A presentation that was prepared for the #dltv15 conference in Melbourne sharing what a classroom can start to look like when all the walls or barriers to learning are broken down. It concentrates on simple tools to use that are cross platform, cross device etc and shares classroom stories, examples and advice

1. Look! No walls!
Anne Mirtschin
@murcha
http://www.murcha.wordpress.com
https://todaysmeet.com/dltvnowalls
http://bit.ly/dltvnowalls

2. http://moourl.com/dltvnowalls @murcha

4. Impact?
Learning is NOW!
24/7
New skills -digital, social, global, networking etc
BYOD
FlippedClassrooms
@murchahttp://moourl.com/dltvnowalls

5. BYOD
In a world of Bring Your Own Device,
tools and apps need to be…….
@murcha

6. @murcha
http://moourl.com/dltvnowalls

8. http://moourl.com/dltvnowalls @murcha

9. Safety/Netiquette
http://moourl.com/dltvnowalls @murcha

11. Connect….
Communicate

12. • Emoticons
• Backchannel
• Recording
• Capacity to send files
• Interactive whiteboard
• Polling feature
• Videoconferencing feature
Virtual Classroom
Software

13. Virtual classrooms can be recorded for
those who are ill, revision etc

14. Bringing in
Experts

15. Members of Melbourne
Symphony Orchestra

16. Safer Internet
Use Day

17. The stats……..
• 1 classroom (virtual in Blackboard Collaborate)
• up to 17,000 students
• 170 physical classes
• A class of deaf students from Furlong Park School
• 1 teacher (or presenter)

20. Hands on Literacy through Pottery
With Ms Delightful!

23. Learning from the
staff at NGV

31. Anzac Day

32. Mark Wilson - artist

34. The artist’s sketch using electroboard/document
camera/polycom with Year 5/6

35. Student engagement

36. Student Outcomes

37. Sharing Anzac Stories

38. Twitter

39. Backchannels – Todays Meet
“Meet the scientists”
Melbourne Museum/Scienceworks

40. • Are whales your favourite? Jemma year (King David School)
• Did whales once have legs? Emily year 6 (The King David School)
• wow by jeremy
• Have you ever scanned and 3D printed a fossil? Blake year 6 (and 3D
printing champion)(by The King David School)
• did you help get that whale back into the water a few weeks ago16
minutes ago by jeremy
• How do you name the animals or find out the names of the animals if
you've never seen the animal or fossil before? Jemma year 6

41. The Bats – (from the Backchannel in a Virtual Classroom)
• Cara hawk: his wing looks like it's going to brake
• 4B DGPS: what age do the bats learn to fly?
• Billy-Jo Hawk: Did it try to escape from you?
• Grade 2/3 Woodford: How many teeth do bats have?
• Trevo hawk: what happen to it eye
• Cara hawk: how easy is it to brake a bats wing
• smithy: arent they posisoness
• Grade 2/3 Woodford: What do bats feel like?
• jasmine .j: do they hurt
• scottinea: are the bats dead or did u catch them alive?
• Grade 2/3 Woodford: What do bats eat?
• 4B DGPS: are they really blind?
• Billy-Jo Hawk: Is there black bats, like full black?
• Moderator (Miss Iro, Mrs Gow and year 6/7): do bats carry any diseases
• Grade 2/3 Woodford: What sort of fauna and flora live in the sinkholes?

42. Global
experts/virtual
tours

43. The Maritime Museum - USA

44. What Students
Liked!
• Much better learning from someone like Wisteria than through a textbook
• How she showed the actual objects
• All of it was really good – Wysteria was a really good presenter, asked
questions and got everyone involved.
• Different time zone and it was interesting to know that she was in my
yesterday and there was a night time concert outside while she spoke to us.
• Lady pirate Chin commanded 500 pirate ships, made me interested in old
history
• Liked how she was actually at the museum, and showed us the actual objects
from the ship
• To see the things they used – photos and objects

45. Connecting
Classrooms
• Virtual classroom – Blackboard Collaborate, Adobe Connect and MS Lync
• Skype
• Polycom videoconferencing equipment
• Twitter
• Backchannels – todays meet, backchannel chat
• Google Hangouts
• Zoom
• Fuze

46. Virtual Easter Hat
Parade

48. World
Readaloud Day

50. Thai Linkup

52. Breakfast with Taiwan
Kaohsiung city.
Shannon Huang:
School located in Liuguai. Liuguai in Chinese
character has the meaning of "six turtles"

53. “We started off with mystery
Skype, once we had figured
where they were, we started
showing each other what we eat
for breakfast”.

56. Skype with small rural school in Kenya

57. Learning Swahili!

58. Virtual Tour of School Crops etc

59. You can’t ask
questions of a
textbook!

60. I enjoy doing linkups like this one as it is a easy way to
learn about other cultures. They say there is no better
way to learn than to learn from your peers. Using a
virtual classroom and talking to students in other
countries is more interesting and more valuable than
any textbook!
Georgia Year 10

61. Connecting
students

62. https://education.skype.com

64. A Global Classroom

65. Linking up with
Indonesia
In one of our ICT classes, we did a
Mystery Skype.This means we didn't
know who we were skyping, so we
asked yes or no questions to find our
where we are from.
We found out that the school had an
orangutan sanctuary on the grounds.
The students take care of the orangutans

68. Mystery Skype

69. • Our questions of Dave:-
are you on earth
• Are you in the northern hemisphere? Yes
• are you in france
• Are you on a island near Australia
5 . are you in a communist country? no
6. Are you in a heavy populated area?
7Are you in a country where British had established colony?
8 are you in europe
10are you in africa
9 are in in asia
Do you play any sports?yes
do you like to play basketball? yes
Are you in Europe? No
Do you live in South America? No
Do you live on a coast line? No
Do you live in the capital city of your state? No
Do you have 52 stars on your flag? No See full
document

71. Reflections

72. Do you teach or have any knowledge of the native wars
between the americans, seminoles, iroquois, cherokee
etc, in the times of george washington?

