BL4T+-Term+3-'09

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TERM 3 Blended learning 4 teachers Program. **

Thursday 16/07/2009 Learn Elluminate & about the Free digital tools for all classrooms from the Netbook trial.Elluminate allows us all to easily communicate, to take part in interactive professional learning and an important teaching tool for teachers in the Wimmera Virtual School.
 * Free Digital Tools for our Classroom **

Thursday 23/07/2009 Sound files as a tool to enhance learning.Use Audacity or Garageband to create digital sound files which can be used by students and teachers in many ways- to create radio shows, advertisements, podcasts, VCE revision, sound tracks for photostories and movies.
 * Sound files as a tool to enhance learning. **

Thursday 30/07/2009 Digital Storytelling in class and for class:Preparing digital stories, or multimedia narratives, provides rich learning tasks for students at any level. Narratives may include documentaries, family and community stories, fictional, exhibitional, and instructional movies. Many different softwares may be used including Photostory, MovieMaker, iPhoto and iMovie.
 * Digital Story Telling IN Class and FOR Class. **

Thursday 6/08/2009 Making movies is a rich and engaging task for primary and secondary students in all learning domains. Closeups,action, reaction and point of view shots, the rule of thirds, story elements, sequence and scenes and other aspects will be included in this session on the thinking in making movies.
 * Lessons of the Moving Image **

Thursday 13/08/2009 Blogs and wikis are tools that allow teachers and students to share resources, opinions and collaborate within their schools or with others elsewhere in the world. Many other powerful tools, such as Ning, FlickR, Slideshare,Fliggo, Groove and Google Docs have contributed to this explosion in online collaboration that schools can join and benefit from.
 * Online Collaborating/Sharing – Who for – everyone ? How? **

Thursday 20/08/2009 This session will take teachers through the levels and games of Tux of Math and the Intel Mathematics Toolkit,and how these can be used to scaffold numeracy teaching through primary and lower secondary school. Other exciting online resources such as Digilearn, Copacabana and Smartkiddies we be considered.
 * Mathematics - The Online Tools Multiply the Options. **

Thursday 27/08/2009 Participants join the online session from 3.45, allow 5 minutes to connect.We will start with a sharing of IWB experiences at 4.00pm using the Chat facility on Elluminate. From 4.20pmthere will be demonstrations of using IWBs for deeper thinking tasks, time and how to guide sheets forparticipants to complete hands-on tasks. The PD session will finish with a where to from here? looking at such resources as online tutorials and collaboration sites; www.atomiclearning.co.uk, http:iwbrevolution.ning.com and others.
 * IWB AGQTP - PD Session 4 will replace this program. **

Thursday 3/09/2009 Cilla Leonard A look at the developmental stages of creating independent learning processes in lessons to develop literacyskills.
 * Literacy Approaches for Primary and Secondary Teachers **

Thursday 10/09/2009 
 * Jo Evans - Special Needs Product Manager - EduSoft**

This session is a brief introduction to some of the types of great software that is available to support all students and especially those who are struggling with their literacy. I'll demonstrate two programs and then we can consider some of the others that could be helpful for your students. **Clicker 5** is a talking word processor (text to speech) which works using on-screen grids of words and pictures to help writers. It can also easily include sounds, speech files and video clips. Great for early readers and writers and for older struggling readers and writers. **Dragon** **Naturally Speaking** is a speech recognition program - speech to text program. Can be used with most programs and can be very useful for students especially those who have problems typing, spelling, expressing their ideas in the written form.

Thursday 17/09/2009 Many schools, teachers and students have experienced the learning and management benefits of using an LMS. An LMS or Virtual Learning Environment includes a great range of online tools to manage and support teaching and learning through posting and recording courses, managing learning activities, resources, assessment and student progress. This session will include a brief demonstration of Moodle and discussion of DEECDʼ s Ultranet and the student pathways available in Scootle.
 * Learning Management Systems and Developing an Online Culture **