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

Thu Jun 23 11:45:59 EST 2005

Hi Ros,

I'm a bit perplexed. Are you the driver of Moodle and don't have admin
access? 

Phil Brown
Oxley College
9727 9917

>>> Meadows.Roslyn.M at edumail.vic.gov.au 22/6/2005 10:35:22 pm >>>

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 

ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au 
on behalf of Marshall, Graham F
Wed 22/06/2005 7:23
PM
Year 12 Information Technology Processing and Management
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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

ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au on behalf of
Greg Bowden
Wed 6/22/2005 12:15 PM
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Year 7 - 10 Information Technology Teachers' Mailing
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[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>><<
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