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Special Guest: Anne Mirtschin

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Poll Question 1

Have you ever participated in Tech Talk Tuesdays with Anne Mirtschin?

Poll Question 2

Are you familiar with the Australia Series on LearnCentral?

Poll Question 3

Have you ever Skyped with classes or teachers in Australia?

Topic: FeaturedTeacher

Special guest: Anne Mirtschin 

Website: http://murcha.wordpress.com/   

Newbie Question:

What does web 2.0 mean to you and why do you use web 2.0 tools in your classroom?

A classroom without Walls!

Ally’s blog

I introduced myself first and they proceeded on asking me questions, a lot of questions. I did my best to answer all of them like what sports we play, how cold it is here, what we do on weekends, what our schools are like, what are homes are like, and many other things. We had a lot of fun talking with each other and I LOVE their accent. We ended up talking for an hour. I told them that I wanted to eventually go to Australia and they couldn’t figure out why. They also asked me about what it was like in university and why it was fun. I told them, and asked them if they were planning on going to university and they all said no which was very surprising to me. They said the nearest university was too far away..3 hours. I found this kind of funny because i know alot of people who live farther then that away from home. I live 2 1/2 hours away, but I guess their culture and stuff is just different. Anyways I found this experience so much fun and very interesting, it is so much different there than here, if you ever get the chance to do something like this, i believe you should definately do it.

2 week snapshot from my classroom.......

E-intercultural Learning Adventures

Dancing, drumming and Malaysian games

Boston

Listen2Learners

Bianca in China

Question Tags

Lost in Malaysia

Earth science weekTwo world experts speak to years 5 to 11

Young C Y Ng from Hong Kong

on the Hong Kong GeoPark

in elluminate.

Classes from Victoria, interested

Experts/adults from Hong Kong,

China etc all in the classroom.

Ian Lewis on Kanawinka – Volcanoes and Caves

Meeting the Minister for FinanceListening to members of the Melbourne

Symphony Orchestra

About Me

•Year 11/12 Accounting•Year 9-12 ICT and IT•Passionate about Rural and Global Education, using immersive technology

Partner one day per week, with Innovations and Next Practise, DEECD•http://guidetoinnovation.ning•http://techtalktuesdays.globalteacher.org.au

Hawkesdale P12 College, SW Victoria, Australia

A 21st century school

• The 21st century classroom is an exciting one that can deliver powerful learning outcomes through the use of emerging technologies.

• Hawkesdale P12 College where the classroom and staff room walls are increasingly becoming flatter and the eplanks have been laid.

Features cont...What does it feel like, sound like, look like?• Excitement• Fun• Noise/silence/laughter• Beyond class walls• Team teaching• Group work – virtual teams• Personal Learning networks - across the globe

Features of a 21st century classroom

• Students as experts

• Peer to peer mentoring

• Authentic audience

• Self directed learning

• Project Based Learning

• Performing beyond personal comfort zones

• Many, many teachable moments

• Engagement

• Catering for all learning styles

• Multi literacies

• Interactivity

• Vertical age groups

Netbooks

A true global classroom – a student from Hawkesdale, two from China, two from Bangkok and one from USA are taught by an optician about the eye, using discoverE virtual classroom software.

From the beginning.....

http://backyard.globalstudent.org.au

http://tadfish.globalstudent.org.au

Web2.0 tools we use!

asynchronous connections

• Blogging. • Wikis• Nings• Google applications• Online Mailing lists• Voicethreads

Synchronous connections

• Liveblogging http://www,coveritlive.com

• Videoconferencing www.skype.com

• virtual classroom http://www.elluminate.com and DiscoverE

• Back channels eg http://www.chatzy.com and http://www.tinychat.com

• http://www.twitter.com

• Google applications – document, sheet, forms, survey, chat, video chat

• Bridgit conferencing software which comes with Interactive White Boards

• www.flickr.com an online image sharing site

• Virtual worlds – reactiongrid in Open Sim, Quest Atlantis

• Etherpad – http://www.ietherpad.com or http://www.titanpad.com

http://flurogreen.globalstudent.org.au

http:skippy.globalstudent.org.au

Student Blogs

Blogs

Cross culture blogging!

