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• Colonel Light Gardens Primary School
• Laptop Project
• Electronic Portfolios

http//www.colgrdnsps.sa.edu.au/home/cluscomb/pres
entations
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• Our journey so far

• Exploration by ICT committee and leadership of
  new possibilities for hardware development
• 16 teachers completed the LTI Course
• Problem Based Learning strategies required access
  to technology over longer periods

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• Laptop Project
• Project outline

• Teething problems
• Children disconnecting the wireless card
• Laptop and trolley size

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• PBL examples
• Antartica ask the expert
• Birds question matrix
• What makes CLG unique?
• Efolios

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• CLG Walk
• Special Days Slam Dunk

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Electronic Portfolios Goals

• Improve communication between home and school
• Enable parents to be more interactive in an
  authentic assessment processes
• Improve parent understanding of classroom
  programs and activities
• Enhanced learning for teachers and students

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Outcomes for Students

• Develop skills in English genre by creating web
  pages for an authentic audience
• Develop skills in Information Literacy by using
  the Internet to demonstrate their work to their
  parents and peers
• Motivation to develop literacy skills will be
  enhanced

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Outcomes for Teachers

• Teachers will have skills in web publishing and
  uploading files to the On-Line Intranet

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Electronic Portfolios What did we do?

• Trialled in 5 classes in 2003
• Students used Frontpage
• Provided templates for students
• Uploaded pages through MyInternet page uploader
• Developed content over the year
• Linked through the On-Line Intranet
• Linked through the MyInternet Desktop

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Electronic Portfolios What did we include?

• Recounts
• Imovies
• Concert item
• Poems
• Photo Galleries class activities
• Friends pages
• Literacy genre activities
• An excellent example of this concept taken
  further
• Circular Head Cluster Digital Portfolio Project
• http//www.e-magine.education.tas.gov.au/innovatio
  ns/Showcase/circularheadcluster.htm