1.1+Learning+Contract

**1.1. Original Learning contract**

 * Learning Contract ** Developing Moodle for High School students and Teachers at Sydney Secondary College Balmain.
 * **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. || Learning Needs: Web 2.0 integration
 * Learning intention ** – Refine your learning needs into a specific objectives ||

Creating a Wiki detailing Web 2.0 Technologies and there uses. Currently the teachers at my school do not communicate using email or any form of digital technologies.
 * 1) Learning how to relay knowledge of web 2.0 using traditional and non traditional methods.

As I am so used to using this type of technology to communicate to colleagues, I have found the lack of computer and email use a bit of a culture shock. However it has so far been a valuable learning experience as it has made me come up innovative ways to engage staff and get them to start using and playing with technology

Therefore this learning need will be ongoing long after this assessment is completed.

Learning needs: Moodle Learning how to use Moodle and help a faculty create a virtual faculty.
 * 1) Need to learn how to use and administrate Moodle as I will be assisting in the implementation into the school.
 * 2) Need to have sufficient knowledge of moodle to contract a training course for staff on the 17th November

|| - 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: - Find a faculty that wants to embrace technology, at my school that will be either special education or Science/mass and try out some of my ideas for moodle and other technologies on them - Conduct a survey of staff to see where they are at with new technology as well as find out which ways they prefer information to be relayed to them. - Conducting a training course to see where they sit in the technical continuum ie if they are digital natives etc || - Firstly a Wiki the school will use to access information about web 2.0 - Second a Wiki outlining the process and showing the results of the survey and other containing the other training that I will be conducting with the staff (Moodle training) - Create a moodle course /set up a faculty || Wikis have been completed Moodle setup is complete ||
 * ** What is to be assessed ** – Determine what is to be produced as evidence of learning || - Create two Wiki’s
 * ** Criteria for assessment ** - Determine the criteria for assessment || Presentation is clear