Hardie Fellowship 2017

Mark and I have been collaboratively planning our Hardie predominantly using OneNote.  Using this tool we have kept a running record of ideas, draft Hardie Fellowship applications, and now as a central location for all of our finalised plans and ongoing research.  The OneNote has been a repository for various thoughts, artefacts, links, invoices, receipts, itinerary, etc, that come our way.  They are in the one location and can be accessed by either Mark or myself whenever needed.  We have both found this very helpful. All the major Universities have summer courses that you can enroll in and we have selected to study at University of Illinois and University of Wisconsin-Stout.  We will be based at the University of Illinois, staying in self-contained student apartments at Orchard Downs. While the course commencement dates are a little way off, it is interesting to note the efficiency and detail of correspondence between us and the Universities from an early stage - the process o

Over a period of nine weeks we will be undertaking a series of courses at American Universities as well as making site visits to schools and consulting with a number of internationally renowned academics in the fields of blended learning, instructional design and formative assessment. We will be starting off in Illinois where we will be based for seven weeks. We will be working with Professor William Cope from the University of Illinois in areas of instructional design , blended learning  and formative assessment using the Scholar application while undertaking a New Learning Course at the Urbana-Champaign campus. University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign In that time we will also be undertaking online study in Project Based Learning in the Flipped Classroom and E-Learning for Educators at the University of Wisconsin-Stout . By doing so we hope to experience a range of blended learning experiences from the learner's perspective (synchronous, asynchronous, fully onli

 Catching a bit of snow at Cradle Mountain! Originally hailing from the UK where I taught Maths at a Senior Secondary College in Salford, I am now an Australian Citizen and have been living and working in Tasmania since arriving in January 2012. I spent several very happy and productive years at Don College as a Maths Teacher, Area Leader and AST - before moving to Curriculum Services as Principal Education Officer: Curriculum and Standards. I have spent the last 18 months developing new processes and protocols for Years 11&12 moderation, embedding formative assessment into Virtual Learning Environments, working with the DoE, Catholic and Independent sectors and the Office of TASC to help develop and quality assure around sixty new Years 11&12 courses for use in 2017 and 2018 and have provided professional learning to more than 300 Tasmanian teachers, ASTs, APs and Principals in the areas of moderation, quality assessment practices, audit and formative assessment. I