ACEC Presentation: Moodle Your Mad Mind to the Max

This is my post for a conference presentation at the ACEC conference in Melbourne. If there is a video stream you can watch it here: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/technology-in-education-show

Below you will find the 'main bits', an embedded chat system for use during the session, a link to an 'etherpad' where you can add your own links and other insights, and hopefully even a video transmission of the presentation itself.

SOME ACTIONS TO TAKE DURING PRESENTATION (OR AFTERWARDS):

Explore the links at the bottom of this post, text chat with attendees & virtual attendees.

Leave a comment on this blog post giving your perspective or story, or introducing yourself.

Connect with me! Subscribe to my blog using the link in the right margin, or send me a twitter message to @steve_collis, or come visit my school: http://scil.nsw.edu.au/pd/ Also I am running a free online seminar myself in a few days. Please email me at scollis then the @ sign, then nbcs.nsw.edu.au to get an invite.

Click here and add to the resources contributed by others related to this presentation: http://ietherpad.com/moodle

Go to http://demo.moodle.net/ and play with Moodle right now.

Go to my school's portal: http://portal.nbcs.nsw.edu.au and look at the front page of our various installations of Moodle by clicking on the icons.

Visit http://beyondborders.edu.au which is a Moodle site I run to allow teachers to have their students collaborate with students from other schools.

The Live Chat System: (sent tweets including the text #acecmoodle and they will be included)

Sylvia Martinez ACEC2010 Keynote STREAMED LIVE

ACEC Presentation: 3D Virtual Worlds, One School's Journey

This is my post for a conference presentation at the ACEC conference in Melbourne, starting at 10.30am Melbourne time on the 7th April. If there is a video stream you can watch it here: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/technology-in-education-show

Below you will find the 'main bits', an embedded chat system for use during the session, a link to an 'etherpad' where you can add your own links and other insights, and hopefully even a video transmission of the presentation itself.

SOME ACTIONS TO TAKE DURING PRESENTATION (OR AFTERWARDS):

Explore the links in this post, text chat with attendees & virtual attendees.

Leave a comment on this blog post giving your perspective or story, or introducing yourself.

Connect with me! Subscribe to my blog using the link in the right margin, or send me a twitter message to @steve_collis, or come visit my school: http://scil.nsw.edu.au/pd/ Also I am running a free online seminar myself in a few days. Please email me at scollis then the @ sign, then nbcs.nsw.edu.au to get an invite.

Click here and add to the resources contributed by others related to this presentation: http://ietherpad.com/virtualworlds

Go to www.secondlife.com and get yourself an account, download the Second Life program, and log in and explore!

Explore an "Open Sim" virtual world: Go to http://reactiongrid.com/Register.aspx and get an account, then follow the instructions at http://reactiongrid.com/Support/LoggingIn.aspx to connect.

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   Get your own 3D island for use with your students! How? For an Open Sim world, click here http://reactiongrid.com/Contact.aspx and inquire. For a Second Life island click here and read: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Educators_in_Teen_Second_Life#Closed_Estate and join the two Mailing Lists mentioned there. Contact me and I will give you pointers on how to get started. Or the easiest idea: click here to learn about Quest Atlantis http://atlantis.crlt.indiana.edu/ which is particularly suitable if you want to try something easier (completely set up FOR you) first of all! Oh, also new news, check out http://jokaydia.com/ - Jo Kay has launched a virtual world available for educators and for students.



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Structure of Presentation and Resources:

How we started: ghastly 3 months setting it up (December to February!), establish leadership group, 'charter' (download here), text chat logger, student-driven, student owned.

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hree different types of use: (see http://www.youtube.com/lestep)

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d promotion of creativity / collaboration / programming and design skills   

2) a space of celebration of student work via: internet radio station, poster displays, virtual art gallery, etc  

3) specific activities focussing on particular skills, especially discussion and discrete items of knowledge, via text chatting & "Poinkeys Pods", but also some maths skills.

