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October 2010

 * Comments/Reflections from ULearn10 participants: **



**LT Day Term 3, 19 August 2010**

Comments/Reflections on a visit to Summerland School:
How has this school visit modified or challenged your thinking? What impressed you? What new ideas could you incorporate? What are your next steps as a Lead Teacher in your school? media type="custom" key="6773535" media type="custom" key="6759227" =Pakiri School = I was really impressed with Summerland School. I was particulary impressed to see a teacher using laptops to teach stategy. Not just as a supporting activity. I want to be able to incorporate this into my teaching. It motivated me to persue the new technology we are planning to buy in our school. I think mostly, it encouraged me and made me a little more passionate, not just about ICT, but about teaching outside the box. Another aspect of the trip I really needed, was the interaction with all of you, my ICT lead teacher pals. You are a very inclusive and encouraging group.

THANK YOU!
Linzi Gummer <span style="color: #3f3cc3; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">﻿Tuoahoa School <span style="color: #3f3cc3; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I enjoyed the visit to Summerland School. The atmsphere in the schol was wonderful, children and staff were motivated and the school had a great feel to it. I esecially like the wall displays and aim to use many of the ideas I saw here in my own classroom. The art displays were impressive, and I particulaly liked some of the math strategy displays. <span style="color: #3f3cc3; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The way ICT was integrated into the classroom practice was evident, I could see they were using a large ariety of tools. The chidren were confident and knew what they were doing and why. I particularly liked the use of laptops to explore math strategies (using digi store) as part of the teaching group. <span style="color: #3f3cc3; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">As lead teacher I aim to continue to support our school to learn about ICT opportunites and how they can use the equipment we have to mazximise student achievement. I realised that over the last 3 years Tauhoa School has purchased alot of equipment and skills needed to make this happen. <span style="color: #3f3cc3; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">

<span style="color: #3f3cc3; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Matakana School <span style="color: #3f3cc3; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">First of all... Tina what a wonderful presentation! <span style="color: #3f3cc3; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The most impressive part of our visit to Summerland School was to see the learning environments! The children were so involved in their learning and everything I saw on the walls was meaningful. The children's work reflected the thinking tools I saw displayed and the children were able to discuss their learning with confidence My favourite converstation was with a tiny year one girl who explained how she could use yellow hat thinking to respond to the book she was reading. I enjoyed visiting all the different pods as they reflected the children and teachers working in them and all appeared quite different to each other. <span style="color: #3f3cc3; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Tina has included photos and a decsription of the thinking hat books used in Erin Buchannan's classroom. We have already begun to use them in our classroom and they are so popular that I had to make a second set immediately by sending a child to the office to get 5 more books and writing RED, YELLOW etc across the front in vivid!!!! The work inside is just so exciting. SO a huge thank you to Erin for talking to me all through morning tea and generously sharing her delightful book covers with us. <span style="color: #3f3cc3; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">So where to now... we are working with our thinking hats firmly placed on our heads and looking forward to sharing our thinking with anyone who would like to come and hear about it! I think that, as always, this visit reminds me that seeing a thinking tool or ICT tool used in a meaningful way is exciting and motivating and that is what I should aim to model as a lead teacher.

The visit to Summerland was very motivating. The school atmosphere was great with friendly and welcoming staff and principal. The outlay of the school with its multileveled pods and shared teaching spaces was obviously successful. I did envy the teachers separate withdrawal rooms and working spaces. It was also nice to see that they were real working spaces, full of resources and evidence of work happening and not necessarily neat as a pin.

What impressed me most in terms of ICT was how well ICT is integrated in each class programme. The students were obviously used to using ICT in a huge variety of ways. What also stood out was the number of desk top and lap tops the students had access to in every class.

I thought the independent timetables were really interesting and it may be something I would like to trial. One class was using the digital learning tools in mathematics which reminded me to find our password and make use of it.

Next steps as a Lead teacher will be to look at our ICT plan, find out what has been accomplished and where we need to move to. The staff members all agree that the local conference has been worthwhile and that it would be good to continue this after the end of the cluster contract.

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Mangawhai Beach School Some of the subjects we came away challenged and thinking about were some of the funding issues that were discussed on the day. It has provoked us to consider how we fund ICT within our school and if there are changes we can make. There were some examples of successful strategies for homework programmes and self directed timetabling for students that gave encouragement and support for what some teachers at our school are already experimenting with.

