A presentation made at the recent !DEAS conference. The presentation discusses some of the key features of using

1. Linking Learning @ Schools
mirtschin@gmail.com @murcha

2. Discussion Points
• Access to learning resources
• Students with varying abilities
• Personalised learning – information required,
tools available
• Monitoring and reporting progress
• Group and individual activities
• How do students connect – devices, tools
• Professional learning
• Work life balance

3. Global
Education
Rural
Education eLearning
My Passions!

4. Virtual Global Classrooms in Action

5. Meet my VCE accounting class...

6. •3 virtual students
•1 ESL student
•Year 11 and 12 taught together in one class
Cash Journals

7. Virtual Teaching Rounds in Partnership with Country
Education Project, Uniiversity of Ballarat and Hawkesdale
P12 College. One pre-service teacher did this from China.

8. Learning Resources
textbooks
The students

9. Students with varying
abilities
Catering for
• gifted students
• Students with health disabilities
• Students with special interests and passions
• Alternative outcomes/resources tailored to
students strengths
• Mutli-media, transmedia as alternatives to
textual outcomes/resources

10. Gifted Students
• One from our school
• Two from China
• Two from Thailand
• One from USA in a virtual
classroom, being taught
about the eye from an
optician in
Perth, Australia, using
virtual classroom
software

11. Thursday lunchtime
linkups with schools in
Western Java, Indonesia
Students interested in
writing stories,
videoconference with
an author from New
York Tuesday
lunchtimes with skype

12. Illness and disabilities
Working from home to create movies - “family life on an
Australian farm”.
Virtual classrooms recorded for those who are ill etc

13. Ability to teach anywhere and any time – 24/7

14. The virtual classroom!
Using Black Board Collaborate - Every student has a voice!

15. 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?

16. .......................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??

18. Customized Learning
• Blogs – each student has a blog
• Youtube
• Mobile devices for 24/7 learning
• Self directed learning

19. ESL students
Can you please tell me
a summary of the
chapter?

21. Learning “Slap Guitar playing technique”
from youtube using a netbook at home.

22. Group and Individual activities
Global
local vertical
statewide
National horizontal

23. Learning from musicions with the
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra –
Ping Music Project

24. Your English is quite good for the majority of
your writing but I have written it now as I would
have. However, I was unable to complete your
second paragraph because I could not
understand what Obachann was. Could you
please tell me? Chloe
Hi Chloe!
I appreciate your kindness. "Obachan" is women
whose age are 30-50 and they have warm heart
and great energy. Most of them love going to
shopping, watching Korean dramas and having
a chat in the street. Thanks, Ayaka

25. http://globalstorytelling.wikispaces.com/Featured+student+work

27. Monitoring Progress
• Check sheets
• Blogs
• Images
• Video recordings
• Hard copy journal
• Wiki discussions
• Forums
• Comments on my blogs
• Google forms
• Photos, videos
• interviewing students
• Assessment rubrics
• wallwisher

28. My Teacher Blog
-for instructions, reflections and shared conversations

29. Student Blogs for journals, learning,
reflections, documentation

30. Checking understanding

32. How do students connect?
PS3

33. The tools

34. I was googled!
‘”Miss, can you please give me TRIAL EXAMS for
unit 4 vce accounting 2011 and from previous
years
My classes are big and my teacher isnt that
good withrevision so i was wondering. i was
wondering if you know any VCE MATH
METHODS and ENGLISH sites like this so i can
email teachers if i dont undertand or want
practise exams.”

35. Professional Learning

36. Other professional learning
• Nings/social networks
• Read blogs
• Face to face conferences –
VCTA, ICTEV, VITTA
• VCTA compak – online
• My students

37. How do students connect?
• Kids don’t use email anymore
• Learn by conversations
• Mobile devices
• Facebook, txt chat, txt messaging,
conversations
• Learning spaces are changing – global, virtual

38. Work life balance

39. Wish list
• Creation of Digital objects for eg accounting
• Gamefication – badges, likes, levels of
achievement – making subject content look like a
game
• School days with option of study from home
• Flexible timetables – school is not 9 to 3:30pm
• Learning analytics – cf data driven
• School budgets
• 20% play time

40. eFind Me
Anne Mirtschin
• mirtschin@gmail.com
• Twitter: http:www.twitter.com/murcha
• Teacher blog: http://murcha.wordpress.com
• Class blogs: http://murch.global2.vic.edu.au
• Tech Talk Tuesdays:
http://techtalktuesdays.global2.vic.edu.au
• eT@lking: http://australiaseries.wordpress.com