Jul 5 2012
6th Form DLs “ICT Wiki in a day” – Wednesday 11th July 2012
Subject: Your invite to LLS Sixth Form Digital Leaders – “ICT Wiki in a day” – Wednesday 11th July 2012
Open to all Y11s (for when you get bored…) – please reply email to Mr Sharples to say you are coming…
+ 12 ICT Students – check with your p3 teachers
+ Guest 13 Students
LLS Sixth Form Digital Leaders – “ICT Wiki in a day” – on Wednesday 11th July 2012
Aims
- To research exciting and effective ways to use ICTs for learning in LLS Sixth Form
- To create a list of possible uses and a to do list to prepare for September
- To create a resource to share with all LLS sixth form from September 2012
- (Maybe invite a group of interested Sixth form students to add to it next year)
Who?
- Y11 volunteers – mainly ICT students
Current Y12 ICT students (some need to ask permission for p.3) - ‘Guest’ Y13 ICT students
- CJS, KFL and open invite to any sixth form teachers to drop in and join us at any stage
When/What? – Wednesday 11th July 2012
9.15-9.25 Introduction in IT2 (CJS/10mins)
Quick review of what Y8 and Y9 DLs have been up to and review of what we are doing today.
We learned how helpful today is going to be to the year 12 coursework, using pictures for evidence.
Watched the video about what the digital leaders have been up to, we used to to come up with todays plan.
We found that they have been really keen to use software and technology to improve learning, especially the teach meet.
Mr Lech suggested using this as part of their project managment, using a wiki would help them collate all their knowledge online.
9.25-9.35 Discussion of possible uses of ICT (All)
We want to achieve ICT4BL –> Information and Collaboration Technology for better learning, its for sixth form.
Luke gave a powerpoint on his ideas about today which branched off into a discussion about what techniques we could use for better learning
Until Break Research into ICTs / prepare 3 min talks for afternoon
Worked on own about individual techniques to improve learning. Title, decription and screenshots, benefits, drawbacks and action points. Break was early, though we came back early.
period 3 Adding descriptions to Wiki
Learned how to add things to wikispaces, then we added our techniques for learning, using the template Mr Sharples had created. We also added tags so that people know how to find certain things quickly. Adding pictures and information we soon had a detailed compile of techniques to help us learn. Hints and tips soon went up followed by various documents and images to enhance the wiki pages and files.
lunch Free to do own thing / continue preparation for afternoon
p.4/5 3 min talks with group feedback via Fronter to be added to Wiki
We met Mr Tyson who introduced himself to us. We then gave him a brief description of today and what it was about.
Taking it in turns the year 12’s presented what they were researching to everyone. After each talk we had a group discussion about each one with pros and cons. Hannah went first who spoke about drop box, followed by Alistair and Liam who spoke about Online Bookmarking. Notes we made by all as we discussed. Mr Tyson spoke often giving good ideas about sites such as “Bitly” and “bubbl.us”
3.25 Review with Mr Tyson
3.35 Finish
Jul 13 2012
LLS Digital Leaders Meeting 27, 5th July 2012
Sorry for not being with you yesterday – it took an hour and a half for me to get into school.
Competition – for next Thursday / 3x £10 Amazon vouchers as prizes
Please complete a blogpost of “What you want to do as a Digital Leader next year in Y10” and email it to me.
Please include:
Please could Jess update the edmodo page on the blog.
The wiki – this is the result of the hard work of the Y12 ICT students and Luke Kelly (Y13) on Weds at the 6th Form DLs’ ICT Wiki in a day.
It’s called the “ICT 2 IMLO” (Information and Communication Technologies 2 Improve My Learning and Organisation).
It’s the next collaborative space for DLs to use with their Link Teachers and other DLs to improve their lessons and learning.
It’s linked off the Blog or you can go direct to it here – ICT 2 IMLO Wiki. Your user name is made up of your first name, first letter of surname and LLS so Chris_S_LLS PW=password and it uses your school email address. Try logging on and having a look. These are the ideas the Y13s (and I) had:
Diary App and Task Manager
Mindmapping
Mindmapping 2
Mobile Web Browser
Note taking and Reminders
Online Bookmarking
Online Storage
Online Storage 2
Photo Sharing
Social Networking
VLE – Fronter Development
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