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 Term 3 and 4 Professional Learning Activities.
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|| === Venue === || === Time === || ===Maximum Attendees === || **===Presentation===** || Presented by Cathy Blackburn** PLACES AVAILABLE || Wednesday, October 7 || Click here to registerexpression of interest || Lilydale Heights College || 4pm to 5pm || 20 || || **Presented by Cathy Blackburn** August 26 || Click here to registerexpression of interest || Lilydale PS || 4pm to 5pm || 20 || || PLACES AVAILABLE || TBA || Click here to registerexpression of interest || TBA || 4pm to 5pm || 20 ||  || Presented by Cathy Blackburn** PLACES AVAILABLE || Thursday, August 27 || Click here to registerexpression of interest || Lilydale Heights College library || 4pm to 5pm || 20 || || Presented by Cathy Blackburn** PLACES AVAILABLE || Thursday, October 8 || Click here to registerexpression of interest || Lilydale Heights College library || 4pm to 5pm || 20 || || Presented by Jenny McArdle** PLACES AVAILABLE || Wednesday, November 11 || Click here to registerexpression of interest || Wandin North PS || 4pm to 5pm || 20 || || Presented by Cathy Blackburn** PLACES AVAILABLE || Wednesday, October 21 || Click here to registerexpression of interest || Lilydale Heights College || 4pm to 5pm || 20 || || PLACES AVAILABLE || Thursday, October 15 || Click here to registerexpression of interest || Billanook PS || 4pm to 5pm || 20 || media type="custom" key="4572828" This is a sample survey for the purpose of demonstration at the workshop || Presented by Dianne Wilson** PLACES AVAILABLE || Tuesday, September 15 || Click here to registerexpression of interest || Chirnside Park PS || 4pm to 5:30 pm || 20 || || Presented by Jodie Smith and Cathy Blackburn ** PLACES AVAILABLE || Tuesday, October 28 || Click here to registerexpression of interest || Pembroke PS || 4pm to 6pm || 20 ||  || **Using Microsoft Office Communicator** Check this out - “Skype for school”! Office Communicator enables you to instantly communicate with your colleagues using text chat. The instant messaging software allows you to select your professional contacts and to check whether they may be available to communicate. Office Communicator also supports file transfer, audio and video conferences. Great possibilities for teaching and learning to develop reading, writing, speaking and listening with opportunities for students to communicate with students in other classrooms and other schools.
 * ** Using Microsoft Office Communicator
 * ** Wikispaces for beginners **
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 * ** Blogs for beginners **
 * ** Creating clickable activity sheets
 * ** Digilearn and online interactive activities
 * ** Creating resources with Easiteach
 * ** Visualising thinking with online tools
 * **Creating online surveys **
 * ** Claymation for beginners
 * ** Kahootz 3
 * ** Photostory for Beginners ** || TBA || Click here to registerexpression of interest || TBA ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **Podcasting for Beginners** || TBA || Click here to registerexpression of interest || TBA ||  ||   ||   ||

A blog or // We b log // is a web site that is usually used as an individual journal and is publicly accessible. Classroom blogs provide opportunities for students to: Blogs provide a forum and instant audience for students/teachers/parents. They are collaborative and can be published anywhere, anytime. Come along and learn how to create you own blog!
 * Wikispaces for beginners **
 * Wikis are collaborative websites you can create quickly and **** easily then invite colleagues or students to become members. **** Members can contribute and edit anytime, anywhere! Create a **** wiki for your level team where you can store resources, curriculum plans and showcase success stories! **
 * Create a wiki for your class where you can house a gallery of **** student work, work on group projects, post homework tasks, etc. **
 * Blogs for beginners**
 * reflect on learning
 * peer assess
 * write collaborative stories
 * report on excursions/ camps
 * discuss current affairs, book themes

Tired of wasting valuable class time having students slowly navigate the internet and mistyping web addresses? There are so many valuable learning activities freely available on the web; how can you direct them to these instantly? Clickable activity sheets are the answer. Learn how to create clickable activity sheets and explore the myriad of wonderful learning activities available on the web at the click of a mouse!
 * Creating clickable activity sheets **

A huge library of digital learning objects known as ** Digilearn ** is available on the web for all Edumail users. In addition to this library, there are literally thousands of sites which offer very appealing interactive educational activities. Spend some time exploring these sites to build your personal library of eLearning resources. We will also investigate a handy tool for organising your library known as ** Del.icio.us **
 * Digilearn and online interactive activities **

** Creating resources with Easiteach ** Lots of great IWB activities online but you can’t find what you’re looking for? Many online activities are from the UK or US so those involving measurement or currency for instance are not suitable. Why not make your own! This session will guide you through the creation of an Easiteach resource. Please bring your laptop, fully charged, with Easiteach software installed. Suitable for early and middle primary.

This dimension of ICT can be addressed with an array of online tools. Develop your students’ ability to represent their thinking graphically with these engaging tools. In this session we will explore Intel’s thinking tools, online graphic organisers and online concept mapping software.
 * Visualising thinking with online tools **

**Creating online surveys** There are many occasions where you may want to collect information from your students – feedback on learning activities, formative assessments to assist your design of new units, reflections on learning, opinions and preferences to inform democratic processes such as class decisions, voting in your classroom – the possibilities are endless. Alternatively students may be collecting information as part of a learning activity and may need to design a survey. Rather than use hard-copy surveys and questionnaires, you can create these and conduct polls online. We will investigate 3 of these online options.

** Claymation for beginners **

Love Wallace and Gromet?? Now you and your students can make your own animated videos, complete with credits, music and voices, using the porgram, Stop, Motion, Pro. It's easy. You will have the opportunity to make a short movie and experiment with the program.

Kahootz is an educational software application that allows students to create, explore and invent in 3D. Children aged 7-15 can easily create 3D scenes combining Kahootz characters, animals and buildings with enhanced animation, soundtracks and special effects. Each participating teacher will need to bring their notebook with Kahootz 3 already installed to use during the training. As this is a new version of Kahootz the training will suit a beginner to the program. This is a full day of training and you will therefore require a CRT to attend
 * Kahootz 3**



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