[Year 12 IPM] Where do I go...

Sun Nov 19 14:02:46 EST 2006

The VITTA wiki is a great place we can all meet to discuss these things and
you can access it with your VITTA account and password.
     http://wiki.vitta.org.au

Why not contribute some posts to the following three pages.

   - ICT for visualising
thinking<http://www.vitta.org.au/wiki/ICT_for_visualising_thinking>
   - ICT for creating <http://www.vitta.org.au/wiki/ICT_for_creating>
   - ICT for communicating<http://www.vitta.org.au/wiki/ICT_for_communicating>

It is easy enough to draw upon ideas posted to a mailing list such as this
one. Here is something that I gathered together from the discussions last
month.

   - Electronic portfolios<http://www.vitta.org.au/wiki/Electronic_Portfolio>

Of course when you get to dig down into the depths of a topic you will
probably reach a layer that might interest other educators. At that point it
is probably worth just adding it to the larger Wikipedia pool and creating a
link across. Similarly, let the VCAA be the authority for VELS and create a
reference link back to their website where appropriate. When you add any new
content, watch your bias and recognize the NPOV policy used by Wikipedia.

Regards Roland

On 16/11/06, Brendyn Hancock <hancobr at nagle.sale.catholic.edu.au> wrote:
>
>  Great idea Andrew. It just triggered another thought. If its good enough
> for the vels then surely we should be doing it as well.
>
> Does anyone have the ability to set up a wiki that could be used for us
> all to contribute an explanation/definition of each standard.
>
> Brendyn
>
>  Brendyn Hancock
> IT Manager
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> >>> grimshaw.andrew.j at edumail.vic.gov.au 16/11/2006 11:49 am >>>
> HI
>
> i agree that the standards are written in pretty heavy jargon - maybe we
> should post up the text of the standards and start discussing how we
> interpret them? I'll start the first one below
>
> in my school i am coming to create projects (next year), in collaboration
> with  teachers from  other KLAs, to ensure we meet all the standards
>
> I will of course share these projects with the list.
>
> Level 5: ICT for visualising thinking "Students select and apply ICT tools
> and editing functions that support the filtering, classifying, representing
> and organising of ideas, concepts and issues. "
>
> As a maths/science teacher my first thought reading this one was using
> excel to analyse data, create averages, etc and produce charts. We also use
> some physics data-logging software in yr9-10 that works in will with this.
> The art staff use digital portfolios (powerpoint/producer)- the students
> collect images of their own work and intersperse it with images and text
> from art history/theory to show how what they have learnt and how it has
> influenced their work. I think Powerpoint in general is a good application
> for this standard in the humanities as long as the kids are actually being
> selective with the info and are presenting it in some kind of logical
> order. Webpage creation is also a good application for this standard (here
> this is currently only! done by about 30% of 9-10s and no 7-8s)
>
> Anyway these are my ramblings. What does everyone else think?
>
> andrew grimshaw
> colac college
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Brendyn Hancock <hancobr at nagle.sale.catholic.edu.au>
> *To:* ipm at edulists.com.au
> *Sent:* Thursday, November 16, 2006 8:35 AM
> *Subject:* [Year 12 IPM] Where do I go...
>
> All
>
> I have been posting around IPM, VELS, 7-10IT, lists for the last little
> while but with little results. I'm not sure as to the reason but have very
> little response to what I thought would be a really relatable thread. Help
> with VELS.
>
> I accept that I'm a little slow and it has taken me a while to begin to
> understand VELS and its structure but I find it difficult to imagine that
> I'm the only one struggling with the interpretation and implementation of
> it.
>
> When I read the Standards for the ICT domain there are lots of gaps in my
> understanding. I appreciated greatly the Standards Audit sheets that Andrew
> contributed last week but I struggle to understand what they are asking. I
> gave these sheets to 3 faculties to fill out and all of them came back to me
> saying "what the...."
>
> Thanks to all those that participated in the 'progression points' thread
> of a week bk. This is real help. I don't want to go to another vels in
> service day where someone just stands up the front and reads out the
> standards again.
>
> Has VITTA published anything on interpreting the standards...
> Has VCAA anything to offer here...
>
> I'm after VELs for dummies but as yet have not found the publisher to buy
> it from.
>
> Thanks
>
> Regards
>
> Brendyn
>
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