Hello Daramalan,

How nice to be back after an absence of many years. I know we’ll have a great day together. You can access the Agenda if you like.

Session 1 – Vision Clarification

Activity #1 – Pre-assessments

Polling your Viewpoint

Brainstorming Your Challenges

Now let’s give all staff members a voice: brainstorm the greatest challenges you face in your job of educating students using EtherPad (this version is PrimaryPad – which we can discuss later). Instructions: click on your assigned link below and enter in words or phrases that describe your greatest challenges. This is an anonymous activity so please be honest.

Group 1

Group 2

Group 3

PrimaryPad‘s combined using Wordle.net

Differentiated Activity:

Look to Learn Immersion

Go to this Look to Learn Immersion page and explore some of the links.
You only have 30 minutes so you won’t be able to view them all.
Be prepared to answer at least questions 1-4, if not #5.
If might be helpful to use this Today’sMeet backchannel to share your thinking and what you find that might suit certain courses, subjects or pastoral issues.
You can go anywhere on the campus and work with whomever you like on this task.
See you back in 30 minutes.
If the other group needs more time, here’s an extension challenge for you: “Successful Learners” as Transfer Goals that will take you to morning tea.

Once you’re back with the whole group, please complete this short poll.

Tom’s Interactive Discussion

Colleagues who answered “Not true,” “This isn’t clear to me,” “I see things differently” or are challenged by what Tom refers to as “logistics” will meet for a de-brief.

Session 2 – The Nature of Understanding

Activity #4 – “Understanding” Your Real Job

The Melbourne Declaration’s “Successful Learners” as a Google Doc

The Australian Curriculum

Aims and Transfer Goals for main KLAs or use…
All Subjects’ Rationale and Aims (pdf) – Review your Learning Area’s Aims (last bullet points) and rationale (as you have time for)
Transfer Tasks by Facets of Understanding and Learning Area (pdf)
Discuss: “I used to think, but now I think.”

Understanding by Design

Readiness for Understanding by Design – Rank Where You’re At
Then use the OnlineChartTool

Session 3 – The Edge-ucators Way

How do you currently integrate ICTs? – Add your Ideas to this Padlet

Look to Learn

ClassPortals

Examples

Child Slave Labor News (see also “Slavery Footprint“)
PodKids Australia
Possible Topics?

References:

WebQuests

Current Examples

Older Examples

Tom’s WebQuest Resources

WebQuest Homepage
Article – What WebQuests Are (Really)
Article – Why WebQuests? – short intro
Rubric – Assessing WebQuests

Session 4 – Dara’s Path Forward

Dara’s “Wikicademy” Padlet

Possible Follow-up Activities

Tutorials

Get a WordPress Blog
How to Join Tumblr and follow me and others

Activities

Review the CEQ•ALL rubric and use it with students
Explore the Web 2.0 Tools Panel
Look to Learns: Copy the Thinking Routines / Prompts Page into your CMS
Read about ClassPortals and brainstorm topics you might choose
Explore Tom’s WebQuests and draft one using the template or Web-and-Flow
Investigate Curriculum Design / Mapping software: Edutect’s UnitPlanner or Edumate
Use the Aims and Transfer Goals for main KLAs page to develop Transfer goals and related tasks along the lines of those in the Transfer Tasks by Facets of Understanding and Learning Area (pdf)

Resources List

WordPress.com Blogs
PrimaryPad Etherpad collaborative writing
Wordle.net word cloud maker
Polldaddy for making polls that are easily embedded
Google Docs for collaborative writing within the Google Apps suite
Today’sMeet for Twitter-like backchannel
OnlineChartTool for making all kinds of charts (we used the radar chart)
Padlet – for collaborative brainstorming with “stickie notes”
The Web 2.0 Tools Panel – you can copy/paste this page into your CMS – these are my favourites.

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