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Schools are invited to submit descriptions of what they plan to do to celebrate ICT during ICT Week. Please send all descriptions to ictweek@vitta.org.au for inclusion on the ICT Week website. See below for inspiration from past submissions: ICT Week Celebrations: 2009Celebrating ICT Week at Aitken College
ICT Week Celebrations: 2008
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ICT Week at Bialik College We had an explosive and wonderful ICT week with our Multimedia Festival, The Edge, at Bialik. Our media Teacher, Brendan Cohen, displays student work in Flash, Adobe Premiere assignments, and photography. Each year level is shown the program and each morning teachers view samples of the work during morning briefing. The wondrous thing was a 6in6 contest in photography. 6 photos from each group were submitted, all taken as originals. Special effects could be gathered from internet sources. For example, one student put fire in the lenses of the subject’s dark glasses. The 6 secrets were:
The second contest was to create a DVD cover for a movie of your life. One boy took 6 closeups of his face and manipulated them beautifully. Then he took another photo and merged all of them. It was extraordinary and the outputs were stunning. The energy all week was high |
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Celebrating ICT at Caroline Chisholm Catholic College Caroline Chisholm Catholic College is putting on a fun and engaging program for Year 8 students during ICT Week to get them involved in IT. Following is an outline of the exciting activites that are planned!
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Music at Melbourne High School ICT is an integral part of the music courses in the Music Faculty at Melbourne High School. In the year 9 music course, which is a core subject that every year 9 student completes, the students complete 3 different assessment tasks using different types of technology, including: |
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Competition Writing at Melbourne High School
Competition Writing is a completely ICT-based Year 9 co-curricular activity, involving about 20 interested students including some students from Year 10 & 11. Students have been encouraged to work within Sharepoint, the web-based collaboration and document management platform. Sharepoint rationalises student requirements because they can access different competition details such as: competition web links, deadline dates, background information files and announcements from their virtual shared student workspace. Web links to writing opportunities provided by our guest speaker, background to the Dorothea MacKellar Poetry competition, excursion information, the next competition deadline, and announcements about students’ latest published writing, are all examples of necessary information made easily accessible to students. During meetings in the Global Learning Centre, interaction with applications on their portal page using the Smartboard has been encouraged. Students have collaborated with students from other schools through the Education Age Blog and internationally through the iNet online student conferences. Specialised applications on the portal page facilitate collaboration such as the Discussion Board and a Wiki which has been set up for group writing pieces in various styles. Students have further refined word processing skills including: fonts, line spacing, word-count, spell-check, editing and page layout. Completing online applications, emailing with attachments, scanning, manipulating and saving images are also necessary skills. Students finally upload their completed submissions to the portal for proof reading. Fiona Starford & Marysia Kozak 12/06/2008 |
ICT Week Celebrations 2007
Here are some examples of schools getting involved in IT during ICT Week 2007. If you are running or know of an innovative ICT program in your school or community VITTA is currently looking to promote ICT activities, competitions and events throughout Victoria in 2008. To register your school or community ICT event please Get Involved by filling in the webform on this site.
Camp Info Tech – Warrandyte High School
Camp Info Tech – Warrandyte High School
Looking at technology in action can be so exciting. Taking a ‘hands-on role’ in a real community project using technology can be even more rewarding as a learning experience.
Each year, for the last 5, Warrandyte High has participated in a wonderful IT program sponsored by the Rotary Club of Manningham. This is annual event aims at giving year 5-8 students first hand experience in the use of information technology, to investigate local environmental and geographic features.
The objectives of the program include:
- to understand what makes the City of Manningham a special place in which to live; (learn why we need to protect the Water Quality of our Rivers and Streams in an Urban Environment);
- to learn about information technology that can help us to ‘Preserve Planet Earth’ - (an on-going program of Rotary International);
- to understand how geographic information systems and related computer technologies, can improve our understanding of the world we live in;
- to apply new found knowledge of information technology to a real world problem - preserving our environment;
- to develop student understandings of diverse careers that use exciting information technologies
In the past, we have studied a number of local environmental issues including: bushfire hazard in the Warrandyte state park, koala habitat at Pound Bend and the return of the platypus to Mullum Creek.
The most recent Infotech students (6 of our Year 8 students) examined water quality in three tributary creeks to the Yarra River in the Warrandyte area (Brushy Creek, Jumping Creek and Anderson’s Creek).
They received presentations from experts in the field including an ecologist and a scientist from Arthur Rylah Institute Heidelberg who discussed conditions required to rejuvenate the streams with native fish species.
Students collected and tested water quality samples in the field under the direction of water quality experts, tracked their position in the field with Global Positioning System (GPS) technology and generated maps of the creeks and land use in the catchments using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology.
The hands on experience of these technologies was just amazing as industry experts took them through the steps involved in mapping our environment. From a teacher point of view, it has been a great learning experience, and although we do not yet have access to the GPS equipment, we have been able to introduce GIS mapping technology into the school.
