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NEW: My Interview on "Project Pupil" Podcast
Hi, I'm Steve Collis,
Director of Innovation at Sydney Centre for Innovation in Learning
This is where I think out loud.
At Sydney Centre for Innovation in Learning I work with schools to find and implement a vision for post-industrial-model schooling.
Am I the only one who has an urge to bottle & distil @Steve_Collis to take back with me. So many ideas! #smootau13 pic.twitter.com/0r4MgWBsBB
— Julian Ridden (@moodleman) October 3, 2013Body of Work - Professional
A simple taxonomy of 4 'frames', designed to identify elements teaching practice and make them susceptible to innovation.
Starting with this question: "What if we applied the Google 20% rule in schooling?" in Years 9 and 10. Read our continuing journey here.
SCIL Professional Development Suite
Collaboratively developed & deliver Immersion Days , Making it Mobile event, SCIL workshop program, "Personalised Learning" staff development day.
eTwinning facility born in 2005 allowing collaboration between students from multiple schools. Over 80 projects, 4,000 students and 15 countries.
Pioneering integration of virtual 3D space within physical school space, with Second Life, Open Sim, Minecraft & integration with Moodle via Sloodle. Blog posts.
Developed and delivered four online French courses via HSCONLINE for the NSW HSC.
Created 'learning landscape' model for personalised blended learning programs. Case study.
Innovate 5
Course designed to nurture capacity to innovate in any walk of life, available worldwide via videoconferencing.
Email protocol for rapid, scaled deployment in schools. Derived from Getting Things Done, it has been successfully operational at my school since 2011. It does not aim to cure email drag, but to score early 'easy wins' and maintain them.
School-wide movement toward student-authored print books, websites, and internet radio station.
Project Based Learning for Language Acquisition
Collaboration with language teachers to publish ideas and experiences with a PBL approach to language learning. Watch this space 2014.
Recognition
Personal
Fun stuff I've done and want to share!
Giving our cats the ability to tweet.
Programmable Lego
(without Mindstorms)
Lego robot takes a physical card that controls its movement in a loop.
