Professional+Learning

Record of professional learning.


 * 1 - Podcast created as Slide2Learn reflection.**

James Curtis and I attended slide2learn in term 2 holidays. Here we discuss what we will take away from the sessions to implement in class and at Manor Lakes College.

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 * 2 - Cybersafety presentation - Ulearn 2010**


 * Ulearn presentation wiki**

One of my professional learning experiences this year was to attend and present at Ulearn 2010 in Christchurch, New Zealand. When offered the chance to present I was firstly excited and daunted. I was excited because I hadn't been overseas before In my life, so the chance to go to Christchurch was a must, even if I was nervous about presenting to experienced colleagues as a graduate teacher of less than one years experience!

I worked on the presentation with Kate Sykes, who was also a year 7 teacher this year. We presented on cybersafety, which remains on often untaught subject area in schools. At Manor Lakes we have explicitly taught cybersfatey as part of our Inquiry program. We feel it is important to do so as we are providing students with a 1:1 laptop program.

Our presentation was based around a wiki created which we used as a platform to talk to teachers about the issues around cybersafety, and the need to teach cybersaftey. We made the workshop hands on so teachers would walk away from our presentation with ideas to use in classrooms, and not just theory.

Ulearn was an amazing experience I'll never forget. While I walked away with a lot of different ideas to implement in classrooms, and lots of inspiration, the most important knowledge I will take away from the conference was the need to share ideas and teach teachers as well as students at a school.

It was this reflection that lead Kate and I to start a blog showcasing the use of different web2.0 tools in the classroom. [|Web2.0yeah] Kate and I use web2.0 tools frequently in the classroom and discovered a few more while away at Ulearn. However, if we don't share this knowledge with others at out school, the whole experience is wasted. The blog is to demonstrate the tools available, and how to use them in a classroom. In line with this we are also running professional learning sessions showcasing web2.0 tools that teachers can use in the classroom.

We hope that the sharing of this knowledge will result in a greater use of these tools across the school.


 * 3 - ICTEV Cybersafety presentation - Manor Lakes College 2010**