Download - Expanding Learning Horizons
Extending Learning Horizonswith Video Conferencing
Rachel RobertsE-Principal
“Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in a different time”
Industrial to Informational
“In the industrial age we went to school… in the information age school comes to us”
A developing trend in NZ
Expansion of curriculum
Shortage of specialist teachers
Small rolls (110 out of 350 secondary schools have a roll of less than 120 students at year 11+)
Introduction of new assessment regimes
Teacher workload issues
Connecting Learners through Video Conferencing
Student-Teacher face-to-face contact enables the
distance to dissolve
www.virtuallearning.school.nz
Sample Timetable
Online Learning Environments
Spaces catering for different interests
Tools for managingparticipation
http://moodle.minedu.govt.nz/taranet/
Digital Conversations
Teacher Professional Development
Thanks to:
Virtual Learning Network CAM & Eddie
Derek Wenmoth Virtual Education Network
Peter Hills Telecom Digital Coversations ASNET Technologies