This summarizes how the WITS Teacher Training Program was developed using Moodle.

1. The WITS Programs
Using Moodle To Promote Safe
Learning Environments
Presented by Kathreen Riel
CanadaMoot 2011

2. The WITS Programs
Using Moodle To Promote Safe
Learning Environments
Presentation: 1. Program description and history
2. Explore WITS Training Course
3. Course structure and future plans
Presented by Kathreen Riel
CanadaMoot 2011

3. What is WITS?
A Community Based program to support
children who face bullying and peer
victimization.
witsprogram.ca

4. What is WITS?
witsprogram.ca

5. What is WITS?
Three Components
1. Activities that include community leaders
2. Literature based lesson plans
3. Leadership program - WITS LEADS for
older students
witsprogram.ca

6. History of WITS
1993 School Principal, Judi Stevenson teaches four simple
statements Walk Away, Ignore, Talk It Out, Seek Help
1997 Constable Tom Woods starts The Rock Solid Foundation
2005 WITS LEADS is launched
2006- The WITS Programs continues to develop a variety of resources
2009
2010 WITS Online Training Programs are created for teachers
and community leaders
2013 Goal: To provide WITS training for 15,000 teachers
and community leaders.

7. WITS Program Needs
WITS Schools In Canada

8. WITS Online Training
Objectives
• Provide teachers with interactive ways to
learn about WITS
• Build confidence and motivation for those
teachers already using WITS
• Provide ways for teachers to share their
ideas with others

9. WITS Online Training
3 Design Guidelines

12. The Design Team
Alison Lynch Richard
Communications
“Expert
Extraordinaire”
Kathreen Riel
D.J. dog “team mascot”

13. Moodle Shared Service
Moodle Server: Simon Fraser University
Support: Lambda Solutions
Theme customizations
Self Registration
Enabled extra activities

14. Explore WITS Online Training
Go to:
http://moodle.psychology.uvic.ca
/
Self Register or Login With Assigned ID

15. http://moodle.psychology.uvic.ca/
Self Register or Login With Assigned ID
Community Leader’s Training
Teacher Training

16. http://moodle.psychology.uvic.ca/
Self Register or Login With Assigned ID
Face to Face Attendees: Self Register or see papers
scattered about the room for Assigned ID
15 Minutes To Explore

17. Pedagogy For WITS
Online Teacher Training
Bransford’s Amigo3 Model
A nchored
M odular
I nquiry
G enerates
O wnership
O riginality
O rganized Learning

18. Most Common Challenges
For Teachers To Adopt WITS?
Time Relevance Support

19. Community Leaders Online
Training
Simple Short Tutorials
Review the information
Answer a question
Move to the next chapter

20. Moodle Resources and
Activities
Your Ideas: Assignment and Feedback Activity
Self Assessment: Quiz Activity
Online Discussion: Forum Activity
Course Certificate: Certificate Activity
Instructions/Objectives: Webpage Resource
Community Leader’s Training: Lesson Activity

21. WITS Online Training
Timeline
April 20 Drafted design,
10 content
Edited video footage
June Created Moodle web pages and
August activities
Peer Review of Moodle Course
2010
September Launched WITS Online Training!
2010

22. WITS Online Training
Feedback
• Logical and easy to follow information 87%
• Many options for moving through is quickly or
slowly through the content
• Reflection and self assessments help to consider
the current context and how to integrate WITS
• Good combination of text, video, PowerPoint,
online journal for refection, and self assessment
• The whole program was overviewed, with time for
reflection and a variety of videos

23. WITS Online Training
Feedback
• Connection speed and access to video is
variable. 41%
• Reduce the number of “steps” in the challenges
• Challenge Four needs revision
- improve quality of screencast- make more
connections between lesson

24. WITS Online Training
Feedback
First time for this style of learning for me. I
would have preferred working through it
step by step and stopping to discuss with
my group or watching a video together so
that we can discuss as topics come up.
Include videos and materials that reflect the
diversity in Canadian schools (Montreal,
Toronto, Vancouver)

25. WITS Online Training
Future Plans
Integrate WITS Training with Pre-service educators
Promote WITS in remote and northern parts of
Canada.
Goal 15,000 new users of WITS Programs by 2013

26. WITS Online Training
Consider using the WITS Program at your school
witsprogram.ca

27. WITS Online Training
More information
witsprograms.ca
@witsprograms
wits@uvic.ca witsprograms
Presented by Kathreen Riel
CanadaMoot 2011