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Lynbrook ICT Conference
This week I was lucky enough to be invited to present at the Lynbrook PS ICT Conference. This was the second conference of its sort held at the primary school. I didn’t get to attend last year but this year I did as a presenter and a participant. The day began with a live meet up [...]I’m Back!
What a year! When I look back to my blogging efforts last year, I was learning so much so quickly. I could barely take in one exciting new tool or new concept before tackling a new one. This continued for me throughout the year and I was able to learn and grow as an educator [...]7 Things You Don’t Need to Know About Me
It’s been a year since I started keeping a blog and I have been tagged on a couple occasions. This time I have been tagged by a fairly new addition to my PLN, mrrobbo , a year long colleague, Anne Mirtschin, and Lee Mowbray, another Australian blogger. The idea behind this meme is [...]Meet mum and dad!
Today is Christmas day and a time to be with the family. As we often do, we went to my parents’ home to celebrate. My parents could be described as typical Macedonian village folk who migrated to Australia in the 1950s. Their home is complemented with a vegie garden and fruit trees in the backyard. [...]Learning in a Networked World
Earlier this year I wrote a couple of posts about developing a PLN (Professional Learning Network), and just last week I presented at the VITTA Conference about ‘The Power of the online PLN’. It was very much a reflection of how I had developed my own network over the year as a direct result of [...]Looking back…
Whilst looking through some resources on the ePotential, I came across a video that was made about my classroom (as well as others). It was shot in 2006 and this was the last year I taught at Essendon Nth Primary School. Renee Hoareau, Executive Officer from VITTA was on the production team. Find more [...]A Chapter Closes…
This year has been a wonderful experience for me. I have worked as an Ultranet Coach for the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development within the Western Metropolitan Region. Within this role I have worked with 28 schools and leadership teams, as well as a range a teachers who have participated in the ICT [...]Using Video Conferencing in the Classroom (ACEC2008)
Today I have experienced a talk by Liz Murphy from LMGM about using the Internet for communication, collaboration and real life learning, as part of the ACEC2008. Using video conferencing tools like Elluminate and Centra you can begin to incorporate many real life experiences. Simply by having a laptop, webcam, headset and a wireless [...]N.O.W Online Conference
Our very first online conference is fast approaching. The WMR Ultranet Team has been sponsored by the Knowledge Bank, DEECD to host an online conference. The purpose of our conference is to support our teachers and leaders in the Western Metropolitan Region, as well as others from around the state and globe. Our three [...]Have to Get Better at Believing the Impossible
One of the things that I have found in my career is that there is always a stack of ‘reasons’ or ‘excuses’ for not being able to do something or to believe in something. This week was interesting and I found myself listening to the ‘but’ word over and over, and almost felt defeated [...]Helen Otway's Page
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- My hometown is Melbourne, Australia.
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- New job! AP for ICT/Student Learning. I was an Ultranet Coach for the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, Western Metropolitan Region.
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- I am very interested in creating learning environments that are real and purposeful for our kids. I am a teacher and peer coach and love to support teachers in their journey in integrating IT into their classrooms. I run PD for my school and for others - usually around the themes of powerful learning with ICT.
I have taken on a new role this year and will be working with a variety of schools within my region to support their adoption of the 'Ultranet'.
New role for 2009! Obviously have itchy feet. Assistant principal for ICT & Student Learning.
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Starting up with Classroom 2.0
Posted on November 25, 2008 at 7:26pm —
Meeting Julia Gillard MP for Education
Julia Gillard MP and me!
This is a photo taken on April 16th at the Dimboola Memorial Secondary College. DMSC put on a great 2 day conference to highlight their work with the… Continue
Posted on April 26, 2008 at 4:00pm — 3 Comments
Learning about blogs
Posted on April 23, 2008 at 9:00pm — 1 Comment
Moving forward with the Ultranet...
In Victoria we are working towards creating learning environments that best support… Continue
Posted on March 8, 2008 at 2:56pm —
Playing with Voki
Posted on January 14, 2008 at 11:30am — 2 Comments
Not bad for PD during my holidays!
Now I have to say that the networks on Classroom 2.0 and Twitter have been major players in introducing me to a world of Web 2.0 apps. Where do I st… Continue
Posted on January 11, 2008 at 5:05pm —
Peer Coaching Training
The session ran well and I focussed on where PD was heading with ICT (Information and Communication Technology). We then worked on coaching skills… Continue
Posted on January 2, 2008 at 6:04am —
2007 VITTA conference
I'm running my Peer Coaching session this year with more of an emphasis on my research in US.
I've attached the link to the conference below.
http://www.vitta.org.au/conf… Continue
Posted on November 17, 2007 at 2:16am — 1 Comment
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I'm really keen to try out rafi.ki with my Grade 4 class. We are learning about our environment, with a particular reference to droughts and global warming. It would be great for the kids to exchange ideas, stories and pictures about their environment with… Continue
Posted on October 6, 2007 at 12:42am — 2 Comments
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You were truely inspirational and i did get a lot out of your presentation so was more than happy to leave a good comment. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction you have filled the void with your knowledge and i am truely grateful for your journey and for sharing it. I am now on my own journey similar to yours but at least i have been lucky enough to be pointed in the right direction. Thanks again. Katy
My name is Alyshia Olsen; I am a 20 year old college student from Olin College of Engineering. I am a part of a group of 6 Olin College students (we're in Needham, MA, and engineering students) who has taken a year off to work on an education related project. Since you are in the 'e-learning and online teaching' group, I thought you might be interested! Our project is called AlightLearning, and this is our "short" project description:
Under the assumption that within ten years, the landscape of modern education will have fully integrated what we now define as new classroom media: video, online collaboration, open source curriculum and other web tools, we hope to pioneer a web software tool that acts as a platform for this new media, bringing the power of the web and its tools to students, teachers and parents in a secure, comfortable and innovative environment. Our goal is to have our free software at a pilot middle school by April 15th, 2009, continuing to develop and coordinate with our users to create a product that other schools want to pilot and use at their schools, while allowing individual teachers to implement this tool in their own classroom.
Our project, titled Alight Learning, is currently trying to win a competition for startup funding on ideablob.com. You can find us at http://ideablob.com/3975 . We would love your support in the form of a vote within the next couple days, but more importantly we'd love your feedback and comments. Our description on Ideablob is short, and even the one above hardly gets at many of the issues we would like to take a stab at solving, but at least it's a start.
Feel free to email me back, check out alightlearning.com, anything you like!
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Alyshia Olsen
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Yeah, saw that, thanks for highlighting it though.
Good to be part of the group! Cheers Tim.
Congrats!
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I am still taking my time to browse through your page,would you mind telling me how long you have been teaching?
i'm a will be teacher from Nigeria,hoping to commence work by September.
Can i send you an invite?
i have been making preparations for my new career as a teacher,I'm very much interested in learning more on intergrating IT into the classroom, as a young teacher, i would love to bring out the best in my students!
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