With only a couple of weeks of school to go, we are looking ahead to 2012 in many of our discussions and activities.

We would be delighted if you’d take 10 minutes to complete our online survey to tell us what you like – and would like improved – in your Enabling e-Learning space for 2012: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Enabling_e-Learning

Karen M  |  Enabling e-Learning Community Co-Ordinator

Member of the week

Each week we'll profile someone who has made a valuable contribution to our e-Learning community. This week, it's....

• Nick Ford: Nick is an instructional designer with CORE Education, with a keen interest in teaching, curriculum, web design and blended professional learning. Ask him anything about Moodle;-)

e-Learning in the VLN Groups

Leadership

•  The 30 Day Challenge: We're done! Thanks to everyone for their participation. Feel free to check out the discussions about what school leaders might look for in new staff members, in terms of e-learning competencies.

• Question: "For the first time next year, my school has attached a management unit to leading pedagogical change with a special emphasis on e-learning. Wondering if anyone in this group has suggestions, ideas or does something similar?" - Comments to Clair Bee.

• Sean Lyons of Netsafe clarifies Netsafe's position in relation to schools and the Copyright Amendment Act.

• Acceptable Use documents for Netsafe: NetSafe would like to look at what schools are currently using as Use Agreements for students and staff, and are asking schools to send documents to them. 

• BYOD Resources and readings: Di Henjyoji of the Wellington Loop shares some resources on BYOD.

Professional Learning

•  Using Software for Learning snapshots: As Suzie Vesper recently explained, these can be incorporated into professional learning sessions, and teachers can apply to create one themselves as part of their own inquiry.

Enabling e-Learning Events

• Enabling e-Learning webinars: Find the recordings here of sessions you may have missed. Last week, we had our last session of the year - a fabulous overview of Software for Learning snapshots from Suzie Vesper.

Other events

•  BYOD and Wireless (International webinar, 6 December). Shared by Derek Wenmoth.

• Learning@School Conference - Energise Enlighten, Extend and Empower: (26-27 January 2012): Register now. The Enabling e-Learning team will be at this exciting conference and want to meet with you there. The conference focuses on developing leadership capability, fostering creativity in thought and action, raising achievement for all learners and building school, whānau and community partnerships. Join Enabling e-Learning online and at our workshop sessions, where we will share with you the exciting developments in e-learning. 

>>>Check out all the e-learning breakout sessions for Learning@School. 

>>>Enabling e-Learning will be there too, as you can see in this taster video from Karen.

• DEANZ Conference 2012: Open, flexible and distance learning, 11 Apr 2012 - 13 Apr 2012. For full information/fees: http://www.deanz.org.nz/home/index.php/deanz-conference-2012

Teaching and Learning  |  Digital Citizenship

• What should be in your e-learning kete? This November challenge from the Enabling e-Learning: Teaching groups built a shared doc that describes teachers' e-learning competencies. Thanks to everyone for participating.

• Digital NZ: EdTalks video: In this talk from ULearn11 Andy Neale, National Library of New Zealand Web Manager, details the resources available for schools from Digital NZ. Digital New Zealand aims to help make New Zealand content easy to find, share, and use. You are also able to search Digital NZ through Digistore and you can add search results to your Digistore learning paths.

• How Youtube is driving innovation in the classroom: Simon Evans shares a Software for Learning snapshot that highlights the powerful way in which online video is inspiring innovation as a 'sharing platform' for schools. In this snapshot Dave Beehre's students from Somerville Intermediate School in Auckland are exploring virtues using YouTube as an interactive presentation tool.

• Game-based learning: Are you playing? HamishC explains how he and a colleague are developing a gamification (using game-stuff/concepts for sneaky educational purposes) of English skills tracking through a web-based front-end XP bar!

• Primary teaching in networked classrooms: Rachel Roberts shares the latest VLN Primary newsletter, while the VPL-D newsletter is available here.

Technologies

• Moodle in Schools: Gerard Macmanus outlines developments for schools in Auckland and Christchurch.

• Getting started: Advice from Software for Learning: Youtube account and Google account

• Ways to use MyPortfolio: Are you using MyPortfolio in your school? If so you may want to point your mouse at this collaborative Google Presentation for some great ideas and examples. Via Nick Rate.

• How do you charge yours? Charging Solutions....power strips, surge protectors and COWS....

• The Internet Archive: This is an Internet library offering permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital formats, including the 'Way Back Machine' which allows users to browse through over 150 billion web pages archived from 1996 to a few months ago. Via Nick Ford

• Ten ideas for mobile learning, via Barbara Reid

iPad/iTouch technology

• On-going conversations in AirPlay Mirroring for iPad2.

• Resource for roll-out of many IOS devices: A possible solution to help schools setting up iPads / iPod Touches in large numbers.

   

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