eAssessment Breakfast

Went to an excellent breakfast session put on by QVDC this morning.

Some of the dot point notes I took are below

Kerry, eLearning Coordinator, Beaudesert SHS
As PD for teachers got ICT certificate program 2010
Use EdStudio

As EC:
• Got like-minded teachers together (& have professional conversations)
• Work with IT teams
• Built PD network/Plan
• Mentoring
Included as part of computers for teachers program 2010.
Using:
• learning place (poor several years ago, but much better),
• flipcams,
• iPADs (c/f Kedron SHS), used for learning support & for deaf student
• podcasting
• EdStudio (Virtual Classrooms)
• 1:1 computers for students (3G, locked down, given for 3 years,supported)
Skills of teachers
• Large percentage not tech-savvy
• JIT PD (only when technology ready to go)
• External companies (e.g. Learning Innovation Centre, Learning Place[Online])
• Smart Classroom ICT certificate, Digital pedagogy etc
• Mandatory PD for teachers (30 hours required)
• Leading departments: Science, Mathematics (e.g. Mathletics), Arts (e.g. vodcasts), Manual Arts (e.g. digital forms,vodcasting,rotoscoping), SOSE
• Demonstrated how do teaching (used simple tools such as clock widgets for staying on task, to Prezi)
• Collaboration and places for teachers to talk
eAssessment
• Blog – for discussion assignment (required teaching appropriate use)
• Mathletics
 
Zachery (school captain)
• Chemistry - online area where students can access powerpoints, homework & homework guides, assignments + assignment dropbox (drafts), online textbooks
• Have “scrolled to a new page”
Josh (student)
• Cert III Fitness – all activities & notes online
• Cert II IT – all activities & notes online
• Maths – assignment online
Jessica (student)
• Has looked at Uni, and noticed everyone had laptop (including lecturer)
“Wow. University is a lot more technology-based than I thought”
• Has laptop with information accessible
• Wants online textbook
• Wants programs such as CS5
Demands
• 1:1 smart classroom
• iPAD trials
• Gaming in learning (e.g. SIMS)
• Student Film Fest 2012
• Student ICT expectations – what students expected to learn (Smart classrooms)