Wimmera Mallee Virtual Cluster

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Wimmera Mallee Virtual Cluster

• Why we are here, where we are now, and the future

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Why we are here.

• Bring together disparate schools
• Create a sense of community
• Ease travel and improve safety
• Improve skills of students and staff
• Demonstrate to staff how a virtual class might
  work.

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Where we are now.

• Web site established
• Some school photos added
• First staff in-service
• In-servicing of students planned
• Distribution of training CDs

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Web site

• Minutes posted
• This document is posted
• Photos
• Some examples of how we might use a virtual
  cluster
• Literacy and Numeracy week ideas

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In-service - staff

• View us at work on our web site
• Learning to use CDs
• Covered too much - Dreamweaver too ambitious
• MS Word and Power Point as web pages were very
  well received.
• In-service to be done at Hopetoun

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In-service - students

• Read a story of suitable level
• Discuss texts (lower order skills?)
• Set a task (higher order)
• Photograph finished product
• Place the photos in power point
• Save as web page

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Literacy and Numeracy Week

• Need to get schools to be involved
• Think about their activity

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Literacy and Numeracy Week

• Product must be photographic
• Privacy of students paramount

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Literacy and Numeracy Week 2

• Posters
• Models
• hats
• 50 word stories
• Collages
• Book reviews etc

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And the future?

• 2005
• Again celebrate Literacy and Numeracy Week
• Webquest competitions between schools

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Why Webquests?

• Innovative and potentially exciting
• Uses ICT
• Engages boys
• Eliminates wasteful searches
• challenging