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= = = CCG Teachers' Digital Literacy Project=


 * //Learning about learning and literacy with the Read/Write Web... //

Welcome!

We are a small group of teachers at Christian College, Geelong (near Melbourne, Australia) interested in learning more about how to leverage the power of the Web to enhance our own and our students' digital literacy. Starting in October, 2010 we embark on a collaborative project together to learn more about: digital literacy, what the Read/Write Web has to offer us as teachers, and more importantly what it can offer our students in terms of real, authentic and meaningful learning experiences.

We're a mixed group, with varying confidence and experience on the Web, so we're approaching the project in three phases over the next several months. Our aim is to become familar with blogs, wikis and other useful communication technologies on the Web ourselves first. Then, having gained knowledge and confidence - and enhanced our own digital literacy - we'll begin to introduce projects into our classrooms. Some members of the group might move faster than others, but a general time line is outlined below. On the pages of this site you'll be able to follow and perhaps even contribute to our progress.

In this phase we'll consider the concept of a Personal Learning Network (PLN) within the context of communication technologies and the Web. We'll explore the value of developing and maintaining a PLN for ourselves as professionals and teachers as well as the hands-on how-to of getting started.
 * Phase 1: Starting a Personal Learning Network (October-November 2010)**

Here we'll begin to become involved in the "write" part of the Read/Write Web. Having begun to develop our PLNs and follow educational blogs regularly, we'll start to explore the world of edublogging with a more hands-on approach: by beginning a blog of our own. We'll learn how to start and maintain a blog, becoming actively involved in contributing to discussions about education, technology our specific curriculum focus and the 21st century classroom.
 * Phase 2: Becoming Novice Edubloggers (November 2010-December 2010)**

Over Term 1 of 2011, we'll plan and coordinate a blog or wiki project with one or more of our classes. This may be along individual teacher, faculty or other lines. We'll share ideas and collaborate on each of our projects, however large or small. We'll share and reflect on how things go - the positives and the negatives - and consider how to do it better or more effectively next time. Most of all we'll reflect on what impact it has had on engagement, learning and its value as a constant facet of our curriculum delivery.
 * Phase 3: Trying Social Media Educational Tools in Our Classrooms (January 2011-April 2011)**

As we progress on this project we'll consider and discuss the place of digital literacy in the context of our respective curriculum and teaching focus areas. We'll work together to share inspirations, useful links, great blogs we read, resources, and cool teaching tools with each other. As we enter Phase 2 and 3, we'll link to our own teacher blogs and then also our class blogs and/or wikis and other projects.