[Year 12 IPM] OT: VELS ICT

Keith Richardson keithcr at fastmail.fm
Sun Oct 29 19:56:33 EST 2006


Moodle.
Keith




On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 19:06:38 +1100, "Wayne Hewett"
<staffwhe at rsc.vic.edu.au> said:
> It is essential then that every aspect of student network use must be
> tied to a reference year... eg. students who started in year 7 this year
> must have their home folder in a user directory  labelled 2006. All
> network storage associated with their work must stored in this directory
> and never altered for their entire school life. Compulsory folders can be
> established by the  admin when creating each student's  home
> drive/folder.
> 
> Has anyone come across a cheap commercial package that will allow
> students the flexibility to add content to their folio at school or at
> home and take pressure off the school to maintain backups etc.? 
> 
> Perhaps this discussion should move to the OT list.
> 
> Wayne Hewett
> 
> >>> bell.cameron.p at edumail.vic.gov.au  >>>
> I reckon the year to year bit you mention is very important. Instead of 
> kids tossing out their books at the end of the year as some are want to 
> do, it enables a real sense of progression if they are storing their 
> work digitally. The ease with which they can access the previous years 
> work can allow a real sense of building on previous knowledge too. The 
> ideal situation would be if all their work was recorded, but at the 
> moment I think the "best of" concept is all I can reasonably aim for.
> 
> Roland Gesthuizen wrote:
> > I quite agree that it is important to let students take ownership of 
> > their digital portfolios.
> >
> > I ask them to save positive samples of their work (odt docs, sdr 
> > images, mp3 audio, mp4 video, GameMaker files etc) into a folder then 
> > create a web page that weaves links to the resources and a reflective 
> > dialogue using a html editor. We use the Open Source NVU html editor 
> > that allows even allows for remote updating on our Novell network and 
> > can run from the USB key. It is a low tech solution, free to use at 
> > home and can be repeated each year .. becoming a kind of 'MySpace on a 
> > Stick' that they can take home and 'publish' via an intranet link on 
> > their Moodle profile.
> >
> > The real meta-cognitive goal of course is to help them pen the words 
> > that reflect and build upon what they learned from each task.
> >
> > Regards Roland
> >
> >
> > On 28/10/06, * fiona at balmoralhs.vic.edu.au 
> > <mailto:fiona at balmoralhs.vic.edu.au>* < fiona at balmoralhs.vic.edu.au 
> > <mailto:fiona at balmoralhs.vic.edu.au>> wrote:
> >
> >     I have had the year 7's create their digital portfolio's during IT
> >     this semester.  I have been able to do this because this group
> >     have had the best range of IT skills and were really competent in
> >     word, excel etc - usually I have to concentrate on these areas.
> >
> >     This semester we have looked at Flash, Photoshop Elements, some
> >     Office and Frontpage.  The hope is that they will feel confident
> >     enough to add to their portfolio by themselves.  I have been
> >     really impressed with what they have come up with so far.
> >
> >     To me, my main aim was to get them to take ownership of their
> >     portfolios as the other staff do not have the skills to assist
> >     them during class time.  I hope that, when their teachers say "add
> >     this to your portfolio" they will have the confidence to do just
> >     that.
> >
> >     Fiona Bain
> >     Balmoral High
> >     Cameron Bell <bell.cameron.p at edumail.vic.gov.au
> >     <mailto:bell.cameron.p at edumail.vic.gov.au>> on Fri, 27 Oct 2006
> >     14:10:51 +1000 wrote:
> >     > It could simply be a network folder containing selected pieces
> >     of work
> >     > couldn't it?
> >     > I am umming and ahhing about whether the whole "digital porfolio" is
> >     > worth the time involved.
> >     > You can use web ide's to create a website styled portfolio, but my
> >     > previous experience with Dreamweaver in doing this was that
> >     subject time
> >     > was taken up with the creation process. Some of the other
> >     presentations
> >     > I have seen from other schools (using similar processes) doing
> >     digital
> >     > portfolios reinforced this.
> >     > This was an advantage in that students learnt web-design as part of
> >     > science and integrated the ICT really well, the downside was the
> >     > struggle to complete the curriculum in a timeline that made no
> >     allowance
> >     > for it.
> >     > If time is built into the timetable to work on the creation
> >     process, it
> >     > can be a really worthwhile process, otherwise I would simply
> >     have the
> >     > students select some of their best pieces and store them in a
> >     seperate
> >     > network folder, without the need for any additional time or
> >     software.
> >     > Hmmmmm
> >     > Cameron
> >     >
> >     > Lesley Humphries wrote:
> >     > > Hello everyone,
> >     > >
> >     > > Now that the IPM classes are over, I've been looking more
> >     carefully at
> >     > > the VELS stuff. From Level 3, our students are meant to be
> >     keeping a
> >     > > digital bank of evidence... How are others going to work this?
> >     Any ideas?
> >     > >
> >     > > Thanks, Lesley
> >     > >
> >     > > > Michael,
> >     > > >
> >     > > > We are about to do this at Kew High School. We will use
> >     either Wax (open
> >     > > > source) or we also have Sony Vegas Movie Studio. Our drama
> >     assistant
> >     > > > experienced with a few different colour backgrounds and she
> >     has decided
> >     > > > on a green colour which she matched with one of the settings
> >     from Wax.
> >     > > >
> >     > > > Bruce
> >     > > >
> >     > > >
> >     > > >
> >     > > > ________________________________
> >     > > >
> >     > > > From: ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au
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> >     [mailto:ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au
> >     <mailto:ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au>]
> >     > > > On Behalf Of Michael Torsello (Mr)
> >     > > > Sent: Friday, 27 October 2006 9:37 AM
> >     > > > To: ipm at fhc.vic.edu.au <mailto:ipm at fhc.vic.edu.au>
> >     > > > Subject: [Year 12 IPM] OT: Green Screening with computers
> >     > > >
> >     > > > >
> >     > > > Dear Colleagues
> >     > > >
> >     > > > I have an Off Topic question that I hope someone can answer.
> >     > > >
> >     > > >
> >     > > >
> >     > > > My Drama teacher would like to invest in some computer
> >     technology that
> >     > > > allows for green (or blue) screen editing i.e., filming
> >     actors in front
> >     > > > of a green screen and allowing the computer user to change the
> >     > > > background. You would have heard of it being used in films
> >     and for
> >     > > > weather reports.
> >     > > >
> >     > > >
> >     > > >
> >     > > > However we have a disagreement as to the requirements of
> >     such a project
> >     > > > regarding software, computer specs etc.
> >     > > >
> >     > > >
> >     > > >
> >     > > > Does anyone know of a school that has successfully
> >     implemented such a
> >     > > > project, perhaps in their Drama or Media Studies department?
> >     > > >
> >     > > > I would love to hear from them, with the possibility of a visit.
> >     > > >
> >     > > > ----------------------------------
> >     > > > With thanks
> >     > > > Michael Torsello
> >     > > > ! Director of Computing
> >     > > > St Margaret's School, Berwick
> >     > > > Ph: (03) 9703 8111
> >     > > >
> >     > > >
> >     > > >
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> > -- 
> > Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
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> >
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