[Year 12 IPM] OT: VELS ICT
Wayne Hewett
staffwhe at rsc.vic.edu.au
Sun Oct 29 19:06:38 EST 2006
It is essential then that every aspect of student network use must be tied to a reference year... eg. students who started in year 7 this year must have their home folder in a user directory labelled 2006. All network storage associated with their work must stored in this directory and never altered for their entire school life. Compulsory folders can be established by the admin when creating each student's home drive/folder.
Has anyone come across a cheap commercial package that will allow students the flexibility to add content to their folio at school or at home and take pressure off the school to maintain backups etc.?
Perhaps this discussion should move to the OT list.
Wayne Hewett
>>> bell.cameron.p at edumail.vic.gov.au >>>
I reckon the year to year bit you mention is very important. Instead of
kids tossing out their books at the end of the year as some are want to
do, it enables a real sense of progression if they are storing their
work digitally. The ease with which they can access the previous years
work can allow a real sense of building on previous knowledge too. The
ideal situation would be if all their work was recorded, but at the
moment I think the "best of" concept is all I can reasonably aim for.
Roland Gesthuizen wrote:
> I quite agree that it is important to let students take ownership of
> their digital portfolios.
>
> I ask them to save positive samples of their work (odt docs, sdr
> images, mp3 audio, mp4 video, GameMaker files etc) into a folder then
> create a web page that weaves links to the resources and a reflective
> dialogue using a html editor. We use the Open Source NVU html editor
> that allows even allows for remote updating on our Novell network and
> can run from the USB key. It is a low tech solution, free to use at
> home and can be repeated each year .. becoming a kind of 'MySpace on a
> Stick' that they can take home and 'publish' via an intranet link on
> their Moodle profile.
>
> The real meta-cognitive goal of course is to help them pen the words
> that reflect and build upon what they learned from each task.
>
> Regards Roland
>
>
> On 28/10/06, * fiona at balmoralhs.vic.edu.au
> <mailto:fiona at balmoralhs.vic.edu.au>* < fiona at balmoralhs.vic.edu.au
> <mailto:fiona at balmoralhs.vic.edu.au>> wrote:
>
> 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
> <mailto: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>
> [mailto: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 <mailto: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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