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SUMMARY:Secondary Schools Study Tour: Successful integration of ICT in Secondary  \n Schools Program
DTSTAMP:20120519T210422Z
DTSTART:20120524T230000Z
DTEND:20120525T053000Z
URL;VALUE=URI:http://ictev.vic.edu.au/pd/2012/05/25/secondary-schools-study-tour-successful-integration-ict-secondary-schools-program
LOCATION:Commences at Glen Waverley Secondary College 21 O'Sullivan Road Glen Waverley  \n 3150Australia 37° 52' 42.096" S\, 145° 9' 48.8376" E See map: Google Maps  \n [1]\n \n [1] http://maps.google.com?q=21+O%27Sullivan+Road%2C+Glen+Waverley%2C+%2C+3150%2C+au
DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to offer this study tour progam as part of our State  \n Conference program to assist with ideas for you to integrate ICT into your  \n secondary school program. The format of the study tour is to visit three  \n schools in the bus provided in one day\, providing a great opportunity to join  \n with fellow teachers\, share ideas and see what other schools do. They are  \n days for observation and allow you to discuss the various approaches being  \n used with ICT in the classroom to achieve exciting outcomes in student  \n performance.\n \n This tour provides educators with the opportunity to see programs in action  \n at Glen Waverley Secondary College\, John Monash Science School and Lilydale  \n High School. The three schools will provide detailed overviews of the  \n planning that went into their successful implementation of ICT. Each school  \n takes a varying pathway in the integration of ICT into the curriculum\, which  \n provides participants with choices and alternatives to consider for their own  \n situations. In this tour\, along with other aspects\, there is an emphasis on  \n the integration of iPads in the Year 7 and 8 classroom\, observing 'A Learning  \n Inquiry' approach to teaching and learning\, the value of Personalising  \n Learning and the benefits of WiFi technology and a multi-device solution.\n \n *Itinerary*\n \n Meet at Glen Waverley Secondary College\, 21 O'Sullivan Road\, Glen Waverley  \n for a 9am start.\n \n 9.00\n *Glen Waverley Secondary College - Host: Colin Warner\, Assistant Principal*\n Teaching spaces\, Endeavour program and 1:1 laptop program\n \n Glen Waverley Secondary College has invested heavily in ICT to assist with  \n the transformation of teacher practice and provide enhanced learning outcomes  \n for students. The College is a vibrant learning community of over 2000  \n students and 140 teachers and ICT is infused into innovative learning spaces  \n designed to support the potential of learning opportunities for the 21st  \n century. \n \n Participants will have the opportunity to visit classrooms\, observe learning  \n space design and engage in dialogue with leaders\, teachers and students.  \n There will be a focus on exploring and discussing the elements that lead to  \n successful eLearning planning and implementation. The College is currently  \n implementing its Endeavour Program which seeks to provide a 1:1 netbook  \n program congruent with the teaching and learning vision. The College  \n overview\, tour and reflection session aims to serve as a catalyst for open  \n dialogue amongst participants about the successes and challenges of  \n harnessing ICT as a powerful learning tool in their respective schools.\n \n 11.00\n *John Monash Science School - Host: Neil Carmona-Vickery\, eLeadership\,  \n eResources & eLearning Coordinator*\n WiFi and A Multi-device Solution\n \n John Monash Science School was built to specialise in the teaching and  \n learning of the sciences\, with all classes team-taught in open-learning  \n spaces. A high-throughput wireless network services all staff and students\,  \n thereby allowing an unparalleled level of flexibility of access to digital  \n learning materials. The school has recently transitioned from a 1:1 Tablet  \n Program to a Multi-Device Solution where smart phones\, iPads and laptops are  \n used by students when and where it suits their needs. Multiple cloud-based  \n platforms and solutions support the management of school administration as  \n well as providing the digital resources required to enrich each learner’s  \n experience.\n \n Your tour will examine many of these initiatives and allow for questions and  \n discussion. Lunch will be provided prior to departure.\n \n 1.30\n *Lilydale High School  - Host: Bonnie Ahles*\n "Bring your own technology" program\n \n Lilydale High School has been providing a technology rich environment for  \n students for more than ten years.  As a secondary school with almost 2000  \n students\, providing equitable access and flexibility has always been a  \n priority.  Currently they have almost 1000 iPads being used by students in  \n Years 7 and 8 and are taking a ‘Bring Your Own Technology’ approach for  \n Years 9 to 12. \n \n This session includes a school tour\, which highlights the robust wireless  \n access for iPads\, global printing solutions\, and classroom visits.  The  \n library at LHS plays a key role in supporting technology and they will  \n explain the set up of the eBook collection and use of other digital  \n resources.  Participants will be given an overview of the ICT program for  \n Year 7 students and examples of how technology is embedded into the Common  \n Assessment Tasks\, three way conferences and digital portfolios.
