MLE professional development Basic Training 1

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MLE professional developmentBasic Training 1

• Trainers
• Mina Patel (LGFL Curriculum Consultant)
• Alex Rees (LBR ICT Adviser)

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Session Objectives

1. Navigating the MLE
2. Uploading digital resources
3. Responding to online tasks(student perspective)
4. Responding to student work submitted
   online(teacher perspective)
5. Setting up an online task

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IntroductionKey Fronter Metaphors
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1. Navigating the MLEDemonstration

• Navigating the MLE
• (metaphors in action)

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1. Navigating the MLEOrientation challenge

• Logged in to the MLE as a teacher find out the
  following information
• The geography animation showing waterfall erosion
  can be found in which room?
• In the last Leadership Meeting minutes, what
  conclusion was made about the bike sheds?
• The literacy coordinator wants the entries for
  the student story competition handed in soon.
  What date exactly?
• The PE department are very proud of this years
  sports day. What is happening in the third photo
  in the gallery?
• Student council are discussing whether ties
  should be part of next years school uniform.
  What does the 5th contribution say?
• Add your own opinion to the tie-debate!

Activity 1
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Interesting Fact 1The state of the nation
Harnessing Technology Schools Survey 2008, Smith
et al. (2008)
Harnessing Technology Schools Survey 2007,
Kitchen et al. (2007)
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2. Uploading digital resourcesGroup discussion

1. What resources do you currently have digitised?
2. What resources would be useful to make available
   online?
3. What types of files would you like to use?
4. Where are the limits?
5. What are the benefits?

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2. Uploading digital resourcesDemonstration

• Uploading files
• (single and
• multi-file upload)

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2. Uploading digital resourcesYour turn

• Part A Logged in as a teacher
• On your computer or Local Area Network find a
  range of digital resources that you may want to
  upload onto the MLE system.
• Navigate to your allocated training room on the
  MLE and upload your resources.
• When you have completed this think about how you
  would explain to a class how to find one of your
  resources.
• Describe to a partner how to navigate to a
  particular resource.
• Part B Checking out your partners description!
• Log out of your teacher account and log in as a
  student.
• Find the resource just described by your partner!

Activity 2
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Interesting Fact 2People adopting new technology
http//www.12manage.com/methods_rogers_innovation_
adoption_curve.html
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3. Responding to online tasksStudent perspective

• Log in as a pupil
• On your Today page should see notification of an
  online assignment you must complete.
• You have minutes to review the assignment and
  create a quick response.
• This task is not a competition for grades, it is
  designed to enable you to understand how a
  student needs to respond when receiving an online
  assignment.

Activity 3
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3. Responding to online tasksStudent perspective

1. Given that that may have beenthe first time you
   have responded to an assignment online, what
   did you feel about it?
2. What was easy?
3. What made it difficult?
4. How would you introduce this system to a class
   for the first time?
5. Apart from formally setting work, what alternate
   uses are there for the hand-in folder?

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4. Responding to online tasksTeacher perspective

• Quick Brainstorm
• As a teacher, when work is submittedto you
  normally (not via the MLE),what actions do you
  normally do in response?

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4. Responding to online tasksTeacher perspective

• Demonstration
• Responding tostudent work
• Viewing the Portfolio

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5. Setting up an online task

• Demonstration
• Setting an online task

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5. Setting up an online taskPutting it all
together

• Logged in as a teacher
• Using the hand in folder utility, set an online
  task for a group of students.
• When you have completed yours check that
  colleagues either side of you have completed
  theirs.
• Logged in as a student
• Respond quickly to at least two of your
  colleagues assignments with simple word
  documents.
• Logged back in as a teacher
• Respond to the work submitted by
  commentingonline.
• View the portfolio.

Activity 3
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Some summary thoughts

• How did it go?
• Where might you be able to use the MLE within
  your role within the school?
• What potential uses can you see for the sharing
  resources and setting work aspects of the MLE?
• Online feedback form