iBCC is Ballajura Community College’s online learning portal. iBCC uses the very popular Moodle learning system which is used in thousands of educational institutions across the globe. Moodle enables teachers to develop online course content using rich and interactive multimedia and make it available to their students anywhere, anytime.
A number of 4-session courses are planned for term 1, 2009. Interested staff should contact Rod Burrows (roderick.burrows@det.wa.edu.au) to book a place in one of the courses. Each session will run for approximately 1 hour after school. Stream 1 and 2 are identical and you may enrol on any day of the 4 week programme.
Dates and Course Schedule
Stream 1 – Beginners
Tuesday 3rd March – Introduction to iBCC, Logging on, creeating a course.
Tuesday 10th March – Adding Resources
Tuesday 17th March – Managing Students, assignments
Tuesday 24th March – Adding Activities
Stream 2 – Beginners
Wednesday 4th March – Introduction to iBCC, Logging on, creeating a course.
Wednesday 11th March – Adding Resources
Wednesday 18th March – Managing Students, assignments
Wednesday 25th March – Adding Activities
Stream 3 – Intermediate
Thursday 5th March – Putting the ‘oomph’ in, HTML, graphics.
Thursday 12th March – Staff Meeting
Thursday 19th March – Advance resource management, ,multimedia, learning objects.
Thursday 26th March – Constructing tests and providing feedback
A one hour PD session will be held in the MS Library on Thursday 19th February 2009 for all teachers with an Apple MacBook. Jeremy Hurst from Winthrop Technology will lead the session and will introduce you to some of the special features of your MacBook. Light refreshments will be served.
A 1 hour introduction to the new features of Office 2007.