[Year 12 IPM] OT: VELS ICT

Sat Oct 28 11:29:05 EST 2006

I have had the year 7's create their digital portfolio's during IT this semester.  I have been able to do this because this group have had the best range of IT skills and were really competent in word, excel etc - usually I have to concentrate on these areas.

This semester we have looked at Flash, Photoshop Elements, some Office and Frontpage.  The hope is that they will feel confident enough to add to their portfolio by themselves.  I have been really impressed with what they have come up with so far.  

To me, my main aim was to get them to take ownership of their portfolios as the other staff do not have the skills to assist them during class time.  I hope that, when their teachers say "add this to your portfolio" they will have the confidence to do just that.

Fiona Bain
Balmoral High
Cameron Bell <bell.cameron.p at edumail.vic.gov.au> on Fri, 27 Oct 2006 14:10:51 +1000 wrote:
> It could simply be a network folder containing selected pieces of work
> couldn't it?
> I am umming and ahhing about whether the whole "digital porfolio" is
> worth the time involved.
> You can use web ide's to create a website styled portfolio, but my
> previous experience with Dreamweaver in doing this was that subject time
> was taken up with the creation process. Some of the other presentations
> I have seen from other schools (using similar processes) doing digital
> portfolios reinforced this.
> This was an advantage in that students learnt web-design as part of
> science and integrated the ICT really well, the downside was the
> struggle to complete the curriculum in a timeline that made no allowance
> for it.
> If time is built into the timetable to work on the creation process, it
> can be a really worthwhile process, otherwise I would simply have the
> students select some of their best pieces and store them in a seperate
> network folder, without the need for any additional time or software.
> Hmmmmm
> Cameron
> 
> Lesley Humphries wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > Now that the IPM classes are over, I've been looking more carefully at
> > the VELS stuff. From Level 3, our students are meant to be keeping a
> > digital bank of evidence... How are others going to work this? Any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks, Lesley
> >
> > > Michael,
> > >
> > > We are about to do this at Kew High School. We will use either Wax (open
> > > source) or we also have Sony Vegas Movie Studio. Our drama assistant
> > > experienced with a few different colour backgrounds and she has decided
> > > on a green colour which she matched with one of the settings from Wax.
> > >
> > > Bruce
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ________________________________
> > >
> > > From: ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au]
> > > On Behalf Of Michael Torsello (Mr)
> > > Sent: Friday, 27 October 2006 9:37 AM
> > > To: ipm at fhc.vic.edu.au
> > > Subject: [Year 12 IPM] OT: Green Screening with computers
> > >
> > > >
> > > Dear Colleagues
> > >
> > > I have an Off Topic question that I hope someone can answer.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > My Drama teacher would like to invest in some computer technology that
> > > allows for green (or blue) screen editing i.e., filming actors in front
> > > of a green screen and allowing the computer user to change the
> > > background. You would have heard of it being used in films and for
> > > weather reports.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > However we have a disagreement as to the requirements of such a project
> > > regarding software, computer specs etc.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Does anyone know of a school that has successfully implemented such a
> > > project, perhaps in their Drama or Media Studies department?
> > >
> > > I would love to hear from them, with the possibility of a visit.
> > >
> > > ----------------------------------
> > > With thanks
> > > Michael Torsello
> > > ! Director of Computing
> > > St Margaret's School, Berwick
> > > Ph: (03) 9703 8111
> > >
> > >
> > >
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