Extending Learning Horizonswith Video Conferencing

Rachel RobertsE-Principal

“Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in a different time”

Industrial to Informational

“In the industrial age we went to school… in the information age school comes to us”

A developing trend in NZ

Expansion of curriculum

Shortage of specialist teachers

Small rolls (110 out of 350 secondary schools have a roll of less than 120 students at year 11+)

Introduction of new assessment regimes

Teacher workload issues

Connecting Learners through Video Conferencing

Student-Teacher face-to-face contact enables the

distance to dissolve

www.virtuallearning.school.nz

Sample Timetable

Online Learning Environments

Spaces catering for different interests

Tools for managingparticipation

http://moodle.minedu.govt.nz/taranet/

Digital Conversations

Teacher Professional Development

Thanks to:

Virtual Learning Network CAM & Eddie

Derek Wenmoth Virtual Education Network

Peter Hills Telecom Digital Coversations ASNET Technologies