Conference: Connecting Innovators – 2009 Innovation Showcase – 15 May 2009
Connecting Innovators: 2009 Innovation Showcase Online
15 May 2009 – six online sessions
If you missed out on attending the ‘Tell Me’ sessions at the Innovation Showcase. You can listen to the recordings here:
Anne Mirtschin - Flat Classroom Walls: click here to listen to the recording
Anne Mirtschin is an award winning, experienced teacher at a small rural school in country Victoria. Her interest in project based learning in virtual classrooms has led to outstanding results for her students and a true understanding of the potential of the global classroom. Hear Anne’s ‘Tell Me’ presentation about how Hawkesdale P12 College works outside the classroom walls through projects like flatclassroom.
Silverton Primary School - 21st Century Classrooms: click here to listen to the recording
Silverton Primary School demonstrates an outstanding use of its flexible learning spaces with a pedagogy that focuses on Discovery, Authentic and Inquiry approaches to learning. ICT is deeply embedded in the delivery of the curriculum. Over 500 visitors from overseas, interstate and local schools visited the school in the past six months alone and left amazed at what is achievable with the right philosophy and environment.
Ajax McKerral - Ping Online Music Education Project: click here to listen to the recording
The Ping online music education project uses a blended learning model. Using a blog as the central hub and online video conferences, students learn about music with Melbourne Symphony Orchestra musicians. There’s a Song Room teaching artist in the classroom to assist students and teachers create compositions using samples recorded by MSO musicians. Students share their compositions on the blog. Learn how to bring the music masters to your classroom.
Wimmera Virtual School - Blended Curriculum Provision: click here to listen to the recording
Wimmera Virtual Schools (WVS) Eleven Wimmera Government schools have launched a new era of curriculum provision delivering Physics, Psychology, Mathematical Methods, Chemistry and Physical Education via newly installed video conferencing infrastructure. WVS is one component of a pilot about rural curriculum provision across Loddon Campaspe and Grampians regions. This innovative Blended Curriculum Provision model includes face to face instruction, digitised (recorded) audio and video instructional material, video conference lessons, special purpose podcasts and vodcasts, an Online Learning Management System using the Moodle software package for 24/7 access, and personal conferencing technologies. A key feature of the success so far of WVS is its collaborative protocol, and focus on building the capacity of students and teachers to embrace the new technology. An extension of the project is exploration of the blended provision across the P – 10 years.
Jarrod Robinson - Rethinking Homework: click here to listen to the recording
Jarrod Robinson is a Physical Education & Outdoor Education teacher at Boort Secondary College, a small country school 100km for Bendigo. He delights in keeping his students active while blending ICT use across his subject areas to engage and improve learning outcomes. Imagine your students carrying around their homework and due date in their pockets 24/7… too good to be true? This session will focus on how the tired old process of homework can be refurbished and repackaged for the 21st century. It takes account of the fact that most students are already carrying truly extraordinary computers in their pockets in the form of mobile phones. Jarrod has a vast repertoire of teaching and learning uses for mobile phones and other hand held devices.
John Doherty, Clete Page and David Roycroft – The Wider Workforce: click here to listen to the recording
John Doherty, Clete Paige and David Roycroft are principals who have taken innovative approaches to staffing in their schools. The workforce reform agenda is about attracting, recruiting and supporting the right people to do their jobs as effectively as possible in schools. One of the key initiatives of the Blueprint is to trial innovative approaches to work organization and explore models for teachers to work with other professionals. The drive to improve the workforce in schools and early childhood services, reduce teacher workload and improve student outcomes provides opportunities for schools to explore models for teachers to work with other professionals in schools. These principals already have models to share with others.
What’s it about:
The Innovation Showcase brought together education innovators from all over Victoria to share their amazing practice. This year, for the first time, six outstanding sessions from the Showcase were offered simultaneously online. The event also enabled people to connect up to an active community of innovators in the Showcase Ning to keep you up to date throughout 2009 with Connecting Innovators - a series of online events, facilitated and open conversations, collaboration stories, and networks focused on education innovation.
Connecting Innovators Series – after May 15: After the Showcase we will be offering a series of facilitated online conversations, innovation stories, and collaboration activities, organised in the Showcase Ning.
For more information please contact knowledgebank@edumail.vic.gov.au or innovation@edumail.vic.gov.au or visit knowledgebank.globalteacher.org.au.