To change your password, follow the link after “Howdy” to go to your profile.
This takes you to your profile page:
Scroll down this page until you get to the New Password section. Double enter your preferred password and click “Update Profile.”
One of the main readings selected for teaching staff to review for the recent professional learning sessions was Testing, Motivation and Learning by the Assessment Reform Group in the UK. People can download a digital copy of the reading or join in a collaborative analysis using a version in Google Docs.
You might also want to engage staff in a real-time collaborative writing activity using EtherPad.
Group analysis of an online resource using Diigo. Join and get the toolbar? Then try it on a sample?
If you have used one of the College’s iPads, you would have customised it for your interests. This might include Apps, Books, podcasts, etc.
So that you can return to your particular set-up, it’s important that you backup your iPad in iTunes so that you can “Restore from Backup” when you use it again or even purchase your own.
This is simple to do and takes seconds.
You can guess what you do when it comes time to get your content back onto an iPad. That’s right, “Restore from Backup.”
Note: Once your iPad is set up for local networks with its WiFi Address, make sure you know your wireless passwords. Once you have added these zones, they will be remembered and you won’t have to log into them again.
Do you want to download the handout?
test dropbox
As we wait for WiFi access, let’s share what we’ve found so far. Some things can be demonstrated through the projector.
Things you might like
In this activity we will use the Diigo Web Highlighter in the context of discussing uses for the iPad in the classroom.
Now that you have access to Diigo and the Oxley Learners Group, let’s help each other by adding links to our shared collection.
Here is a cloud of current links:
Try our a shared document. Here is a Google Doc that is open for everyone’s input. Share something interesting or whatever you like.
Google also provides online forms that work great for easily posted surveys or quizzes.
Back in May, all teaching staff at Oxley College took a survey asking about their use of ICTs (Information and Communications Technologies). The reasons for doing this are explained in the document Rationale for Staff ICT Benchmarks (pdf). The complete results are available (minus staff names and comments) in the Raw Survey results (pdf).
In order to begin developing a locally appropriate set of Benchmarks for all staff, the raw data has been categorised into two sets of summary tables. A functional skill was categorised as “Benchmark” if approximately 75% of staff members could perform the skills “independently” and “with ease”. When less than 25% of staff members could do this, the item was classified as “Beyond Benchmarks.” Similarly, in the area of actually “teaching” with ICTs, a minimum staff performance of 40% was used to type an item as a “Benchmark.”
Please download the document below and work individually, as a department and whole staff to create a reasonable set of ICT Benchmarks for all staff members at Oxley College.
Below is the Powerpoint Petah has developed to show you how to get started using eLibrary. You can click right through the slide below or click to enlarge to fullscreen.
You can also download the powerpoint as a player file if you like.
Tutorials from a slightly older version of WordPress
BackgroundPageflakes is the best way to access a wide range of fresh digital content. It does this by being an RSS Feed Reader (want a good video explanation?), but it goes about it in a very Web 2.0 way. The IWB Blog Pageflakes feed tries to demonstrate how you can access audio podcasts, video lectures or movie trailers, current news or compelling visual images. Having access to such “Real, Rich and Relevant” content is great, but what’s even better is working it in to the weekly routine of classroom learning.
