Comments on: Teachers are learners too http://starnott.edublogs.org/2008/08/30/teachers-are-learners-too/ Looking at how to best get staff using the tools they have at their fingertips, to make learning engaging and real for the digital natives we teach. Sat, 28 Nov 2009 03:54:57 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: queenie http://starnott.edublogs.org/2008/08/30/teachers-are-learners-too/comment-page-1/#comment-76 queenie Wed, 28 Jan 2009 05:20:18 +0000 http://starnott.edublogs.org/?p=46#comment-76 what is this site for?? what is this site for??

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]]> By: Suz Arnott http://starnott.edublogs.org/2008/08/30/teachers-are-learners-too/comment-page-1/#comment-61 Suz Arnott Sun, 31 Aug 2008 09:17:27 +0000 http://starnott.edublogs.org/?p=46#comment-61 Thanks Trudy... I will post about how we go here... I am hoping that competitive spirit will come to the fore with some of those reluctant ones to start talking about and using the tools :) and the prizes will be fun too... I have had lots of positive feedback about that :) I hope that will work as incentive to get more people engaged :) Thanks Trudy… I will post about how we go here… I am hoping that competitive spirit will come to the fore with some of those reluctant ones to start talking about and using the tools :) and the prizes will be fun too… I have had lots of positive feedback about that :) I hope that will work as incentive to get more people engaged :)

]]> By: Trudy Brentnall http://starnott.edublogs.org/2008/08/30/teachers-are-learners-too/comment-page-1/#comment-60 Trudy Brentnall Sun, 31 Aug 2008 06:59:45 +0000 http://starnott.edublogs.org/?p=46#comment-60 I also think this is a fantastic idea and would love some feedback as to how it goes. Time is a problem for teachers and those who move ahead more quickly are those who are willing to play with tools and technology in their own time. I guess it's a matter of making them excited enough to do this. I think when they can see how these tools can be used in their personal life they become important and useful and can then be transported to the classroom and professional lives. Although I didn't take part in it, the Yarra Plenty Library Web2.0 program for the public looked sensational ( http://www.yprlconnect.blogspot.com ) and I convinced my very elderly father to try it. Good luck with the project and keep us updated. I also think this is a fantastic idea and would love some feedback as to how it goes. Time is a problem for teachers and those who move ahead more quickly are those who are willing to play with tools and technology in their own time. I guess it’s a matter of making them excited enough to do this. I think when they can see how these tools can be used in their personal life they become important and useful and can then be transported to the classroom and professional lives.
Although I didn’t take part in it, the Yarra Plenty Library Web2.0 program for the public looked sensational ( http://www.yprlconnect.blogspot.com ) and I convinced my very elderly father to try it.
Good luck with the project and keep us updated.

]]> By: Suz Arnott http://starnott.edublogs.org/2008/08/30/teachers-are-learners-too/comment-page-1/#comment-59 Suz Arnott Sun, 31 Aug 2008 06:20:44 +0000 http://starnott.edublogs.org/?p=46#comment-59 Hi Anne... I think I have seen your name pop up on the master trainers email list too...although that seems to have died, I tried posting something, and it bounced back. I am a Master Trainer, I have run two lots of the INTEL Essentials course, I was keen to become a Senior trainer, but the timing was not right the last time it was offered, and I haven't heard anything more recently. The courses ran well. The online courses look good from what I have seen. I would like to do more, but again that whole time thing :(. I am at Elisabeth Murdoch College in Langwarrin - South East suburbs of Melbourne, top of the Mornington Peninsula. I would love to hear any feedback as the project unfolds... as I said I want it to be relevant to staff, not much point if we can't get to the sites at school... I am already pushing things along with the sites that we should have access to but the ISP blocks. I'd like to find out if others have that issue too, or if it is just us.... Why Redback - funny you should mention the footy team... the local club to me (not school) is also the redbacks. I didn’t want anything tech in the name, and Redbacks are beautiful and alluring in their webs. So with the aim to entice more staff into the web to see some of the beauty, fun and maybe a little silliness. Hi Heather...ahhh I read about the SLAV/Yarra Plenty version, it is great to see local version of the project. I am at a secondary college in Langwarrin. Good luck with your proposal, my prin has been fantastic in his support, and I think that makes all the difference. I hope we get that same level of enthusiasm, and people sharing and talking about the technologies and how they can use them. Most of the project will be on the redback blog and wiki, I think this place will be my sanity :) Thanks for your good wishes... I am getting nervous, in a good way. Hi Anne… I think I have seen your name pop up on the master trainers email list too…although that seems to have died, I tried posting something, and it bounced back. I am a Master Trainer, I have run two lots of the INTEL Essentials course, I was keen to become a Senior trainer, but the timing was not right the last time it was offered, and I haven’t heard anything more recently. The courses ran well. The online courses look good from what I have seen. I would like to do more, but again that whole time thing :( .
I am at Elisabeth Murdoch College in Langwarrin – South East suburbs of Melbourne, top of the Mornington Peninsula.
I would love to hear any feedback as the project unfolds… as I said I want it to be relevant to staff, not much point if we can’t get to the sites at school… I am already pushing things along with the sites that we should have access to but the ISP blocks. I’d like to find out if others have that issue too, or if it is just us….
Why Redback – funny you should mention the footy team… the local club to me (not school) is also the redbacks. I didn’t want anything tech in the name, and Redbacks are beautiful and alluring in their webs. So with the aim to entice more staff into the web to see some of the beauty, fun and maybe a little silliness.

