June+2011

Principals and Lead Teachers Meeting at Pirongia Wednesday 22 June 9.30

Welcome

Present: Jan, Toby, Darin, Steve, Karen (Hangatiki) Karen (Maihiihi), Leonie, Dellwynne, Michelle, Ange, Toni, Barbara, Kristin, Catriona, Delwyn, Chris, Jackie, Jocelyn,

Apologies: Nigel, David, Bernard,

Agenda

School Reports: Pirongia and Tahaaroa

Pirongia School Report - Milestone evidence Milestone wiki - based around goals. Focus on digital citizenship, students working through Hector's World Teachers taking new skills on board even novices, electronic roll a big step forward Classroom walkthroughs - staff meetings where teachers do a walk through each class and explain how they have been using ICT School concept - Communication - Using a variety of tools to communicate, skype, mobile phones, etc Staff room displays of shared learning Teachers have time in staff meetings to reflect and share and look at what others are doing Strategic plan

Free Maths sites - [|tutpup], [|studyladder,] [|free rice]

Cluster Call Back day

Workshops and a small description please

Need to know by Monday

Saturday 16 July Workshops - NZ Maths,,, 6 Stations - x 2 x 30 minutes NZ Maths - Jan Using IWB in the classroom, Maths videos - Steve Using an MP3 player as a reading resource - Pirongia Pivot Animations - David Studyladder - Andy Using EPIC - Kristin Using Excel - Karen (Maihiihi) Digital Microscopes - Blogging tools - Using VLN - Catriona Creating a learning path in Digistore Using a digital camera -

Milestone Writing / Evidence KCC Milestone Wiki

Reflective Summaries - Milestone 4, OPS, Pirongia, Hangatiki

Digital Citizenship - What is it? How do we teach it? - Toni

Cybersafety Policies and Agreements - Please bring what you have

Getting Ready for UFB - what will it look like? What do we need to do to prepare? How can we ensure our infrastructure is robust?

Belonging to the VLN - Purpose? Benefits?

Toni [] Using phones in the classroom - What does this mean for our students? How does this change our teaching? Living in the Clouds examples of time / use of online time finding information Define: information What does it mean for us when students can have google in their pockets? - Does it change how we value information? - Does it change the skills we need to teach? - Does it change the content we teach? - What skills do teachers need?
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What does it mean for us when students are creating digital footprints now? - online safety - online behavior

Andrew Churches [|Digital Citizenship Resources]Scroll down to Digital Citizenship agreements or Here http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/The+Digital+Citizen

Where to now?

Cybercitizenship Workshop Afternoon- Thursday 30 June, 2 -5 pm.

REMINDER to please save the DATE !!! (Week 9 )

As a Cluster we have identified the need to explore our understandings of 21st Century Citizenship and the "Development and implementation of Digital Citizenship Programmes" as major goals (which we're all reporting progress on) - so we've organised an afternoon workshop to support this ongoing work.

As discussed, we're lucky enough to have Tessa Gray from Cored ED as our presenter. Tessa has worked on the development of the Core ED Cybercitizenship PD Modules and will examine current and essential issues around 21st Century Citizenship with us, and the need for developing effective, current policy and practice in our schools (what now?, why? and how?). Please note - this has become more than simply addressing cybersafety issues. The content is aimed at Principals and Management teams (although lead teachers are also very welcome).This should be an excellent PD session.

Tessa will run it in "Keynote" style with opportunities for questions and discussion - feel free to bring laptops to view resources and save links. I'll forward more information about specific content as soon as I receive it. {Please let me know ASAP if you want to attend)

Creative Commons Searches [] c[|ompfight.com]

Reflective Practice - What does reflection look like? How can we help our teachers reflect?

Suggestions for meetings


 * Mahara - My ePortfolio Taster session
 * Geocaching
 * RSS
 * Googling
 * Visit to Pt England
 * Inquiry
 * ICT Strategic planning