e-Learning Round-Up | 12th December 2012
Tēnā koutou, talofa lava, and welcome. This is our last e-Learning Round-Up for 2012. Thanks to everyone for their support and proactive participation online over this past year.
We wish you all a very Meri Kirihimete, relaxing Christmas, and a Happy New Year!
Roll on our second year...see you in 2013 - hei konā mai,
Karen, Tessa & Catriona | Blended e-Learning Online Team
In our final week, it's a BIG HUGE congratulations to all our e-Members for 2012. Your contributions have helped make this, a successful, exciting and growing community.
Thank you to everyone who has generously given their time in 2012.
Next year, we'll continue to say thank you by nominating a community members for active participation in the Enabling e-Learning / VLN Groups.
Leadership & strategic direction
- Social networks for learning: Check out this video from dePaul Teaching Commons that focuses on how social networks can support teaching and student assessment (tertiary). Can you relate to this in your school?
Check out Leadership and e-Learning via the Enabling e-Learning website.
Professional Learning
- How can we use an LMS for professional learning? Boris Pavlov shares how their school uses a learning management system to archive and engage socially with the learning online. Want to know more?
Check out e-Learning & Professional Learning>>the Enabling e-Learning website.
Teaching and Learning | Digital Citizenship
- Educating our Pasifika students: Here are some digital resources and the new Pasifika Education Plan from the Ministry.
- Pasifika Learners: Supporting teachers to meet the needs of Pasifika learners requires inclusive and culturally responsive practices. What might you recommend to support teachers with meeting the needs of Pasifika students?
- Junior school ICT integration - what approach works best?? Klaris Philipson is looking for some ideas about the best approach, when supporting staff to successfully integrate technology in a meaningful way? Can you help?
Free access to the internet v. controlled access: A discussion in one school's Cybersmart group as well as several other interesting resources here too.
- Suzie Vesper asks, Anyone got links to examples of using ICT to build relationships with learners or to get to know learners?
- Whole school buy-in: Iona Rait asks, what schools do to help teachers live the cyber smart 'rules'. Can you share your lessons learned?
- Tools to support explicit instruction, and effective teaching practice: GrantHod asks for feedback about any apps or iBooks that teachers are finding useful when supporting explicit instruction across specific curriculum areas?
- SamCunnane announces: he’s added a new post to the Curriculum Integration Project! Some reflections on the year @ http://tinyurl.com/a4kbcoc.
- The Great New Zealand Science Project: This is a public campaign asking New Zealanders (including students) to help identify the big issues facing the country, that science can help solve. Have your say now!
- Greatness is a lofty maunga: Sonya Van Schaijik shares how the students at Newmarket School have won the Te Puni Kokiri Te Reo & Tikanda Maori Award (Outlook for Someday) for film-making using Te Reo.
- The NZ iSchool: An interesting story via the New Zealand Herald about Bucklands Beach and the way they have integrated technology through their school.
- Congratulations to Joy Kitt: Joy, who has promoted e-science resources via the Joy of Science materials this year in the VLN Groups, has just been awarded the 2012 Primary Science Teacher Fellowship Alumni Award.
- Free access to the internet v.s controlled access: Would it be easier to take away restrictions in a school’s network? How great are the risks of full access?
- Updates from the ICT helpdesk | December 2012: For those of you with an interest or responsibility for ICT management in your school, there are five new updates from the Ministry's ICT helpdesk.
Mobile technologies
- Which tablets do you use? Enchante asks about different brands of tablets that are being used in schools. You will need to join the Androids in the classroom group to add to this discussion.
- So where are schools at with volume purchasing? Community members continue to exchange school stories in regards to ways to manage volume purchasing.
- Showme app not working on a Smartnet server: Bevan’s students have been using Showme as a tool for sharing their learning, but they are having difficulty with playing back videos through the Smartnet server. Any suggestions?
Web access controls: Robyn Cooper has a problem where iPads are being used to access inappropriate material on the web. She is wanting some advice on suitable ways to eliminate this problem. Can you help?
- App Sharing: Here is a link to a pile of story telling/creating apps shared by Silvia Tolisano on her Langwitches blog. Well worth checking out any that you are not already familiar with.
- Apple Configurator: Here is a post via Twitter from MrG online – well worth a look for those of you battling with Apple configurator.
- Tony Vincent's Learning in Hand - Blog - 5 Ways to Show Your iPad on aProjector Screen: Bookmark via Allanah King.
Bring your own devices (BYOD)
- BYOD Policies 101 - Back to Basics: In this blog post, we are asked to consider five issues raised about student BYOD policies. Can you relate to this in your school? Bookmark via Barbara Reid.
Check out e-Learning and Technologies on the Enabling e-Learning website.
Beyond the Classroom
- Schools are using social networking to involve parents: An article that explores ways in which schools are increasingly communicating and engaging parents, using social network sites.
Check out Beyond the Classroom on the Enabling e-Learning website.
For your calendar...
Enabling e-Learning events
Enabling e-Learning webinars: Find the recordings here for 2011/2012 sessions you may have missed, including using digital resources, digital learning spaces, BYOD, social media and ethics for teachers, LEARNZ field trips and many more!
e-Learning events around NZ
- International Conference on Thinking (ICOT): 21-25 January 2013, Michael Fowler Centre & Town Hall, Wellington
- Learning@School Roadshow 2013: 3-19 Apr 2013, Whangarei, New Plymouth, Palmerston North, Napier, Gisborne, Nelson, Dunedin, Greymouth, Christchurch.
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