4. Contact
e jward@loretonh.nsw.edu.au
t @jnortonward
#aisitic14
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5. Today’s presentation outline
A) Year 8 students Edublog challenge!
B) Introductions
• Myself
• Integrated learning
• ICT @ Loreto
C) Edublogs
• Music Festival website task
• Public Space redevlopment (Marketing Consultant) website task
D) Reflections
• Discoveries
• Troubleshooting
• Future Edublogs possibilities
• The « Integrated Effect »
• Tips
• Result of the 40 minute Year 8 Edublog challenge
6. A) Year 8 Edublogs challenge!
You are going to design an Edublog using some of the resources
that I am using in this next 45 minutes.
Documents can be found on the Shared Drive at:
R:2018INTAIS ICT Making IT 2014
Requirements:
• Choose appropriate theme (1 or 2 column)
• Create 4 pages, ignore Home page
• Page 1 header, background & embed pdf of this PowerPoint
• Page 2 embed pdf of Music Festival task & embed student video
• Page 3 embed pdf of Public Space task & embed student video
• Page 4 Add photo of this presentation
Extension ideas:
• Widget to be created
• Resize images to fit page
• Sort new pages into a menu & hide Home page
• Disable comment box
7. A) Year 8 Edublogs challenge
Edublogs
Login: Student email address or
first name+first three letters of surname+last 2 digits of Year 12
Password: loreto2014
edublogs.loretonh.nsw.edu.au/aismakingit2014
Password: jeremyward
SlideShare
Username: loretonhyr8
Password: lnweb2yr8
Youtube
Username: loretonhyr8
Password: lnweb2yr8
9. Myself – my Loreto Normanhurst experiences
• Integrated
• started Part-Time 2005 at age 25 as Languages Other Than
English teacher
• Year 7 Integrated 2006-2008
• Year 8 Integrated 2011-2014 (Team Manager 2014)
• Critical Thinking
• ICT Integrator 2010-2014
• Acting Dean of Learning Technologies Semester II 2013
• Future Problem Solving 2009-2014
• LOTE (French & Italian)
• Year 12 French Beginners 2010
• Year 12 French Continuers 2013
• Year 12 French Extension (themes) 2008-2013
10. Integrated – what, how, who, when & why?
Charlotte Ainsworth (Aston) & Dominica Leaver (Mulhall),
two Year 8 Boarders discuss Integrated
11. Integrated – what, how, who, when & why?
What is it?
• theme & concept based, cross-curricular subject in which
students approach ideas in a variety of ways
• it is generally unable to be done in the traditional subject
classroom
Common elements in the units of work (7-10) involve a
combination of the following:
• individual & varied group work (2s or 3s, generally)
• use of technology of some form
• personal choice & justification of choice
• differentiation of tasks
• creative thinking
• reflection during or after tasks
12. Who does it?
• All students in Years 7, 8, 9 & 10
• Each Year group has 8 Advisors in Years 7 & 8
• Each Advisor works with a House group called an Advisory
group, although groupings are varied throughout the year
across units of work
Units of work, classes and hours
• At Loreto Normanhurst, there are 6 periods a day.
• There are 29 teaching lessons & 1 Assembly lesson each week
which means 58 lessons a fortnight.
• In Year 8 Integrated, we meet 10 times each fortnight.
Extra resources about Loreto Normanhurst
• http://www.loretonh.nsw.edu.au/page/learning
• http://www.loretonh.nsw.edu.au/page/learning/lnsgm
13. Term Weeks Task Work & Assessment
Term I 1-4 Connectedness & the individual
5-6 Loreto Normanhurst Music Festival website individual
7-10 Local Community Stakeholders Radio
Transcript
individual
11 Start of Public Space redevelopment unit
Term II 1-8 Public Space redevelopment individual 60 group 40
Term III 1-6 Being a Global Citizen (United Nations) individual 65 pairs 35
7-10 Mathematics individual
Term IV 1-5 Global Issues individual
presentation
crtiiqued by peers
6-9 Art Task individual product
displayed collectively
Year 8 Integrated 2014
14. Handprints
8INTA Ms Dominica Jenkins Religion Kendall
8INTB Ms Bernadette O’Dwyer TAS Ward
8INTC Mr Steven Gibson English Aston
8INTD Mr Jeremy Ward LOTE Maye
Footsteps
8INTE Ms Beth Nairn MathematicsMulhall
8INTF Ms Kate Coolican PDHPE Mornane
8INTG Ms Mary Anne De Mattia History Barry
8INTH Ms Fiona Sharman English Kuring-gai
15. ICT @ Loreto Normanhurst - why Edublogs?
Mircosoft Share Point 2007
• Staff Portal
• Student Portal
• Year Group Portals
• Faculty Portals for Staff & Students
• Student MySites
Shared Drive also frequently
used to circumnavigate Portals
School developed & commenced phasing in a 1:1 laptop
programme in 2010
29. Individual Roles
• Each company will have 3 owners who will each have a
different role to play in the development process.
