The World is my Classroom
ACEC Conference 2012
Anne Mirtschin
@murcha
Google doc: http://bit.ly/Rc6fLf
Google doc:
http://bit.ly/Rc6fLf
Todays Meet
http://todaysmeet.com/worldclass
I am 24 years old and, Freshman of Hokusei
University.
It is located in Sapporo Japan. And 180 million
people lives in Sapporo city
This is my questions.
What dose Hawkesdale P12 College or, Your town
looks like?
What do you want to be in the future or, What are
you going to do after graduate school?
What is your hobby? and, What do you do when
you hang out with your friends?
Hi Yuya, My name's Josh and Hawkesdale is a very small town
with about 200 people living in it. I am currently living in a bigger
town by the name of Port Fairy, i don't know the population, but
it is on the coast of Victoria. It's a very historical town and there
are a lot of old monuments in it.
What i want to do in the future i don't know yet, but my hobbies
are playing video games, listening to music and hanging with my
friends.
What i do when i hang out with my friends, we either play xbox
or walk around or even go fishing. sometimes i just kick the
football around with them as well.
What about you?
What are your hobbies and what do you do when you hang out
with your mates??
[26/09/2012 9:25:16 PM] jason guptill: Any time
you want to get your students together with
mine would be great. My students only have a
book knowledge of the world.
Come, I want to
show you my
classroom!
Will Richardson quote on
Learning is Now!
• What a great model for the immediacy of learning that can happen these
days, and the relevance. When you think about all of the things that your
students could learn and practice here, interviewing skills, geography and
geology, information research, retrieval, editing, organization and sharing,
all in the larger context of perhaps assisting those in need who were
thousands of kilometers away. I want to make the point, however, that it's
all grounded in your own understanding of these technologies and the
ways in which they can help us connect. If you didn't have that knowledge
and experience, this probably would not have happened, and that really is
the goal of what we're all trying to do here, get more comfortable in using
these technologies to learn in our own practice. Thanks so much for
sharing this great snippet of learning from your classroom.
A linkup with a school in Russia
Across the World – Russian linkups
http://acrosstheworld.wikispaces.com
The US Embassy and one of our local
libraries are organising a competition of
students projects under the general title
"Russia nad the USA - Facing Each Other"
One of the projects category is Climate
Change Issue. The school kids will have
to present any kind of investigation on
the Global Warming topic.
From an email….
Will you be able to skype with my students
today at 11:45-12:30 my time? My important
event will be on Thursday, Dec 15th at 16:0017:00 my time.
http://ekaterinburgsvu.wikispaces.com/
Another email….
The link up was great! My colleages were
impressed. Guess what... Our link up got into TV
news! Here is link
http://tvzvezda.ru/news/forces/content/201112
161841-uxun.htm The report is about the day
when all the principals of military schools all
over Russia came to our school. We tried to
show the best educational technologies. Our
Skype-conversation is described as the example
of innovative teaching. Isn't it great?
Information Evening
Testing
Kerala, India
The linkups – Moscow Russia
International Peace Day with a Special School
Should
Australia go to
India to play
sport?
• Foresee and sense cultural
misunderstanding
Should Australia go to India to play sport?
Should Australia go to India to play
sport?
Sample questions
1. Please write some bullet points about what has
been happening to Indians in Australia in the
past year. Include the response from Indians as
well as the impact of these events on the
upcoming Commonwealth Games 2010 in New
Delhi.
2. Why do you think these incidents of violence
have been occurring against Indians? Is it
happening against other ethnic groups in
Australia?
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Who’s that in our Classroom?
From the chat!
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Wow
Turtle: sick as
Ha look at that!
Turtle: been here
Grade 2/3 Woodford: Could you tell us more
about the sink hole Ian?
• Cara hawk: hey bj they probally go through
records from when they first evoved
And also....
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Joshua: i like red rock
i hAVE BEEN UP THEIR
we are going there soon
It's pretty :)
do you know where mt eccells??
water looks awesome
Looks good to swim in ;)
wow thats blue, how did it get blue?
do you know where mt eccells is??
How many years ago did the volcano at Mt Gambier erupt?
Theres heaps of thoose rocks in Hawkesdale and Penshurst
James to Turtle: caught a barracuda there
The Bats
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Cara hawk: his wing looks like it's going to brake
4B DGPS: what age do the bats learn to fly?
Billy-Jo Hawk: Did it try to escape from you?
Grade 2/3 Woodford: How many teeth do bats have?
Trevo hawk: what happen to it eye
Cara hawk: how easy is it to brake a bats wing
smithy: arent they posisoness
Grade 2/3 Woodford: What do bats feel like?
jasmine .j: do they hurt
scottinea: are the bats dead or did u catch them alive?
Grade 2/3 Woodford: What do bats eat?
4B DGPS: are they really blind?
Billy-Jo Hawk: Is there black bats, like full black?
Moderator (Miss Iro, Mrs Gow and year 6/7): do bats carry any diseases
Grade 2/3 Woodford: What sort of fauna and flora live in the sinkholes?
You can’t ask
questions of a
textbook!
Hi Flick!