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SUMMARY:ICTEV Leadership Day with Alan November
DTSTAMP:20120519T210422Z
DTSTART:20120524T230000Z
DTEND:20120525T063000Z
URL;VALUE=URI:http://ictev.vic.edu.au/pd/2012/05/25/ictev-leadership-day-alan-november
LOCATION:Higgins Theatrette\, Nigel Peck Leadership Centre\, Melbourne Grammar School  \n Domain Road Melbourne 3004Australia See map: Google Maps [1]\n \n [1] http://maps.google.com?q=Domain+Road%2C+Melbourne%2C+%2C+3004%2C+au
DESCRIPTION:Our schools are at the beginning of a historic transition from paper as the  \n dominant storage and retrieval media to the web. Too many schools are  \n undertaking an implementation strategy that merely bolts technology onto the  \n current design of school. This is a low yield results process. Contrast this  \n '$1\,000 pencil' approach with how society is transforming how\, where\, when\,  \n with whom\, and even why people work. Life long learning\, global  \n communications skills\, managing overwhelming amounts of information have  \n become critical job skills.\n \n Join Alan November for a day\, in a smaller hands-on workshop group setting\,  \n exploring and asking the critical questions that school leaders today\, such  \n as:\n \n  * How do we retain our educational and social values during this transition?\n  * How do we redesign the culture of learning from a classroom with walls to\n    every classroom expanding to global boundaries?\n  * How do we build capacity within our schools for massive opportunities for\n    professional development?\n  * How do we engage our parent community\, board and alumni as strategic\n    partners in this transformation?\n  * What should every student know to be prepared to make meaningful\n    contributions to society?\n  * What is the emerging definitions of life-long learning?\n  * How can we design more motivating and rigorous student work?\n  * What is the balance of online learning with face-to-face learning?\n \n *Technical Requirements*\n \n Please bring your own full charged laptop or iPad to this day long workshop.  \n Please ensure that your laptop or mobile device can accept another wireless  \n network to connect to the internet.\n \n *About Alan November*\n \n Alan November is an international leader in education technology. He began  \n his career as an oceanography teacher and dorm counsellor at an island reform  \n school for boys in Boston Harbour. He has been director of an alternative  \n high school\, computer coordinator\, technology consultant\, and university  \n lecturer. He has helped schools\, governments and industry leaders improve the  \n quality of education through technology. Audiences enjoy Alan's humour and  \n wit as he pushes the boundaries of how to improve teaching and learning. His  \n areas of expertise include planning across the curriculum\, staff development\,  \n new school design\, community building and leadership development. He has  \n delivered keynotes and workshops in all 50 states\, across Canada\, and  \n throughout the UK\, Europe\, Asia\, Central America and Australia. Alan was  \n named one of the nation's 15 most influential thinkers of the decade by  \n /Technology and Learning Magazine/. In 2011\, he was listed as one of eight  \n educators to provide leadership into the future by the Einsenhower National  \n Clearinghouse. In 2007 he was selected to speak at the Cisco Public Services  \n Summit during the Nobel Prize Festivities in Stockholm\, Sweden. His writing  \n includes numerous articles and two best-selling books\, /Empowering Students  \n with Technology/ and /Web Literacy for Educators/. Alan was co-founder of the  \n Stanford Institute for Educational Leadership Through Technology and is most  \n proud of being selected as one of the original five national Christa  \n McAuliffe Educators.\n \n Each summer Alan leads the Building Learning Communities summer conference  \n with world-class presenters and international participants.\n \n Visit novemberlearning.com [1] for more details.\n \n Watch Alan's TEDxNYED Talk [2] focused on students adding value to their  \n classrooms and the world.\n \n \n \n [1] http://novemberlearning.com\n [2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebJHzpEy4bE
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SUMMARY:ICTEV 2012: Creative Connections State Conference
DTSTAMP:20120519T210422Z
DTSTART:20120525T213000Z
DTEND:20120526T083000Z
URL;VALUE=URI:http://ictev.vic.edu.au/pd/2012/05/26/ictev-2012-creative-connections-state-conference
