Thank you for joining us for today’s session on PLNs. I hope that you enjoyed the event. Please feel free to revisit this site and use the work as you see fit. 

Thanks for letting me come and give back a little of what you all give to people daily. I hope you can use some of the tips and tricks that I have shared. The presentation I used today is below:

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Please find my ‘eAssessment – The next step in the Digital Education Revolution’ presentation below. I hope you are able to share the eAssessment site with your staff and begin to change the way we assess the learning that has occurred in our classroom.

Please find my presentation below. I have hyperlinked to the websites via the graphics. I hope this can help you on your journey. Please feel free to ask questions, you all know where to find me…..

Please find my presentation I used in the Keynote Presentation below. I hope you will revisit and use this presentation in your own classroom and professional development.

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My second presentation on eAssessment can also been seen below:

You can find the eAssessment presentation below and the eAssessment Website link here.

This presentation can also be found onthe Sharepoint site for hte conference, but as I prefer my presentations to be available to everyone everywhere, I have placed it on here as well. I forgot to refer to a Moodle that has been set up for Connect-Collaborate-Create, click here to go to this site.

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In my role as a Connected Learning Consultant in the NSW Department of Education and Training, and in particular the Hunter Central Coast Region, in mid-2008 I bonded with (and saw an ease of application for) the Revised Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy as presented by Andrew Churches. I have prepared many a presentation, and scaffolded many web 2 tools into this 6 level construct. Using this method to introduce people to the incorporation of technology into existing planning and teaching and learning practice has been a fantastic and unobtrusive method to engage staff beginning their journey into teaching with ubiquitous technology. It really has been a fantastic scaffold for many, many staff to adhere their change to.

In my presentations, I always felt a little, thin-on in the analysis, synthesis and evaluation levels. I felt many of these tools were alike, and focused predominantly on collaborations and discussions.

And so came time for me to rethink the taxonomy and my belief in it as scaffold for using laptops in the NSW Digital Education Revolution 1:1 Laptop Environment.

Through Roger Pryor’s leadership, our Connected Learning Plan in the Hunter / Central Coast Region hinges on the 3 verbs of Connect-Collaborate-Create as a method for planning school. These 3 innocent yet powerful verbs have begun to provide a scaffold for change into the Digital Education Revolution for all staff at all levels of the system.  From classroom teaching and learning scaffolds to whole scale systemic change, Connect-Collaborate-Create is providing us with a focus and structure to build on.

For me, these verbs struck as a great construct for using Web 2 Tools in any classroom or learning environment. The 3 levels, in my mind, help teaching and learning to remain focused, moving forward and engaging.

Connect:

• With Colleagues – sharing resources and stories
• With Learning – while everyone in school refocuses and re-energises through the Digital Education Revolution
• With Peers – finding new understandings
• With Technology – and learn how to learn with technology

Collaborate:

• In regions – by enhancing learning opportunities through Video Conferencing and collaborative projects
• In schools – by sharing resources and learning from each other’s experiences
• In staffrooms – by sharing expereince in your own, and with the neighbouring staffroom or school
• In classrooms – by discussion, sharing, working together to make new understandings

Create:

• New Understandings – by encouraging students to follow their interests
• New Digital Projects – by incorporating Tight-Loose-Tight into Assessment practices
• New Practices – by allowing the physical classroom to change alongside the learning
• New Digital Skills – by supporting students to use technology as much as possible in their daily learning

To see this taxonomy in action, please take your time to work through the presentation below. All website graphics have been hyperlinked to help you visit the sites mentioned.

In Bloom’s Taxomony and its derivatives, the higher-order thinking levels are the smallest, thus implicitly leaving us with the impression that these activities take the least amount of time. For me the higher-order thinking level of creation should take the largest amount of time, letting students construct their new understandings in a relaxed and yet engaged manner. I also believe strongly that as the Internet provides us with information in the click of a button, we should be able to complete information gathering lower-order thinking levels in a shorter period of time, letting us collaborate about and with the information and create new understandings from it with more time ‘up our sleeve’.

Stay tuned. More on my C-C-C Taxonomy to come…..

This presentation marks the launch for the eAssessment Website which helps support students in the next step in the Digital Education Revolution.

Below is hte very brief presentation that I used today. As most of the presentation is actually in Office 2007 and Adobe Pro Extend, pelase refer to the links at the end of the presentation for further information.

I hope you can now use your Laptops for more than just emails! Please feel free to contact me for any further DER Support.

Hi, below is the presentation that I walked you through today. ll the graphics are hyperlinked to take you to that website.

I found this today and thought it would be an appropriate inclusion in my blog. I always enjoy reading these reports and was excited to see a presentation and faciltiators guide for people who wish to use it in their own setting for discussion on future planning and technology implementation.

The Facilitator Discussion Guide for the above presentation can be found here.

Hi Everyone,

I hope you enjoyed this workshop. I have placed the 2 videos and presentation below. please feel free to visit this site whenever you like to revisit or use the links to get to the sites shown. All the graphics in the Web 2 and Intereactive Sites will take you to this website.

This is the first movie I showed called Learning to change: Changing to Learn.

The presentation I used is below:

This is the final video: Learning to change, Student voices.

Please click here to download the ePortfolio I have used for my presentation and workshop today.

In my Presentation and Workshop I will also be using the following resources from TaLE. These pages are also in the ePortfolio above. Please feel free to use either version.

UCreate a Digital Portfolio

Tools4U – Adobe Acrobat Pro Extend

The Leadership Dance Video

The ePortfolio outline T2 DER Support can be found by clicking here

Hi Everyone,

I hope you now have a basic undetstanding of the how-to’s of using Microsoft Office 2007 in your daily work in schools. My presentation can be found below.

Hi Everyone,

You can find today’s presentation below. Click on any of the graphics to be taken to the website. I hope this helps you to help those you work with!

Below is a compilation of the events held for DER and Connected Learning in the Hunter/Central Coast Region so far this year. It is a work in progress, so check back every now and then for updates.