• You will be exposed to the skills and qualities required for
these roles in workshops.
• You will then negotiate with your other 2 group members
which role you feel you are best suited for.
• Once decided, each person will then specialise.
30. Team work
• As a specialist, you will
then work with your
team members to
produce the best public
space development.
• The success of your
team will depend on
each person being
responsible for their
own role &
communicating with the
other group members
to make good decisions.
31. 2) Integrated learning - opportunities
Personal & thinking skills
• Independence
• Taking responsibility
• Team work & cooperation
• Persuasion & negotiation
• Organisation
• Problem Solving
• Creative thinking
• Punctuality
• Communication skills
• Patience
• Generosity
• Open-mindedness
Subject skills
• Design & Technology
• PDHPE
• ICT
• English
• Geography
• Science
• Commerce
• Religion
• Music
32. 3) Public Space task stages
You will be assessed throughout the processes to give you
feedback as you work through the various stages
33. Marketing Consultant’s role
Research into:
• Marketing Tools
• Colour use
• Logo
• Slogan
• Business card
They then needed to bring together all of their work &
understanding in the form of their company website (an
Edublog)
As the website would be used in their company pitch, they
needed to organise & store all relevant documents there,
including the embedding of pdf & PowerPoint files produced
by the other company members
We created a Year 8 Slideshare account for this & gave
students the login.
Organisation of information was paramount to a good
presentation.
35. Edublogs
Discoveries
• challenged students in terms of ‘production’ of IT
• developed digital communication through organisation
• file management & file sharing skills
Troubleshooting
• upskilling of staff
• being ahead of students to guide & support them
• development of marking criterias
• ongoing use of blog (Posts) or website (Pages)
• ongoing use of site from Year 8 onwards
• theme choice extremely important for tasks
• viewing of Edublogs in browsers
36. Future Edublog possibilities in 8INT
Term Weeks Task Work & Assessment
Term I 1-4 Introduction to Connectedness & the individual
5-6 Loreto Normanhurst Music Festival website individual
7-10 Local Community Stakeholders Radio Transcript individual
11 Start of Public Space redevelopment unit
Term II 1-8 Public Space redevelopment individual 60 / group 40
Term III 1-6 Being a Global Citizen (United Nations) individual 65 / pairs 35
7-10 Mathematics individual
Term IV 1-5 Global Issues individual by peers
6-9 Art Task
37. « The Integrated Effect »
Deans of Learning
• Martin Pluss (HSIE)
• Carolina Murdoch (History)
ICT Staff
• Joseph Agius
• Jeffrey Lu
• Roberto Jorquera
• Edublogs staff in WA
Year 8 team
• Dominica Jenkins (Religion)
• Bernadette O’Dwyer (TAS)
• Steven Gibson (English)
• Jeremy Ward ((LOTE)
• Beth Nairn (Mathematics)
Year 8 team continued
• Kate Coolican (PDHPE)
• Mary Anne De Mattia (History)
• Fiona Sharman (English)
ICT Integrators
• Kelly Cahalane (English)
• Stefania Thomsett (LOTE)
• Elizabeth Green (English)
Other teaching staff
• Patti Taafe (English)
• Tim Lennon (Religion)
• Monica Boardman (Visual Arts)
• Kate Scott (TAS)
Boarding School administration
38. Year 9 English blogs Elizabeth Green (Loreto 5)
http://edublogs.loretonh.nsw.edu.au/beyondborders/
39. Year 7 English blogs – Patti Taafe
http://edublogs.loretonh.nsw.edu.au/year7english/
43. Edublogs tip #1
• Naming of sites
Year 8 Team
edublogs.loretonh.nsw.edu.au/8team
Staff Edublogs
edublogs.loretonh.nsw.edu.au/jward
Student Edublogs
edublogs.loretonh.nsw.edu.au/first name+first three
letters of surname (excluding punctuation)+last 2 digits of
final year
Eg:
Olivia McCarthy in Year 8 Maye; Year 12 will be 2018
edublogs.loretonh.nsw.edu.au/oliviamcc18
44. Edublogs tip #2
Theme choice
• The Theme is the appearance of your blog
• There are currently 222 themes from which to choose
• This is perhaps the area that warrants the most amount of time
due to trial & error
• It really depends on purpose of the blog
• Some are simple with one column whereas others have 2 or 3
columns
• Here is a link that compares the qualities of many themes on
the edublogger.
• Here is another from the University of Oregon
Online support to help you learn & problem solve
• http://help.edublogs.org/user-guide
• http://www.theedublogger.com/
45. Some themes that we like include:
Twenty Eleven, Twenty Twelve, Aldehyde
WPMU-Triden, WPMU-Dixi , Yoko , Mandigo , Edublogs Default, Mantra
