Knowledge Bank Online Events

When: 

Thursday 28th May  3.00 – 4.00pm – Click here to listen to the recording

Where: Online in Elluminate. You don’t need to leave your desk – the program comes to you. 

Stepping Into the Virtual Classroom is a one hour session offering some ways-in to educators who are interested in starting to use Virtual Classrooms in their own teaching and learning settings.  During the session we will show examples of different uses of virtual classrooms including school-led conferences, student focused events, and major conferences.  In each of these we will discuss how the virtual classroom was used, for what purpose, and some of the different facilitation styles and skills used in different sessions.  This will be followed by a facilitated discussion about how you might use this technology in your own classroom or professional setting and the steps you would need to take to do this.

For: This program is for Victorian teachers and educators (government and non-government schools), education policy officers and researchers with some experience of using and/or participating in virtual classrooms who are interested in talking about next-steps.

Who: Carole McCulloch will run the Stepping Into the Virtual Classroom sessions.  Carole is a skilled virtual moderator e-coach and e-mentor who has been involved in education throughout her working life.  Carole has worked as a secondary school teacher, a lecturer and coordinator in TAFE (community colleges), then as an instructional designer, flexible learning manager and senior project officer for TAFE frontiers in Melbourne.  Since 2005 she has worked as an independent e-learning consultant working on national and state based e-learning projects.

Past sessions:

Thursday 23rd  April 3.00 – 4.00pm – Click here to listen to a recording of the session

Thursday 26th February 3.00 – 4.00pm -  Click here to listen to a recording of the session

Thursday 26th March  3.00 – 4.00pm – Click here to listen to a recording of the session

 For more information contact knowledgebank@edumail.vic.gov.au or coachcarole2007@gmail.com

Stepping Into the Virtual Classroom is a one hour session offering some ways-in to educators who are interested in starting to use Virtual Classrooms in their own teaching and learning settings.  During the session we will show examples of different uses of virtual classrooms including school-led conferences, student focused events, and major conferences.  In each of these we will discuss how the virtual classroom was used, for what purpose, and some of the different facilitation styles and skills used in different sessions.  This will be followed by a facilitated discussion about how you might use this technology in your own classroom or professional setting and the steps you would need to take to do this.

For: This program is for Victorian teachers and educators (government and non-government schools), education policy officers and researchers with some experience of using and/or participating in virtual classrooms who are interested in talking about next-steps.

Where: Online in Elluminate. You don’t need to leave your desk – the program comes to you. 

Who: Carole McCulloch will run the Stepping Into the Virtual Classroom sessions.  Carole is a skilled virtual moderator e-coach and e-mentor who has been involved in education throughout her working life.  Carole has worked as a secondary school teacher, a lecturer and coordinator in TAFE (community colleges), then as an instructional designer, flexible learning manager and senior project officer for TAFE frontiers in Melbourne.  Since 2005 she has worked as an independent e-learning consultant working on national and state based e-learning projects.

When: 

Thursday 28th May  3.00 – 4.00pm – Click here to register

Past sessions:

Thursday 23rd  April 3.00 – 4.00pm – Click here to listen to a recording of the session

Thursday 26th February 3.00 – 4.00pm -  Click here to listen to a recording of the session

Thursday 26th March  3.00 – 4.00pm – Click here to listen to a recording of the session

 For more information contact knowledgebank@edumail.vic.gov.au or coachcarole2007@gmail.com

Talk-It Tuesdays are finished for 2008.  We plan to run a new series of Talk-It Tuesdays in 2009 – we’ll let you know when these will be happening.  Thanks to everyone for participating - it’s been to hear what everyone’s up to and share our own observations and learning. 
Have a great Christmas break,
Tamara, Anne, Jess, Kate and Carole – the Talk-It Team.

Talk-It Tuesdays are informal online gatherings for educators interested in using social media, or Web 2.0 tools, in their work.  In 2008 these collaborative sessions took place every second Tuesday and focused on:

• Sharing stories of what we are experimenting with and learning about
• Teaching each other about what we’re finding useful and exciting
• Listening to each other’s experiences
• Connecting people, tools and ideas
• Helping each other sort out problems and get started

Everyone is welcome, the format is open, respectful and flexible, and there is no prerequisite knowledge for attending. You can drop-in for part or all of the session. You are equally welcome if you are the greatest Web 2.0 Whizz ever, or just trying to find out ‘What it’s all about.’ The sessions are loosely facilitated by Anne Mirtschin, Jess McCulloch and Tamara Carpenter.

2008 sessions:

Session 5 - Tuesday 9 December @ 3.30pm – click here to listen to the recording

Session 4 – Tuesday 25 November @ 3.30pm – click here to listen to the recording

Session 3 – Tuesday 11 November @ 3.30pm - click here to listen to the recording

Session 2 – Tuesday 28 October @ 3.30pm – click here to listen to the recording

Session 1 - Tuesday 14 October at 3.30pm - click here to listen to the recording

Talk-It Tuesdays originated from Anne Mirtschin and Jess McCulloch’s ‘Walk-in-Wednesdays’ at Hawkesdale P12 School. Finding that their colleagues were reluctant to continuously bombard these two Web 2.0 enthusiasts with random questions, Anne and Jess set up ‘Walk-in-Wednesdays’ as an open house for anyone to come and talk and learn. It’s been so successful they’ve now had teachers from other schools ask if they could attend – and so we decided to try the concept online as Talk-It Tuesdays.