LOCATION:Melbourne Grammar School\, Wadhurst Campus Domain Road Melbourne 3000Australia  \n See map: Google Maps [1]\n \n [1] http://maps.google.com?q=Domain+Road%2C+Melbourne%2C+%2C+3000%2C+au
DESCRIPTION:Saturday 26th May 2012\, Melbourne Grammar School \n Wadhurst Campus\, Domain Road\, Melbourne\n \n *Conference Theme*\n \n The theme of our conference is/* Creative Connections*/. Creativity is the  \n driving force behind a significant amount of ICT use in schools. Creativity  \n is achieved when teachers design authentic tasks for their students that are  \n embedded in the real world\, tasks with a real purpose and a real audience.  \n Typically\, creativity and ICT are connected when tasks cross displines and  \n involve a diverse range of perspectives and approaches.\n \n *Keynote Speaker*\n \n ICTEV 2012 Creative Connections keynote speaker is Alan November. Alan  \n November is an international leader in education technology. He began his  \n career as an oceanography teacher and dorm counsellor at an island reform  \n school for boys in Boston Harbour. He has been director of an alterative high  \n school\, computer coordinator\, technology consultant\, and university lecturer.  \n He has helped schools\, governments and indusry leaders improve the quality of  \n education through technology. Audiences enjoy Alan's humour and wit as he  \n pushes the boundaries of how to improve teaching and learning. His areas of  \n expertise include planning across the curriculum\, staff development\, new  \n school design\, community building and leadership development. He has  \n delivered keynotes and workshops in all 50 states\, across Canada\, and  \n throughout the UK\, Europe\, Asia\, Central America and Australia.\n \n With over 70 presentations and workshops to choose from\, this conference  \n promises to deliver to principals\, ICT leaders\, primary\, secondary\, and  \n teritary educators\, technicians and specialists\, a range of hands-on and  \n practical sessions that will allow conference delegates to explore and  \n examine best practice examples across the entire curriculum. See first hand  \n what is topical and exciting in the areas of ICT in education and new  \n approaches to technology that can enhance learning\, all in one day.\n \n *Conference attendance costs*\n \n  * ICTEV Member $230\n  * ICTEV Country Member $180\n  * Non Member $279\n  * Pre Service Teachers $49\n  * First Conference Presenters and Second Co Presenters $0\n  * Third Conference Co Presenters $70
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SUMMARY:Primary School Study Tour: ICT for literacy and numeracy
DTSTAMP:20120519T210422Z
DTSTART:20120528T230000Z
DTEND:20120529T053000Z
URL;VALUE=URI:http://ictev.vic.edu.au/pd/2012/05/29/primary-school-study-tour-ict-literacy-and-numeracy
LOCATION:Starts at Carey Baptist Grammar School 9 Era Court DonvaleAustralia 37° 46'  \n 20.4564" S\, 145° 11' 10.2264" E See map: Google Maps [1]\n \n [1] http://maps.google.com?q=9+Era+Court%2C+Donvale%2C+%2C+%2C+au
DESCRIPTION:Enhancing outcomes in literacy and numeracy are key goals for all primary  \n schools. In this tour you will observe how three schools have addressed this  \n challenge through the use of ICT. These schools are excited about the  \n potential of ICT to reshape teaching and learning processes and contribute  \n significantly to enhancing learning outcomes.\n \n Join your fellow teachers on this study tour of three leading schools in the  \n Eastern and Northern Regions which are successfully integrating ICT into  \n their curriculum. This is a day about sharing ideas and seeing what other  \n schools do. As one teacher wrote about a previous tour\, "The thing that  \n struck me the most was that there is no right way of integrating ICT into the  \n curriculum\, there are many right ways". The tour includes travel by bus from  \n Carey to the remaining two schools and return to Carey at the end of the  \n tour.\n \n This is a day for observation of students in classrooms and discussion of the  \n implementation of programs and their budgetary implications. This tour has  \n the added interest of highlighting the different uses of teaching spaces in  \n primary settings. Both staff and students at schools visited on the tour are  \n using iPods and iPads for class management and student assessment purposes\,  \n film making using green screen\, game making\, Lego robotics\, and ICTs in Maths  \n Extension. Many of these initiatives will be explored on this tour.