eLearning inVirtual Classrooms

ICTEV In Touch Conference 2011Anne Mirtschin

What if?

• Students can come to school without leaving home or hospital?

• Students could ask all those questions they have immediately ?

• We could encourage the quietest of students to have ‘a voice’?

• We could blend our classrooms vertically and horizontally?

• Flip our classrooms?• Enable powerful 24/7 learning?

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Who’s that in our Classroom?

Earth Science WeekYoung C Y Ng: Hong Kong GeoPark

Ian Lewis

Two guest virtual speakers – one from Hong Kong;one from South Australia using elluminate to present toYears 2 to 12, across schools and countries.

The chat/backChannel

Provides • sharing of experience• sharing of opinion• a platform for discussion• an outlet for questions• an opportunity for feedback• Enables peer to peer mentoring

• Participants have lots of questions• The quietest students can be the most vocal in

chat • Engages students as they can interact actively• Misbehaviour, any bullying is easily identified• Record of achievement, misunderstandings,

degree of interaction etc• Leads to deeper understanding of students

The Questions!

From the chat!...Kanawinka presentation on local volcanoes and wildlife:

• Wow• Turtle: sick as• Ha look at that!• Turtle: been here• Grade 2/3 Woodford: Could you tell us more about the

sink hole Ian?• Cara hawk: hey bj they probally go through records

from when they first evolved

And also....• Joshua: i like red rock• i hAVE BEEN UP THEIR• we are going there soon• It's pretty :)• do you know where mt eccells??• water looks awesome• Looks good to swim in ;)• wow thats blue, how did it get blue?• do you know where mt eccells is??• How many years ago did the volcano at Mt Gambier erupt?• Theres heaps of thoose rocks in Hawkesdale and Penshurst• James to Turtle: caught a barracuda there

And the Bats!

• Cara hawk: his wing looks like it's going to brake• 4B DGPS: what age do the bats learn to fly?• Billy-Jo Hawk: Did it try to escape from you?• Grade 2/3 Woodford: How many teeth do bats have?• Trevo hawk: what happen to it eye• Cara hawk: how easy is it to brake a bats wing• smithy: arent they posisoness• Grade 2/3 Woodford: What do bats feel like?• jasmine .j: do they hurt• scottinea: are the bats dead or did u catch them alive?• Grade 2/3 Woodford: What do bats eat?• 4B DGPS: are they really blind?• Billy-Jo Hawk: Is there black bats, like full black?• Moderator (Miss Iro, Mrs Gow and year 6/7): do bats carry any diseases• Grade 2/3 Woodford: What sort of fauna and flora live in the sinkholes?

“You cannot ask questions of textbooks”

Friends of the Earth

All learners in one classroom!

Hong Kong visitors take over the teaching, using the whiteboard whilst presentation is uploading!

Meeting the Minister for FinanceListening to members of the Melbourne

Symphony Orchestra

Asian Connections

Taman Burkitt Maluri School, Kuala Lumpur

Using the Whiteboard

How are you feeling in a colour?

Say hello – Malaysian students and Aus students in one classroom

What skills are important to learn?

What symbol best describes your country?

The emu

Flatclassroom Project Student SummitGlobal Education Conference

Students from China and Australia share learning and experiences in the one classroom, offering advice to each other etc.

Global Classrooms- School’s in at 9pm!

Students from Germany, China and Australia all in the one classroom with their teachers!

Grade 6 student teaches year 10 IT classHalloween

The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

•Demonstrating instruments•Answering questions•Recording short clips for students to create musical stories

Ping Music Project

Volunteers in Haiti – earthquake aftermath – volunteers in USA share with Australian students virtually.

Techno Parents

Bringing in the Community• Broad representation of staff including Principal• Parents of Preps through to Year 10• Students, staff, parents all learning in the one

room• Share happenings in classroom and school• Darwin teacher linkup• Feedback

Cash Journals

Accounting – face to face students and three virtual students

Chat records student progress

• Moderator (stefan 1): i ned to start 10

• Moderator (BCC - James Mutch): agreed

• Moderator (BCC - James Mutch): I need to start too.

Peer to peer mentoring

• Moderator (BCC – James M): Did you put the opening Balance in??