73. http://www.bing.com/explore/mysteryskypeonenote

74. International Peace Day with a Special School

75. A global temperature – 30
degrees!

76. Blogging - student blogs

77. http://mor0088.global2.vic.edu.au/

79. Sway

80. Asynchron
ous

81. Video messages

83. Our clues……..

84. 9-10 clues from a
school in Portugal
1. North of equator
2. 18 districts
3. In Europe
4. Borders Atlantic Ocna
5. Famous sport = football
6. Flag has red
7. Famous food = sardines
8. Famous music = funk, folk or was it
fado???
9. Famous river through it
10.Western part of Europe

85. Collaborating

87. • Handshakes
• Network and socialize on a ning site
• Collaborate and create wiki pages
• Request an outsourced clip
• Complete a movie
• Create an eBook
• Student Summits
http://www.flatconnections.com/flat-projects.html

88. Appropriate cultural images - avatars

90. Topics studied

91. International Dot Day
Simple Global Projects

92. International peace day in a dot – using padlet

93. VoicethreadPeace Begins with Me

94. Global2 Blogs
http://global2.vic.edu.au

96. Favourite
stories

97. Student Election Forum
Hosted by Gungahlin College, Canberra

98. How it looked - #gcf2013!

99. Twitterfall -
• What will you do to help with the costs for rural students of moving
away from home to attend higher education in the city.

101. Request for a pic of a typical Australian lunch box
From Germany

102. Connecting the German and
Australian Canteen Managers
using interpreter and the German
Year English class

104. German
School
sets up
display
for
Austral
ian
Canteen
Food

105. • The German food day
will be on next
Wednesday. There will
be three dishes on
this day they are;
• Pork Schnitzel and
gravy rolls $4.50
• German pasta Bake
$4.50
• Beef goulash with
spritzla & German
noodles $4.50
Our
Germa
n
menu

106. German Mardi Gras Day – judged
globally!

107. Tools used for Madi Gras
judging
• Google hangouts
• Google sheets with criteria for judging
• Judges from Africa, Indonesia, Taiwan,
Nepal and Australia

108. Learning to
Scratch with
grade 6
student from

110. Sprites for World Friends project on
World Museum site

111. Kailyn

112. From Beatriz (grade 4)
Learning about scratch with Lanna was great I reckon it
was magical the way she showed us the snow outside
it was the first time I ever saw snow. I asked a lot of
questions I was very interested in what we were
learning for example……
how long have you been using scratch? she had been
using it for 3 years which means she has a lot of
experience with scratch.

113. Australia’s engagement with
Asia

114. Mystery Skype
In one of our ICT lessons, Mrs.
Murch set up a mystery Skype.
We had no idea who we were
linking up with, so we asked
questions about where we
thought she was from.
We found out that her name
was Mariko Eguchi. She lives
in the Shimane Prefecture,
Japan.
We found out that the
school she was at only served
one dish at their canteen-
Curried Rice

115. Mariko gave us a virtual tour of
the classroom that she was in. It
was very different to the
classroom that we were in, they
had single file desks, and not
much technology, only the
things that she had brought in
from home.

116. Pre Test
Knowledge

119. Curiousity –
• the masked
students. Why?
• Why use a blanket?

120. What do they know
now?

121. International
Friendship Day

122. Global Online Discussions with school in Ipoh, Malaysia

123. International Friendship Day

124. Some of the things we talked about
How many subjects do you have in Malaysia?
We have 10 subjects here in Malaysia
We have English, Bahasa Melayu(our national language),Chinese, Additional Math, Modern
Math, Science(Biology, Chemistry, Physics), History(very boring T^T) and Moral Education

127. We shared a minute of silence with Malaysia for
MH17 and created a wall of sympathy
(created using www.padlet.com)

128. What I liked…………
I liked that they were from a different country. It was very interesting
to learn a little about them and their culture.

129. What next????
We would love to continue doing this sort of thing, we
love linking up with people from all over the globe.
We are always interested in where people are from and
their way of life. We love comparing what we do with
other countries.

130. Global apps
Email

133. Challenges
• time zones
• school year differences/extra curricular activities
• different languages/cultures - different meaning of words in cultures!
• overcoming cultural/language differences
• accents
• bandwidth
• confidence of students
• Confidence and access to technology

134. Essentials
• Membership of social networking sites
• Communication
• An online site (for connection) – blogs, wiki, webpage
• A strong profile
• Sharing via blogs, other online sites

135. Requirements for
success
• Passion
• Ownership of ideas and projects
• Connections - networking
• Communication
• Willingness to take risks
• Determination
• Necessity of pre-testing
• A sense of humour!
• Work through all issues and do not judge!

136. Impact – some thoughts!
• Increased engagement
• Reduced racism
• Empathy
• No ‘walls’ (barriers) to learning
• Understanding of cultures
• Greater awareness of own culture
• Netiquette, digital citizenship
• 21st Century Digital and Communication Skills
• Increased confidence
• Awareness beyond the textbook
• Variety of communication skills etc

137. Victorian DET
Resources

139. eFind Me
mirtschin@gmail.com
Twitter: @murcha Skype: anne.mirtschin
My blog: http://murcha.wordpress.com
http://techtalktuesdays.global2.vic.edu.au
http://moourl.com/dltvnowalls