[Yr7-10it] RE: Rural PD project...so it GROWS!

[David Doolan]

On returning back to school today I found the latest issue of "Australian
Educational Computing" Journal in it is a paper looking at the different
needs between rural and urban ICT teachers.  It is well worth a read!

 

David Doolan

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From: yr7-10it-bounces at edulists.com.au
[mailto:yr7-10it-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Roland Gesthuizen
Sent: Tuesday, 29 January 2008 9:57 PM
To: Year 7 - 10 Information Technology Teachers' Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Yr7-10it] RE: Rural PD project...so it GROWS!

 

G'day rural and regional friends,

On 28/01/2008, Kent Beveridge <kbeveridge at stbc.vic.edu.au> wrote:

Trust me, I am hammering VITTA on this project at present. We have a few
rural schools who've put their hand up for this one. AJ and Roland at VITTA
both know I'm keen on this and I also spoke again to Roland on Saturday at
our 'installfest'.

Got any ideas how you might approach this problem, if so, let us know on
this list, the more the merrier!


I wonder sometimes if it is better to just go with a tried and trusted
'low-tech' approach. There may be merit in just video recording an event and
publishing to teacher tube then follow-up Moodle discussion forum with some
hosted documents or organising a synchronous follow-up chat with SkypeCast
to further support the activity for remote participants. Rather like the
rough cut but fascinating Google TechTalk Videos. Apart from cutting out the
quiet bits and adding a header and intro, they push these as they make them.
     http://video.google.com/googleplex.html. 

Dennis Daniels has uploaded some splendid google videos with GameMaker,
Moodle, and other opensource applications so we know that this can be easily
done by any one person. Check out this review about some of this posts. I
wonder how many of you who use these free resources could consider donating
to a pay-pal account for material used?
 
http://moodlea.blogspot.com/2006/02/what-does-dennis-daniels-do-all-day.html

Question is, what do you imagine is the role for a subject association when
these new tools are relatively common, free and easy to use and share? What
online event value can can be reasonably added and later charged for to
cover some promotion, booking and marketing expense recovery with rural
participants?

Regards Roland
-- 
Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change
the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead
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