Portable Computer Lab for Primary School

Stu Hasic presents:

"My dream set up.......

 What I would love to see in Sandy Beach Public School 21C library learning space......."

 Sydney Region Schools IT service Podcast Lane.

Check out our new NSWDET BlogED tool.

Professional Learning needs to take a new direction.

 Ben Jones is a Professional Learning and Curriculum Support Project officer with the NSWDET Program delivering the Digital Education Revolution is NSW Public Schools.

Recently Ben posted: If we can’t teach ourselves, who can we teach?
Ben states that: "We are at a cross road with professional learning. Down Status Quo Avenue we can continue to feed, structure and support our dependence on the 16th century professional learning models. The alternative path leads down ‘New Directions’ street requires us to evaluate our position, and then most importantly we need to play our position.

The provision of the Connected Classrooms in our schools and the widespread availability of webinars, online training modules and tutorials open many doors for growing knowledge.

Explore Ben's questions for reflection:
Consider what professional learning could look like?

I particularly love one these professional learning suggestions from Ben which would help build a strong and supportive school culture:

■Provide extra relief time post professional learning for teachers to
pay it forward making it part of school culture and
 ■Build a culture of play and exploration by time tabling 15 minutes play!!

Broadcast Sport- We Create Challenge

 Here's another message from                     Ruth Mason

                                                                                      Senior Learning Design Officer

Learning Design and Services 

Centre for Learning Innovation you shouldn't miss!!

Another term, another terrific opportunity for students to use ICT. Broadcast sport is the next WeCreate Challenge for 2010 and students have from 19 April until 3 May to upload their story to the Broadcast website 

For this challenge students celebrate the sporting achievements of a team or individual in their school. They can also view those of other schools via the website’s Newsroom.

See some of the stories submitted during the first Broadcast challenge (Broadcast: News) by visiting the Newsroom 

The Broadcast sport challenge is one of the WeCreate: Connected Learning Awards and the WeCreate challenges which are being conducted throughout 2010 and can be mapped across a range of curriculum areas.

For details of all the great WeCreate awards and challenges including a downloadable flyer.

DET blog....BlogEd getting closer

The DET blog (BlogEd) is nearing full release – 

Read a summary of the key features  .

The blog will be made available to all DET (schools/TAFE) teachers in Term 1 next year.

Final testing is being conducted within the current trial schools & TAFEs.

Resources will be available via the portal (videos/Pdfs/FAQs).

A familiarisation package is also being trialled- but hopefully the blog is its own vehicle for ‘intuitive usage’ and promotion.

Love to hear what you might use it for in your classroom or library.