September+20+2012 

Principals and Lead Teachers Meeting Thursday 20 September - 9.30 - 3

Order your lunch here by Tuesday 18 September

Welcome

Present: Barbara, Bernard, Amanda, Jan, Wendy, Karen, Darin, Tim, Nigel, David,

Apologies: Leonie, Dellwynne, Kirsty, Andy, Nga, Delwyn, Catriona,

9.45 - Student Report - Pirongia

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Photo competition - Winners

Next meeting Thursday 25 October, 9.30 - 3 (Piri Piri, Ngutunui, OPS< Hauturu)

Smackdown - Share your best tool that you use. (eg Dropbox that Leonie shared). Please fill in the form. You have 2 Mins to explain how you use it. View responses here

** Everyone is invited to participate and contribute as Smackdown is a smorgasbord aimed at alerting everyone to some of the huge range of resources and ideas in a short space of time. **
Learning without Limits Seminar and RBI update - Nigel Looking at providers Voyager 100mb

Lightwire - 50cents per child per month $150 minimum - no data cap $199 connection fee Call plus $280 per month

Educamp The Tron - Barbara

PMI - Auckland Trip http://kingcountrycoast.wikispaces.com/School+Visit+2012

Support page

Learning Spaces Flexible Learning Spaces

"We shape our buildings and afterwards our buildings shape us." Churchill ==Rethinking spaces to learn & work ==

elearning classroom walkthrough 2012

Teaching ia about being a lifelong learner

Milestone 6 - School Contributions to the VLN / Milestone 6 Due to Barbara 9 November Principal Contributions to the milestone- Reflections Key Lessons over 3 years ~ Digital Citizenship ~ Principals as leaders of learning ~ Creating exciting teaching environments ~ connecting with family / whanau

** Sustainability - Sustaining the cluster **
Brainstorm ideas How can we maintain the networks?

~ prioritise and plan for ~ ensure ICT is still a focus ~ meetings once a term / school visits ~ visit each others schools ~ meet early in Term 1 and plan the year ~ First visit Kaipaki Thursday 28 Feb 9.30 ~ Agenda on google docs to plan ~ consider budgets for lead teachers

Lunch boxes in schools

Tech time ~ make a 2 minute video explaining something we need to know eg how to change a tyre, how to make a cup of coffee, how to structure a narrative, a maths concept, how to embed a you tube movie on a blog. How to make a 'turn the pages book' and embed on your website / blog