How is the take up of the LMS in your organisation? Is it:<\/p>\n
Somewhere in between perhaps. Maybe it is time to re-invigorate. Here is one idea that was implemented at The Southport School using a small grant from the Australian Government Quality Teacher Program, supervised by Independent Schools Queensland.<\/p>\n
We held an Elearning Leaders Professional Learning Day <\/strong>at a local resort (total cost less than AUD 1000 plus need for cover): The proposed outcomes of the eLearning Leaders project as funded by ISQ\/AGQTP:<\/span> \u201cTeachers are now capable and confident in the processes involved in making resources available online. The focus this year on pedagogy will remind them that online content, while useful, is not the full story. <\/i> The planned activities will lead to wider use of the LMS to promote pedagogical change in the classroom, the development in students and teachers of, what have been labelled, 21st century skills. By this, we mean the Higher Order Skills (Bloom) of creativity, evaluation and analysis.<\/i> These are the skills that students need to succeed in both the Queensland Core Skills Test, in tertiary study and the modern workplace.<\/i> The issue of devices in years 9 and 12 is an important part of this program.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n The purposes of the Big Day Out are:<\/strong><\/p>\n Participants<\/strong> Where possible, participants should:<\/p>\n Proposed activities (sample program)<\/strong><\/p>\n The opportunity to get teachers out of the school for the day was priceless in some respects. In this case we were not able to offer money (less than ideal as a motivator anyway) or extra time (the ideal solution) for the leaders but having the chance to think, reflect and share practice was great.<\/p>\n I believe also that the making of a “special” day in a very pleasant location (The Radisson Resort on the Gold Coast was 15 minutes from the school) made all the difference. Some results of our LMS and BYOD program: http:\/\/elearningindustry.com\/how-an-lms-and-byod-changed-a-school<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Big Day Out takes teachers out of the classroom to share idea in a pleasant environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,22],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-1213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lms","category-schools","tag-tss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonesnz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonesnz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonesnz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonesnz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonesnz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jonesnz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonesnz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonesnz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonesnz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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\n Time<\/td>\n Activity<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 08:15 \u2013 08:45<\/td>\n Tea and coffee<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 08:45 \u2013 09:00<\/td>\n Welcome and general announcements<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 09:00 – 09:15<\/td>\n Ideas in a box \u2013 what is an eLearning leader \u2013 what do they do?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 09:15 \u2013 09:40<\/td>\n Turnitin and Moodle<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 09:40 \u2013 10:00<\/td>\n Research at TSS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 10:00 \u2013 10:15<\/td>\n Morning tea<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 10:15 \u2013 10:25<\/td>\n A developmental model for PL \u2013 the personal development cycle.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 10:25 \u2013 12:00<\/td>\n Share key points from Term 1 activities. Review the \u201cideas box\u201d \u2013 define the purpose of the team.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 12:00 \u2013 12:45<\/td>\n Lunch<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 12:45 \u2013 13:20<\/td>\n Activity: Plan a school visit, what questions will you ask. Pairs then combined groups until we have 5 essential questions \u2013 or so.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 13:20 \u2013 14:40<\/td>\n Priority setting activity \u2013 Term 2 \u2013 might be as for Term 1 \u2013 this is for your faculty. Solo or group-based as appropriate.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 14:40 -15:00<\/td>\n Lightning Presentation on priorities.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 15:00 \u2013 15:15<\/td>\n Afternoon tea<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n