ICT PD 2010 and Beyond
The contract is now over for the cluster but this place remains as a focus area for the cluster schools. If you need to request membership to add to any of the pages or create new, please contact Lynda Taylor at Leeston Consolidated School by email l.taylor@leeston.school.nz or phone 3243493
For anyone wishing to access the resources from the combined Teacher Only Day with Jill Hammonds, you will see a new page at the bottom of the navigation panel on the left or click here.
2009
Lead Teacher Bus Tour:
A very successful day out! Check out the link (thanks Chris!) on the right hand side for reflections and photos!
Regional Cluster Meeting:
Check out the Regional Cluster Wiki for notes from our last meeting on 18 September, links to rubrics, etc.
Age Specific Workshops - 7 September Room 240Please go to the Cluster Workshop 2009 for details.
Thank you and goodbye
Thank you to the lead teachers for stepping up and presenting at the workshops last night. Presenting is always a challenge nerve wracking, and exciting none the less. I really appreciate your efforts, I acknowledge its not always easy. Thanks too to the lead teachers that jumped in and supported others and helped at the end of the evening.
I have enjoyed my time with Selwyn Cluster, however it is the people I have met, the teachers I have worked beside and the friendships I have made that really makes leaving hard. Thank you thank you thank you. Take care, arohanui. Jocelyn
Communication the bloke way!
Isn't this taking the technology a bit too far....... What ever happened to talking to each other?
A wow moment
Last week I had a WOW moment when a colleague shared with me some new learning.
Rather than using a template for Comiclife, stay with the blank page. Pull over a series of photos and arrange them like a montage. Use angles, over lapping etc. Save this as an image (jpg) onto your desk top. However this does make a huge file. Compress compress compress. Now upload the image to become your screen saver. Really powerful and so so much easier than using Photoshop. Now the implications for learning.......I've used images like this in Photoshop to represent a word, eg compassion, making those links and connections in literacy. let the power of the images tell the story
In the meantime I'm sharing a Teaching is....... as the montage.
Some people asked
What's a Google Doc and how can you use them
Google Docs in Plain English
Thelma @ West Melton
Look in Year 1-4 on the left navigation to read about Thelma and the ways she has used ICT to transition children into West Melton School. Do other schools use ICT in creative ways to inform their parent community?
Many many thanks for yesterday.
Many many thanks to Rachel, Chris, Olivia, Linda and Sue who presented workshops last night. It's not easy, requires a lot of planning and preparation, and givesanxiety and stress. I acknowledge that. However the feedback from the teachers attending was really positive which makes the time worthwhile.
As you can see I have the Rotorua Reflections page back up and running again, in its pure state. I learnt something new about retrieving lost pages. Previously I had always been able to retrieve text, but now I can bring back the video clips and the diagrams. Yahoo. Let me know if you would like more details.
Be proud of your efforts and thanks for making the day work well.
Thanks Rachel and Chris. Have had very positive feedback from all the staff and appreciated the handout. -Val
Workshops for Tuesday May 5.
Great to see that schools are booking in for their choices. Many thanks to our lead teachers for facilitating this learning opportunities.
Click into Cluster workshops on the left hand side to make your choices. Please don't over load the workshop with more than the 15 or 18 spaces available.
e- AssTTle
Garry Taylor Otakaro 216 9:00 pm Monday 4 May.
An over view
Some play time / hands on
Talking about and looking at test types
Ideas around target setting
Looking at the data.
Welcome to Term 2
I hope you had a relaxing break and an opportunity to enjoy some of this marvelous autumn weather. Long "May" it continue.
As we move into the building capacity and sustainability your lead teachers are beginning to take the cluster workshops as we grow future leaders.
Olivia, Sue, Linda, Chris and Rachel are all leading workshops this term. I know they have put a lot of time and energy into preparing for the day.
Check out Cluster workshops on the navigation bar, or click here to look at the choices, and the space to do your enrolments. PLEASE in fairness to all presenters, do not exceed the required workshop number.
Rotorua Reflections
Please add your reflections, or listen to Chris share her thoughts and reflections from the conference.
Welcome to Term 1
Happy New Year. I hope you had a really nice relaxing break.
Welcome back to the final year of the Selwyn ICT contract.
This year the focus of the cluster is on:
embedding Inquiry learning
developing and embedding NZC to suit your school community
sustainability
building capacity.
