Status2 April 6, 2007
Posted by Steve in Elearning, Musing.trackback
It seems I have made at least some progress with elearning since about June of 2006. Some of the events that have taken place include:
- Moodle training 2 days in Sydney
- no Moodle available to my school
- hired a site in Perth. Extensively tested but students could not download files due to my school’s security settings. Sigh.
- participated in online Moodle conference via video conferencing
- Participated in panel for hiring an elearning integrator
- no one was hired due to lack of practical experience
- ICT Group formed, I became the minute secretary
- A paper entitled “Elearning at TIGS” was written by me and passed onto the Executive in an attempt to bring the 3 dimensional aspect of elearning into a clearer perspective.
- Virtual Staffroom came into existance where I became much more aware of Web 2.0 services.
- Elearning conference, 3 days, Melbourne
- Summary paper written about the 3 days for the Executive
- Evaluated Edumate for my school which undergoes implementation in 2007
- Became involved in the Honours Programme as an elearning integrator and as part of my co-curricular obligations.
- mentoring 3 students in programming so far (Python)
- may be mentoring one other in graphics editing software
- set up TIGSHONOURS yahoo group for communication purposes
- participated in presentation to parents about the Honours Programme
- a lot of time spent outside of school hours setting things up
- Scoured the Net for student activities that can be used in individual student blogs.
- Decided upon Learnerblogs.org as our site due to security and lack of advertising
- 3 lessons lost due to technical difficulties at the Learnerblogs site
- opted for Edublogs Premium for six months, 35 students but it is expensive
- a signficant number of students seem excited about the concept of a blog
- ICT Support investigating WordPress options that run under tigs.com.au domain
- Participated in Podcasting inservice run by the AIS
- tested out blogs ability to upload mp3 files and movies
- tested out Movie Maker 2 with 1394 cable, digital camera and new laptops
- Blogs and the use of Audacity inservices have yet to take place
- I suspect I will be a presenter at future professional development days at my school
As I grow in skills, it certainly has been a case of two steps forward and one step backward! But that is the norm for technology and trying something new.
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