21st Century eLearning for Life at Qatar Academy
Welcome to the E-Learning for Life wiki at Qatar Academy. Please use the Above Discussion Tab for your comments, questions or feedback.
This is the portal for planning and moving into 21st century teaching modes using new digital tools.
Please excuse the changes as we move into our 2009-10 program. Previous work can still be access through the 2008-09 archive
Join the E-Learning 4 Life ning to share ideas and resources to do with learning and curriculum development with the focus on a student-centered constructivist approach advancing 21st century learning skills through digital technologies
eLearning Update..as of Monday 15 March 2010
Gary Stager Seminar: State of Educational Technologies
Friday 26th March 8am - 11am
- QF Rec Centre
- Bring Laptop
- For any interested QA teacher
- if interested in attending email John Turner on
jturner@qf.org.qa
- COWs are being relocated in the IT Support Area where bookings and collections (and return can be made)
- SUNY COETAIL (Certificate of educational technologies and information literacies) Course two has started
21st Century Literacy Ideas, Questions, and Issues
Follow the course at http://elearning.qataracademy.wikispaces.net/SUNY2. There is a twitter tag (qasuny), a Ning group, and lectures are posted as Voicethreads at the SUNY2 page
Issue this week is: What 21stC Learning should schools be responsible for?
- Software of the week to check out:
Have you checked out Toodoo (http://www.toondoo.com/) for making online Web 2 cartoons
- What Research and Thinking is telling us.
see National Educational Technology Plan. Released 5 March
- Some Current Curriculum Projects
- Grade 8 Islamic Studies: blogging and eportfolio response to documentary
- Grade 7 Islamic Studies wiki project dedicated to Arabic Culture (http://21stcarabicculture.qataracademy.wikispaces.net/)
- Grade 7 Tech-IT: Collective Knowledge wiki on Global Issues here
5 students presented at the Global Issues Network conference at American School of Doha on 13 March. It went over very well and the students are to be congratulated
- Grade 6 English: Ingenuity projects using PowerPoint, Voicethread and Eportfolio wikis
Project is finishing with all students publishing to their wiki eportfolios (which are now available). Students also demonstrated impressive acquisition, adaptability and problem-solving skills
Please let us all know what's going on in your area
IT Technical Support
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Please continue to email all IT concerns on-line to itsupport@qf.org.qa (you can simply address issuers to itsupport).
You will be issued a call number. You must give your name, location in the school, and clear statement of problem.
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What's New?
This section will announce significant developments of which you might not have been aware. At the moment the IT Department is working on
- The 1:1 laptop roll-out: (See 1:1 laptop page for more) All Grade 7 and 8 students have their HP Table laptop
- The Certificate of Educational Technologies program: Proceeding
- Student eportfolios: ePortfolios have been set-up for Grades 7, 8 and 9 students for subject project work that incorporates student laptops and other digital technologies.
- Student edtech support group: Has met and will be developed as a support for classroom use of ICTs
Professional Development
This section will highlight Teacher Learning opportunities.
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