 Examples of Blog Post Prompts• Use of technology• Free topics• Global warming • Favorite musician? • Illegal Immigration• Popular local tourist destinations etc• Terrorism  

• There are plenty of illegal immigrants in australia and each day many are sent home. illegal immigrants tend to have a non valid visa. some people who come here dont have a visa at all. Illegal immigrants come from all over the world. what happens to all of the illegal immigrants once they have been found out is they get relocated back to the country they came from.

Melissa // Oct 18th 2008 at 2:30 pm • That is what happens here in the United States as well. Visas are really a

big part of it because visas take a long time to get, and then people just come illegally. Where are the illegal immigrants that come to Australia from?

Juliet Pham // Oct 18th 2008 at 5:21 pm • How do you feel about the fact that the illegal immigrants are relocated?

Do you believe that it’s fair? I don’t think that it is. I really think that it would depend on the reason. Are the immigrants doing any harm really? That’s pretty interesting that Australia does have illegal immigrants because I never thought a place like Australia would because of the fact that it doesn’t have any countries near it or any land bridges.

Travis Bugge // Oct 18th 2008 at 5:21 pm • how do they get there? are they snuck on a plane or something? fur us, its

pretty much peole crossing the border, or swimming over here. which part of austrailia do they go to?

What makes a good teacher?

Comments

My Blogs

•Teacher blog

•Class blog

Walk through?

Skype and Videoconferencing

West Java EarthquakeSeptember 8th

• 7.3 richter scale

• 64 deaths, 37 people missing, and 27,630 people displaced in nine districts in West Java and one in Central Java.

• Approximately 54,231 houses were damaged in 12 districts in West Java and one district in Central Java.

Speaking directly with earthquake victims 12 hours after the occurrrence using skype

Will Richardson quote on Learning is Now!

• What a great model for the immediacy of learning that can happen these days, and the relevance. When you think about all of the things that your students could learn and practice here, interviewing skills, geography and geology, information research, retrieval, editing, organization and sharing, all in the larger context of perhaps assisting those in need who were thousands of kilometers away. I want to make the point, however, that it's all grounded in your own understanding of these technologies and the ways in which they can help us connect. If you didn't have that knowledge and experience, this probably would not have happened, and that really is the goal of what we're all trying to do here, get more comfortable in using these technologies to learn in our own practice. Thanks so much for sharing this great snippet of learning from your classroom.

Grades 3 to 7 listen to students from Singapore talk about racial harmony

International Friendship Day

A linkup with a school in Russia

Across the World – Russian linkups

http://acrosstheworld.wikispaces.com

Request from Ekaterina

• The US Embassy and one of our local libraries are organising a competition of students projects under the general title "Russia nad the USA - Facing Each Other" . One of the projects category is Climate Change Issue. The school kids will have to present any kind of investigation on the Global Warming topic.

Online debating

Skype an author!Andrew McDonald

Wall wisher – see link

Flatclassroom Student Summit for Global Education conference

Voicethread: http://www.voicethread.com

Moving on...... at school

Students in grade 5 or 6 from UK, Thailand and Australia, share a voicethread and talk about what they are looking forward to in “moving on”, what they are nervous about and what they share in common.

Boston Connections - See my blog post

See my blog post

Should Australia go to India to play sport?

etherpad

Using Skype with India

Skype intros with the American School of Bombay

Sample questions• Please write some bullet points about what has been

happening to Indians in Australia in the past year.  Include the response from Indians as well as the impact of these events on the upcoming Commonwealth Games 2010 in New Delhi.

• Why do you think these incidents of violence have been occurring against Indians?  Is it happening against other ethnic groups in Australia?

