[Year 12 IPM] Re: OT Kahootz, 7-10 IT and Has VELS got it WRONG?

Thu Jun 23 04:09:46 EST 2005

What a lovely endorsement for ICT teaching Roslyn! You have both
'ground-vision' and 'helicopter-vision' being able to see your subject
area up-close-and-personal and in the wider picture.
Keep contributing in this vein please - it helps us all to keep in touch
with who we really are in this world.
Have a great break,
Keith.

On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 22:35:22 +1000, "Meadows, Roslyn M"
<Meadows.Roslyn.M at edumail.vic.gov.au> said:
> Hello all
> After reading about some of your forays into Kahootz I decided to check
> it out tonight - there are tutorials and examples on the website www
> kahootz.com.au.(teacher resources link)  (Sorry Greg) I think I will give
> it a go with my new year 8's next semester (only 2.5 weeks away!)
>  
> Meanwhile I have finally got Moodle to work - I had to beg our intranet
> administrator (a library technician) to allow me to create my own courses
> - before yesterday all I could do was edit my profile and post to a
> forum!! I have created courses for each subject I teach, also for each
> year level and the House system, and have uploaded lots of resources etc.
> As Big Kev would say "I'm excited" ! I can't wait for a few others to
> catch on.
>  
> A BIG worry if Info Tech is integrated and not a stand alone subject - we
> have to email our reports to the edumail address of the person who prints
> them out and late last week another staff member was telling me she was
> overjoyed that she had finished her reports the night before, but still
> hadn't emailed them because she had problems logging onto edumail when
> she got to school that morning. I asked her why hadn't she emailed them
> from home using her private ISP and she said "but they have to be sent to
> edumail so I can only do that from school can't I?" And to think these
> people might be teaching IT as part of their SOSE or English allotment in
> the near future!!!! To me this is totally scary. And I believe that these
> non IT teachers would find it scary too - and certainly not approach the
> teaching of ICT with anywhere near the enthusiasm of the IT teachers who
> live, breath and eat their subject for dinner! 
>  
> I find it totally unbelievable, that considering ICT is an area that is
> expanding exponentially, that VELS does not make ICT at least as
> important as either English or Maths. Even we as a group are constantly
> having to update our knowledge - how many of us had even heard of blogs,
> wikis, moodle etc say two years ago? Surely to be adequately prepared for
> the future our students need a more extensive grounding in ICT.
> Australian companies are subcontracting programming to Indian companies
> because of a shortage of skills and the rate of pay here, and the Indian
> companies are subsubcontracting the same work out to Chinese companies.
> And the reason these countries can do this programming? - because they
> began massive ICT education campaigns when they realised that it was the
> way of the future and one way to improve their economies. So more Aussie
> dollars go offshore. We will be left in the wilderness if our students
> are not given these skills.
>  
> Enough griping!
>  
> Have a wonderful wonderful holiday everyone, thank you for all your
> emails - one of my favourite (relaxing) parts of the day is getting home
> and reading through everything that comes to me via the edulists.
>  
> Cheers
> Ros Meadows
> TONS
> Bentleigh SC 
> 9579 1044
> meadows.roslyn.m at edumail.vic.gov.au
> 
> ________________________________
> 
> From: ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au on behalf of Marshall, Graham F
> Sent: Wed 22/06/2005 7:23 PM
> To: Year 12 Information Technology Processing and Management
> Teachers'Mailing List
> Subject: RE: [Year 12 IPM] Re: OT Kahootz and 7-10 IT
> 
> 
> Greg,
>  
> Used your training material before and it was fantastic. Any help with
> Kahootz will be great.
>  
> My year 8/9/10 are enjoying the program.
>  
> Regards,
>  
> Graham Marshall - Bayswater SC
> 
> ________________________________
> 
> From: ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au on behalf of Greg Bowden
> Sent: Wed 6/22/2005 12:15 PM
> To: Year 12 Information Technology Processing and Management
> Teachers'Mailing List
> Cc: Year 7 - 10 Information Technology Teachers' Mailing List
> Subject: [Year 12 IPM] Re: OT Kahootz and 7-10 IT
> 
> 
> <?fontfamily><?param Arial>Hello everyoneFurther the discussion a couple
> of weeks ago about the structure of IT in the 7-10 curriculum. I'm
> wondering what schools are doing with Kahootz. It seems to me to be a
> program that lends itself to being taught in a stand alone IT class then
> used by other KLAs once students know how to use it properly. I can't see
> KLAs at my school providing much class time for the learning of Kahootz.
> I've just started teaching Kahootz to a year 8 IT class and I am hoping
> at the end of the unit one of the other teachers of the class will set a
> project using Kahootz. I must confess to also having a personal interest
> in Kahootz. I've developed a teaching unit for it and I am trying to
> decide whether it is worth the time and effort to send a flyer to schools
> (not much use if not many schools have started to use it). So any
> feedback on your opinions of Kahootz and its use would be helpful (e-mail
> me off the list if you prefer). If you would like to have !
>  a look at some sample pages of the Kahootz unit they can be viewed at
>  <?color><?param 0000,0000,FFFD>www.gct.com.au<?/color> - then follow the
>  Kahootz link.Greg BowdenICT ManagerNorth Geelong SC<?/fontfamily>
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