The VITTA wiki is a great place we can all meet to discuss these things and you can access it with your VITTA account and password.<br> <a href="http://wiki.vitta.org.au/">http://wiki.vitta.org.au</a><br><br>Why not contribute some posts to the following three pages.
<br><ul><li><a href="http://www.vitta.org.au/wiki/ICT_for_visualising_thinking" title="ICT for visualising thinking">ICT for visualising thinking</a>
</li><li> <a href="http://www.vitta.org.au/wiki/ICT_for_creating" title="ICT for creating">ICT for creating</a>
</li><li> <a href="http://www.vitta.org.au/wiki/ICT_for_communicating" title="ICT for communicating">ICT for communicating</a></li></ul>It is easy enough to draw upon ideas posted to a mailing list such as this one. Here is something that I gathered together from the discussions last month.
<br><ul><li><a href="http://www.vitta.org.au/wiki/Electronic_Portfolio">Electronic portfolios</a><br></li></ul>Of course when you get to dig down into the depths of a topic you will probably reach a layer that might interest other educators. At that point it is probably worth just adding it to the larger Wikipedia pool and creating a link across. Similarly, let the VCAA be the authority for VELS and create a reference link back to their website where appropriate. When you add any new content, watch your bias and recognize the NPOV policy used by Wikipedia.
<br><br>Regards Roland<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 16/11/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brendyn Hancock</b> <<a href="mailto:hancobr@nagle.sale.catholic.edu.au">hancobr@nagle.sale.catholic.edu.au</a>> wrote:
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<div>Great idea Andrew. It just triggered another thought. If its good enough for the vels then surely we should be doing it as well. </div>
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<div>Does anyone have the ability to set up a wiki that could be used for us all to contribute an explanation/definition of each standard.</div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="3">i agree that the standards are written in pretty heavy jargon - maybe we should post up the text of the standards and start discussing how we interpret them? I'll start the first one below
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<div><font face="Arial" size="3">in my school i am coming to create projects (next year), in collaboration with teachers from other KLAs, to ensure we meet all the standards </font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="3">I will of course share these projects with the list. </font></div>
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<h3 style="margin: auto 0cm; line-height: 140%;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; line-height: 140%;"><font face="Times New Roman">Level 5: ICT for visualising thinking </font></span></h3>
<div><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black;">"Students select and apply ICT tools and editing functions that support the filtering, classifying, representing and organising of ideas, concepts and issues. "
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<div><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black;">As a maths/science teacher my first thought reading this one was using excel to analyse data, create averages, etc and produce charts. We also use some physics data-logging software in yr9-10 that works in will with this. The art staff use digital portfolios (powerpoint/producer)- the students collect images of their own work and intersperse it with images and text from art history/theory to show how what they have learnt and how it has influenced their work. I think Powerpoint in general is a good application for this standard in the humanities as long as the kids are actually being selective with the info and are presenting it in some kind of logical order. Webpage creation is also a good application for this standard (here this is currently only!
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<div><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black;">Anyway these are my ramblings. What does everyone else think?</span></div>
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<b>From:</b> <a title="hancobr@nagle.sale.catholic.edu.au" href="mailto:hancobr@nagle.sale.catholic.edu.au" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">Brendyn Hancock</a> </div>
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<div>I have been posting around IPM, VELS, 7-10IT, lists for the last little while but with little results. I'm not sure as to the reason but have very little response to what I thought would be a really relatable thread. Help with VELS.
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<div>I accept that I'm a little slow and it has taken me a while to begin to understand VELS and its structure but I find it difficult to imagine that I'm the only one struggling with the interpretation and implementation of it.
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<div>When I read the Standards for the ICT domain there are lots of gaps in my understanding. I appreciated greatly the Standards Audit sheets that Andrew contributed last week but I struggle to understand what they are asking. I gave these sheets to 3 faculties to fill out and all of them came back to me saying "what the...."
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<div>Thanks to all those that participated in the 'progression points' thread of a week bk. This is real help. I don't want to go to another vels in service day where someone just stands up the front and reads out the standards again.
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<div>Has VITTA published anything on interpreting the standards...</div>
<div>Has VCAA anything to offer here...</div>
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<div>I'm after VELs for dummies but as yet have not found the publisher to buy it from.</div>
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<div>Thanks</div>
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