\n \n Following previous successful tours within the metropolitan area\, we are  \n pleased to offer this study tour again to assist with ideas for your whole  \n school approach to the integration of ICT into your school. Final details of  \n each school's program will be posted shortly.\n \n Schools to be visited:\n \n  * Carey Baptist Grammar School\n  * Doncaster Gardens Primary School\n  * Fitzroy North Primary School\n \n *Itinerary*\n \n *9.00am\n Carey Baptist Grammar School (Junior School Donvale)\n 9 Era Court Donvale - Please note carefully the parking arrangements\n Hosts: Nathan Jones\, year 5 Teacher / E-Learning Advisor and Apple  \n Distinguished Educator*\n \n Your visit to Carey Donvale will involve exploring and observing first hand  \n the Apple iPad 1 to 1 Program that has been introduced to Year 5 this year.  \n You will hear how the iPads are being used to support student learning\,  \n assist in engaging\, enhancing and empowering the students and their  \n individual needs / creativity. In one Year 5 classroom will witness Writing  \n in Literacy\, through the use of augmented reality\, QR codes and various  \n applications such as\; BookCreator\, Pages\, keynote\, iBooks and other  \n innovative apps that empower students to write and become authors. The other  \n Year 5 class will be demonstrating how the iPad is being used during  \n Mathematics as a 'Learning Companion' through applications such as MathBoard\,  \n School A to Z\, Art Apps to assist in manipulating equations and emailing work  \n to students as PDFs to assist in completing tasks. This class will also  \n illustrate how effective the iPad has become in empowering students to learn  \n from each other through the sharing of tutorials through an application call  \n ShowMe interactive and QR codes. There will be plenty of opportunities to  \n observe and enquire about the learning that has occurred since the  \n implementation of the iPad to Year 5.\n \n *11.00am\n Doncaster Gardens Primary School\n Host: Sue McLelland*\n \n With a stable school poulation of about 500 children\, the school is situated  \n in a landscaped and well shaded playground environment in Doncaster East.  \n Doncaster Garden can truly be called a multi-cultural community with students  \n from Australian\, European\, Asian\, AFrican and Middle Eastern backgrounds. On  \n arrival you will be introduced to Doncaster Gardens Primary School and its  \n profile and implications for the teaching and learning program. In  \n particular\, we will discuss the ICT crurriculum\, its evoluation\, the current  \n program and future initiatives. Sue will detil the classrooms to be visited  \n and the programs you will observe. It is aniticipated that you will see in  \n action the robotics with the Year 4's in the ICT Centre\, iPods in the Prep  \n classroom\, iPads in Maths Year 5\, Game Making with Kodu in Year 6 in the  \n Senior Learning Unit\, and finally ICT in (Chinese) Language Learning in th  \n Chinese Culture Room. We will conclude for a debriefing to provide an  \n opportunity for questions\, contibutions and reflection. Lunch will be  \n provided and then on the bus to Fitzroy North Primary School.\n \n *1.30pm\n Fitzroy North Primary School\n Hosts: Kynan Robinson and Kristen Swenson*\n \n Your visit to North Fitzroy Primary School will showcase the various ways  \n blogging is used from Prep to Year 6. At North Fitzroy Primary School every  \n class has its own blog and every student from Year 3 to 6 has an individual  \n blog. In the lower levels you will witness teachers using their class blogs  \n to model\, collaborate and comunicate. This communication is between teacher  \n and student\, parents\, other classes and the wider community. In the upper  \n levesl the students ahve their own personal blogs which are tailored to meet  \n their niche interests. They will demonstrate to you networked learning\,  \n effective use of commenting \, connecting to communities\, writing posts to  \n elicit discussion\, modelling effective design and creation of content for  \n their own blogs. We will also demonstration how we use gaming in education  \n ranging from games on hand held devises to serious gaming and game making. In  \n the Year 5/6 area we will demonstration how a game can be used to teach a  \n curriculum areas\, and develop students personal learning and relfective  \n practices. Time will be allocated for questions and general discussion.
