Brad

My Name is Brad McAllister and I am the PDHPE Coordinator at Magdalene Catholic High School. I am currently teaching Years 7-12 and have been trying to utilise ICT to enhance learning and engagement across all levels. In this course I hope to reflect on my current practices and further develop how I use technology to meet student needs.

I am hoping to to continue using blogs, wikis and other tools in my classes and find ways to make this use engaging and powerful for students. I would also like to help others interested in using some of these tools in their classes and making this implementation as simple and effective as possible. This may include helping at afterschool sessions with our Learning Technologies Coordinator or designing an online course to expose teachers to some of the simple, yet powerful tools that are available.

At the moment I am using a range of tools to try and develop my skills. I have a blog to try and capture my ideas and thoughts around ICT in the classroom at []. I also subscribe to a wide range of blogs using google reader and find [|delicious] as a very useful tool to see what others are doing and finding great resources.

With students I have been trying to get students creating and publishing their work and have done this in a number of ways. [] - sportcoaching webpage which is used to share materials with other teachers and to organise the resources used in the course. [] - Wiki to support the PDHPE HSC Course. It has a range of student created materials on there as well as other course material and resources that are useful in teaching the course. [] - wiki to support Year 9 PASS elective course. [] - year 7 class blog to share student work and complete revision style reflections. [|slideshare] - we place student presentations on here to be able to add them to our blogs & wikis.

[|my summary]from the sharing session.

Presentation for PDHPE Conference 2009. http://ictinpdhpe09.pbworks.com/ - wiki support page media type="custom" key="4668349"