Google documents

Year 12 Mandarin LOTE student

(distance education) talks to Malaysian

student in Chinese using skype

Global Projects

From me to you!• Projects by Jen:- http://www.jenuinetech.com/

ms1001tales• Read Kim Cofino’s blog post

• MS1001tales: http://ms1001tales2009.wikispaces.com/

Students as experts:- Year 9/10 students answer questions from USA so students could develop Australian travel posters

Flat Classroom Projects

• Flat classroom projects

• Digiteen

• Netgened projects

• Eracism

http://netgened.wikispaces.com

Students create digital movies for global judging

Student movie on semantic aware applications

School’s in at 9pm!

Keynote speaker – uni lecturer from Doha, Qatar, speaks to students at Qatar Academy and Hawkesdale P12 College about citizenship journalism.

This is a flatclassroom!

DiscoverE

• DiscoverE virtual classroom software.

• Uses low bandwidth and has basic tools for classroom use – chat, audio, video, whiteboard, webtours

Grade 6 student teaches year 10 IT class

Halloween

Volunteers in Haiti – earthquake aftermath

Using elluminate

Earth Science WeekYoung C Y Ng: Hong Kong GeoPark

Ian Lewis

Who’s that in our Classroom?

From the chat!

• Wow

• Turtle: sick as

• Ha look at that!

• Turtle: been here

• Grade 2/3 Woodford: Could you tell us more about the sink hole Ian?

• Cara hawk: hey bj they probally go through records from when they first evoved

And also....

• Joshua: i like red rock• i hAVE BEEN UP THEIR• we are going there soon• It's pretty :)• do you know where mt eccells??• water looks awesome• Looks good to swim in ;)• wow thats blue, how did it get blue?• do you know where mt eccells is??• How many years ago did the volcano at Mt Gambier erupt?• Theres heaps of thoose rocks in Hawkesdale and Penshurst• James to Turtle: caught a barracuda there

The Bats• Cara hawk: his wing looks like it's going to brake• 4B DGPS: what age do the bats learn to fly?• Billy-Jo Hawk: Did it try to escape from you?• Grade 2/3 Woodford: How many teeth do bats have?• Trevo hawk: what happen to it eye• Cara hawk: how easy is it to brake a bats wing• smithy: arent they posisoness• Grade 2/3 Woodford: What do bats feel like?• jasmine .j: do they hurt• scottinea: are the bats dead or did u catch them alive?• Grade 2/3 Woodford: What do bats eat?• 4B DGPS: are they really blind?• Billy-Jo Hawk: Is there black bats, like full black?• Moderator (Miss Iro, Mrs Gow and year 6/7): do bats carry any diseases• Grade 2/3 Woodford: What sort of fauna and flora live in the sinkholes?

Asian Connections

Taman Burkitt Maluri School, Kuala Lumpur

Say hello

What do you look for in a friend?

What skills are important to learn?

What symbol best describes your country?

The emu

Flatclassroom Project Student SummitGlobal Education Conference

Techno Parents

• Broad representation of staff including Principal

• Parents of Preps through to Year 10

• Students, staff, parents all learning in the one room

• Share happenings in classroom and school

• Darwin teacher linkup

• Feedback

Virtual Classrooms

Cash Journals

Skype, elluminate, google apps

Virtual Teaching Rounds

Impact for Education

• Digital Literacy• Globalisation• Anywhere, anytime, anyhow• Vertical groupings (years prep to 10)• Blended classrooms• Digital literacy• Peer to peer mentoring and teaching• Across school subjects especially specialist subjects

in rural settings

Underlying issues/requirementsOh! What a tangled web we weave!

Personal learning network

Contact Me

Anne Mirtschin

• mirtschin@gmail.com

• Skype: anne.mirtschin

• Twitter/plurk id: murcha

• Teacher blog: http://murcha.wordpress.com

• Class blogs: http://murch.globalteacher.org.au

• Delicious and diigo: murcho/murcha

Upcoming Shows: Saturdays 9:00PST/ 10:00MST/ 11:00CST/ 12:00EST

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