Talk:ELearning Awards intro

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Planning for the award

wasn't sure where to put this. The main page now has all sorts of things under 'learning from gaming' like physics and AI. Have I missed something, because my understanding is that these are not in any shape or form games-based learning activities. --Dan 09:45, 19 October 2007 (BST)

Yes, it still needs quite a lot of rejigging :-) Fox

I suggest all plans are done here, and the actual article done here.

agree that using this area for trying out ideas makes sense - a bit anxious about timescales so going to start adding some stuff to the real page too ... PeterT 11:01, 15 October 2007 (BST)

I'm not sure about the 'learning through gaming' being the heading that then subsumes the curriculum activitiies and the 'spontaneous' activities. I suggest there is a sense that the physics, archaeology and philosophy strands are not learning by gaming. Rowan. After reading the criteria, we don't go for a specific award, we enter it in general and the panel sees who fits what. I think we fit several of the criteria: KEY: Yes and Possibly

INSTITUTIONAL

• School of the future
• Best school learning platform / virtual workspace
• Best strategic management solution
• Innovative teaching and mentoring approaches
• The e-safe school

• Imaginative and inclusive approach to whole school e-safety
• Integration of e-safety into school curriculum

PEDAGOGICAL

• Promoting digital literacy
• Outstanding work in a school to develop young people’s digital literacy

*Innovative activities to develop young people’s e-safety practices *Creativity

*Inspiring work in the arts and culture' *Use of games in learning

• Musical performance
• Foreign languages

• Anticipating the year of intercultural dialogue in 2008
• Use of languages to promote the European dimension
• Sustainability

• A cross-curricular approach to raising awareness of climate change
• Whole-school sustainability education
• Mathematics, science and technology

Best Learning Resource/Object

• Best online or blended course
• Best interactive whiteboard materials

TECHNOLOGICAL

• Social networking for collaborative learning
• Use of social networking tools and mobile devices in educational projects
• Young person’s educational blog
• Teacher’s podcast
• Short streamed video
• Web 2.0 learning activity
• Best wiki
• Digital photography and video

This is very helpful - and I agree with your analysis and understanding of what is expected. However, I think that they will actually judge the entry on four criteria, which are:

• Content of the entry (meaning the website I think)
• Pedagogical innovation (promotion of active learning, evidence of collaboration)
• Technical performance and innovation
• Transferability to other countries and schools

On having looked at some past entries I suspect that we are only actually expected to write about 200 words giving an overview of the project and then provide a url so they can look at it for themselves. So what I suggest is that we use the Future school now (eLearning Awards) page to create a kind of index to things we want them to look at specifically, which we might organise around some of the areas that we think we fit best - I've stuck some possible headings in on the real page

Areas to focus on.

Ok, so yesterday I fiddled and came up with my suggestions for areas we should look at in a bid to apply for the awards. The things I think we should definately look at are:

• School of the future

Best school learning platform / virtual workspace

-Using SL?

• Innovative teaching and mentoring approaches

-Having the group activities in world?

• Innovative activities to develop young people’s e-safety practices

-AUP - but this might not really fit.

• Creativity

-There are loads we could use for this!

• Use of games in learning

-Second Life a game?

• Best Learning Resource/Object
• Best online or blended course

-I think the two could use SL and the virtual ways we use instead of the conventional classroom.

• Social networking for collaborative learning

-Using the Forum, Wiki and SL

• Use of social networking tools and mobile devices in educational projects

- SL

• Young person’s educational blog

-Several of us have Blogs and we also have the SLog

• Best wiki

-Obvious!

Obviously they're just my thoughts, but I was asked to look at this :P

( Just a thought we have had some freign languages... I ran a German session and there is a latin thread on the wiki... Vibia)