Connecting Learning

1. Connecting Learning ICTEV conference 2012 @murcha

2. Discussion Points • How do students connect – devices, tools • Access to learning resources • Students with varying abilities • Personalised learning – information required, tools available • Monitoring and reporting progress • Group and individual activities • Professional learning

3. Global Education Rural Education eLearning My Passions!

4. Learning is increasingly at the Grass Roots

5. How do Students Connect? • Students rarely use email • Learn by conversations • Mobile devices • Facebook, txt chat, txt messaging, conversations • Learning spaces are changing – global, virtual

6. How do students connect? PS3

7. The tools chimein

8. Learning Resources MOOC Learning network textbooks The students communities @ Email lists

9. Changing Learning Spaces Changing Learning Spaces

10. Digital

11. Global

12. Lana from Boston, USA, teaches grade 4/5, Hawkesdale, Australia, how to “Scratch’

15. Resultant Sprites for World Friends project on World Museum site

16. From my Inbox…….Oh and I have been getting lots of followers on twitter lately from my tweets , its so exciting :) 

17. Meet my VCE accounting class...

18. 3 virtual students • 1 ESL student (English as a second language) • Year 11 and 12 face to face accounting students taught together in one class Cash Journals

19. Screencasts Creating a Sprite in Scratch from Lorraine Leo

20. Hi Anne Mirtschin,You have 1 pending user suggestion on your topic globaleducation to curate. • Click Here to access to your Suggestions to Review list. • The Scoop.it team • Any questions/suggestions?

23. Students with varying abilities Catering for • gifted students • Students with health disabilities • Students with special interests and passions • Alternative outcomes/resources tailored to students strengths • Mutli-media, transmedia as alternatives to textual outcomes/resources

24. Gifted Students • Virtual Classrooms • One from our school • Two from China • Two from Thailand • One from USA in a virtual classroom, being taught about the eye from an optician in Perth, Australia, using virtual classroom software

25. Mystery Skype

26. Do you teach or have any knowledge of the native wars between the americans, seminoles, iroquois, cherokeeetc, in the times of georgewashington?

27. Thursday lunchtime linkups with schools in Western Java, Indonesia

28. Students interested in writing stories, videoconference with an author from New York Tuesday lunchtimes with skype

29. Illness and disabilities Working from home to create movies - “family life on an Australian farm”. Virtual classrooms can be recorded for those who are ill etc

30. Ability to teach anywhere and any time – 24/7

31. Request from one of my students Could you please make sure you put what I have to do for Monday and Tuesday’s classes on your blog? (She was about to go to hospital!)

32. I was googled! ‘”Miss, can you please give me TRIAL EXAMS for unit 4 vce accounting 2011 and from previous years My classes are big and my teacher isnt that good withrevision so i was wondering. i was wondering if you know any VCE MATH METHODS and ENGLISH  sites like this so i can email teachers if idontundertand or want practise exams.”

33. The virtual classroom! Using Black Board Collaborate - Every student has a voice!

34. 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?

35. .......................more chat! • dont confuse me this tinme • i dont get why you have that 400 on the debit side • i always get confused between debtors and creditors, who do we pay, and who pays us??

37. Customized Learning • Blogs – each student has a blog • Youtube • Mobile devices for 24/7 learning • Choose type of digital outcomes and resources to work with • Self directed learning

38. Skippy

39. Rach’s Blog

40. Year 7 Boy’s Blog

41. ESL students Can you please tell me a summary of the chapter?

42. Word clouds provide great visual summaries – http://www.wordle.net

43. Learning “Slap Guitar playing technique” from youtube whilst using a netbook at home.

44. From home – the 365 Day Photo Challenge 2011

45. Group and Individual activities Global local vertical statewide National horizontal

46. Learning from musicians with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra – Ping Music Project

49. Your English is quite good for the majority of your writing but I have written it now as I would have. However, I was unable to complete your second paragraph because I could not understand what Obachann was. Could you please tell me? Chloe Hi Chloe! I appreciate your kindness. "Obachan" is women whose age are 30-50 and they have warm heart and great energy. Most of them love going to shopping, watching Korean dramas and having a chat in the street. Thanks, Ayaka

50. http://globalstorytelling.wikispaces.com/Featured+student+workhttp://globalstorytelling.wikispaces.com/Featured+student+work