Welcome to theCAP Development

Day

We acknowledge the traditional owners of this land, and in doing so pay our respects to the elders past and present, and to those of

the future,for they hold the memories, stories,traditions,

cultures and hopes of Aboriginal Australia.

SED Report Jim Roworth

Relieving SED Equity for John Dowling

State Projects

Greg Alchin, RDE Project Officer(Adobe Connect)

Regional Moodle Server Report

Ariah Park CS Land and Water ManagementMonteagle PS Keeping Myself HealthyNew England Moodle – Belbrook – Vikings

Virtual Classroom Challenges_2011_Sue Najor

CAP PurposeThe Country Areas Program (CAP) is an equity program designed to assist schools and their communities to enhance the learning outcomes and educational opportunities for students in geographically isolated areas. guidelines

ValuesThe Country Areas Program is underpinned by the values of:• Innovation•Quality• Collaboration • Contextualisation

CAP Action Areas

Isolated rural communities are subject to additional factors which amplify the effects of reduced access. Actions that can directly address the effects of geographic isolation are:

Providing students with curriculum access and enhancement through access to a wider range of teachers, curriculum materials, learning experiences and sources of knowledge.

Facilitating student engagement and peer interaction across small educational cohorts to gain a more direct and timely opportunity to engage in collaborative learning with a wider range of peers.

Engaging in connected learning so that geographically isolated students are supported in a wide variety of interactions across space and time, in accessing information sources, educational and community services and individual connections.

Morning Tea

Successful CAP programs  Wagga Wagga Deniliquin

11.20 Tailored Technology Looking Through My Window

11. 40 Planning Ahead in ICT iEnviro

11.50 Mountain Magic Brain Theory

12.00 Oh Boy Go Girl Boys Rock Girls Rule

12.10

12.20

Young Small Schools Community

West Wyalong Community of Schools

ICT CampLeadership

Some Ideas…getting out there!Collaborative Projects Using Online Tools

Create Me – A Moment in Time (Riverina)- Getting to know me

Flat Classroom Project (Global)Teens and Primary projectsOther Worlds professional learning opportunity (on tables)

Blogging:Epping Heights Public School BlogBlogging Challenge

The A’Math’ing Race online challenge using google maps

Mobile Learning

UngarieAction Learning GroupsCollegial Professional Learning

Learning Communities…

learning communities have been defined as:

any group of people, whether linked by geography or some other sharedinterest, which addresses the learning needs of its members through proactivepartnerships. It explicitly uses learning as a way of promoting social cohesion,regeneration and economic development. (Kearns, McDonald, Candy, Knights & Papadopoulos, 1999, pp. 61-62)

BrainstormList Learning Community Activities that schools could be involved in.How do these activities promote quality learning for isolated students.Chose one activity to brainstorm all the ways that you could use for example technology to extend and maintain that face-to-face connection and build on the relationship. Eg joint excursion: pre vc, blog, wiki, joint project collaboratively follow up,

Shared Professional LearningCollaboratingConnectingCreatingStudent campsVideo conferencingAdobe connectShared excursionsCommon Scope and SequenceCommon Units of work

LUNCH

Network Initiative Planning for 2011

CAP Dates