Hi Heather…ahhh I read about the SLAV/Yarra Plenty version, it is great to see local version of the project. I am at a secondary college in Langwarrin. Good luck with your proposal, my prin has been fantastic in his support, and I think that makes all the difference. I hope we get that same level of enthusiasm, and people sharing and talking about the technologies and how they can use them. Most of the project will be on the redback blog and wiki, I think this place will be my sanity :)
Thanks for your good wishes… I am getting nervous, in a good way.

]]> By: Heather Bailie http://starnott.edublogs.org/2008/08/30/teachers-are-learners-too/comment-page-1/#comment-58 Heather Bailie Sun, 31 Aug 2008 04:10:47 +0000 http://starnott.edublogs.org/?p=46#comment-58 Love what you are doing here. I am in the process of applying for a leading teacher position as College ICT coach and one of the things I am proposing is something very like your redback project. My library team (almost) all completed the Learning with Web 2.0 program run by SLAV and the Yarra Plenty Regional Library which finished up at the start of August. It was a fantastic learning experience and now I just want to infect everyone with my enthusiasm. I've added your blog to my reader so I'm looking forward to finding out how you go. Are you at a primary or secondary school? Love what you are doing here. I am in the process of applying for a leading teacher position as College ICT coach and one of the things I am proposing is something very like your redback project. My library team (almost) all completed the Learning with Web 2.0 program run by SLAV and the Yarra Plenty Regional Library which finished up at the start of August. It was a fantastic learning experience and now I just want to infect everyone with my enthusiasm. I’ve added your blog to my reader so I’m looking forward to finding out how you go. Are you at a primary or secondary school?

]]> By: Anne Baird http://starnott.edublogs.org/2008/08/30/teachers-are-learners-too/comment-page-1/#comment-57 Anne Baird Sun, 31 Aug 2008 00:27:50 +0000 http://starnott.edublogs.org/?p=46#comment-57 This looks great Suzanne. I would love to encourage our teachers to get involved as well. as you know the biggest problem or blocker for many teachers is time. Although as an eLearning coach just as you are I feel that we are constantly battling both the time issue and the reluctance of many teachers to take on eLearning in any way. It's an ongoing challenge and your idea of formalising it as well as making it a bit of fun in this way might just hit the mark. By the way I see that you have also done the Intel training. I think it looks like the Essentials course? How did it go? I am a Senior trainer with Intel in Victoria. I love the course although I focus more of my work on the Thinking with Technology course. I haven't been able to work our where you are but I assume you are in Victoria? Cheers and good luck with your Redback project. BTW, Why Redback?The local footy team in the town where I teach, Wedderburn are the Redbacks so we often call activities or groups, the redbacks. This looks great Suzanne. I would love to encourage our teachers to get involved as well. as you know the biggest problem or blocker for many teachers is time. Although as an eLearning coach just as you are I feel that we are constantly battling both the time issue and the reluctance of many teachers to take on eLearning in any way. It’s an ongoing challenge and your idea of formalising it as well as making it a bit of fun in this way might just hit the mark. By the way I see that you have also done the Intel training. I think it looks like the Essentials course? How did it go? I am a Senior trainer with Intel in Victoria. I love the course although I focus more of my work on the Thinking with Technology course. I haven’t been able to work our where you are but I assume you are in Victoria?
Cheers and good luck with your Redback project. BTW, Why Redback?The local footy team in the town where I teach, Wedderburn are the Redbacks so we often call activities or groups, the redbacks.

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