A presentation put together for the Lea

1. Lead User Training
Rochester SC
Monday 13th August

2. Time Agenda
9:00 – 11:00 Web 2.0 – hands on
This will be a full on session! We will go through a long list of the latest of Web 2.0 tools available to teachers and you will get the
opportunity to explore some of these along the way.
Things we will cover in this session
- Suggested ways to manage registering for and implementing web 2.0 tools into your classroom.
- Ideas on how to use these tools in the classroom.
- Links to resources to support implementation.
It will help if you have an active gmail account set up. If you don’t, click here to create one. You will use your gmail to sign in to many of
the web 2.0 tools.
11:00 – Morning Tea (tea, coffee and biscuits provided)
11:30
11:30-12:30 ICT Scope and Sequence
Discuss. Look at examples. Share ideas on how to develop an ICT Scope & Sequence for your school.
Digital Learning Conference Update
Update on Ultranet Student Report Card Trial
Latest news from Ultranet Central
Ultranet Release 3.2 – latest enhancements update
Ultranet Release 3.3 – enhancements to come
Principal and Teacher Utility Reports
what are these and how to use them
12:30-1:30 Lunch (BYO)
1:30-3:30 Ultranet Learning Tasks
Part 1. Refresher course on creating, assigning and assessing Learning Tasks
Part 2. How to enter students VELS confirmations and write Observations.

3. • Web 2.0 is a term used to describe advanced
internet technology and applications that allow
users to communicate, share information, design and
collaborate and construct on the World Wide Web
• In the past, we could only use the WWW to gather
source and gather information.
• The most significant difference between the web 2.0
and the traditional World Wide Web is greater
collaboration among internet users, content providers
and enterprises.

4. Things to consider
• Knowing what’s out there
• Registrations / sign up and hidden costs – read
carefully
• Password management appendix
• Become familiar before using it with your class
• Do some research about best practise – google it! or
look on YouTube

5. • Back channel chat room
• Free to use
• No registration required
• http://todaysmeet.com/rochester

6. • Collaborate online using a word processor,
slide shows, spread sheets and create
electronic forms for data collection.
• Free
• https://drive.google.com/start#home

7. • Free
• Network with other educators
• Follow innovators
• Get links to resources
• Share ideas and thoughts
http://www.slideshare.net/hopkinsdavid/twitter
-in-education

8. Twitter Hashtags to follow #
• #vicpln – resources shared by Vic educators
• #edtech – technology for educational purposes
• #ultranet - Ultranet
• #edchat – global education discussions
• #BYOD – discussions around Bring Your Own
Device
• #engchat – for English teachers
• #mathchat – for Maths teachers
• #musedchat – for music teachers

9. • Collaborative web-based word processor
• Free access to web-based word processor
• http://beta.primarypad.com/p/5cMKUADm7E

10. • Online visualising tool for brainstorming and
recording ideas
• Free for basic plan
• Offer school packages
• iPad app
• http://popplet.com/

11. • Make short videos to share or embed online.
• Sign in using Facebook or create an Animoto
account
• Free plan allows you to make 30 sec videos
• http://animoto.com

12. • Create fakebook pages for historical characters
• Free (with ads)
• No sign up
• http://www.classtools.net/fb/home/page/

13. • Artful story telling
• Choose some images from their collection and
then write your story and create a book
• Free
• Create class logins from your account
• http://storybird.com

14. • Largest and most popular flashcard creator
website
• Targeted at Secondary and University students
• Free
• Sign in with Facebook
• http://quizlet.com

15. • With over 3,300 videos and revision exercises
for mathematics, history and science
• Targeted at secondary students
• Free
• Sign up for tracking tools
• http://www.khanacademy.org

16. • Minimalistic feedback tool
• Free
• No sign up required
• Targeted at teachers
• http://answergarden.ch/view/34390

17. • One of the most popular ways to upload and
share slide show presentations
• Get embed codes for Ultranet use
• Free
• Sign up with your Facebook account
• Create a class account for your students
• http://www.slideshare.net

18. Make Beliefs Comix
• Create comic strips
• Free
• No sign up
• Print or email them to yourself
• www.makebeliefscomix.com

19. • Online message board
• Free
• Sign up with Google account
• Great for brainstorming and sharing ideas
• http://wallwisher.com/wall/grade234

20. • Create and publish your own online surveys or
quizzes in minutes
• Sign in using Google or Facebook account
• or create a Survey Monkey Account
• Free plan allows you to create 10 question
quizzes/surveys
• Share link to survey with students
• http://www.surveymonkey.com