We came away impressed by the wonderful class environments and displays that we saw in every classroom of Summerlands school. The students learning environments were supported with wonderful displays and rich engaging environments which we all know takes a huge effort to establish & maintain. We were also impressed with the integration of ICT into the students learning and the self management of the students at all levels of the school.

It was encouraging to realise that alot of what impressed us at Summerlands School we already see happening in pockets of our own school and that we are definately moving in a positive direction with our ICT journey. Hopefully this will encourage more of our staff to incorporate some of these tools & styles of learning into their own classrooms.

The next step as lead teachers in our school is to continue to model, introduce and encourage the sharing of ideas and uses of ICT from within our own school and amongst the cluster to continue this growth we have seen develop on the cluster. //Cara Shields & Natalie Epsom//

Kiawaka School I also enjoyed my day at Summerland School. I enjoyed the way the teachers were happy to share thier thinking, celebrations and challenges. I liked seeing ICT being used in the classrooms naturally, as normal as a book or maths materials. The children were on task even with so much going on and could communicate their learning with me. I think this clearly shows how ICT can promot learning with the children being motivated and working at their level. I really like seeing the independent timetables at work and would like to introduce them into my classroom. Seeing inspiration being used as a tool for starting topic and in reading activities has made me ring up to order it for my school after discussing it with staff and my principal, of course! As a lead teacher I need to ensure i not only supply the staff with the ICT equipment needed but to keep upskilling them in web 2 tools and well as hard wear purchased. This will keep their motivation going aswell skill level. Visiting Summerland School motivated me and showed me clearly what we could aim for.

<span style="color: #000080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Ahuroa School <span style="color: #000080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I really enjoyed my day out at Summerland School. The classrooms were small, busy but organised with a great deal of wall displays, made my classroom look rather drab. <span style="color: #000080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I was particularly impressed with their whanau groupings of the classrooms and the wonderful assortment of furniture, I know that this may not seem so much ICT but I do believe that it is indicative to the mobile learning, and children making choices about the way they learn. I loved seeing their version of the independent timetables, it was very self gratifying to be able to say - We're doing that! Great! I believe that it's really important for us all to pat ourselves on the back sometimes and believe that we are going ahead, we are not always following, in fact sometimes we are leaders! <span style="color: #000080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">So where to now for my class - the independent timetables are up and running really well, with the students making choices about when they do their independent learning. I would like to see the students making choices now about the ICT tools they use, understanding and making decisions based on which tool is the best to complete certain activities. I also plan to introduce weekly time for them to reflect on their learning for the week, what went well, what they could change to improve aspects of their week. <span style="color: #000080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Jessica Leigh School

Great Day visiting Summerland School. Bright, cheerful, active and fired up. Loved the busy, working classroom environments. Fantastic modern environments with furniture, space and dynamics well thought out to incorporate intergrated I.C.T and inquiry learning. Art displays were particularly stunning. I loved the way teachers were able to incorporate their individual teaching styles and strengths as well as work and plan co-operatively with their whanau style groups, which were multi leveled, GREAT!

So where to now for my own class - intergration of I.C.T into every aspect of the classroom program is going well, children are able to select programs and web tools to develope their learning and presentation of findings and ideas. Creating classroom experts for our class and across the school works well (especially to help the teacher remember skills!). Independent timetables going well, I would like to exdtend this to where the children are making more decisions about independent and collaborative learning and reflection, perhaps using I.C.T to extend and collate their pathway.

Sandy

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Tauhoa School This term we used Word to explore geometry, in particular tessellation. The students needed to use the basic shapes tools as they exlored shapes that will tessellate, rotating, sliding, grouping shapes toether. We used fill effects to make the patterns to make a interesting whole page design. We then placed another shape onto this which we inserted a photo from a recent schol trip. Next we used the callout shapes to add speech bubbles and a comment reflecting on our school trip. The children really enjoyed this and many children from other classrooms have asked them how they did it, also many children have gone home and had another go.

