Using Researching Together
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Researching Together: Engaging Minds
– the inquiry approach and the VELS
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This presentation
• Is not based word for word on this PowerPoint.
• Will provide you with some necessary information handouts to take away with you.
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This presentation
• Encourages your input: comments, suggestions, concerns.
• Aims to provide a starting point for your situation.
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Does not mean to state the obvious!
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Presenters
• Carmel Spry: Assistant Director of Studies and Head of English
• Margaret Simkin: Head of Information Services
At The Hamilton And Alexandra College
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About us: Carmel
• Appointed 2006. Background primarily secondary English in the Catholic and Independent sectors.
• Current teaching load this year comprises Year 8, 10 and 12 English.
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About us: Margaret
• Commenced 2005, background: mainly as a classroom teacher in secondary SOSE, Information Technology and English. Qualified Teacher-librarian.
• Manages both the Junior and Senior Campus libraries teaching Library and Information Skills from ELC to year 6, and a Year 10 Geography class.
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About The Hamilton and Alexandra College
• Is a Co- educational Day and Boarding School situated in Victoria's Western District.
• Established in 1871, the school has a strong history and tradition of academic excellence.
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About The Hamilton and Alexandra College
• The College has 460 students from Early Learning through to Year 12.
• There are 2 campuses (Senior and Junior)
approximately 1.5km apart.
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Technology provision
• Each teacher is issued with a tablet laptop.
• Each classroom has an overhead projector, docking station and Interactive Whiteboard
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Senior Campus
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IWB use at the senior campus
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IWB use at Senior Campus
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Alexandra Library Reference section
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Other technological access:
• Two computer rooms with 25 computers.• Reference section of the Alexandra
Library has 10 computers.• Two trolleys of laptops (15 per trolley).• Fully networked sites.• Numerous printers: B&W + colour.• Several scanners.• Still and DVD cameras.
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Junior Campus
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Using IWBs in the Junior Campus
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IWB use at the Junior Campus
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Handbury Library
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Other Junior Campus technology
• Computer lab with 25 computers adjacent to the Library
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VELS and our situation
• Independent schools have not had to base their courses on VELS to date.
• Our strong academic tradition means there is a high level of concern about integrating domains.
• Next year we will introduce VELS based courses into year 7.
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Researching Together: Engaging Minds
• Anyone not already own the program?• Anyone using it already? Please feel free
to contribute as we go along: we are beginners and can do with help!
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Collecting VELS information
• Has been vital in terms of being ready to assist teachers with course writing.
• Has been multi pronged: no need to reinvent the wheel!:
New text booksSources from elsewherePromotion where/when
possible
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Timeline of our journey with R2G
• Full details are on the handout but in summary:
• In 2005 the flyer advertising the CD arrived. I thought about purchasing.
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2005 contd.
• June 2005 Mary Manning spoke at a South West District Library Association meeting.
• She made the point that VELS embodied cooperative planning and teaching and provided a pathway to information literacy. She briefly showed us R2G.
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2005 contd.
• In November 2005 SWDLA hosted Anne Young from BSSC demonstrating R2G. She extolled the virtues of a consistent approach to assignment setting which integrated information literacy skills with assessment tasks.
• Program was purchased.
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Semester 2 2006
• We attended a regional one day workshop in Stawell. There were many advantages to taking this opportunity:
• BSSC and SLAV expertise • Time• Hands on • One main focus • Applied to many different settings by the school
teams in attendance• And being there together.
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2006 contd.
We then ran an internal PD session at the start of term 4 for interested staff showing what can be done with R2G and how to do it.We demonstrated the unit we had devised at the workshop.
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Meanwhile in Geography
• Margaret used templates to develop assignments.
• Very basically initially using the concept of hyperlinking and incorporating thinking skills.
• (Using R2G addresses some of the ICT standards as well!)
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Term 4 Geography
• Then, encouraged by student response, a complete unit.
• Setting up units takes time, don’t be too ambitious about how much you can write up in a term.
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A golden opportunity
• Arose towards the end of the year when teachers began looking for an alternate program for Year 7 & 8 students in the last week of school.
Fantastic Futures was proposed and then developed.
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Fantastic Futures: an integrated unit
• Assignment
• Evaluation
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Advantages of putting Library time into developing this was:
• Almost all year 7 & 8 teachers were involved.
• They were happy to supervise but preferred not to have to organise anything! (End of year crazy time!)
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Like a Christmas present for teaching inquiry methods
• Library and IT staff were available to assist students take their work wherever they wanted it to go.
• Students got to see what we owned and how to use it.
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Hence in 2007
Individual teachers and student teachers are starting to use R2G or parts thereof. E.G Assessment rubrics.
A number of staff are aware that they can come to the Library for assistance with assignment planning.
Library intranet presence becoming established.
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The next piece for English
• Was developed by Carmel for her Year 10 class.
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So where do you start?
• Buy the CD.• Load it onto your network.• Explore it.• Start to use it like this: • Set up a folder which includes anything a
teacher might need.
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Sessions on R2G
• Are being run by SLAV in August.• Plan now to attend one of the sessions
with a proactive teacher at your school! Sign on asap!
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When working with a teacher
• Hand them this copy (or direct them to something like this on the network so the hyperlinks work)
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And remember
• R2G is enormous. You will continue to keep finding information and templates you can use.
• When you begin you might find it overwhelming.
• Once you start to use it you will easily become familiar with it.