Presentation: Digital Passport

Friday was our Prep staff meeting and I was given a 25 minute slot to present the Digital Passport program. It was my first ever public presentation so I was quite nervous! All things considered, it went well. Our school is rolling out a 1:1 iPad scheme from Grade 4 up in 2016 and we needed to have a behaviour expectation guideline for the students to follow. We picked Digital Passport at the recommendation of Shaun Kirk, our Learning Commons director. It is a browser-based scheme with detailed lesson plans covering 5 modules: communication, privacy, cyber-bullying, searching and creative credit.

My very basic presentation slides are embedded below. Embedding this presentation was also a good learning opportunity for me, I haven't embedded anything into a blog like this before. We are living in the future, I tell you.


As we want our homeroom teachers to take charge of this program and run it with their classes, my presentation was aimed to ease any discomfort. One of the teachers told me afterwards that she appreciated the presentation because it made Digital Passport seem like something that she would be able to do. I'm glad that staff felt they can handle the Digital Passport scheme - it is straightforward and an excellent baseline to encourage discussion of the various topics.

A candid shot of me presenting taken by one of the audience members. Maybe you can't see how scared I was from here.