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SUMMARY:Introducing a Digital Culture of Thinking
DTSTAMP:20120519T210422Z
DTSTART:20120606T233000Z
DTEND:20120607T053000Z
URL;VALUE=URI:http://ictev.vic.edu.au/pd/2012/06/07/introducing-digital-culture-thinking
LOCATION:Statewide Resources Centre 150 Palmerston St Carlton 3053Australia 37° 47'  \n 45.906" S\, 144° 58' 12.2556" E See map: Google Maps [1]\n \n [1] http://maps.google.com?q=150+Palmerston+St%2C+Carlton%2C+%2C+3053%2C+au
DESCRIPTION:Anyone can learn to use digital technology and web2.0 tools.  Using these  \n technologies in the most suitable way to enhance thinking and learning  \n combines appropriate modelling\, providing opportunities and developing  \n relationships with clear\, challenging and achievable expectations.  It is  \n also imperative to use relevant language\, establish a collaborative  \n environment\, implement classroom and thinking routines and provide sufficient  \n time.\n \n Creating a Digital Culture of Thinking is a one day workshop designed to  \n introduce educators in how to implement Harvard’s Cultures of Thinking  \n cultural forces within a classroom environment while blending digital  \n technology within this flexible thinking framework.  This one day workshop  \n provides the opportunity for educators to learn\, practice and apply a digital  \n culture of thinking within a specific lesson or unit of study.\n \n The target year levels for this workshop are primary and middle years\, up to  \n year 9.\n \n Course participants will:\n \n  * Promote\, support\, and model creative and innovative thinking and\n    inventiveness.\n  * Explore student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify\n    students' conceptual understanding and thinking\, planning\, and creative\n    processes.\n  * Model collaborative knowledge construction by engaging in learning with\n    students\, colleagues\, and others in a face-to-face environment.\n  * Create or adapt relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital\n    tools and resources to promote student learning and creativity.\n  * Develop technology-enriched thinking and learning environments.\n  * Plan a unit of study that blends a thinking routine with a web2.0 tool.\n \n *Requirements*\n \n Participants should bring a laptop and information or curriculum about a unit  \n of study they plan on teaching to this session.
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SUMMARY:A hitchhikers guide to integrating technology into your professional learning  \n life
DTSTAMP:20120519T210422Z
DTSTART:20120611T233000Z
DTEND:20120612T053000Z
URL;VALUE=URI:http://ictev.vic.edu.au/pd/2012/06/12/hitchhikers-guide-integrating-technology-your-professional-learning-life
LOCATION:Statewide Resources Centre 150 Palmerston Street Carlton 3053Australia 37°  \n 47' 45.906" S\, 144° 58' 12.2556" E See map: Google Maps [1]\n \n [1] http://maps.google.com?q=150+Palmerston+Street%2C+Carlton%2C+%2C+3053%2C+au
DESCRIPTION:This hands-on workshop is a day for teachers who are keen on looking at how  \n they can integrate ICT not just into the learning life of their students but  \n for ther own professional learning as well. The main aims of the workshop are  \n for teachers to be expose to various tools that will allow them to generate  \n their own powerful personal learning network as well as critically evaluate  \n the role of various technologies in their classrooms using the TPACK model.\n \n *Building your PLN*\n \n Personal Learning Networks allow educators to work together to share and  \n collectively construct knowledge\, extending ideas and resources for teachers.  \n Teachers will look at the power of networking via Web 2.0 tools such as  \n Twitter and Diigo.\n \n Through these tools participants will form their own personal netowrk  \n initially with other participants and then with educators outside of the  \n session. They will also be given enough time to tinker and play as well as  \n completing a number of fun challenges/projects so that they will become  \n confident users of both of these tools.\n \n *Embedding the tech*\n \n Through the lens of the TPACK model\, participants will look at how they can  \n repurpose various technologies and then seamlessly embed them into their  \n learning programs to effectively support student learning. TPACK will act as  \n a springboard which will allow participants to reflect on what they do and  \n don't know about technology\, pedagogy and content knowledge and how these  \n three strands fit together.\n \n Teachers will also begin to use the PLN they created in the first session as  \n a resource to extend their learnin about integrating ICT in general as well  \n as gaining a criical understanding of the TPACK model.\n \n *Technical requirements*\n \n Please bring your own laptop to this workshop and ensure that it will accept  \n a wireless network.
