A summary of highlights of the 2011 DEECD Innovation Showcase

1. 2011 DEECD
Innovation
Showcase
Summary
Friday 13th May 2011
Melbourne Convention Centre
Lucy Barrow

2. “This event features Victoria’s most
forward thinking practitioners who
will share the innovations making a
difference in their settings.”
Department of Education & Early Childhood Development,
2011 DEECD Innovation Showcase,
http://www.education.vic.gov.au/researchinnovation/showcase/default.htm

3. Point of View Camera
(used by Indigenous
students in RMIT’s
pre-vocational
courses in
plumbing)
.: Students record themselves completing a task
.: Video footage can then be shared or used for
assessment purposes
How could we use point of view cameras in our
teaching and learning settings?

4. .: Excellent use of
Ultranet (Victorian
Government School’s
Portal) to deliver the
Literacy course, in
particular, writing
.: Use of a number of
Web 2.0 tools to engage
students, eg: wikis,
blogs, Xtranormal,
fotobabble, Photo Peach

5. “…Powerful tools for
problem solving,
collaboration, strategic
thinking and forward
planning.”
Read the blog post by Adam Brice
from Ringwood North PS

6. .: Use of video
conferencing tools to give
an isolated school in
regional Victoria access to
the world
.: Use of Skype and
Elluminate
.: Live Skype call during the
session to students in
Malaysia illustrated the
power of this approach
Read the blog post by Anne Mirtschin
from Hawkesdale P-12 College

7. .: Opportunity to meet
educators for the first time who
have been key influences and
assisted in the development of
our school’s virtual worlds
program 
.: Virtual History Project
.: FUSE website – Find, Use and
Share quality Education
resources

8. The closing session
was colourful,
exciting, inspiring,
emotional, hilarious
and life changing!
Copies of The Happiest Refugee,
by Anh Do, are available from the
Senior School Library

9. Recordings of the sessions will be available on
the Innovations Showcase website
Find 1:1 Learning resources on the
DEECD eLearning ICT Showcase website