2. NBCS overview
● preschool to 12
● 1300 students
● 30 HSC subjects available online
● coed
● Independent Christian School
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10. Extent of the BYOD Program
● 2011
○ Year 5, 8
○ Optional Year 11
● 2012
○ Year 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
○ optional 10,11,12
● 2013 (speculation)
○ Year 5, 6, 7, 8,9,10, 11
○ optional 12
11. Pedagogy
● personal
● flexible
● independent
● collaborative
● creative
● authentic
● inherently digital
12. LMS and associated apps
● Moodle
● Google Mail, Docs, Drive
● Edval (resource booking and daily timetable
information)
13. Teacher in the cloud
● gmail
● google docs
● toodledo
● evernote
● mindmeister
● twitter (@matonfender)
● tumblr (spacetolearn.tumblr.com)
● slideshare
14. the pain
● passwords
● wifi
● battery/chargers
● wifi
● internet speeds
● wifi
● dog ate my laptop
● wifi
15. the joy
● students discovering google docs
● "i can use evernote on my laptop and my
ipad?!?"
● iTech everywhere
○ Science experiments recorded as movies
○ podcasts recorded during the lesson
○ communicating with students via email through LMS
○ animoto, Xtranormal, bubblus,
● flexible, flexible, flexible learning
16. Common BYOD topics
● text books - phasing them out
● security
● network speed/bandwidth
