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Collaborative Learning Benchmarks

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Gary’s Magic Garden
Used Jackson Pollock Web 2

ICT/e-learning used

 Word Processing
 Templates
 Graphics
 Desktop Publishing
 Databases
 Interactive Multi media
 Using digital objects
 Using a digital camera
 Scanning, photocopying
 Video capture and editing
 Animation
 Web Search
 Scrapbook
 Web Quest
 Paperless product
 Paperless assessment
 Digital profiles
 Web Authoring
 E-mail
 Sound Editing
 Photoshop and Paint
 Removable Disc
 other authoring tools

Collaborative Learning Strategies

Establishing roles
Debate
Discussion
Role play and drama
Code of co-operation
Classroom meetings
Multi-voting technique

Personal Learning

Reflective questioning
Share time
Reflective circles
Reflective journals
Learning journals
Whole brain learning
Habits of the mind
Goal setting
Design brief
Problem Solving

Generic Skills and Competencies

Collecting, analysing and organising information
Communicating ideas and information
Working with others and in teams
Using mathematical ideas and techniques
Solving problems
Using technology.

The Story of the Magic Garden

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Lino Print by Year 7 Hawkesdale P-12 College

THE MAGIC GARDEN

A KAZAKH FOLKTALE

There were two neighbours who became very good friends. One man was a farmer.

He had a small plot of land but fertile enough to grow crops. His neighbour had only a stony piece of land. On his land he grazed sheep.

One year a disease spread through all the land, the sheep all became ill and died.

The sheepherder went to his friend to bid him goodbye.

“My sheep have all died. I have no way to earn a living on this stony ground now. I must leave this place. Perhaps I can find some menial job in the city. If not, I will have to beg for my living.”

But his friend the farmer would not let the sheepherder go.

to hear the rest of the story contact Heather Blakey