e-Learning Round Up | 29 May 2012
Tēnā koutou, and, as it is Samoan Language Week, talofa lava!
Another busy and exciting week of VLN action to share in this week's e-Learning Round-Up and congratulations to Allanah King for winning the Enabling e-Learning photograhic challenge.
And it's not too late to enrol for Greg Carroll's webinar, Building reflective practice.
Have a great week everyone - hei konā mai,
Karen, Tessa, Jane & Nick | Blended e-Learning Online Team
Leadership & strategic direction
- Building reflective practice: 30 day challenge Take the Leadership 30 Day Wero/Challenge and join the related up-coming Online Webinar: Building reflective practice with Greg Carroll, 30 May.
- Do principals really have time for a PLN? What is a PLN and what might be the main reasons for having a PLN if you are a busy school leader? What do you think? Join the discussion.
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BYOD User Agreement: The challenge of managing risk, privacy and cyberbullying in a BYOD environment. Via gmacmanus
More resources for Leadership and e-Learning>>>the Enabling e-Learning website.
Professional Learning
- How to run an online workshop / webinar: Tips, resources and discussion on designing and facilitating online workshops in ways that support learners to achieve the goals. Add to the shared doc.
- How are you fostering effective teacher learning?: Join the conversation.
- Developing a PLN: A look into Twitter, VLN, Delicious and Pinterest to track and sort links and resources in online professional learning networks (PLNs). Via ictMrsH
How do you use technology to support gifted students?: ...and if you are Iinterested in gifted education, have a teaching blog, or you'd like to be a guest blogger, then feel free to make contact. Via MaryStGeorge
Check out e-Learning & Professional Learning>>the Enabling e-Learning website.
Teaching and Learning | Digital Citizenship
- Co-constructing Digital Citizenship courses for NZ students: Do you wish to be involved in the co-construction of Digital Citizenship course(s) that will be available online to all NZ students in 2013? Via Claire Amos.
- Supporting the key competencies: Thinking: A new Software for Learning post explores how we might use technology to support our students to become curious, inquiring and aware thinkers.
- Olympics: Digital resources to support the games: Want to explore key ideas and questions around the Olympics this year?
- English Language Learners and e-learning: What has worked well?: Do you have any examples/stories to share about how e-learning can support English Language Learners? Via Suzie.Vesper
- Introducing Google apps to students/whānau: Help needed. Have you any experience with the introduction of the Google app suite, and gaining parental permission?
- Ultra-fast broadband and your school - what's happening?: Explore what the fibre roll-out may mean for your school.
iPad/iTouch technology
- App Sharing: Tiny Tapp: This lets you upload photos that you have taken, ask questions about those photos and then give answers to them. Via Allanah.
- iPads in the senior school: How successfully are people integrating iPads into their daily literacy and numeracy programmes in the senior school? The stories are starting to roll in.
Check out e-Learning and Technologies>>> the Enabling e-Learning website.
Beyond the Classroom
- A living report: Using tech to share assessment with family/whānau: Can you share other examples of ways to use technology to capture and curate progress against national standards or other assessments?
Check out e-Learning and Beyond the Classroom>>the Enabling e-Learning website.
For your calendar...
Enabling e-Learning Webinars: ENROL NOW!
- Webinar: Building reflective practice, 30 May 2012
- Webinar: e-Portfolios in the classroom, 14 Jun 2012
Look out for more up-coming Enabling e-Learning online events planned for the rest of term 2. Enabling e-Learning webinars: Find the recordings here for 2011/2012 sessions you may have missed.
e-Learning events around NZ
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LEARNZ Virtual Field Trip: Wandering Whales, Sciences/Social studies virtual field trip, 20 June
- Ignite Auckland and Ignite Wellington, 21 June, 6pm. #ignite
- EduCampCHCH 2012: Burnside High School, 23rd June 2012
- Open Education Resources, Copyright and Creative Commons licensing workshop - 20 Jun 2012 - 3 Jul 2012
- NetHui 2012, 11 Jul 2012 - 13 Jul 2012, Sky City, Auckland #nethui12
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EduCampAKL: Stonefields School, Auckland, 21st July, 10am-3pm
- ULearn12, Auckland Sky City, October 10 - 12. Targets all educators, from preschool to tertiary. #ulearn12
