Konrad’s awesome presentation at NECC this morning was made all the better with Judy streaming his slideshow into Jokaydai and Will Richardson helping out with the Ustream.
Konrad is part of the Jokaydia Community in Second Life and a great mentor in Second Classroom, and has a great insight as to the use of community [...]
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Edubloggercon is the pre-conference, unconference held the day before the official NECC event. The day started off with a few hundred people voting live on about 20 different topics that had been proposed by ‘the network’. It worked really simply via a web2.0 site (of course), the most voted topics were split up into [...]
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This is a really cool video. Kerry J invited the Second Classroom group to present at an Edna Event. You can visit the Second Classroom building in Jokaydia. Kerry did a great job of organising a tour of the educational spaces for ‘newbies’, and it was great to see so many take the plunge.
What makes [...]
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In term 1, 2008, students in my 10th grade Information Software Technology class studied ‘networks’. In the end students had to build a PC from parts, install and OS, network via a router and exchange a file. This was the practical component. Theory revolved around a group wiki.
4 students decided to take this a step [...]
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There are a number of ’systems’ that I am embedding into Classroom2.0. All the time, I want to ensure that we are offering our students and staff access to creative and useful technologies. High on the list for me is what we generically call ‘Virtual Worlds’, specifically Second Life [...]
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It is so good to start reporting on student work. Our Project Based Learning (Charter) project for our 9th Grade students (160 boys), opened for business in February 2008. We spent the previous 6 months planning it, my role being the strategic planning of the Educational Technology enviroment. I’ve blogged heaps on my vision for [...]
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I’ve facilitated a year 12 HSC English task using Classroom 2.0 ethos. I was given the previous assessment task, and then worked with the two teachers to shift it to the discourse we are advocating. I have to say that there is a huge amount of trust needed for this to happen on the part [...]
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Joseph decided to learn 3D at the beginning of 2007. He had no previous interest or experience. He is doing Software and IPT, but is interested in 3D programming and development. So he started his blog, to show what he has been learning. Please go have a look, an excellent example of self-directed learning.
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For a couple of weeks, my class has been working on group wikis about computer hardware. They are going to build a network this term. The process is multi-stepped.First they had a set of 20 questions to research. They analysed the questions and then allocated them into ‘like’ topics, and each student too about 5 questions each. [...]
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One of the things I like to encourage is the idea of the digital backpack. Not hiding technology. One student today presented his new iTouch approx AU$450.00. It generated a lot of interest in the classroom. I thought nothing tech suprises 15 year olds, but this did. It was simple to add to the [...]
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