could go and fix up Old Bernie's Pond by taking things out - I think one of them was removing Carp from it, putting signs on drains...they'd just click...and the work would happen and the pond would be fixed up and gradually the pond would get better and better. https://www.learningplace.com.au/deliver/content.asp?pid=22456 Accessed 25th November, 2007

15. Digital Resources • moving image footage • documents • photos • maps • posters • line drawings • audio files of songs, speeches, broadcasts Photo Album Builder http://www.thelearningfederation.edu.au/tlf2/showMe.asp?nodeID=1281#groups

16. Digital Resources –where they come from Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa  Australian Children’s Television Foundation National Film and Sound Archive  National Archives of Australia  National Library of Australia  National Trust of Australia (WA) Powerhouse Museum  Art Gallery of South Australia History Trust of South Australia John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library  CSIRO Entomology Private collections Australian Screen Online

17. Rich learning experiences: What could you do with this? Making a difference: Vincent Lingiari D:\DVD\los\L5208\index.html Explore perspectives on Australia’s Indigenous heritage through photos and text about Vincent Lingiari. Trace his story, including the leadership of the Wave Hill walk-off and the struggle for land rights. Consider the hardship endured by Indigenous peoples living on Wave Hill cattle station. Investigate barriers Lingiari faced and how people reacted to his activities. Look at the response of the Australian Government to his campaign. Describe how he increased understanding about land rights for Indigenous Australians. This learning object is one in a series of ten objects. …….. LO ID L5208 Area Studiesof Society and Environment Year 9,10

18. + a film clip • Blood Brothers - From Little Things Big Things Grow: Wave Hill walkout R7436 • This clip shows singer-songwriters Kev Carmody and Paul Kelly discussing the background to their song 'From little things big things grow', which tells the story of the Wave Hill walkout, a strike by Gurindji stockmen that lasted for eight years and resulted in the first successful land rights claim in Australia. • The education notes for this clip will be published by TLF in August, 2007. The notes can also be viewed on http://australianscreen.com.au/titles/blood-brothers-little-things/clip2/

19. Activity Locate and look at: • Object L5208 • Resource R7436 • Resource image of GoughWhitlam and Vincent Lingiari 4. At least ONE other object or resource you could use with these (Work with a partner) HOW would you use these in a recipe? What would you cook? What learning target would you reachfor?

20. ‘Digital content has the potential to allow learners to tinker with scenarios making it easier to grasp complex concepts and transfer understandings to practical problems.’ TLF is an initiative of the state, territory and federal governments of Australia and New Zealand.

21. To change school practice, curriculum goals and materials, assessment policies, and teacher development must shift. Without these changes, a new technology will merely be used to enact traditional practices. Martha Stone Wiske: ‘A new culture of teaching for the 21st Century’ http://learnweb.harvard.edu/ent/library/teaching_culture_article.pdf

22. Curriculum Planning Advice A MODEL OF LEARNING Putting the learner at the centre of what we do in classroom (and how we do it) Vels Principles of Learning and Teaching Assessment for, of, as learning Image from “Closing the Loop” http://www.eduweb.vic.gov.au/edulibrary/public/teachlearn/student/closing_the_loop.pdf

23. VELS and ICT ICT is interwoven across all domains

24. DLRs at a glance.. Ideas to support VELS across domains

25. Ultranet – intuitive and supportive • Resources delivered into teachers’ curriculum planning spaces • Curriculum delivered easily to students • Support collaboration and sharing • Support administrative tasks – no double up –can locate people easily • Saves time and effort • Students interact and reflect online about their learning • Less teacher effort but more teacher skill