Thursday, 26 September 2013
Tuesday, 24 September 2013
TTS breakfast meeting
*Spoke about Chrome books and the new Microsoft tablet (name??).
*Discussion about barriers that teachers put up against e-learning and how to bring them down.
What next...
*Suzanne is going to order a trial Chrome book to see how it goes.
*Need to get e-learning back up and running in the school - but how to bring it in...
*Set up ICT expectations, ie by Year 3 students should be able to... use Word with confidence, etc
*Discussion about barriers that teachers put up against e-learning and how to bring them down.
What next...
*Suzanne is going to order a trial Chrome book to see how it goes.
*Need to get e-learning back up and running in the school - but how to bring it in...
*Set up ICT expectations, ie by Year 3 students should be able to... use Word with confidence, etc
Thursday, 19 September 2013
Google Apps PLD
Notes from the day
Follow up:
Spoke to Suzanne about Chromebooks. She is going to order one for me to trial. Suzanne is going to set up a visit to Pakaranga Heights School, a teacher there is using Chromebooks and Google Apps.
Need to set up lessons for how to use Google Docs and Presentations particularly for the kids to follow once we have Google Apps up and running.
Follow up:
Spoke to Suzanne about Chromebooks. She is going to order one for me to trial. Suzanne is going to set up a visit to Pakaranga Heights School, a teacher there is using Chromebooks and Google Apps.
Need to set up lessons for how to use Google Docs and Presentations particularly for the kids to follow once we have Google Apps up and running.
Tuesday, 6 August 2013
ALiM Impact Day
Day of sharing and discussing how our ALiM groups achieved the goals we set for them. We started off with each ALiM teacher sharing a 15 presentation about their groups and answered questions. It was interesting to hear the similarities between each group, as well as the differences in the way each teacher approached the group's learning.
After lunch we had a short presentation about becoming an MST teacher next year, what would be involved and what funding would be available for the school.
Link to presentation slideshow
After lunch we had a short presentation about becoming an MST teacher next year, what would be involved and what funding would be available for the school.
Link to presentation slideshow
Monday, 27 May 2013
GAFE mini-conference
Google Apps for Education Day
Saturday 18 May 2013 @Bucklands Beach Intermediate School
Links to notes from the day
Key note speaker Adam from Google
Workshop 1: 10 tips for Google Apps
Workshop 2: How schols are using Google Apps in the classroom
Workshop 3: How Point England are using Google Apps (management)
Workshop 4: Using Teacher dashboard
Reflection of the day:
*Very motivating.
*Interesting to hear from someone from Google, the company's point of view, where they envisage schools going with Google Apps, how "approachable" they are; ie giving out email address, Russell Burt talking about how they worked with Google to create Teacher Dashboard.
*Was very interesting seeing how other teachers and schools are utilising Google Apps in the classroom. The use of Google sites to create e-portfolios for each child, classroom sites etc. The sites are used similarly to wikis.
*Are the Google sites available only through GAFE?
*Would like to develop a small group of children (Kaleb, Quinn, Luana-Nan, Robin,...) who could use Google Apps - particularly Google Docs and Presentations. I'd like to try them on a collaborative presentation - could be during reading time? Novel study? Roald Dahl?
*With more students being able to access internet at home through tablets and smart phones, it would be a good way to develop some home-school partnerships, sharing their work with whānau.
I think that the middle and senior school would benefit from using Google Apps, however we would have to look at investing in more ICT so that it would be more readily available to the students.
Saturday 18 May 2013 @Bucklands Beach Intermediate School
Links to notes from the day
Key note speaker Adam from Google
Workshop 1: 10 tips for Google Apps
Workshop 2: How schols are using Google Apps in the classroom
Workshop 3: How Point England are using Google Apps (management)
Workshop 4: Using Teacher dashboard
Reflection of the day:
*Very motivating.
*Interesting to hear from someone from Google, the company's point of view, where they envisage schools going with Google Apps, how "approachable" they are; ie giving out email address, Russell Burt talking about how they worked with Google to create Teacher Dashboard.
*Was very interesting seeing how other teachers and schools are utilising Google Apps in the classroom. The use of Google sites to create e-portfolios for each child, classroom sites etc. The sites are used similarly to wikis.
*Are the Google sites available only through GAFE?
*Would like to develop a small group of children (Kaleb, Quinn, Luana-Nan, Robin,...) who could use Google Apps - particularly Google Docs and Presentations. I'd like to try them on a collaborative presentation - could be during reading time? Novel study? Roald Dahl?
*With more students being able to access internet at home through tablets and smart phones, it would be a good way to develop some home-school partnerships, sharing their work with whānau.
I think that the middle and senior school would benefit from using Google Apps, however we would have to look at investing in more ICT so that it would be more readily available to the students.
Friday, 15 March 2013
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