On Monday, I had the opportunity to present about Scootle, and the Scootle Community at a local school’s staff development day. As a follow up to the session, I’m sharing my slides, and links to some useful resources for teachers interested in exploring further.
Scootle 101
What does it offer?
- Scootle is helping enable teachers to integrate digital technologies into their curriculum, assist in the discovery and creation of Australian curriculum resources, and provides a stepping stone for building professional networks beyond the school community.
- Search for Australian Curriculum Resources by strand, year group, key words, topic, and Australian curriculum indicators.
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Access Copyright free resources, photos, videos, units of work, and digital learning objects for all learning areas, good for literacy, numeracy, history.
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Learning objects can be used on IWB, some will play on iPad (HTML5 objects).
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Can share resources and learning objects with students/staff using PIN codes, or PDF export of Learning Paths (recommended option).
- Scootle Community network is a great stepping stone professional learning network for Australian teachers.
Learning Paths
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A learning path allows you to create folders around concepts, topics or learning area. You can classify resources or paths into folders. We created a learning path focusing on Measurement in Maths for F-2 students. The PIN is LCRFEQ.
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PIN codes are found when you click on the Edit tab of Learning Paths
Notes for Local Teachers
- Access via the BPS school network is best done on teacher computers or personal iPads. Sadly the Scootle app doesn’t work on the local WiFi network.
- Staff can access scootle.edu.au via the DET Portal in the iPad Safari browser, but the inability to access Flash content is quite irritating.
Downloadable Resources / Web Links
Thank you to Jan Clarke, of AISWA, who kindly shared some of the following resources.
- 10 Ways to Use Scootle (Infographic)
- Scootle User Guide (detailed, step by step)
- Scootle 2013 (1 page user guide)
- Scootle LP Interactive selection Yr 1 2 (Sample Learning Path – PDF export)