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   If you tweet during this presentation, use the hash tag "#acecvws" in your tweet to include it in the chat system below:

How You Can Be Involved in my ACEC Presentations This Week

(Apart from what follows below, also see /2010/04/teachers-recount-your-journey.html for another way you can participate!) 

In all four of my presentations at ACEC this week I have put measures in place to make the sessions:

1. Fully accessible for anyone in the world, even if they are not attending.  

2. Interactive and collaborative.

For each presentation I will publish a blog post right here at www.happysteve.com which will include:

A link to a live video broadcast of the presentation. (It is possible this won't work but I have had complete success at other conferences)

A basic summary of the information delivered, especially useful links and also an "ACTION LIST" of things you can do immediately to get started on replicating the ideas I mention.

An interactive chat system, so you can discuss what you are hearing with the people who are right there in the room with me. 

An 'etherpad' collaborative document, so that both virtual and physical attendees can add THEIR wisdom, experiences, and knowledge to my presentation.

My hope is that by taking these measures, I can avoid the 'active speaker/passive participants' syndrome, and make the presentations a launching pad for sharing, conversation, networking, individual research, and DO IT NOW actions... because I can't stand the irony of presenting on NEW PEDAGOGY using OLD PEDAGOGY!

These posts will appear about 30 minutes before each presentation

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The links below are conference summaries and time information only. Check back at happysteve.com for the video, chat system, etc. Oh you could also subscribe (see right margin of website) to have the posts delivered to your inbox.

Wednesday 7th April, 10.30am 3D Virtual Worlds: One School's Journey UNIVERSAL TIME ZONE CALCULATION

Wednesday 7th April, 4.40pm Run a School Internet Radio Station UNIVERSAL TIME ZONE CALCULATION

Friday 9th April, 11.00am Moodle Your Mad Mind to the Max UNIVERSAL TIME ZONE CALCULATION

Friday 9th April, 1.55pm Professional Development and the Web UNIVERSAL TIME ZONE CALCULATION

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ACEC Presentation: Run a School Internet Radio Station

This is my post for a conference presentation at the ACEC conference in Melbourne. There SHOULD be a a video stream you can watch here: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/technology-in-education-show

Check here for the timing of the presentation: Wednesday 7th April, 4.40pm Run a School Internet Radio Station UNIVERSAL TIME ZONE CALCULATION

Below you will find a list of actions to take, a link to an 'etherpad' where you can add your own links and other insights, an embedded version of my presentation, a voicethread to comment on, and finally an embedded chat system for use during the session.

SOME ACTIONS TO TAKE DURING PRESENTATION (OR AFTERWARDS):

Explore the links in this post, text chat with attendees & virtual attendees.

Leave a comment on this blog post giving your perspective or story, or introducing yourself.

Connect with me! Subscribe to my blog using the link in the right margin, or send me a twitter message to @steve_collis, or come visit my school: http://scil.nsw.edu.au/pd/ Also I am running a free online seminar myself in a few days. Please email me at scollis then the @ sign, then nbcs.nsw.edu.au to get an invite.

Click here and add to the resources contributed by others related to this presentation: http://ietherpad.com/audiointeaching

Download 'Audacity' for free from http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ and start playing! 

On the broader topic of 'student publishing' check out: www.realaudienceproject.com  - a work in progress, but this is basically a portal to all our student publishing projects... check out the LuLu book publishing project in particular.

Visit http://radio.setnine.com/  and get your own radio station running right now!

Listen to our radio station - open this link in iTunes: http://209.119.13.39:11300/listen.pls

Listen to our FrenchFM youtube channel: http://youtube.com/frenchfm

Also, here is my intro for the conference presentation on our school internet radio station. Most of the presentation will be a practical demonstration - we'll actually put together our own radio content - but I'll start off running through the basic process of setting a station up (which is quite straightforward). Press the RIGHT PLAY BUTTON to advance through the presentation:

 

I will refer to a VoiceThread - leave a comment to say what you think about this Quad burger!

Here is the live chat system for the presentation. If you tweet, use the hashtag 'acecradio' so the comment is included: