life update 24-01-14

STUDENT LAPTOPS / IPADS 2014

• Year 8 – a brand-new iPad Air (latest)

• Year 9 – the iPad they had in 2013

• Year 10 – a brand-new Macbook Air 11”

• Year 11 – the iPad they had in 2013

• Year 12 – the iPad 4s that Year 9 had in 2013

THE IMPORTANCE OF AN LMS

• A Learning Management System

• Extension of the classroom

• Central location of subject/class resources

• Links to more subject/class resources

• Revision, missed classes, Exam revision

THE USES OF AN LMS

• Content Cell – notices and information

• Resources Lists – links to other websites• - files and documents

• - links to Portal Resources

• - links to Interactive Activities

• Embedded Cells – display Youtube, slideshare, Prezi, Vimeo, Ted video

WHICH WEB BROWSER

• Internet Explorer – not the best, definitely not IE 11 (Win 8)

• (Google) Chrome – very good

• Firefox – BCE recommended

LIFE PAGES – BASIC STRUCTURES• CELLS – the boxes that we put things into.

• RESOURCES – the things & activities we put into the boxes (cells)

• Content cells, Resource Lists, Embedded Object, iFrame cells (websites)

• Web 2.0 activities – blog, forum, stickies, posties

• Permissioning, permissioning, permissioning

• Publish the page (or no one sees it)

EXAMPLE PAGE – 10 SCIENCE

EMBEDDED EXAMPLES PAGE –

STAFF

STAFF TRAINING IN LIFE

• AC’s have a roster of staff responsible for LIFE

• Document of Levels of LIFE skills.

• DC available in some lessons

• DC will run some after school PD sessions

• All subject home pages in operation Term 1.

STAFF PAGES – LIFE TRAINING

RESOURCES• Accessible via Year 7, or Site Structure

• Available also on LIFE LEARNING CLOUD –LEARNOLOGY ACADEMB

• Documentation and User Guides are available

• Youtube instruction videos are available also at the above links.

WHAT CAN LINK TO LIFE

• Any WEBSITE

• YouTube, Vimeo, Khan Academy, Youtube for schools, TeacherTube, GodTube,

• Prezis, Slideshare, Edmodo, WordPress, Weebly, Kahoot.it

• And thousands more