• Moderator (stefan 1): 19000• Moderator (stefan 1): sales• Moderator (stefan 1): pl on the botom• Moderator (stefan 1): advertising• Moderator (stefan 1): a loss• Moderator (stefan 1): no wait• Moderator (stefan 1): a loss

Chat – Student support

Sharing applications

Teaching anywhere/anytime

Teaching my yr 11 IT class fromInnovations Showcase, Melbourne

List of participantsYEAR 11 IT - FRIDAY MAY 13TH

Anne Mirtschin (Moderator)caitlyn (Participant)Chloe (Participant)Emily H- sub teacher (Participant)Flick :) (Participant)Lauren (Participant)renee (Participant)Stedman :) (Participant)rticipants

Logged in from home!

In Melbourne at Innovations Showcase

Supervising replacement

teacher

Time to upload videos to wiki for global netgened project

The confusion and problems• Chloe: if people get confused, i can help because i have already done it

• caitlyn: awseome!! i think i wil need help :)• Flick :): looks like you will be helping me too :)• Chloe: if people get confused, i can help because i have already done it• renee: whats my video number?• Stedman :): I tried to put my video that was outsourced in my final video but it wont

work and it's a WMV file :(• Tessa: yeah that happened to mine to• Flick :): Liam - what ??• Stedman :): my video that a girl did for me wont upload onto my video :(• Flick :): oh i see now, yeah same with tessa i dont know wat to do• Tessa: yeah mrs murch, what do i do with my outsurced video that wont work?• caitlyn: i know how to do this part• Flick :): yeahh same

Peer Support

• Chloe: it took me ages yesterday to figure out how to do this

• Chloe: if people get confused, i can help because i have already done it

(... And so, Chloe helped her fellow students back in the ‘real’ classroom)

Consequences of failing to achieve!

• Stedman :): mine is WMV but it wont work :(• Stedman :): but wont i lose marks if i dont have my

outsourced clip?• • • Tessa: yeah i did that heaps the other day and still wont

work...• Moderator: try converting to mpg or mp4 through format

factory• • Stedman :): i made it an MP4 and it works

Student teaching the Teacher

• Thorney 1: mrs. Murch, have you tried using the toolbar up top???

• Thorney 1: where it says elluminate live and go file

Virtual Teaching Rounds

Teaching anywhere/anytime!

Useful tools in elluminate

• Chat• Interactive whiteboard• Video• Web tour• Share applications• Polls etc• Emoticons

Impact for Education

• Digital Literacy• Globalisation• Anywhere, anytime, anyhow• Peer to peer mentoring and teaching• Students can choose their subjects• Vertical classrooms• “No school left behind” (due to remoteness,

isolations, rurality etc)

Learning is changing

• Teacher increasingly becoming a guide and facilitator

• Flipped classrooms• Virtual classrooms• Blended classrooms• Vertical classrooms• Little Big classrooms• Global classrooms

Underlying issues/requirements

Oh! What a tangled web we weave!

Web conference coaches

• Four Web Conference Coaches are now available to provide you with one-on-one support on how to run a web conference using Elluminate.

• The Web Conference Coaching Program is free, online and open to:

• teachers in Victorian government and non-government schools,

• DEECD staff in central and regional offices, and• DEECD strategic partner organisations.

To contact a coach:-

• Web Conference Coaching Program

• contact the Web Conference Coaches directly to express your interest in the program

Value of virtual classrooms

• Learn anywhere/anytime• Ability to record• Recorded sessions/classes for those who are

absent, or need to revisit• Ability to save and revisit chat for confusion,

problems etc• Peer to peer mentoring• Sharing learning• Create tutorials with elluminate

Tech Talk Tuesdays

4:00 to 5:00pm, Melbourne Aus timehttp://techtalktuesdays.global2.vic.edu.auhttp://guidetoinnovation.ning.com

eT@lking

Wed 8-9pm (Melbourne Aus time): part of the Australia series

http://learncentral.orghttp://www.australiaseries.wordpress.com

• Facebook groups eg Australiaseries

• classroom20LIVE:- http://live.classroom20.com

• Online conferences – eg Global Education Conference, K12 online conference etc