Effective learning in the virtual classroom

Effective Learning in the Virtual Classroom

Students could ask all those questions they have immediately ?
We could encourage the quietest of students to have ‘a voice’?
We could blend our classrooms vertically and horizontally?
Flip our classrooms?
Enable powerful 24/7 learning?

Classes could participate in virtual excursions?
Work with expert speakers without leaving our classrooms
Offer a full range of subjects to all students across the state or district
Illness no longer prevents students attending school
Engage our students!

Web conferencing – some examples Ping Project 2009 Learning from the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra saxophonist

Grade 3 meet the Minister for Finance

Cross adding 12+1 or 11+2 gives 13 Learning Vedic Maths from Sebastian Panakal Kerula India 11 +1 12 +2 2 11 +1 12 +2 13

Teaching anywhere, anytime to anyone!

Unpacking the virtual classroom- using Blackboard Collaborate !

Participants
Ability to include class, local, statewide, national or global participants.
Ability to save a list of participants
Attendance roll
Can involve students, adults, experts, community
THE AUSTRALIA SERIES Alicia NT (Participant) Carole (Moderator) Junita (Moderator) gayle (Participant) Liz (Participant) Pauline (Moderator) Sandra (Moderator) Ian (Participant)

The Whiteboard Used with permission from Delise Oldfield Education Officer Warrnambool Art Gallery

The whiteboard tool bar Year 11 IT students use the tools to draw their favourite technology

Interactivity

Collaboration

Application sharing

Sharing Student/Teacher screens

The backchannel – the chat!
Students have a voice!
Questions Share opinions Add to discussion Share knowledge

....................... more chat!
dont confuse me this tinme
i dont get why you have that 400 on the debit side
i always get confused between debtors and creditors, who do we pay, and who pays us??

Stock turnover
whats with the 3 times per anum??
how do we know how many it is?
yes but how do you know how many per anum??

You can’t ask questions of a textbook!

The Video
Important to share what we look like
Share objects over web cam
Video use may pull down bandwidth

Student demonstrating skills learnt using youtube

File transfer to participants Sending files through elluminate

Web Tours http://www . (key in the web address to share)

The recording feature
Revision
Fantastic feature for students who are absent
No-one misses out!
Understanding and revision - Allows rewind, fast forward, room is ‘live’
Ability to flip classrooms
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The Breakout Rooms
Small group work
Discussion groups
Interest based groups
Individual Students put in there for revision, or to complete tasks given
Time-out room for students who misbehave.
Technical help room – for participants who have audio issues etc

Sample Breakout Rooms

The timer
Start on time – set for a countdown
Keeps conversations concise and to the point!
Sets time limit on tasks

Save......
Chat – urls are active
Whiteboards – pdf, png, wbd
Participants

And more....
Quiz making facility
Media upload
Remote desktop sharing
etc

Changing pedagogy
The confused button is displayed as soon as a student misunderstands – need to re-teach to confusion and questions!
(Eg dont confuse me this tinme and
i always get confused between debtors and creditors, who do we pay, and who pays us??)

Constraints
Mouse! (a real one!)
Access to the internet
Sound:- are you talking? cause i dont hear anything
Sorry, I am on a very bad connection tonight, so it is very slow.

Stories from the classroom!

Earth science week
Two world experts speak to years 5 to 11
Young C Y Ng from Hong Kong
on the Hong Kong GeoPark
in elluminate.
Classes from Victoria, interested
Experts/adults from Hong Kong,
China etc all in the classroom.

Ian Lewis on Kanawinka – Volcanoes and Caves

From the chat!
Wow
Turtle: sick as
Ha look at that!
Turtle: been here
Grade 2/3 Woodford: Could you tell us more about the sink hole Ian?
Cara hawk: hey bj they probally go through records from when they first evoved

And also....
Joshua: i like red rock
i hAVE BEEN UP THEIR
we are going there soon
It's pretty :)
do you know where mt eccells??
water looks awesome
Looks good to swim in ;)
wow thats blue, how did it get blue?
do you know where mt eccells is??
How many years ago did the volcano at Mt Gambier erupt?
Theres heaps of thoose rocks in Hawkesdale and Penshurst
James to Turtle: caught a barracuda there

The Bats
Cara hawk: his wing looks like it's going to brake
4B DGPS: what age do the bats learn to fly?
Billy-Jo Hawk: Did it try to escape from you?
Grade 2/3 Woodford: How many teeth do bats have?
Trevo hawk: what happen to it eye
Cara hawk: how easy is it to brake a bats wing
smithy: arent they posisoness
Grade 2/3 Woodford: What do bats feel like?
jasmine .j: do they hurt
scottinea: are the bats dead or did u catch them alive?
Grade 2/3 Woodford: What do bats eat?
4B DGPS: are they really blind?
Billy-Jo Hawk: Is there black bats, like full black?
Moderator (Miss Iro, Mrs Gow and year 6/7): do bats carry any diseases
Grade 2/3 Woodford: What sort of fauna and flora live in the sinkholes?

Friends of the Earth

Asian Connections - Malaus Taman Burkitt Maluri School, Kuala Lumpur

What skills are important to learn?

What symbol best describes your country? The emu

Pushing the Boundaries!
Virtual Teaching Rounds for preservice practicum teachers

Techno Parents
Broad representation of staff including Principal
Parents of Preps through to Year 10
Students, staff, parents all learning in the one room
Share happenings in classroom and school
Darwin teacher linkup – toys exchange
Feedback

Boston Grade 6 student teaches year 10 IT class Halloween

A true global classroom – a student from Hawkesdale, two from China, two from Bangkok and one from USA are taught by an optician about the eye, using discoverE virtual classroom software.

Alternatives
Back Channel or Chat
Chatzy
Tinychat
Todays Meet
Hootcourse
Google for more!

The video
Skype
Oovoo
gchatVideo
Ichat
MS Communicator
And many more

An online whiteboard
Scriblink
Skrbl
Jotspace
And many more

Virtual Classrooms

Flatclassroom Project Student Summit Global Education Conference

Online Webinars
Tech Talk Tuesdays 4-5pm (gmt+10)
http://techtalktuesdays.global2.vic.edu.au
eT@lking Wed 8-9pm (gmt+10)
http://australiaseries.wordpress.com
ClassroomLIVE 2.0 series and many more

Web conference coaches
4 coaches available for Victorian teachers, Australia
See Web conference centre of DEECD
Or Educators Guide to Innovation
To contact a web conference coach

Develop a Learning Network
Online conferences – some samples
Reform Symposium Conference
Global Education Conference
K12 Online Education Conference
Learncentral ( http://learncentral.org )
Webinars: ClassroomLIVE2.0

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