Last week I was off on a cycling tour along the Murray River on the NSW and Victorian border with my husband, Bruce, sister Wil and her husband, Garry. I had a great week but there was no way I was going to miss the last week of our New Learning and New Literacies course. I found an Internet cafe and managed to get in eventually.
I have loved this course for what I have learned, for the friendships and new connections and also for how it has further supported our work in the Lanyon Cluster of Schools. There have been so many positives: we are part of an online international learning community and made new friends from whom we have learned a great deal; the Lanyon High teachers, indeed all of the course participants, have developed expertise to lead the Learning by Design work and make it sustainable; we have also learned so much more about teaching and learning and assessment, and through our blogs and wikis and even virtual worlds, have reflected deeply about our practice; at times we have struggled with work life balance to get all assignments completed but we got there; we are beginning work with Quest Atlantis with our students; we now have a great documenting tool for Learning by Design; and we enjoyed it!
So thanks Bill and Laura and all of my New Learning and New Literacies colleagues.
