2011 DEECD

Innovation

Showcase

Summary

Friday 13th May 2011

Melbourne Convention Centre

Lucy Barrow

“This event features Victoria’s most forward thinking practitioners who will share the innovations making a difference in their settings.”

Department of Education & Early Childhood Development, 2011 DEECD Innovation Showcase,

http://www.education.vic.gov.au/researchinnovation/showcase/default.htm

Point of View Camera (used by Indigenous

students in RMIT’s pre-vocational

courses in plumbing)

.: Students record themselves completing a task

.: Video footage can then be shared or used for assessment purposes How could we use point of view cameras in our teaching and learning settings?

.: Excellent use of Ultranet (Victorian Government School’s Portal) to deliver the Literacy course, in particular, writing .: Use of a number of Web 2.0 tools to engage students, eg: wikis, blogs, Xtranormal, fotobabble, Photo Peach

“…Powerful tools for problem solving, collaboration, strategic thinking and forward planning.”

Read the blog post by Adam Brice from Ringwood North PS

.: Use of video conferencing tools to give an isolated school in regional Victoria access to the world .: Use of Skype and Elluminate .: Live Skype call during the session to students in Malaysia illustrated the power of this approach

Read the blog post by Anne Mirtschin from Hawkesdale P-12 College

.: Opportunity to meet educators for the first time who have been key influences and assisted in the development of our school’s virtual worlds program .: Virtual History Project .: FUSE website – Find, Use and Share quality Education resources

The closing session was colourful, exciting, inspiring, emotional, hilarious and life changing!

Copies of The Happiest Refugee, by Anh Do, are available from the

Senior School Library

Recordings of the sessions will be available on the Innovations Showcase website

Find 1:1 Learning resources on the

DEECD eLearning ICT Showcase website