titleEpisode 5

Series 2

Curriculum Planning enriched by eBookboxes – Part 1

Welcome to iMasterclass - Episode 5, series 2Hume Region presents:

Curriculum Planning enriched by eBookboxes – Part 1Brendan O’Brien, Gail Stanley and Libby Delbridge

Purpose of these Sessions

These online professional learning sessions will:

Build a community of teacher/learners beyond your school

Provide a framework for effective PLTs

Develop an effective process to evaluate online resources to support Curriculum Planning

Provide confidence and skills in using Ultranet

Where are we from?

The Learning Intention for today is to discover and understand:

What are eBookboxes? Why would we look at online resources such as eBookboxes? How do eBookboxes support classroom curriculum planning? The Success Criteria will include........•I will be able to understand how my PLT can work together to share and evaluate new resources •I will be able to explain why & how I can use eBookboxes to deliver rich, scaffolded Learning Sequences to students.3. I will be able to understand how my PLT can effectively plan to use these new resources in the classroom to support teaching and learning.

What is an eBookbox?

What support is there to help me understand the power of eBookboxes?

Let’s take a Tour

An eBookbox is a Learning Sequence

Differentiation:

Sequence of online and offline learning activities, some of which are assessed against VELS

Different cohorts of students can be given different eBookboxes

Why & how would I use an eBookbox to plan my teaching

In one class you might have 4 groups of students, each group working through a different level eBookbox

• The Design Space supports the teacher in the use of the eBookbox • Key components of eBookboxes eg. Teacher Guidance tab

• learning goals, prior learning, further learning, links to VELS• pre and post diagnostic tests-solutions• Common misunderstandings and teaching strategies• activity sets (preview carousel), focus questions (learning intention)

• Difference between standard and elaborated eBookboxes

eBookbox Spaces are important because…

Let’s view how PLTs can work together effectively to share their investigations into eBookboxes in the Ultranet, identifying key elements that can be used as a springboard to support current curriculum foci.

via Comic Life discussions…………..

Key Tools:A4 PLT PlannerObservation Activity Sheet

A Tool to use to guide eBookbox Ultranet Space

exploration…….

A tool that can be used by PLT members to investigate and share findings……

Away Task: Join an eBookbox Ultranet Design Space …

1. Go to either Design Space2. Click on Available Design Space tab3. Refine Search if you want – Title ‘eBookboxes’, OR Space ID number ‘66512121’

or Key word ‘eBookboxes’ – ‘Open’4. Go to the Actions button5. Click JOIN 6. After you have joined click on the title to open the space - immediate access as a member

Hint: Spaces with a large membership number, begin with ‘DEECD’ are often good to look

at or key designers eg. Graeme Henchel, Jan Mills, Helena Skora, Helen Gist,

Teacher Design Spaces supporting eBookboxes• DEECD Mathematics eBookboxes – 66512121• DEECD VCE eBookboxes - 108535810• DEECD Science eBookboxes - 116166122• DEECD Japanese eBookBoxes - 124703110 • DEECD Indonesian eBookboxes - 122726435• DEECD English eBookboxes - 119973789

Collaborative Spaces: (Students & Teachers)

• DEECD VCE Student eBookboxes 124360563

Away Task: Join an eBookbox Ultranet Design Space …

Brainstorm: How can eBookboxes connect with what we are doing already?

How do eBookboxes challenge our thinking?How do eBookboxes extend our thinking?

How to join How to join iMasterclasses iMasterclasses Design space...Design space...

1. Join the Hume Region iMasterclass Design Space 2. Go to Design Spaces 3. Click Available Spaces tab4. Search by Space ID number (139211104) 5. The space is Open access so click the Actions

box and Join 6. After you have joined click on the title to open

the space

Thank You!

Next Week: eBookboxes in detail

•Libby Delbridgedelbridge.elizabeth.n@edumail.vic.gov.au

•Brendan O’Brien @brendanoobrien.brendan.p@edumail.vic.gov.au

•Gail Stanley stanley.gail.d@edumail.vic.gov.au