Using ICT in the classroom

Using Facetime in the classroom

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

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.