More information from: knowledgebank@edumail.vic.gov.au  or mirtschin.anne.a@edumail.vic.gov.au

When: Tuesday 18 November at 2pm.

CLICK HERE to listen to a recording of the session.

Who: A panel of speakers including the Golden Inky winning author, two of the young judges, and insideadog.com.au project manager Lili Wilkinson.

Where: Online in Elluminate. This session was recorded. 

For:  Teachers and students in Years 7 to 12.  This event is a great opportunity for teachers to attend with their classes using Interactive Whiteboards. 

This session was recorded.  Click here to listen to the recording.

 This interactive session celebrates the 2008 Inky Awards, Australia’s only teenage choice book award, as run by insideadog.com.au, Centre for Youth Literature, State Library of Victoria.  The session will feature a panel of speakers including the Golden Inky winning author, two of the young judges, and insideadog.com.au project manager Lili Wilkinson.

This session will include an author talk, the results of the Inky’s Creative Reading Prize (won by a teenager for a creative response to a book), and a video from US-based 2007 Silver Inky winner John Green.

For more information contact knowledgebank@edumail.vic.gov.au

When: Wednesday 12 November at 2.30pm.

Who: Stephen Heppell, CEO - Heppell.net, Chair – New Media Environments, Bournemouth University, UK

Where: Online in Elluminate. This session was recorded. Click here to listen to the recording.

Teachers are rapidly evolving their practice in online environments. Online tools, spaces and communities are becoming routine vehicles for teaching and learning and teachers are increasingly sophisticated in their use of them.  But some concerns linger.  How has online technology changed & how will it continue to change the world in which we live and work?  What do these changes mean for the future life and work of our young people?  How do we capture the practice of our frontrunners in the online teaching world and enable all teachers to use it?  What skills do students (and teachers) need in order to be safe in these online worlds?  How do we maintain academic rigour and show that real learning is taking place?  What is 21st century assessment and what can it tell us that we’ve never known before? These and other questions were discussed with Stephen Heppell.

See also:  a  report on the conference, with further links and resources.

When: Wednesday 29 October at 4.00pm.

Where: Online in Elluminate.  This session was recorded.  Click here to listen to the recording.

During 2008 the Murray Valley Cluster has been participating in a Differentiated Numeracy Project.  There are nine schools in the cluster. Read the rest of this entry »

 When:  Monday October 20 – 4 sessions throughout the day 

Where:  Online in Elluminate. 

 

Who:  Teachers from Seabrook Primary School 

 

The Seabrook online conference was held on Monday October 20, 2008 via Elluminate. This is a DEECD Knowledge Bank Online Event. 

 

All sessions were recorded – recording links are listed under session details below.

Seabrook Primary School in partnership with Knowledge Bank Online Events, hosted an online conference on Monday October 20 2008. The four sessions (see details below) throughout the day were conducted online in Elluminate. Seabrook is a P-6 school in the Western Metropolitan Region in Melbourne. Classroom teachers from across the school shared how they are currently using ICT and web 2.0 technologies within the context of authentic learning.

Conference Website: http://seabrookonlineconference.wikispaces.com/

 

 

Session 1: 9.30am

Inquiry Learning - E5 teacher pedagogical practice with Aaron Cain 

 

CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THE RECORDING OF SESSION 1

 

Session 2: 11.00am
Differentiating the Curriculum - putting it into practice with Jackie Mouratidis 

 

CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THE RECORDING OF SESSION 2

 

 

Session 3: 12.30pm
Personalized Learning – what it looks like in the classroom with Jackie Mouratidis

 

CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THE RECORDING OF SESSION 3

 

Session 4: 2pm
e-portfolios - creating online e-portfolios with Nicole Lockwood and Estelle Pizer

CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO A RECORDING OF SESSION 4

 

 

Leadership: Lyn Jobson and Jeanette Finegan Support team: David Trott, Michael Bell, Davin Sleeman, Tony Pace.

For more information email pizer.estelle.s@edumail.vic.gov.au.  

 

  

 

 

 

When: Thursday 16 October at 3.30pm.  Click here to listen to the recording.

Who: Jean-pierre Chabrol, Head of Multimedia, NGV

Where: Online in Elluminate. 

Click here to listen to the recording

Aboriginal artists have transformed the way we see the land and the history of Australian art, but how do we take their work into our schools?  The NGV is about to unveil a project that uses new technologies to communicate concepts of community, collaboration and context in teaching about Indigenous art. In this session, Jean-pierre Chabrol, Head of Multimedia at the NGV talks about the provenance of the project, and how teachers and students can use the materials and activities in their own classrooms.

When:  October 7 to 9 – pick from 13 sessions over 3 days

Where:  Online in Elluminate

Online:  http://nowconference2008.ning.com or http://nowconference2008.wikispaces.com

Today’s students have unprecedented access to cheap and sophisticated technology. Web 2.0 or the Read/Write Web is becoming an increasing influence on the way students learn and interact with their peers in and out of school. As educators, we too are ever evolving to provide the best possible opportunities for all our students. Online tools, spaces and communities are starting to have more impact across the globe and in our schools. The N.O.W. Conference is a chance for us to begin and extend our conversation around Navigating the Online World and Teaching for the NOW Generation. 

View the conference program, start chatting with other participants, and sign-up for conference sessions at:  http://nowconference2008.ning.com or http://nowconference2008.wikispaces.com

For more information please contact galea.alfred.r@edumail.vic.gov.au.