Digital Education Revolution

Coffs Harbour High SchoolSDD Term 3 2009

Programme

• Did you know• Introducing the Laptop• Digital Story Telling• PLN

Did you know video – YouTube

The DER Laptop

• Fast processor• 100Gb of usable storage• Windows 7• Office 2007• Full Adobe Suite of Software• Great size for students• Limitless Possibilities

The DER Laptop

The DER Laptop – First Impressions

• 20 Staff received laptops right at the end of Term 2 and played with them over the holidays

1.Any problems – and the solutions you found2.3 Cool things you can do with the laptop3.What Professional Learning do you need to

make this work?

Digital Story Telling• Examples

PLN?

Personal Learning Network

http://nwinton.wordpress.com/2008/01/03/the-year-of-the-diagram/ (accessed 26/7/2009)

http://langwitches.org/blog/2009/04/21/connecting-colaboracion-kommunikation-across-languages-cultures/ (accessed 26/7/09)

Getting started with a PLN• Get online & connected

– Use email– Follow blogs & comment

» RSS

• Twitter– Me @SimonBorgert– Paula @madiganda

• Social Networking –– Ning’s e.g. Classroom 2.0 – Facebook

• Social Bookmarking – Delicious

http://thomas-fletcher.com/friendwheel/showwheel.php?site=twitter&userid=14567498&name=SimonBorgert&pass=3ad6805121

PLN – blogs worth following

Darcy MooreMel GiddinsKelli McGrawRoger PryorSimon JobStu HasicErrr Simon Borgert or my student blog

A year 9 student blogging about DERhttp://quezon.wordpress.com/

Plus heaps more

DER(L4L) Advice from a PLN

http://darcymoore.net/ (accessed 10/6/2009)

http://darcymoore.net/2009/05/31/the-best-of-l4l-advice/

Where do I start?

• Get online – create a PLN – get ideas don’t reinvent the wheel

• Don’t try to be the IT expert – watch the kids and facilitate learning

• Moodle? http://coffsharbourhighschool.com• Right now http://www.edmodo.com/• Have Fun!

What Web 2.0 Does•not controlled by the few•not one way•created by, for, and around networks, not masses•transform individual pursuits into collective action•makes “group” formation ridiculously easy

(Parquet Shirky) (via M Wesch)

"Education is like an aircraft - when you board, you must turn off all electronic devices.“

Trudy Sweeny CL Conf."It is not the technology - it is the context in which the technology is used.“

Trudy Sweeny CL Cont.

Don’t say NO unless there is a really good reason not to say YES

Roger Pryor (SED HCC)via @pryorcommmitment

Lifelong Learning is not a 9 – 5 jobStu Hasic via @stuhasic

What now?

• Digital Story telling – CL2• PLN & Web Resources – CL3• Laptop Q & A + Office 2007 – CC• Data Logging