[Year 12 IPM] Where do I go...

Donna Benjamin donna at cc.com.au
Thu Nov 16 14:15:44 EST 2006



VITTA wiki

http://wiki.vitta.org.au/
you can login with your vitta website username and password

VELS from an Open Source Perspective - start of a framework to match
open source software to each of the domains.
http://www.openeducation.org.au/wiki/index.php/FOSS-VELS-OSV




On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 12:53 +1100, Brendyn Hancock wrote:
> Great idea Andrew. It just triggered another thought. If its good
> enough for the vels then surely we should be doing it as well. 
>  
> 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.
>  
> Brendyn
>  
> Brendyn Hancock
> IT Manager
> bhancock at nagle.sale.catholic.edu.au
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> >>> grimshaw.andrew.j at edumail.vic.gov.au 16/11/2006 11:49 am >>>
> 
> HI
>  
> 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
>  
> 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 
>  
> I will of course share these projects with the list. 
>  
> Level 5: ICT for visualising thinking 
> "Students select and apply ICT tools and editing functions that
> support the filtering, classifying, representing and organising of
> ideas, concepts and issues. "
>  
> 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! done by about 30% of 9-10s and no 7-8s)
>  
> Anyway these are my ramblings. What does everyone else think?
>  
> andrew grimshaw
> colac college
>         ----- Original Message ----- 
>         From: Brendyn Hancock 
>         To: ipm at edulists.com.au 
>         Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 8:35 AM
>         Subject: [Year 12 IPM] Where do I go...
>         
>         
>         All
>          
>         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.
>          
>         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.
>          
>         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...."
>          
>         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.
>          
>         Has VITTA published anything on interpreting the standards...
>         Has VCAA anything to offer here...
>          
>         I'm after VELs for dummies but as yet have not found the
>         publisher to buy it from.
>          
>         Thanks
>          
>         Regards
>          
>         Brendyn
>          
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