The document discusses creative connections in education, emphasizing collective knowledge construction strategies influenced by Richard Olsen's model. Britt Gow, an educator, highlights various methods used at Hawkedale P12 College for effective communication and collaboration, including webinars, global blogs, and social media. The college engages students with scientists and peers worldwide to foster 21st-century skills through collaborative projects and online learning opportunities.

1. Digital Toolbox for
Creative Connections
ICTEV State Conference
May 2012

2. Who is Britt Gow?
• Mother of two, teacher to many, wife to one!
• Teaching since 2003
• Completed a BSc and Grad Dip Ed (2002)
• Science, maths, biology and environmental
science
• Technoscience blog since 2008
• Twitter @brittgow
• brittgow@gmail.com

3. What are Creative Connections?
Based on the “Collective
Knowledge Construction
Model” created by Richard
Olsen from IdeasLab

4. The CKC model explores four strategies that
influence how we learn and the
the way we behave online.
How do you interpret these strategies?

5. How
do we
CONNECT,
COMMUNICATE,
COLLABORATE and
LEARN COLLECTIVELY at
HAWKEDALE P12 COLLEGE?

6. Rex Walheim, a NASA Astronaut, spoke to prep to Year
8 students and answered questions using Blackboard
Collaborate.

7. We use webinars to CONNECT with
actWILD and Rick Hammond at the Zoo
and learn about threatened species.

8. Our students COMMUNICATE with
teachers, peers, parents and others with
their global2 blogs.

9. We use Facebook pages to COMMUNICATE with
students, parents and the community.

10. We use Skype and Blackboard Collaborate to
COMMUNICATE with our Scientists in Schools partner,
Melissa Toifl, from CSIRO Land and Water Technologies.

11. We COMMUNICATE with scientists at the
Smithsonian Institute as part of the SHOUT tree
banding project.

12. We COLLABORATE with schools around
the world to learn 21st century skills.

13. http://energychallenge.wikispaces.com/
We use wikis and webinars to COLLABORATE
with 150 students from five schools
and three continents in the
“International Energy Challenge”.

14. Teachers COLLABORATE on the school blog which
is shared with students, parents and the world!

15. We LEARN COLLECTIVELY with teachers
around the world by participating in
Twitter networks, blogging challenges
and other online professional
development opportunities.

16. Our students LEARN COLLECTIVELY – they
participated in a competition about cybersafety
titled: “What Does Your Digital Footprint Say
About You?”

17. Teachers and students are LEARNING
COLLECTIVELY with our online VCE
Environmental Science classes.

18. Some of the tools used......