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Moon Matters is my third event and it looks great! It is full of interesting things to do. Mr Joe Grida will be my Moon expert next week. He is a member of the Astronomical Society of South Australia and writes a monthly page in The Advertiser. I need to be confident in using CENTRA so that will be some weekend work.
Today I visited four of the six middle school classes and logged them on to Moon Matters via the tsof site – www.tsof.edu.au/ In the process I found some problems. There was no password in the confirming email. A phone call to the project officer showed me I needed to register with tsof first – not go straight to the event URL. If I make a mistake like that, other teachers are likely to do so too. I had to go back and register each class. Ideally teachers are meant to register themselves but I have an event happening next week.
I enjoyed preparing Moon Matters but no-one voluntarily signed up for it despite advertisements in Wallara’s Newsflash and pigeonholing all middle school teachers at the end of last term. I feel as if I am imposing this on teachers – even though it is part of SACSA. For my next event I need to ask a group of teachers what they would really like to have online. I need to sell the idea that I can save them a lot of searching and provide a ready-to-go product that links to SACSA.
I enjoyed going around to the classes and showing them how to log on. Really I need a session with teachers and show them how to do it. Maybe I should ask my Principal for a training and development spot. Or maybe, as I am a District eTeacher, I should offer an after school T&D showing teachers how to get the best out of the project. It would also give them time to ‘play’ with some of the events. I think ‘play time’ is essential.
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