2009 dates are available as is the space for your reflections on your learning from Learning@Schools, the Rororua Conference.
The contract is now over for the cluster but this place remains as a focus area for the cluster schools. If you need to request membership to add to any of the pages or create new, please contact Lynda Taylor at Leeston Consolidated School by email l.taylor@leeston.school.nz or phone 3243493
For anyone wishing to access the resources from the combined Teacher Only Day with Jill Hammonds, you will see a new page at the bottom of the navigation panel on the left or click here.
2009
Lead Teacher Bus Tour:
A very successful day out! Check out the link (thanks Chris!) on the right hand side for reflections and photos!
Regional Cluster Meeting:
Check out the Regional Cluster Wiki for notes from our last meeting on 18 September, links to rubrics, etc.
Table of Contents
Thank you and goodbye
Thank you to the lead teachers for stepping up and presenting at the workshops last night. Presenting is always a challenge nerve wracking, and exciting none the less. I really appreciate your efforts, I acknowledge its not always easy. Thanks too to the lead teachers that jumped in and supported others and helped at the end of the evening.I have enjoyed my time with Selwyn Cluster, however it is the people I have met, the teachers I have worked beside and the friendships I have made that really makes leaving hard. Thank you thank you thank you. Take care, arohanui. Jocelyn
Communication the bloke way!
Isn't this taking the technology a bit too far....... What ever happened to talking to each other?A wow moment
Last week I had a WOW moment when a colleague shared with me some new learning.Rather than using a template for Comiclife, stay with the blank page. Pull over a series of photos and arrange them like a montage. Use angles, over lapping etc. Save this as an image (jpg) onto your desk top. However this does make a huge file. Compress compress compress. Now upload the image to become your screen saver. Really powerful and so so much easier than using Photoshop. Now the implications for learning.......I've used images like this in Photoshop to represent a word, eg compassion, making those links and connections in literacy. let the power of the images tell the story
In the meantime I'm sharing a Teaching is....... as the montage.
Some people asked
What's a Google Doc and how can you use themGoogle Docs in Plain English
Thelma @ West Melton
Look in Year 1-4 on the left navigation to read about Thelma and the ways she has used ICT to transition children into West Melton School. Do other schools use ICT in creative ways to inform their parent community?Many many thanks for yesterday.
Many many thanks to Rachel, Chris, Olivia, Linda and Sue who presented workshops last night. It's not easy, requires a lot of planning and preparation, and givesanxiety and stress. I acknowledge that. However the feedback from the teachers attending was really positive which makes the time worthwhile.As you can see I have the Rotorua Reflections page back up and running again, in its pure state. I learnt something new about retrieving lost pages. Previously I had always been able to retrieve text, but now I can bring back the video clips and the diagrams. Yahoo. Let me know if you would like more details.
Be proud of your efforts and thanks for making the day work well.
Thanks Rachel and Chris. Have had very positive feedback from all the staff and appreciated the handout. -Val
Workshops for Tuesday May 5.
Great to see that schools are booking in for their choices. Many thanks to our lead teachers for facilitating this learning opportunities.Click into Cluster workshops on the left hand side to make your choices. Please don't over load the workshop with more than the 15 or 18 spaces available.
e- AssTTle
Garry Taylor Otakaro 216 9:00 pm Monday 4 May.An over view
Some play time / hands on
Talking about and looking at test types
Ideas around target setting
Looking at the data.
Welcome to Term 2
I hope you had a relaxing break and an opportunity to enjoy some of this marvelous autumn weather. Long "May" it continue.As we move into the building capacity and sustainability your lead teachers are beginning to take the cluster workshops as we grow future leaders.
Olivia, Sue, Linda, Chris and Rachel are all leading workshops this term. I know they have put a lot of time and energy into preparing for the day.
Check out Cluster workshops on the navigation bar, or click here to look at the choices, and the space to do your enrolments. PLEASE in fairness to all presenters, do not exceed the required workshop number.
Rotorua Reflections
Please add your reflections, or listen to Chris share her thoughts and reflections from the conference.Welcome to Term 1
Happy New Year. I hope you had a really nice relaxing break.Welcome back to the final year of the Selwyn ICT contract.
This year the focus of the cluster is on:
2009 dates are available as is the space for your reflections on your learning from Learning@Schools, the Rororua Conference.