December 1, 2009 · 1 Comment
Using digital media students have grown up with …..online accounting
These are the links for my presentation at Comview, Tuesday 1st December.
Elluminate session link
Some suggested tools to use in accounting classes
- delicious - social bookmarking
- wordle- (wordclouds) sample student post “accounting for stock in a wordle “
- toondoo - online cartoon maker See student sample “Depreciation in a Toon“
- bubblus – mindmapping See student sample “cash flow statements”
- google applications – sheet, document, presentation, site
- blogs – teacher, students (sample instuctor’s blog, 50 top accountant blogs)
- skype- Ally’s blog
- Backchannels chatzy, tinychat, twitter, coveritlive
- Online movies – youtube, teachertube, accounting videos
- Voicethread online podcasting
- Lovelycharts
- wikis – wikispaces, wetpaint, pbwiki
Online games in accounting
Categories: accounting
Tagged: accounting, accountin_games, web2.0_accounting
As the flat classroom projects enter the final weeks, levels of anxiety start to run rather high amongst the student body – anger, frustration, confusion, indecision, lack of understanding, complacency are many of the emotions and feelings that run high at this stage.
So, as a teacher I need to coax, cajole, coach, encourage, teach all over again, explain, facilitate, survive etc to keep the project’s momentum going.
Some students
•get angry when a wiki war means that they have lost their hard earned work that had been added to their group page on the wiki, or worse still, their outsourced video request has disappeared!
•get frustrated as they don’t think they know what they are doing (and I know that they don’t!)
•don’t know what to put in their video
•do not follow appropriate wiki netiquette
•show some indiscretions in relation to digital citizenship
•have not had an outsourced video completed for them
•real time pressures (almost too much to bear) are experienced
To make matters worse, this year, a severe gastroenteritis went through our school with fierce tenacity, crippling it to a near halt, with more than 40% of the student body away for several days over a two or three week time period. With so many interruptions, I wondered “What am I doing here again!”
But then…….the magic begins!
•the student summits are held when students can enter the virtual classroom with their global class mates, talk and chat to each other in real time, work in an immediate virtual team, collaborate on the elluminate whiteboard to work out what outsourced video clips each student required and who would do them.
•At home, amazed parents sit near their student who has come online after school hours to be in the student summit with fellow students from Germany, China, USA, the Middle East etc. The flatclassroom is now highly evident.
•the outsourced videos start to filter on to the ning and there is real excitement in the classroom again
•Students who had been quite frustrated and downcast, exceptionally quiet in the classroom are suddenly stopping me in the corridors telling me about the wonderful clip that has been made for them
•Last minute preparations of final videos, mean that the year 9/10 students come into the computer lab to complete their work at lunchtimes.
•Their interested friends are in there too, to see what is going on and the room just buzzes!!!
•By now, they have learnt the skills of wiki editing, ning socializing, uploading the videos to the ning for final judging
•A high sense of achievement and increased confidence is evident.
Thank you Julie and Vicki for making this all possible – an amazing project to be involved in, at the cutting edge of both technology and education…… and already I cant wait to be involved in the next project. Students are enrolling for their electives for next year and are already coming up and asking, “Will we be doing the flatclassroom project?”
Categories: flatclassroom projects
Tagged: elluminate, fcp, flatclassroom_project, Julie_Lindsay, Vicki_Davis
Parents watch their students
Whilst in Mooloolaba for the Learning Technologies conference, schoolies week started. Students were seen entering the sea in school uniform, with many interested parents watching nearby. By nightfall, various parts of the school uniforms were seen scattered over the sand. Despite bad press over the years, we only saw students being sensible:- swimming, barbecuing on the foreshore, shopping etc
The end of school footsteps
School shirts at nightfall
Categories: events
Tagged: Mooloolaba, schoolies, schoolies_week
Alec beams in from Canada
Nancy White - opening speaker
Report on Day One
Where: Beautiful Moolooba, Sunshine Coast Queensland
Venue: Sunshine Coast TAFE
Conference Paricipants: drawn from all levels of education
Pluses
- the location – absolutely beautiful Mooloolaba
- Nancy White with a great keynote address to set the scene
- the keynote speakersmeeting my wonderful twitter and online friends – there are so many here and it is wonderful to meet them face to face. Some I have known for more than two years. They include @clayburell from Singapore, via Korea, (whose wedding I attended virtually nearly two years ago), my wonderful elluminate coach and colleague @cmcculloch, catsnpyjamasnz from NZ, @colwar from my own state and many more. Other online friends present (whom I had met before) included @theother66
- using videoconferencing technology to bring in guest speakers – shows in real time the power of the technology and is purposeful demonstration of the technology.
- range of practitioner led presentations – practical tips, sharing of approaches, learning outcomes etc
Minuses
- the long drive to get to the airport
- the start of schoolies week in Mooloolaba
Interesting:
- conference was live blogged with tweet feeds etc
- Pirate activity to force people to meet each other, use technology and online sites.
- Liked the time given to the vendors at 15 minute spot sessions as they helped sponsor the session.
- the uncoference session at the end of the day with Nancy White, Clay Burrell and Liddy. I attended Liddy’s impromptu session on using scratch in the classroom
Clay Burell and Colin Warren
catspyjamasnz - a twitter friend
demonstrating the use of elluminate in the classroom
Categories: conferences
Tagged: #LT209, catspyjamasnz, clay_burell, conferences, Nancy_White
Year 9/10 students who are part of the flat classroom project were offered the opportunity to meet with the class mates from Germany and Beijing. Time zone differences mean that they had to be in their homes on their computers at 9pm. Three students were able to successfullylogin to the elluminate student summit moderated by Julie Lindsay but one of my keenest students frantically used gtalk with me in an attempt to login. However, Flick kept failing but stayed on gtalk to relay her requests and what she would be able to do for the outsourced video component of the project.