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SUMMARY:Scratchematics – Teaching mathematics through Scratch
DTSTAMP:20120519T210422Z
DTSTART:20120612T233000Z
DTEND:20120613T053000Z
URL;VALUE=URI:http://ictev.vic.edu.au/pd/2012/06/13/scratchematics-%E2%80%93-teaching-mathematics-through-scratch
LOCATION:Statewide Resources Centre 150 Palmerston St Carlton 3053Australia 37° 47'  \n 45.906" S\, 144° 58' 12.2556" E See map: Google Maps [1]\n \n [1] http://maps.google.com?q=150+Palmerston+St%2C+Carlton%2C+%2C+3053%2C+au
DESCRIPTION:What computers lack in intelligence\, they make up for with obedience.  \n  Writing computer programs means writing instructions that will make the  \n computer follow and run a program based on those instructions.  This is  \n known as computer programming.\n \n Scratch is a programming language that provides opportunities for users to  \n create interactive stories\, animations\, games\, music\, and art.  Scratch  \n users learn mathematical and computational concepts in a creative and logical  \n environment.\n \n Scratchematics is a one day course designed to provide upper primary school  \n educators with an understanding as to how to teach mathematical learning  \n areas within the National Curriculum through Scratch.  \n \n Course participants will:\n \n  * Promote\, support\, and model creative and innovative thinking and\n    inventiveness.\n  * Explore student-directed learning using a web2.0 tool.\n  * Develop student reasoning and communication skills as students think\n    creatively and apply a range of different strategies to solve problems.\n  * Model collaborative knowledge construction by engaging in learning with\n    students\, colleagues\, and others in a face-to-face environment.\n  * Create or adapt relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital\n    tools and resources to promote student learning and creativity.\n  * Plan a unit of study that blends a mathematical concept with a web2.0\n    tool.\n \n *Requirements:*\n \n Participants should bring their own laptop with Scratch installed. You can  \n download Scratch for free  \n from http://info.scratch.mit.edu/Scratch_1.4_Download [1] . Please ensure  \n the software is installed and tested prior to coming to the workshop.\n \n Participants should also bring information or curriculum about a unit of  \n study they plan on teaching.\n \n \n [1] http://info.scratch.mit.edu/Scratch_1.4_Download
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SUMMARY:Primary School Study Tour: ICT for literacy and numeracy
DTSTAMP:20120519T210422Z
DTSTART:20120806T230000Z
DTEND:20120807T053000Z
URL;VALUE=URI:http://ictev.vic.edu.au/pd/2012/08/07/primary-school-study-tour-ict-literacy-and-numeracy
LOCATION:Starts at Carey Baptist Grammar School\, 9 Era Court\, Donvale 9 Era Court  \n Donvale\, VIC 3111Australia 37° 46' 20.4564" S\, 145° 11' 10.2264" E See map:  \n Google Maps [1]\n \n [1] http://maps.google.com?q=9+Era+Court%2C+Donvale%2C+VIC%2C+3111%2C+au
DESCRIPTION:Enhancing outcomes in literacy and numeracy are key goals for all primary  \n schools. In this tour you will observe how three schools have addressed this  \n challenge through the use of ICT. These schools are excited about the  \n potential of ICT to reshape teaching and learning processes and contribute  \n significantly to enhancing learning outcomes.\n \n Join your fellow teachers on this study tour of three leading schools in the  \n Eastern and Northern Regions which are successfully integrating ICT into  \n their curriculum. This is a day about sharing ideas and seeing what other  \n schools do. As one teacher wrote about a previous tour\, "The thing that  \n struck me the most was that there is no right way of integrating ICT into the  \n curriculum\, there are many right ways". The tour includes travel by bus from  \n Carey to the remaining two schools and return to Carey at the end of the  \n tour.\n \n This is a day for observation of student in classrooms and discussion of the  \n implementation of programs and their budgetary implications. This tour has  \n the added interest of highlighting the different uses of teaching spaces in  \n primary settings. Both staff and students at schools visited on the tour are  \n using iPods and iPads for class management and student assessment purposes\,  \n film making using green screen\, game making\, Lego robotics\, and ICTs in Maths  \n Extension. Many of these initiatives will be explored on this tour.