Helen Otway

, Female

Melbourne

Australia

Profile Information:

School / Work Affiliation
New job! AP for ICT/Student Learning. I was an Ultranet Coach for the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, Western Metropolitan Region.
Blog
http://helenotway.edublogs.org/
Favored IM Account
helenotway@gtalk
Skype Account
helenotway
Twitter / Plurk / Other Account
http://twitter.com/helenotway
About Me
I am very interested in creating learning environments that are real and purposeful for our kids. I am a teacher and peer coach and love to support teachers in their journey in integrating IT into their classrooms. I run PD for my school and for others - usually around the themes of powerful learning with ICT.
I have taken on a new role this year and will be working with a variety of schools within my region to support their adoption of the 'Ultranet'.
New role for 2009! Obviously have itchy feet. Assistant principal for ICT & Student Learning.

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  • brettelockyer

    Thanks Helen. My friend Robyn urged me to join.

    Aug 28, 2008

  • Alyshia Olsen

    Hi Helen,

    My name is Alyshia Olsen; I am a 20 year old college student from Olin College of Engineering. I am a part of a group of 6 Olin College students (we're in Needham, MA, and engineering students) who has taken a year off to work on an education related project. Since you are in the 'e-learning and online teaching' group, I thought you might be interested! Our project is called AlightLearning, and this is our "short" project description:

    Under the assumption that within ten years, the landscape of modern education will have fully integrated what we now define as new classroom media: video, online collaboration, open source curriculum and other web tools, we hope to pioneer a web software tool that acts as a platform for this new media, bringing the power of the web and its tools to students, teachers and parents in a secure, comfortable and innovative environment. Our goal is to have our free software at a pilot middle school by April 15th, 2009, continuing to develop and coordinate with our users to create a product that other schools want to pilot and use at their schools, while allowing individual teachers to implement this tool in their own classroom.

    Our project, titled Alight Learning, is currently trying to win a competition for startup funding on ideablob.com. You can find us at http://ideablob.com/3975 . We would love your support in the form of a vote within the next couple days, but more importantly we'd love your feedback and comments. Our description on Ideablob is short, and even the one above hardly gets at many of the issues we would like to take a stab at solving, but at least it's a start.

    Feel free to email me back, check out alightlearning.com, anything you like!

    Thanks,

    Alyshia Olsen
    anotherdayaway42@gmail.com

    Dec 30, 2008

  • Katy Reid

    Hi Helen,
    You were truely inspirational and i did get a lot out of your presentation so was more than happy to leave a good comment. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction you have filled the void with your knowledge and i am truely grateful for your journey and for sharing it. I am now on my own journey similar to yours but at least i have been lucky enough to be pointed in the right direction. Thanks again. Katy

    May 12, 2009