Escalate – 10 June 2008

Case Studies of e-learning in

St. Mary’s University College

Case Studies

Frank Hennessey – Experience of using a VLE (Queens Online) with students

Gerry Trainor – Students creating their own courses on a VLE (LearningNI)

Ivor Hickey – E-Learning in Science Education

LearningNI

LearningNI is the official MLE for the Educational Community in N. Ireland

https://learningni.net/ Secure site - Username

and Password required All student teachers given

Teacher permissions on site

Features of LearningNI

Library – contains lesson plans organised by Key Stage and Subject

Net Work – access to commercial educational materials

News – regularly updated news stories and Primary/Secondary activities

Managed Learning Environment - users may join or create online courses

Library

News

Net Work

Courses

News

News Stories written for school children

Updated regularlyPrimary School

ActivitiesSecondary School

Activities

Net Work

Access to Educational websites containing teaching resources such as Encarta Pathe News

Archive Audio Network

Library

Lesson Plans, worksheets and electronic resources organised by Key Stage and Subject

My Courses

Courses on which you have enrolled are listed here.

Click on All Courses to see all courses to which you have access.

Accreditation Pilot

This year BEd 2 Computing & ICT (Subsidiary) students created courses and applied for LNI Accredited User Status by completing 10 Competencies

The remaining slides show exemplars of what the students had to do to obtain accreditation – these slides are provided with the permission of C2K (Classroom 2000) and replace the examples of actual student work displayed on the day of the Escalate conference.

LNI Accredited User AwardApplication Form

LNI Accredited User AwardApplication Form

Email to: LNIAward@c2kni.org.uk

*** PLEASE NOTE ***

The red rectangles in this PowerPoint are there for guidance only and do not need to be replicated in

your application

Applicant Details

Forename

Surname

School/Organisation

Town/City

ELB

Position in School/Org

C2k Username

Peter

O’Gara

Yarm High School

Yarm

WELB

Teacher

pogara234

Competency 1Online discussions (a) Example 1 displaying your contribution to an online discussion

Competency 1Online discussions (b) Example 2 displaying your contribution to an online discussion

Competency 2

LNI online resource used (no screen dump necessary)

1. Button on Gateway

2. Identify Resource

3. How did you use it

4. Comment on its

effectiveness (<80 words)

Network

InfoMapper

To identify rivers used in a collaborative course

InfoMapper allowed pupils to see the areas they

were talking about and to start to explore the

potential of adding hotspots to these with images

and other digital assets. It also allowed the rivers

being used by the partner schools to be

identified and some of the mapping and aerial

photographic features explored. Pupils were also

able to access InfoMapper from home, which

many of them did.

Competency 3My SiteCreate a My Site and show one page from it in front of your Site Menu

Competency 4Create a Group Site (a)Insert a screenshot of the second step of the Group Site wizard, showing the people who can view/edit the site with your name as coordinator

Competency 4Create a Group Site (b)Insert a screenshot of the content of your Group Site

Competency 5Publishing into the LNI library (a)Insert screenshot of metadata 1

Competency 5Publishing into the LNI library (b)Insert screenshot of metadata 2

Competency 6Use My Files to store teaching materialsInsert screenshot of your My Files with a folder open to view content

Competency 7 Create an online course (a) Insert a screenshot of the View Members list from within your course

Competency 7 Create an online course (b) Insert a screenshot of the opening page of your course

Competency 8 Act as a tutor in an online course Screenshot showing evidence of how you have created areas for learner contribution e.g. workspaces, course discussions

Competency 9 Create an online quizInsert a screenshot of the Edit Quiz screen within the course

Competency 10 Use Learner Tracking (a)Insert a screenshot of some aspect of learner tracking which has helped in your teaching

Competency 10 Use Learner Tracking (b)Explain briefly how you used the Learner Tracking (< 80 words)

Learner Tracking allowed the identification of the boys in an online course as having made significantly less progress in the evaluation task. On the basis of this information, I approached that group to discuss with them the reasons for the apparent lack of engagement and will review the task to make it more accessible in the future.