\n \n Following previous successful tours within the metropolitan area\, we are  \n pleased to offer this study tour again to assist with ideas for your whole  \n school approach to the integration of ICT into your school.\n \n Schools to be visited:\n \n  * Carey Baptist Grammar School\n  * Doncaster Gardens Primary School\n  * Fitzroy North Primary School\n \n *Itinerary*\n \n *9.00am\n Carey Baptist Grammar School (Junior School Donvale)\n 9 Era Court Donvale - Please note carefully the parking arrangements\n Hosts: Nathan Jones\, Year 5 Teacher / E-Learning Advisor and Apple  \n Distinguised Educator*\n \n Your visit to Carey Donvale will involve exploring and observing first hand  \n the Apple iPad 1 to 1 Program that has been introduced to Year 5 this year.  \n You will hear how the iPads are being used to support student learning\,  \n assist in engaging\, enhancing and empowering the students and their  \n individual needs / creativity. In one Year 5 classroom you will witness  \n Writing in Literacy\, through the use of augmented reality\, QR codes and  \n various applications such as\; BookCreator\, Pages\, Keynote\, iBooks and other  \n innovative apps that empower students to write and become authors. The other  \n Year 5 class will be demonstrating how the iPad is being used during  \n Mathematics as a 'Learning Companion' through applications such as MathBoard\,  \n School A to Z\, Art Apps to assist in manipulating equations and emailing work  \n to students as PDFs to assist in completing tasks. This class will also  \n illustrate how effective the iPad has become in empowering students to learn  \n from each other through the sharing of tutorials through an application  \n called ShowMe Interactive and QR codes. There willb eplenty of opportunities  \n to observe and enquire about the learning that has occurred since the  \n implementation of the iPad to Year 5.\n \n *11.00am\n Doncaster Gardens Primary School\n Host: Sue McLelland*\n \n With a stable school poulation of about 500 children\, the school is situated  \n in a landscaped and well shaded playground environment in Doncaster East.  \n Doncaster Garden can truly be called a multi-cultural community with students  \n from Australian\, European\, Asian\, AFrican and Middle Eastern backgrounds. On  \n arrival you will be introduced to Doncaster Gardens Primary School and its  \n profile and implications for the teaching and learning program. In  \n particular\, we will discuss the ICT crurriculum\, its evoluation\, the current  \n program and future initiatives. Sue will detil the classrooms to be visited  \n and the programs you will observe. It is aniticipated that you will see in  \n action the robotics with the Year 4's in the ICT Centre\, iPods in the Prep  \n classroom\, iPads in Maths Year 5\, Game Making with Kodu in Year 6 in the  \n Senior Learning Unit\, and finally ICT in (Chinese) Language Learning in th  \n Chinese Culture Room. We will conclude for a debriefing to provide an  \n opportunity for questions\, contibutions and reflection. Lunch will be  \n provided and then on the bus to Fitzroy North Primary School.\n \n *1.30pm\n Fitzroy North Primary School\n Hosts: Kynan Robinson and Kristen Swenson*\n \n Your visit to North Fitzroy Primary School will showcase the various ways  \n blogging is used from Prep to Year 6. At North Fitzroy Primary School every  \n class has its own blog and every student from Year 3 to 6 has an individual  \n blog. In the lower levels you will witness teachers using their class blogs  \n to model\, collaborate and comunicate. This communication is between teacher  \n and student\, parents\, other classes and the wider community. In the upper  \n levesl the students ahve their own personal blogs which are tailored to meet  \n their niche interests. They will demonstrate to you networked learning\,  \n effective use of commenting \, connecting to communities\, writing posts to  \n elicit discussion\, modelling effective design and creation of content for  \n their own blogs. We will also demonstration how we use gaming in education  \n ranging from games on hand held devises to serious gaming and game making. In  \n the Year 5/6 area we will demonstration how a game can be used to teach a  \n curriculum areas\, and develop students personal learning and relfective  \n practices. Time will be allocated for questions and general discussion.\n \n  
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