A presentation on Transitioning from classroom to a blended learning environment for the Perfecting the Blend conference at Mt Clear, Australia. This presentation illustrates blended learning, how to implement it, what to consider in planning the curriculum and some assessment strategies and tools.

1. Transitioning from Classroom to
Blended Learning
http://moourl.com/blend Anne Mirtschin

2. Talking about….
Talking about….
• Blended learning
• Curriculum planning
• Assessment - Learning analytics
• New skills required with…
• Classroom stories

3. What is Blended Learning?

4. “A mix of face to face and computer enabled
interactive/collaborative learning environments
that suit the learning styles of students either
individually or collectively”
Students want learning to be mixed!

5. Digital
Digital
Digital

8. Virtual
Virtual

9. Student Blogs
Student Blogs

10. Wikis

11. Collaborative Documents
Collaborative Documents

12. Backchannels
• Joshua: i like red rock
• i hAVE BEEN UP THEIR
• we are going there soon
• It's pretty :)
• do you know where mt eccells??
• water looks awesome
• Looks good to swim in ;)
• wow thats blue, how did it get blue?
• do you know where mt eccells is??
• How many years ago did the volcano at Mt Gambier erupt?
• Theres heaps of thoose rocks in Hawkesdale and Penshurst
• James to Turtle: caught a barracuda there

13. Mobile
Mobile

14. Global

15. Lunch with Indonesian
students

16. Lunch with an author

18. An amazing blend

19. New Terminology

20. Games Based

21. Organic Learning

22. Technology enables
students to choose
what, where and from
whom they learn

23. • ‘”Miss, can you please give me TRIAL EXAMS
for unit 4 vce accounting 2011 and from
previous years
• My classes are big and my teacher isnt that
good withrevision so i was wondering. i was
wondering if you know any VCE MATH
METHODS and ENGLISH sites like this so i
can email teachers if i dont undertand or
want practise exams.”

24. Youtube guitar learning
Learning slap for from youtube

25. 365 photo challenge
365 photo challenge
http://365project.org/
guitar.wmv
Students opting to take up this challenge, getting feedback and learning from
global adults in an online community.

26. Einige unserer Studenten lehren
selbst, wie Deutsch zu sprechen
über das Internet, wenn zu Hause.
Students want to learn German
so they do it at home!

27. Accounting class 2011
Renee

28. VCE Accounting
An ESL virtual
3 virtual rural student
students
3 different
A year 11 and 12 schools
combined f2f class
Cash Journals

29. Transition to Blended!
• Develop a professional learning network –
twitter, email lists
• Connect with vibrant online communities –
nings, edmodo, mightybell, edutopia
• Curation tools – diigo, delicious, scoopit,
pinterest, bookbinders, RSS
• Attend free online webinars eg Tech Talk
Tuesdays, eT@lking, Community Connect
(Australia Series), Classroom LIVE2.0 etc

31. Interpreting a Tweet
@, #, hashtags, abbreviations,
shortened links, RT

32. Twitter as search engine
Twitter as search engine
• Goto http://www.tweetchat.com
• Key in #perfecting2012
• Key in earthquake
• Key in a chosen search word ie a topic studied
in class
• View Commoncraft video search in Twitter

33. http://www.tweetchat.com

34. Hashtags
Hashtags are searchable
• 300 hashtags
• Cybraryman’s List of Hashtags
• Educators Guide to Innovation
• Conference hashtags of interest

35. Join online communities
Email lists

36. Planning the curriculum
Planning the curriculum
Planning curriculum
VELs, AUS VELs sets out the
curriculum for Victorian teachers
But……
Technology use can drive new
pedagogies

37. Be prepared for..
• Teachable moments
• Immediacy of learning ie Learning is NOW
• Customized learning
• Messy learning/teaching
• Hacked learning

38. Created using http://www.wordle.net

39. Learning Resources
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textbooks
The students
commun
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@ Em
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40. Tools Used
School email

41. The virtual classroom
Every student has a voice!!

43. ESL Students
Can you please
tell me a
summary of the
chapter?

44. Visual data!

45. Teachable Moments
West Java Earthquake
•7.3 richter scale
•64 deaths, 37 people missing, and 27,630
people displaced in nine districts in West Java
and one in Central Java.
•Approximately 54,231 houses were damaged in
12 districts in West Java and one district in
Central Java.

46. Speaking directly with earthquake victims 12
hours later using skype

47. Learning is Now!
What a great model for the immediacy of learning that can happen these
days, and the relevance. When you think about all of the things that your
students could learn and practice here, interviewing skills, geography and
geology, information research, retrieval, editing, organization and sharing,
all in the larger context of perhaps assisting those in need who were
thousands of kilometers away. I want to make the point, however, that it's
all grounded in your own understanding of these technologies and the ways
in which they can help us connect. If you didn't have that knowledge and
experience, this probably would not have happened, and that really is the
goal of what we're all trying to do here, get more comfortable in using these
technologies to learn in our own practice. Thanks so much for sharing this
great snippet of learning from your classroom.
Will Richardson comment on blog post

