1.2++Learning+Contract

1.2 Revised Learning Contract

 * **Professional Context-** Establish a learning need which is relevant to you and your professional focus || I recently started a new Job as a Technical Support Officer managing the Laptops for Learning project at Sydney Secondary College Balmain.

My primary brief for the role is to run the laptop program and offer technical support to both teachers and students.

My secondary brief which has been stipulated by the school is to assist teachers embrace new learning technologies and create virtual faculties and help the school use more collaborative learning and teaching methods.

Currently the teachers at the school are somewhat reticent to experiment with new technologies and new ways of thinking regarding teaching and learning methods and there is a lot of resistance to change and innovation.

This part of the brief I am the most excited about. To encourage and facilitate the engagement of other learning professionals in the use of new collaborative technologies is not only a challenge but hopefully satisfying. This contract I hope in small part to start working on this brief.

As this is such a huge task I have decided to start with two key area’s


 * Creating a Wiki detailing Web 2.0 Technologies and there uses.


 * Learning how to use Moodle and help a faculty create a virtual faculty.

Moodle is an open source LMS (Learning management system that that is commonly used in both Secondary and primary school locally and internationally.

I have decided to undertake these two areas because I believe that they are intrinsically integrated. If teachers in my school do not on some level embrace new learning technologies then the moodle project will not be a success. Creating easy to use resources on accessible platforms is the first step in getting them engaged with new learning technologies and assisting them to create innovative learning solutions for their students.

**Reflections:**

The task I outline in the above professional context was extremely time consuming and at this point of time was impossible to meet. I have decided to create a prototype of the course looking at how I would design a course on Moodle as well as looking at the technology. The context of my original professional focus are still ever present however because of personal and professional time constraints I cannot complete this project as I had once envisaged || Learning intention - Refine your learning needs into specfic objectives || Learning Needs: Web 2.0 integration /Moodle

1. To find an innovative way to relay information about web 2.0 Technologies 2. To gain basic know of moodle in order to create a course for both teachers and students about Web 2.0 Technologies

The proto type course which I am presenting here is what I hope to upload into moodle in the future. As I said in my introduction this wiki in a sense is documenting a work in progress. Seeing my knowledge of web 2.0 technologies increase but also learn how to use Moodle which is a Web 2.0. This project is the starting point of an ever changing course/resource that both teachers and students can use in their explorations into web 2.0 Technologies 

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- Websites - Personal Learning network - Online Moodle training - Conferences - Nings - Collaborative tools - Books and Library resources - Accessible faculties - Masters students
 * ** Strategies and resources ** - Identify useful resources and strategies ||  Resources:

Strategies: To work with the computer coordinator and respresentive from Distant Education High school on learning how to use moodle Research various websites and above resourses to gather resources for the course   || Determine what is to be produced as evidence of learning || - Create a Wiki detailing the design of the course as well as content. - Have a basic understanding of Moodle || - Presentation is clear - First part of the Wikis have been completed and Content in the second part of the wiki is clearly either completed or well under construction ||
 * ** What is to be assessed ** –
 * ** Criteria for assessment ** - Determine the criteria for assessment ||