Most importantly, the students received an insight into why we need to be environmentally aware of man’s increasingly heavy ‘footprint’ on our finite land, water and biological resources.
Glen Huntly Primary School Making IT Happen!
During ICT Week, students from Glen Huntly Primary School will continue to be involved in daily immersions using technologies. Some of the special activities planned to celebrate students successes using technologies include:
- Prep students will each produce a page to contribute to a class book of initial questions Glenhuntly would like to investigate on their Term 3 visit to the Monash Science Centre. Questions will be related to the topic “Reaction and Change.”
- Grade 1 and 2 students will investigate PowerPoint Presentations, and turn their diagrams of the water cycle into fantastic presentations to be shown to the Prep Students.
- Grade 3 and 4 students will organise and conduct workshops for Junior students using Kid Pix. They will expand on the students’ knowledge to produce simple information products relating to Glen Huntly’s Whole School Unit – “Everything is changing!”
- Grade 5 and 6 students will present PowerPoint Presentations that they have been creating based on Australian States as part of Glen Huntlys Cultural Studies Program. They will also be developing their digital portfolios.
Staff and students will learn a number of ICT skills including Common keyboard shortcuts, Email writing, Internet Search Strategies, PowerPoint Tips and Windows Key Shorts cuts. Students will celebrate ICT Week in homeroom activities. Lots of prizes to be won.
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Research Participants Needed:-
Digital Technology In- and Out-of-School: A Comparative Study of the Nature and Levels of Student Use and Engagement
Anne-Marie Chase, The University of Western Australia
Research Participants are needed for a study “Digital Technology In- and Out-of-School: A Comparative Study of the Nature and Levels of Student Use and Engagement”. A major consequence of the advent of the technological age is that young people today live in a ‘techno culture’. Students’ experiences with technology outside of school are likely to be at least as important for predicting student outcomes as their experiences in school. As a result, any questions of relationships between technology use and student outcomes must take account of uses in both settings.
The overarching aims of this research are to describe and compare the nature and complexity of students’ digital technology experiences in- and out-of-school within Australia, and to explore whether these experiences act as significant predictors of students school engagement. It is hoped that the outcomes of the research will help educators to better align students’ in- and out-of-school experiences, and thus to capitalise on students’ motivation and interest in using digital technologies.
The researcher would like to invite interested schools to participate in the research. If you would like further details please contact Anne-Marie Chase chasea01@student.uwa.edu.au or
08 6488 2300 or 08 9204 1695
"KAHOOTZ-ATHON"
Narre Warren South College P-12 is a unique school with nearly 1900 students from P-12 on one campus.
The whole school will try to incorporate an ICT activity in all curriculum areas throughout the week.
KAHOOTZ-ATHON-is a lunch time computer Lab program to teach as many students and teachers the basics of KAHOOTZ 3D animation over the ICT celebration week. Students and teachers are encouraged to implement KAHOOTZ into curriculum activities as a way of designing and creating 3D animations to express ideas and problems.
What else is going on in the classroom’s of Narre Warren South P-12 College during ICT week.
- Prep’s will be using the internet to carry out research on their current topic Farm animals. For numeracy they are learning to play some of our fabulous Maths games such as Galaxy maths and Millie’s Maths House .
- Grades 1/2 are integrating ICT into their Dinosaurs topic through research on the internet.
- Grade 3/4 will be using Excel to complete timelines of the History of Victoria. Students will also be researching this terms topic about puppets using the internet.
- Grade 5 will be using Photo Story in Literacy to illustrate their poems and recording their voices and making background music.
- Grade 6 will be using Kahootz. They have planned and storyboarded now its time to have fun and make the animation! Grade 6 Health students are creating brochures using Publisher on the human Body.
- Year 7 will be using word and paint to create postcards from their dream holiday.
- Year 8 numeracy are developing spreadsheets to calculate average, maximum and minimum. They are also using Excel to explore number patterns.
- Science …As part of our Laptop programme in Science students will be using the laptops to research Dinosaurs,-Past Present and Future.
- Our 9/10 students will be continuing with their Graphics, Animation and Web Design elective and Computer Technology at work elective.
- VCE / VCAL students will continue using and integrating ICT into their studies.
During ICT week students will be accessing and completing school work/homework through our school web site at home. All students will be uploading their work to their teachers drop box.
Our newly upgraded Library Learning Centre, complete with 24 new flat screen computers will be operating through out the school day, and with lunch time World Wide Web Scavenger Hunt activities.
Organising teachers: Carys Freeman & Mary-Anne La Macchia
To find out more: email Maryanne La Macchia or phone (03) 97043333
What is Galvin Park doing during ICT Week?
Galvin Park will be in full swing celebrating ICT Week. There will be a competition running for students to answer a daily ICT question. Prizes will consist of memory sticks and USB flash disks
ICT Week 'Inspirations' - Each year level will participate in a mind map compet