The Box Hill Institute Internships Program
This is a program for staff to learn about e-learning and the use of online systems.
Participating staff spend one day per week for 20 weeks in a group of five from across the Institute, learning strategies & techniques, and working on a project with continual support.
There is one Internship group in Semester 2, 2009. For enquiries and applications for 2010, contact Ian Goding on 9286 9574.
This website showcases the 2004-7 projects. Click on the left to see the projects. A link is provided to the project, where available, with a screen image. Projects before 2004 are here.
Teaching Centres are funded to replace teachers as needed. The program is funded by the Institute, and the e-Learning Grant from OTTE.
Topics covered:
- Educational models and examples of good online learning
- Finding good quality, free existing online resources for teaching using EDNA, MERLOT, etc
- Copyright
- Educational styles and strategies including
- Problem solving
- Case-studies using Internet examples
- Scenario based learning
- Student group work collaborating with online documents
- Structured Internet research with WebQuests
- Online student communication and collaboration using discussion forums, Wikis, etc
- Assessment during or at the end of a unit
- Presentation of information using the easy, stylish DLSS Learning Site system
- Planning and implementing your project
- Clarifying teaching aims
- Planning your project
- Brainstorming ideas for activities
- Reviewing structure, content, usability
- Writing for the web
- Using the DLSS and StudentWeb
- Putting up resources
- Finding student enrolment information and results
- Finding help
- Finding Internet sites where you can get images and sounds that you can use
- Finding videos that are stored on DLSS that you can use
- Making easy Learning websites on the DLSS
- Using computers
- Files, folders
- Graphics – finding on the Internet, taking digital photos
- Resizing, cropping, converting into suitable formats for the web
- Using graphics in StudentWeb learning sites
- Using Remote Desktop connection to access email, G: drive from home
- Many of the following are covered, depending on the needs of the teachers and their curriculum
- Using WebQuests to structure learning
- Enabling student communication with online discussion forums, web diaries (blogs),
- Enabling student group collaboration on a document from home, and Wikis
- Using Video clips
- Using quick Spellmaster and other interactive activities on the DLSS to test vocabulary, facts, understanding
- Using Photostory, and making Photostory movies with students
- Using quick online quizzes
- Using the DLSS assessment system (with or without images)
- Drag and drop, and mouse-over activities
- Onscreen demonstrations with Captivate
- Other Web 2.0 websites: including Flickr, del.icio.us
- Virtual classrooms – Elluminate