The students were on task, talking to each other, discussing the content of their videos, requesting the video clips that they required and found partners to complete their clips. The chat was quiet initially and then took momentum. Unfortunately, the mics did not work for my students but they text chatted as required.
What an amazing experience! The benefits included the fact that parents could be in the room with my students watching the fantastic classroom exchange. Partnerships with parents are crucial to the success of 21st century education.
By 10:15pm our time, it was off to bed for our students, tea time for the students in Beijing and the start of the school day for the German students. Wow! Listen to the recording!
Categories: flatclassroom projects
Tagged: flatclassroomproject, Julie_Lindsay, student_summit
Last week, year 11 accounting students were privileged to speak with Ally using discoverE virtual classroom software. Ally is a first year business studies student from a university in Saskatchewan, Canada. For one of her subjects she is under the tutelage of Dean Shareski.
Students were more interested in listening about Ally herself, and time did not allow us to discuss the accounting subject that she is studying. Although my students were able to use and were encouraged to use the chat feature, it took a long time for them do so. I soon realised they were intent about listening to what Ally was talking about and trying to make sense of the accent. Indeed, they were fascinated.
My students are still rather shy about speaking on the microphone to a virtual audience. Only one of my students was confident enough to speak to Ally. It must have been a very difficult task for Ally to make conversations all the time, but she did so with ease and watched for the questions as they came up in the chat window. The 50 mins soon went and our lesson was over.
Outcomes
- An interesting comment was made by Ally, when she asked my class who was going to uni, and none responded positively. She wanted to know “Why not?” as is was such a great experience and such fun! (This was highly motivating for my students.)
- Students have commented back on my blog post and on Ally’s to thank her for her involvement. It is always netiquette to do this and important if students wish to maintain a connection.
- Students have written a post about this session (An important record in their digital footprint and eportfolio)
- They have asked repeatedly whether they could talk to her again.
- I need to keep giving my students these opportunities to work with others globally giving them a vital communication skill for the 21st century. (Students in our school tend to be shy of public speaking and using microphones.)
Again, I need to thank Lorraine Leo so very much for connecting us.
Categories: global classroom
Tagged: Ally, Canada, Lorraine_Leo, virtual_classrooms
(With Geraldine Doogue, the Master of Ceremonies, of ABC fame)
An inspiring couple of days were held in Canberra, as Australia celebrated World Teachers Day. Award winning educationalists – teachers, principals, SSO staff and schools and communities representatives were brought together for the Australian Excellence in Teaching Awards. This successful event was organized by Teaching Australia.
Highlights
- awards ceremony at the magnificent Parliament House on Capital Hill in Canberra
- shaking hands with the deputy Prime Minister, Federal Minister for Education, Julia Gillard
- meeting face to face my twitter friend @kimpericles - It is always special to meet online friends and Kim was no exception. Kim does some amazing work with her class, especially in relation to gaming.
- discovering that @adrian_camm was there and had won both a highl
y commended teaching award, plus the Minister for Education’s new award – Excellence in ICT
- meeting and connecting with so many amazing educationalists who are achieving astounding outcomes with students
- the professional exchange with activities organized by Eric Frangenheim, pushing our use of Thinking Skills
Eric encouraging us to continue innovation
- the dinner at the recently opened National Portrait Gallery with guest speaker
At the National Portrait Gallery
- the closing presentation by the highly innovative and successful teacher, Andrew Douch
Andrew Douch - MS World Innovative Teacher of the Year
Lowlights
- plane being 60 mins late taking off in Melbourne due to malfunction
Thank you to Teaching Australia representatives who made our visit memborable and enjoyable. All was superbly organised, we were made to feel special, yet encouraged to further our connections and continue on the innovative work.
Categories: awards
Tagged: Adrian_Camm, Andrew_Douch, Australian_Excellence_in_Teaching_Awards, Autralian_excellence_in_teaching_awards, awards, Canberra, Kim_Pericles, teacher_awards, Teaching_Australia
October 12, 2009 · 1 Comment
Global handwashing day is on October 15th. My students will be writing a post on this global event and answering these questions as a post:-
- Why would there be a global handwashing day?
- What purpose would it have?
- Write about good handwashing practise – what is handwashing, why handwash, where…., when…
- Think of at least 12 words that come to mind when you think of handwashing. Put these words into tagul to make your word cloud. When finished grab the code and embed it in your post. Make sure that you refer to the site and link it to tagul.
Blog action day is also on October 15th. The theme this year is climate change. Blog Action Day is an annual event that unites the world’s bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day on their own blogs with the aim of sparking discussion around an issue of global importance.
It is hoped that some of our global connections will email us a photo of them washing their hands so that we can put these up on our noticeboard for discussion purposes.
It is important that we involve our students and classes in global events such as these:-
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Encourages students to think on a global basis.
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Gives them an authentic task with a global audience.
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Raise awareness of the impact of the H1N1 flu strain, the effects of the current typhoons, tsunamis etc may have on the increase in disease etc
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Makes students realise that people throughout the world have similar passions and goals, and if we work together we can start to solve some of the worldwide problems.
Categories: events
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