Matthew

__Personal Details__

My name is Matt Shirlaw. I currently work at St John's Nowra primarily in the HSIE faculty teaching junior geograhy, business studies and economics but also within the TAS faculty teaching year 8 Technology (Mandatory) and year 10 IST.

__Current use of tecehnology__
 * Blogging - year 7 geography, year 11 business studies, year 11 and year 12 economics (11economics.edublogs.org + 12econmics.edublogs.org, businessplans.wikispaces.com, worldheritage.wikispaces.com)
 * imovie - year 7 ILM
 * Website design (dreamweaver mx, fireworks mx) - year 8 TM
 * Database design - year 10 IST

__Areas of interest__


 * Multimedia (movies e.g. ilife09, web based applications)
 * New and emerging technologies
 * Use of social networking tools in the classroom

__Expections__

During this course I hope to:
 * Increase my knowledge of various new and emerging technologies for use in the classroom
 * Further develop my skills in the use of ICT resources with a particular focus on multimedia such as software for making video, audio, presentations etc
 * Develop a range of strategies to assist in working with teachers to assist them to incorporate ICT into the classroom

__Presentation Topic__

At St Johns we are currently investigating the possibility of installing interactive whiteboards in a number of classrooms. During the first 2 weeks of term four the school will be trialing a Promethean interactive whiteboard in a classroom. At this stage I will be involved in trialing the board and demonstrating to staff. It is my intention that these presentations will provide staff with an overview of the ways in which the interactive whiteboard can be used in lessons but also incorporate some of the collaborative/creative tools which we have learned about during the lighthouse course.

__Ideas for presentation__

I will need to cover the following:
 * Administration
 * Connecting to the board, pc/mac
 * ActiveInspire software [very brief - not the focus of the presentation]
 * Alternatives (e.g. smartboard, smartnotebook)
 * Uses of the board
 * Teacher directed
 * Student centred [one or two students]
 * Group tasks with board simply as an aid
 * Examples lessons
 * Geography [global environments topic]
 * Senior business studies
 * Promethean planet
 * Examples of pre-made lessons
 * Possible collaborative learning tools
 * Integration with blogs/wikis
 * Imovie presentation
 * Need to ensure that I have some footage to supplement the evaluation movie

__Evaluation__

At this stage I am thinking about creating an imovie where I will show some of my presentation, some still shots and have a voice over where I will provide some of my reflections some on the following questions:

Was the content appropriate? Did it meet the needs of the audience? Did I structure my presentation effectively? How effective were verbal my techniques? (pacing, projection, pitch and delivery) How effective were my visual techniques? (keynote/ppt, images, aids etc) Did I engage the audience? Did I encourage them to question, reflect and interact as a group? Did I challenge the group? if so how? Identify your strengths and weaknesses Solicit your own feedback What you and your audience have gained from this experience?

Once I have produced the short movie I intend to publish a copy of the script on this wiki. I will also upload the movie to youtube and embed it in this wiki.