Innovation and eLearning

Change Management

‘’…the change is significant and is less about the tool than it is about the potential processes, understandings and structures required to support our vision of learning and teaching…’’

• Change management and communication
• Integrated & have functionality
•  Meet the needs of specific learners  – across campus/age
• Efficiency as an organisation? (impact on business processes)

Opportunity to engage the St Peters community more broadly and provide an avenue to share the learning and co-create.

• Establish a coaching and mentoring  pedagogy
• Make learning personalized (and provide TIME)
• Making learning accessible and sustainable

Getting Buy- In (Teachers/Students/Parents)   

• Easy to use Virtual Learning Environment
• Links with Synergetic
• Matches learning needs for primary and secondary
• Integrates with a range of existing tools
• Streamline teacher processes
• A website builder design

Making connections beyond the classroom walks – College

Sharing Across the College

• diff campus/visible to all
• ideas & PD across a campus (e.g. German teacher’s blog P-12)
• ability to copying pages & content
• able to see what others are doing and how they work
• blogs
• use of  ePortfolios (SFD Primary)

Empowerment of Staff/ Mentoring/ Coaching

• Clear connection to curriculum pedagogical frameworks/assessment and reporting processes
• Pages and site development
• Assessment and tasks
• Messaging/blogs and general in site communications
• PD and creating support resources

(e.g. identify PD timeline for 2017 with vendors/ICT products that embed or can be displayed in Firefly)

Technology offers the tools and opportunities to those educators willing to learn and use them. It is that will that must be worked on.

Communication

• Ability to showcase and promote new ideas
• Locating in one place – reduce information overload

One launch pad for tools and existing connections

• embedding media
• too many tools and locations

Making connections beyond the classroom walks – College

• blogs
• exploring ePortfolios
• international connections

This padlet has some feedback from last year about Firefly.

https://padlet.com/j_boulton/Feedback (Plus, Minus and Interesting)

The learning journey that I have been on is one of an eLearning Project Adminstrator.

Essentially it has been to support  the implementation of a Learning Management System, Firefly to the St Peters Lutheran College teaching community.

Below is the SMORE  of the first stage of implementation.