Ahuroa School Here is our senior reading ICT animation project. Started of with simple puppet making and morphed! The students had to really explore which software was going to be best to use and tried out all sorts of things. In the end we found Frame by Frame and found this to be excellent. A number of children in the class have gone home from this and had a go on their own too! [|Frame by Frame]

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Kaiwaka School Here is a copy of our revised ICT Strategic Plan for 2010

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Here are a couple of movies- our first attempt at movie making!

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Kaipara Flats I am excited by the potential of Kid Pix. It is such a versatile tool. There are examples of ways we have used it in my Y1&2 class on our blog. [|http://room2kaiparaflats.blogspot.com] The main idea I passed on at the LT day was how useful Kid Pix is for generating your own images. I am mindful of respecting copyright. While we use google to search for images, we publish our own photos, or our own pictures created on Kid Pix. To be able to upload pictures from Kid Pix, you just have to export them as a jpeg. This is very easy and I have been teaching the children to do this. Here is a screenshot: I hope this is useful for others. Tina Donnell, LT at Kaipara Flats School

<span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Matakana School Term 2 2010: <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">We are working this term on a school wide Wiki page as part of a study on Wastewise. I consists of resource pages for each level and class pages for everyone to share what is happening in their room. It is a work in progress but there are some great things happening on it! <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">From Dominique and Claire http://matakanawastewise.wikispaces.com <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Planning Document to introduce and support staff in the School Waste Wise Wiki development :

Mangawhai Beach School

My year 3 class shared their learning about 'feelings' through Keynote. The skills they learned were searching images, dragging and dropping, insert text box, manipulate font, slide transitions, effects, creating an imovie, sharing, publishing, naming folders, adding music, using youtube responsibly, creating hyperlinks to the web, presenting a slide show. I will add an example when I have a completed project. We are currently doing the same thing with our new topic "Conflict & Resolution". Try it, it's a great way to see and assess kids learning. Natalie

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The voicethread below gives you the opportunity to record specific examples of transformational changes in student learning that you have observed in your classrooms when ICT has been integrated.

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<span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">LT day Term 2, 4th June 2009
The following video has Lead Teachers reflecting on the impact ICT has had in their classrooms and schools. More detailed comments and highlights have been added below.

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<span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Please add your e-learning highlight or useful idea here.
Here is a Mind Meister Map to collate VoiceThread ideas we could use in the Cluster. Sue

media type="custom" key="3940715" Hi everyone, Annette here at Tauhoa School. This year has seen every class making a big effort to integrate ICT in everyday learning. This has been through a combination of online activities like web-quests, game websites to enhance classroom learning, U-Tube, Google earth etc. And using of line programmes like photo story, pivot and movie maker kid pix and inspiration. We have been lucky enough to buy new equipment such easispeak recorder, extra video camera for junior school, new software and licences. This has resulted in our children being excited about daily classroom programmes and becoming more computer literate and applying their learning to new software programmes. Many children are now going home and revisiting the online activities and sharing their success with their families. All teachers are now thinking about what ICT to use in the planning stages. As lead teacher I try to suggest possible activates and sites to suit units of work and make myself available to staff when they request it. We also make sure that all our equipment is working and have our technician in as often as needed. For the rest of the year we are really waiting for the school building to be completed and then our focus will be on using Web.2 tools. Annette

9/6/09 The Impact of ICT on Kaiwaka School As a school we have become much more aware of ICT as a tool for learning. We have an increased desire to trial and use different aspects such as photostory, blogs, moviemaker, and / or TKI to aid planning etc. A lot of these web2 tools have been introduced to us during PD. We have questioned and researched how it fits within our pedagogy of learning and have found that it has become an essential part of our teaching, planning, and everyday classroom life. (This has been an impact of the conferences attended as PD.) The children demand it of us and keep us on our toes quickly learning and using the resources we make available. While learning to use ICT can be time consuming, especially because they more we learn exists the more there is to learn, it seems to pay off in results. It can however contain a level of frustration if things stop working and we need to wait for an expert to get things running again. As each teacher enters the PD modules they seem to go through a process of being worried about what they don’t know, being excited about what’s out there, using it as part of their classroom and finally continuing their growth in what interested them personally. PD plays a significant part in the change of attitudes and ability to use ICT. Cheers, Sharlene Tornquist
 * 07/06/09 - Hi Cara here from Mangawhai Beach School, finally updating what Room 7 (yr 4 & 5) have been up to this year with our ICT.**
 * We are very lucky to have recieved new ICT equipment in our room this year. We now have a class digital camera, our (original) 2 PCs, with an NComputing Xtenda unit running from one of them giving us 3 more computers. We also have 5 laptops permanantly in our classroom (we share a cow of 10 laptops with our neighbouring class so when necessary we can use all 10 laptops if we beg Mr Coker), and we also have a large screen monitor which we use for modelling, viewing things together, displaying task boards etc... We have been using many ICT tools in our program in most areas of our learning.**