21. • Create online polls, surveys and quizzes
• Create a Poll Daddy account
• Free plan includes 200 surveys a month
• 10 questions per survey
• Basic reports from surveys
• Share link to survey with students
• http://polldaddy.com

22. Online Stopwatch
• Free
• No sign up required
• Count up or count down
• Display on IWB
• http://www.online-stopwatch.com

23. • Shorten and share URLs
• Free
• No sign in required
• Or sign in with Facebook or Twitter account to
keep a record or your bitly’s
• https://bitly.com

24. Google Art Project
• Explore art works and art collections
• Take a virtual tour of an art gallery
• Free
• No sign up
• http://www.googleartproject.com

25. Wordle
• Create beautiful word clouds or word posters
• Free
• No sign in required
• http://www.wordle.net

26. • Digital canvas that allows students to create
basic images
• Free
• No sign up
• Use screen capture tool to save images
• http://artpad.art.com/artpad/painter

27. • Digital Posters
• Free for basic plan
• Create a Glogster account
for your class

28. • Website that will allow you to download You
Tube clips and save to your computer for later
viewing
• Free
• No sign in required

29. Sandpit Time
• Have a play around with some of the tools
we’ve visited this morning
• Add your own finds to the google doc:
http://bit.ly/PaR0RL

30. ICT Scope and Sequence
• A whole school plan for the delivery of ICT
core skills
• Echuca PS sharing
• Examples in Dropbox

31. Digital Learning Conference - Update

32. Release 3.2
• Not a substantial release
• Fixes to a small number of defects
• Search functionality working better in design
and collaborative. Tagging is a crucial part of
creating your space
• Parents can now leave spaces as they could
not before.

33. Release 3.3
coming soon (Term 4)
• New landing/home page

35. Other news….
• Continued Funding
• CSG no longer. NEC Technologies now has
Ultranet contract
• Secondary Timetabling – short term fix, going to
remove time and place from timetable in
Ultranet which means no timetable widget. Will
be effective from beginning of next year. Long
term, look into a timetabling software that will
integrate straight into Ultranet rather than go
through CASES21

36. Reporting Trial
• Trials completed in 5 primary schools in semester 1
• Teachers and parents have given lots of feedback
and information around functionality, change
aspects about the rich ongoing feedback and the
one page student report card.
• Trial is continuing and more Primary Schools are
participating in the trial and a selected number of
Secondary Colleges have been introduced to the
trial also.
• Statewide rollout – unknown

37. Some findings from trial
• School staff find functionality easy to
use, considerable time saving and better quality
information provided to parents
• Parents who were not walked through said they
preferred the old style of report card.
• Parents who found their way around loved the
access, interactions and dialogue.
• Looking at way to include a summative comment
at the bottom of the one-page report card.

38. Utility reports
Learning and Teaching
• Learning Item Summary
• Learning Item Detail
• Student Progress Detail
• Observation Summary
• Observation Detail
• Historical (Only available to School Leaders)

39. Learning Item Summary
Purpose
• The Learning Item Summary Report displays
the number and type of Learning Items
published by a teacher for each class.

40. Learning Item Detail
• Purpose
• The Student Progress Detail report displays the
details of the Learning Items published by a Teacher
for all of their classes.
• Potential Scenarios
• By filtering on the Learning Item type you can view
the details of all Submissions. These Submissions can
then be sorted on the End Date to get a clearer
indication of the student workloads.

41. Student Progress Detail
Purpose
• The Student Progress Detail report displays the Learning
Items assigned to students within a defined period. For
each individual Learning Item you will be able to view the
details of all of the students assigned, including their
progress in relation to completing the Learning Item.
Potential Scenarios
• By filtering for a specific Learning Item you can view the
progress of all of the students assigned to that Learning
Item.
• By filtering on the Progress you will be able to view a list of
all assigned students yet to complete a particular Learning
Item.

42. Observation Summary
Purpose
• The Observation Summary report displays, for each of
the Teachers classes, the number of Observations
recorded against each student. These Observations are
recorded against 5 key categories and include
Observations recorded by Teachers, Parents and the
Student.
Potential Scenarios
• By clicking on any of the hyperlinked numbers the
Observation Detail report will be displayed with an
itemised view of that Observation Category for that
particular student.

43. Observation Detail
Purpose
• The Observation Detail report displays, for each
of the Teachers classes, the details of each
Observation recorded against the student.
Tips
• In order to view the full details of any
Observation you will need to locate that
Observation within the Learning Tasks area of
Ultranet.