48. You cannot ask a text
You cannot ask a text
book questions!
book questions!

49. The Backchannel
• Joshua: i like red rock
• i hAVE BEEN UP THEIR
• we are going there soon
• It's pretty :)
• do you know where mt eccells??
• water looks awesome
• Looks good to swim in ;)
• wow thats blue, how did it get blue?
• do you know where mt eccells is??
• How many years ago did the volcano at Mt Gambier erupt?
• Theres heaps of thoose rocks in Hawkesdale and Penshurst
• James to Turtle: caught a barracuda there

50. Beyond the Textbook
Learning about Digital Citizenship using skype
with a lecturer from Doha, Qatar

51. Should Australia go to India to play sport?
Should Australia go to India to play sport?
Skype intros with the
American School of Bombay

52. Discussion Questions
• Please write some bullet points about what has
been happening to Indians in Australia in the past
year. Include the response from Indians as well
as the impact of these events on the upcoming
Commonwealth Games 2010 in New Delhi.
• Why do you think these incidents of violence
have been occurring against Indians? Is it
happening against other ethnic groups in
Australia?

53. Collaborative Google docs
Collaborative Google docs

54. Ian Lewis Kanawinka – Young Ng – Hong Kong -The
Volcanoes and Caves World’s Smallest Geopark

55. Global, mobile teacher

56. Spontaneous Learning

57. Involve Students
Involve Students

58. Teachable Moments

59. Flatclassroom Student Summit for
Global Education conference

61. Hurricane Sandy
A teachable moment!
https://voicethread.com/share/3615595/

62. Crowdsourcing
Mystery Skype
Fill in lesson organized over HLW
group skype by teachers from Sth
Africa, USA and Middle America for
me and my class.

63. • [10:56:31 AM] Living Maths: Daivd and Anne,... have you
considered using a google doc.,.. let the kids read and ask
questions and you type all your responses - it will be nice to keep
the "evidence“
• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1M31ubTjERmWsD6Odn9Ht
APZhYSMo0TmhLlyxw8UVnos/edit
• [11:01:28 AM] Living Maths: map in ... now its too easy ;)
• [11:03:38 AM] Living Maths: Chicago = coghaci
• [10:57:07 AM] David Karnoscak: See you then. Just knock on my
door when you are ready.
• [10:58:18 AM] Living Maths: A true and you can load maps in it and
you can insert QR codes too
• [10:59:18 AM] Living Maths: and you can make an anagram from
the letters in your state's name and let them unjumble the,m
• Or for 10 grade cnelstnriaiogssuiottahicaldoeieimfca
• [11:17:49 AM] David Karnoscak: wow..I don't think even grad
students could figure it out.

64. On return from morning recess a google doc was setup
ready to use with the class!

65. Mystery Skype

66. What it looked like!
Could only ask questions that could be
responded to by ‘yes’ or ‘no’ eg
•are you on earth?
•Are you in the northern hemisphere? Yes
•are you in france
•Are you on a island near Australia

68. Clues!
Clues!
Michael Jordan
Michael Jordan
was from here!
was from here!

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

70. Melbourne Work Experience
Tweeted for suggested mobile phone apps for
students to use

73. Assessment
Formal SACs

74. Sharing assessable
work!
• Dropbox
• Emails
• File transfer in skype
• App sharing in BbC
• Yousendit
• Google drive
• Evernote

75. Monitoring Progress
Monitoring Progress
• Check sheets
• Blog comments
• Google forms
• Perusing saved chat or backchannel
• Observing students via application

76. Google forms for testing

78. Measures of success?
• How do we measure success?
• Not just VCE scores, naplan data, but
connectedness to school
• Community involvement & social
competencies.
• Pathways to tertiary study and
employment
• Enjoyment of learning

79. Outcomes!
Outcomes!

80. Measuring Engagement
• Quantitatively by increased attendance
• Student opinion data
• Qualitatively by curiosity for more
information
• Willingness to attend night-time or 'extra'
classes
• Increased motivation, enthusiasm and
involvement
• Increased focus on tasks

81. School’s in at 9pm!
Flat Classroom Project students
from Germany, China and Australia

82. Grade 6 USA student teaches
Australian year 10 IT class about
Halloween
Halloween

83. Prep to 10 Assessment
• Group work – Collaboration/Interactivity
• Communication – oral, visual, transmedia
• Contribution to discussion
• Assessing empathy, cultural understanding

84. International Friendship Day
International Friendship Day

85. The Backchannel – the Bats
• 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?

86. Minecraft
• How to assess leadership, mentoring,
collaboration, interactivity, group work
• Creativity
• Degree of griefing, overcoming griefing
• Positive/negative negative contributions

87. Use Polls

88. Assessing Blogs
Assessing Blogs
Blogs…..
• Comments
• Pingbacks
• Number of visitors
• Tags/categories
• Reflective posts

89. Kailyn

90. 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.

91. Screencasts

92. Some assessment tools
Google apps

93. Assessment Resources
•Rubrics for Blogs
•Reflective Assignment
•DEECD assessment

94. eFind me
• mirtschin@gmail.com
• Twitter: http:www.twitter.com/murcha
• Teacher blog: http://murcha.wordpress.com
• Class blog: http://murch.global2.vic.edu.au
• Tech Talk Tuesdays:
http://techtalktuesdays.global2.vic.edu.au
• eT@lking:
http://australiaseries.wordpress.com