Picture is very beautiful I think there are a lot of good
day in Australia. How do you think of that? Recently, I
always bring fold-up umbrella, because I often catch in a
shower
I will follow you example. I am going to try to study
Korean more and more. Now many people are
interested in Korean in Japan because there are a lot of
beautiful actress and actor in Korean. Obachann who is
30-50 years Japanese women loves Korean actor.
I have a favor to ask of you. Now I study English, but my
English have a lot of mistakes. I want you to check my
English and correct mistakes if you have time.
Thanks,
Ayaka
Your English is quite good for the majority of
your writing but I have written it now as I would
have. However, I was unable to complete your
second paragraph because I could not
understand what Obachann was. Could you
please tell me? Chloe
Hi Chloe!
I appreciate your kindness. "Obachan" is women
whose age are 30-50 and they have warm heart
and great energy. Most of them love going to
shopping, watching Korean dramas and having
a chat in the street. Thanks, Ayaka
1) I think the important things for learning
foreign language would be so we can
communicate with other people or friends. i
have some friends over in america and others in
indonesia and austria, i have to stop and think
before i can reply back because English is their
second language.
2) My favoruite way of studying foreign
languages would be actually talking with the
other people. and playing games with them or
listening to the music.
Hawkesdale P12 College
Perak Tourism
Communities
Involved
Melbourne Writers Festival
Innovations & Next Practice DEECD
What do you look for in a friend?
What skills are important to learn?
Kerala
India
A Global Brain
Setting the Scene……………………..
• A Friday double with 9/10 ICT elective
• Original plans ‘fallen through’ due to firewall
issues with a collaborative Japanese moodle
• General tiredness
• In desperation, posted a msg on HLW Skypers
group for someone to skype in for approx 10 mins
• David from Illinois, Chicago responds
affirmatively – suggests mystery skype
• Teachers from Sth Africa, Central America and
USA created a rewarding lesson for us.
Some of the skype chat 30 mins prior to my class
• [10:56:31 AM] Living Maths: Daivd and Anne,... have you
considered using a google doc.,.. let the kids read and ask
questions and you type all your responses - it will be nice to keep
the "evidence“
• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1M31ubTjERmWsD6Odn9Ht
APZhYSMo0TmhLlyxw8UVnos/edit
• [11:01:28 AM] Living Maths: map in ... now its too easy ;)
• [11:03:38 AM] Living Maths: Chicago = coghaci
• [10:57:07 AM] David Karnoscak: See you then. Just knock on my
door when you are ready.
• [10:58:18 AM] Living Maths: A true and you can load maps in it and
you can insert QR codes too
• [10:59:18 AM] Living Maths: and you can make an anagram from
the letters in your state's name and let them unjumble the,m
• Or for 10 grade cnelstnriaiogssuiottahicaldoeieimfca
• [11:17:49 AM] David Karnoscak: wow..I don't think even grad
students could figure it out.
I desperately needed a coffee! It was morning recess!
On return a google doc was setup
ready to use with the class!
Mystery Skype
Students….
Could only ask questions that could be
responded to by ‘yes’ or ‘no’ eg
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Are you on earth?
Are you in the northern hemisphere? Yes
Are you in france?
Are you on a island near Australia?
Clues!
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Our questions of Dave:are you on earth
Are you in the northern hemisphere? Yes
are you in france
Are you on a island near Australia
5 . are you in a communist country? no
6. Are you in a heavy populated area?
7Are you in a country where British had established colony?
8 are you in europe
10are you in africa
9 are in in asia
Do you play any sports?yes
do you like to play basketball? yes
Are you in Europe? No
Do you live in South America? No
Do you live on a coast line? No
Do you live in the capital city of your state? No
Do you have 52 stars on your flag? No
See full document
Reflections
Mystery Skype no.2
Middle America - Honduras
When is a Mouse not a Moose?
Student Blog Reflection
Scratch
World Friends
• http://miyata.hiroba.sist.chukyou.ac.jp/wmuseum/Friends2.html
Our sprites for the World Friends site
Happy birthday Scratch
International Dot Day
Fable Vision
Global Projects
Teacher Sourcing
An interpreter!
What do you know about Russia?
Our questions of Russia
Flat Classroom Projects
The K2 Building Bridges
Voicethread
Youblisher for e-book publishing
What makes a good teacher?
Comments
Projects
Coming up…..
Requirements for success
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Passion
Ownership of ideas and projects
Connections
Communication
Taking risks
Determination
Testing
Where to find others!
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Classroom2.0
Flat Classroom Projects
Educators’ Guide to Innovation
Global Education Collaborative
the Australia Series
the Australia e-Series facebook group
School beyond the walls
Global Classroom
epals
Look for new and trending social networking sites
eg pinterest
Online webinars
• Tech Talk Tuesdays:http://techtalktuesdays.global2.vic.edu.au
• eT@lking:
http://australiaseries.wordpress.com
• Classroom2.0 LIVE
http://live.classroom20.com/
Online Conferences
• K12 Online Conference
• Global Education Conference
• Library 2.0
• Web2.0
The Classroom is my World……..
…….The World is my Classroom