Amazing eClassrooms

Anne Mirtschin@murcha

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Learning with members of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in the virtual classroom

• Emoticons• Backchannel• Recording• Capacity to send files• Interactive whiteboard• Polling feature• Videoconferencing feature• Breakout rooms for group work

Virtual classrooms can be recorded for those who are ill etc

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?

.......................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??

Students shared on whiteboard and chat how it feels to be bullied

“it makes you feel so bad that you want to crawl into bed and never come out again”

Girls created a movie Entered a global challenge and received an honourable mention

Virtual Easter Hat Parade

Year 7 Hawkesdale students view Boneo Primary students hat parade!

40 students from 2 schools synchronously draw their decorated eggs on the interactive white board

Safer Internet Use Day

The stats

• 1 classroom (virtual in Blackboard Collaborate)• up to 17,000 students• 170 physical classes• A class of deaf students from

Furlong Park School• 1 teacher (or presenter) – Greg Gebart from

Cybersmart

A screen dump from the presentation

How it looked from our year 5/6 students’ perspective!

Polycom videoconferencing equipment

Student Leaders from 2 small rural schools meet at lunchtimes

Hands on Literacy through Pottery

With Ms Delightful!

Hands on Literacy through Pottery

With Ms Delightful!

Anzac Day

Mark Wilson - artist

The artist’s sketch using electroboard/document camera/polycom with Year 5/6

Student engagement

Student Outcomes

Sharing Anzac Stories

Student Election ForumHosted by Gungahlin College, Canberra

How it looked - #gcf2013!

Learning with education staff from National Gallery of Victoria

Wisteria from Marriners Museum, Virginia USA –”Life at Sea”

What Students Liked

Much better learning from someone like Wisteria than a textbook How she showed the actual objects All of it was really good – Wysteria was a really good presenter, asked

questions and got everyone involved. Different time zone and it was interesting to know that she was in my

yesterday and there was a night time concert outside while she spoke to us.

Lady pirate Chin commanded 500 pirate ships, made me interested in old history

Liked how she was actually at the museum, and showed us the actual objects from the ship

To see the things they used – photos and objects

The Global Backchannel

Kar Waii kinda shiver sometimes when talking in front of peopleGeorginayeah same

Malay Students Share Presentations

#Cheer On For Reshma

wow.. didnt know that

this is a fun room

i remember last time how we were talking about Exo and Shaolin soccer :P Good conversations :)

Learning with students from Indonesia at lunchtimes

Students in Indonesia demonstrate how to cook a local dish!

Should Australia go to India to play sport?

With American School of Mumbai

International Peace Day with a Russian Special School

World Read Aloud Day with prep/one students from remote cattle station, Australia

Learning Scratch with Lana, USA over skype

Sprites for World Friends project on World Museum site

You can’t ask questions of a

textbook!

Do you teach or have any knowledge of the native wars between the americans, seminoles, iroquois, cherokee etc, in the times of george washington?

Mobile skype teacher – Lorraine Leo from USA solving student problems in Scratch

Google hangout for World Peace Day

Sharing with Sebastian Panakal and wife Seena from India

From sharing a photo of a typical student lunchbox in Australia with Year 7 Science Students in Germany

Connecting Canteen managers via German/English interpreter

INFORMATION ABOUT GERMAN FOOD DAY

• The German food day will be on next Wednesday. There will be three dishes on this day they are;

• Pork Schnitzel and gravy rolls $4.50

• German pasta Bake $4.50

• Beef goulash with spritzla & German noodles $4.50

Mardi Gras Day with virtual global judges

Ghangout with German students

Thai Linkup

Sharing their Scratch outcomes using Skype

Making the Impossible Possible

Students from Cheery School in the biggest slum in Kenya connect to the world.

What it meansWhat it Means Transparent Messy Teaching Spontaneous learning Essential to be networked Teach and learn ‘on the fly’ Use ‘teachable moments’ Risk taking

**Develop a powerful network**

Tips

Teach and learn ‘on the fly’ Be adaptable with tools Test Backup Plans Be yourselves – it doesn’t have to be perfect

or polished Have a grab bag! Have fun and take learning beyond what we

know it!

For Content Providers..

Find Champion Schools/Teachers The web camera Interactivity Animated presenters Variety of media Backchannel Gauge body language of audience Set a maximum time limit