We also use an online reading strategies website to complete activities [] We now use another great maths site to practice both basic facts and concepts [] This sight allows me to set up quizes for my students to complete and then provides me with reports of students results (sorry so long... :)
 * In our reading program we use a blog page for reflecting and commenting on a shared book we are reading as a class. Each reading group uses a reading tumble session to participate. []
 * In our maths class we have been using Tutpup ([]) now for 2 years however this year it has been a real headache to get all our students signed up as the combinations of colours & animals required to sign up are few & far between. I have contacted the website organisers about this and the reply said they were trying to solve the problem but we are yet to see any solutions.
 * We are currently studying architecture and the use of sustainable building materials so of course we have been using the web to research and using interactive web activitis but we are also about to begin using Google Sketch Up ([]), a free downloadable program that allows you to create 3D models.
 * We have been creating photostories about camp, another free downloadable program([])
 * And finally (I think) we have been keeping a blog page going which has involved reporters of the week taking photos and reporting on the week that was, and also some other posts have required the students to comment on things happening at the time. []
 * We also have a wiki page but that has not been up kept so nothing to see there at the mo. We'll try to get this up and running soon. http://mbsroom7.wikispaces.com/

Hi everyone, Chris here from Ahuroa. At Ahuroa room 1, the senior room, are now well in to using their new Apple laptops that were a late present from The Christmas Father! Well done Jessica for working hard to timetable quality use of these machines. The spin off for room 3 has been that some of my children who arrive at school before 8 am or who are in after school care are spending time finding their way around various websites and discovering new things that they can do and find with a computer. This has certainly boosted computer literacy in my room. Another spin off has been that I also have a growing group of older girls who are using my room on a morning before school and at break times to use our computers. Because I limit what sites they can use they are either doing research for school work, personal interests or 'playing' maths games, but they are doing this with some of my children sitting besides them so I am getting some good peer to peer tutoring. In class we have continued to use the interactive whiteboard for heaps of activities. In the past few weeks we used the board to make a treasure island map and to help us to make labels for fish body parts. Some children have found how make the board recognise handwritten text and can also use the re-size and move functions, they love spinning words around and making them get bigger and smaller! That's all folks!

==<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Here's a link to my wiki. It's my scrap book collection of e resources and learning. Also a link to the wiki I have made for the children in my class. I'm still experimenting! ==

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==This term our class have been participating in the DARE programme which is about making good choices about the use of drugs(including smoking) and alcohol. One of the activities we have done involved creating a smoke free message as a rap or chant/ videoing it and posting it to You Tube. The aim is to get 1000 hits. Below are the links. Please check them out. There have been some teaching points since the postings- how could we have improved the presentation? The second group refined there's by including titles etc. The first group just wanted to get it on! There are still some groups waiting their turn for the camera. This activity has required a lot of different skills and key competencies. Brendda== [] [] Hi from Kaipara Flats, We can report the following as recent highlights in our ICT learning journey: the class blogs - as a record of the learning journey, in inquiry, reading, writing and the key competencies fun4thebrain peep and the big wide world bitesize literacy and numeracy DLO's and the nzmaths website digital microscope and using Quick Time Pro to export it and put on the blog making portfolio covers using Kid Pix - a child's comment "It's much better making your own portfolio. At our last school we didn't get to do that. We just bought them." weekly group writing on the blog other people's blogs - moturoa twitter for future exploration:- delicious account to enable children to link to suitable websites from any computer National Geographic lesson plans from website - design a creature adaptations unit Debbie Longville http://www.nationalgeographic .com/expeditions/lessons/17/g35/smcreatecreature.html delicious - saves chn from searching for appropriate websites movies Room 1 Jump Jam and art You Tube and google to enrich news time (This is just a snapshot really.) Tina