ICT+PD+LEARNING+JOURNEY

1.3.11 - Meeting with Lead Teacher Facilitator

Picture of our ICT - what has been going well?
 * BLOGS - communication between home/school
 * Room 6 individual blogs
 * Projector use - used as a teacher tool (showing videos, how to do something etc)
 * Skyping - between classes, with parents, with other schools
 * Digital camera use - videos, still images, Photographer of the Week

Where to next? ** ICTPD Facilitator visit to Tokomaru School – 1 March 2011 (Michael's notes): **
 * Communication with the community - RSS feeds/Blog emails/feeds - subscribe to our blogs/website
 * All of Room 6 - individual blogs
 * Room 1 - students as administrative posters
 * Room 2 - comments on blogs - encourage
 * Buddy classes from cluster schools? - Bloom's Taxonomy? Conversations
 * Virtual Learning Network
 * Finalise strategic plan 2011
 * Digital citizenship - Netsafe - check out their website for resources (cluster wide PD planned?)

I met with Jared and Mel, Mel gave me a tour of the school.

Things that are going well:
 * Blogs are a really POSITIVE – the kids and the community love it! The parents feel like they are a part of what is going on – parents comment on kids work – interactive – teacher’s post twice a week on average
 * A high percentage of internet access at home
 * Use of data projectors in the classrooms – youtube video, teacher tool, whole class learning – demonstrating how to..
 * Use of digital cameras (one per room) – “photographer of the week” – 2 blog reporters of the week about what we have been doing in class (journalism during writing time)
 * Used Mathletics in 2010 – using tutpup this year for free – making use of free Web 2.0 tools
 * Skyping – last year skyped Awapuni School, Reefton Area School – skyping between classes
 * Purchased infrastructure last year – server, N computing, etc (Home & School & BoT on board)

Things to try this year:
 * In the middle/senior school – get the children to post onto the blog – senior class has a class blog and individual blogs (social) – this year we want to try out the full potential of the commenting
 * Purchase more digital cameras
 * Wikis – for teacher use – a school wiki already exists
 * Subscribe to RSS feeds/Blog emails for the community

Questions? Virtual Learning Network

// Thank you Mel and Jared for a great introduction to your school and for discussing your progress, ideas and strategic plan with me. It sounds like you have made a positive start to the year. // // Michael. //


 * 2.3.11**
 * Lead Teacher Meeting @ Kairanga School (Mel attended)**
 * The Role of the Lead Teachers is:**
 * * Facilitate ICT learning pedagogy across the school || * || * ||
 * * Lead the design and planning of programmes, that will infuse I.C.T into learning || * || * ||
 * * Share ideas and practices with colleagues || * || * ||
 * * Act as a facilitator, to ensure that the communication system allows all members of the school community to 'know' what is happening and feel part of the ICTPD cluster ||

- ICT needs a context - focus eg: Longburn School - Oral Language (Curriculum context) - Curriculum review - include the ICT components - Before implementing 'bits' into the classroom, teachers need to understand what the cluster/school goals are and why they are 'changing' their classroom practice (in some cases) - Presence on wiki/online communities

Sharing Learning @ School and classroom ideas

- Some great sites shared and ideas - Teacher Voice on the Cluster Wiki was set up today so that there is a special place to put successful ICT's used

Whole Cluster Meeting

- What will be useful to share with our schools/teachers? - ideas/sites

Whakawhanaungatanga - Link to whole cluster meeting. Mel demonstrating Bubble Dome website. Lead Teachers thought it would be good to have a focus for meetings eg: Literacy, so that teachers come away with websites or ideas that they can use in their classrooms straight away.
 * 16.3.11**


 * 21.3.11 - Mel meeting with Michael @Tokomaru School**


 * Finish and upload Strategic Plan by 31.3.11
 * Emailing and mobile blogging - share with the rest of stafff
 * Purchased x2 Flips for videoing and photographs (not very good editing software)
 * Helping Michael with some questions from Raina - engagement and achievement - how to measure achievement with ICT
 * Sites from blog onto Lead Teacher Voice on wiki
 * Powerpoint presentations for Parent/Teacher/Student Conferences - photos etc - for next year - goal may be to include videos and recordings
 * Buddy classes would be great - cluster may look at this at the end of Term 2

** ICTPD Facilitator visit to Tokomaru School – 21 March 2011 (Michael's notes) **
 * I met with Mel and we discussed: **


 * The strategic plan: **
 * Little numbers relate back to Whole-School Plan – will be uploaded by the end of the month


 * Things that are going well: **
 * The discovery that you can email and text files to blogger from mobile [] or from your computer
 * Purchased 2 flip videos to try within the school – used with triathlon, editing works best on movie maker and produces better quality videos than a standard digital camera
 * Children are more engaged when using ICTs (anecdotal evidence)
 * Current and up to date answers to questions, eg. Research on famous NZers, “Flight of the Concords” answered an email from a child
 * Powerpoint to be used for a 3 way conference with parents, children and the teacher using photos and goals – next year maybe using video
 * Trialing the Digiscope as a “Guess the picture” on the class blog


 * Things to try this year: **
 * Buddy classes would be great - Cluster will be organising this at the end of Term Two


 * 17.5.11 **
 * ICT meeting with Michael: **
 * Class blogs continue to go well and now students are being introduced to individual blogs in the junior school for personal writing and sharing;
 * Use of Google Docs in the senior school and Google sketch;
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS",cursive; font-size: 90%;">Spelling Bee – lists on Spelling City;
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS",cursive; font-size: 90%;">Meeting next week – organisation for one day conference, feedback from teachers what they want to know about (see Where Next? notes)

**<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS",cursive; font-size: 90%;">Where Next? **

 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS",cursive; font-size: 90%;">Student and class blogs continuing;
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS",cursive; font-size: 90%;">Little Bird Tales – writing website;
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS",cursive; font-size: 90%;">Professional Readings – off wiki – summarise main points on wiki discussion tab – to make interactive;
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS",cursive; font-size: 90%;">Mel to create poll for lead teachers/teachers to say what we would like at one day conference workshops (Suzie Vesper – digistore “digi advisor”, Nancy Groh - NetSafe), web 2 tools, software/programmes, Apple specific software, Comic Life, Google Docs??
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS",cursive; font-size: 90%;">Load onto wiki – Teacher Challenge and Bling for your blog.


 * 22.9.11**
 * ICT meeting with Michael:**


 * Anything new?**
 * ICT club run during lunchtime once a week - for those students that need extension;
 * All staff now have their own teacher laptop;
 * Cluster PD - moderating writing using Voicethread;
 * All teachers have made contact with their buddy teachers (one is waiting on response)


 * Where to next?**
 * Ensure all teachers have done one ICT activity with their buddy teacher by the end of the term;
 * Collaboration with year group syndicates for next year;
 * Technology experts to run workshops;
 * To run a family blogging evening at Tokomaru School for parents/students interested in learning more.