LWICT at GSC

Ideas were shared from other schools:

Claymation (motivates students)
Interactive island brochure (motivates students)
Caravan (animation/ audio used to stimulate narrative writing)
Epals (a super learning and motivational tool to learn about other countries)

We looked at intranets from other schools.  It was interesting to see how they use it to give teachers the capabilities to install software and printers decreasing the load [...]

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Lauren, Emma and Murray worked with Movie Maker learning how to capture video, add titles, add transitions and export video.  It was a very productive session

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In an after school professional development session we (Rhonda, Jason, Kath, Murray and visiting teacher Peter) investigated digital cameras, their settings and basic editing using Macromedia Fireworks. Each participant took a few photos at different settings and uploaded them to a computer. We reviewed the different file sizes created from different camera settings. Macromedia Fireworks [...]

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Well, the students were very enthusiastic but the WWW was running very slow.  It took the students a long time to access their sites and make changes.  The other problem was that most of the students did not bring the passwords that were emailed to their email accounts.  It would have been so much easier [...]

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Last term I put in a P&C submission for an Interactive Whiteboard to help engage students, especially at risk students.  The submission was approved and I set out on a process of determining the type to buy.  I decided on a Promethean board because I had heard that the software is better and because it [...]

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Kim, Claire and Bec continued their Moodling after school on Monday. We discussed and edited the site structure and to suite the teachers needs. Unfortunately we are still experiencing a little trouble with uploading to both Box.net and Moodle. I am starting to think that the problem is something associated with our network.
After testing a [...]

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Today I had a meeting with Nat and we looked at her blog (http://geraldtonsc.wordpress.com)  and the blogging aggregator called Bloglines (http://www.bloglines.com).  We were very happy to see that one of her students has already posted twice on her blog.  Nat posted a guiding comment to the students blog.  Wow!  This project is going great.  Later [...]

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Kim and I have been discussing one of the CensusAtSchool projects- 220. Being Australian, Similarities and Differences . The project is large but has lots of potential. The first section deals with using the ABS web site to access data from the school questionnaire and comparing different populations of data (using graphs [...]

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Greg, Wendy, Stan and Allen attended a short (1hr) professional development today. We covered using a video camera, capturing video, editing video (trimming, transitions, effects) and exporting a video. Movie maker was easy for them to use with a wizard like environment. Enthusiasm towards video abounded.

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Moodle is an open source online learning platform. The GSC Moodle Site is externally hosted at http//:www.emw.net.au/~gsccompu . Students can access the site from home to get additional copies of work, extra resources/ links, participate in forums and take online quizes. Lisa Sharrat has built an extensive site of resources for two Human Biology [...]

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