Mini+Conference+2011

This conference is all about sharing our e-learning enthusiasm and skills throughout our cluster of eight schools. The aim of the day is to actively promote communication and collaboration between our schools. Thank you to Central Normal School for agreeing to host the Mini Conference and thank you to all of you who have set aside the time to attend. media type="youtube" key="xtdiDVvZu4o?rel=0" height="468" width="576" align="center"
 * Welcome to the Town & Country ICTPD Cluster Mini Conference**

** Here is a timetable of the day: **
 * 8:15 || Registration - Tea & Coffee - Collect your name tag and set your computer to the wireless ||
 * 9:00 || Welcome/Admin ||
 * 9:15 || Opening Keynote - Suzie Vesper - CORE Education, "Confident and connected - an educational perspective on being part of an online world" (50-60 mins) ||
 * 10:15 || Showcase - videos from Ben & Janice ||
 * 10:30 || Morning Tea ||
 * 11:00 || Workshop A (45-50 mins including plenty of 'play time') ||
 * 12:00 || Workshop B (45-50 mins including plenty of 'play time') ||
 * 13:00 || Lunch (45 mins) ||
 * <span style="color: #ff0300; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">13:45 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Second Keynote - Sean Lyons - Netsafe, " From Cybersafety to Digital Citizenship: A Changing Landscape<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">" (50 mins) ||
 * <span style="color: #002fff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">14:45 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Meet your buddy: ||
 * || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">1. Swap email addresses ||
 * || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">2. Discuss one ICT application which is enhancing your children's learning in a core area already ||
 * || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">3. One thing you will take away from today ||
 * || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">4. How and when you will next communicate, Wednesday 10 August, at one school or the other for 1 hour ||
 * || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">5. What you need to do to enable your classes to collaborate ||
 * <span style="color: #ff0300; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">15:15 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Closing message, photo showcase, general thanks ||

**Workshop A and B for the Mini Conference:** Here is an overview of the workshops you will have to choose from. Please note that some of the workshops appear in both slot A & B to give you the chance if you some flexibility in choosing the workshops that will best suit you. To book your workshops please scroll down to the instructions in red below the overview: Access Digistore and find appropriate resources to support your classroom programme. Learn about learning paths which provide access to the activities for students without them needing to log on. The presentation used during the workshop can be [|found here]. There is a downloadable set of written instructions [|available here]. || <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">LGP stands for Learn: Guide: Protect: It is a frame-work that supports schools in creating a culture of responsible, safe use of digital technologies. LGP promotes a student-centered approach to teaching and learning about cybersafety and digital citizenship across the curriculum. <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">Learn: Guide: Protect: (LGP) has three components or layers: <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">This site, www.mylgp.org.nz, acts as a central hub of content, suggestions and ideas for building an effective school based digital citizenship education programme. <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">This session will show you around myLGP, and look at the concept of a 7 step programme to start building an effective digital citizenship focussed cybersafety programme in your school || 12 || Sean Lyons - "Digital Citizenship", Netsafe: My LGP websiteLGP stands for Learn: Guide: Protect: It is a frame-work that supports schools in creating a culture of responsible, safe use of digital technologies. LGP promotes a student-centered approach to teaching and learning about cybersafety and digital citizenship across the curriculum.Learn: Guide: Protect: (LGP) has three components or layers: This site, www.mylgp.org.nz, acts as a central hub of content, suggestions and ideas for building an effective school based digital citizenship education programme. This session will show you around myLGP, and look at the concept of a 7 step programme to start building an effective digital citizenship focussed cybersafety programme in your school || http://edu-apps-4-ipodandipad.wikispaces.com/ || 15 || Animation: Practical tools & Web 2.0 (Ben) http://animate-your-class.wikispaces.com/ || In this workshop we will examine how, and which, ICT's can support your Maths teaching time. We will also explore websites that support maths learning at home ||
 * Workshop || 11:00-11:45 || Workshop || 12:00-12:45 ||
 * 1 || Suzie Vesper - TKI Digistore website - Access Digistore and find appropriate resources to support your classroom programme. Learn about learning paths which provide access to the activities for students without them needing to log on. The presentation used during the workshop can be [|found here]. There is a downloadable set of written instructions [|available here]. || 11 || Suzie Vesper - TKI Digistore website -
 * 2 || Sean Lyons - "Digital Citizenship", Netsafe: My LGP website.
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">The skills students learn to keep themselves safe.
 * 2) <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">The guidance they need from educators to learn how to manage challenges.
 * 3) <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">The protective mechanisms schools can use to improve their immediate safety.
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">The skills students learn to keep themselves safe.
 * 2) <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">The guidance they need from educators to learn how to manage challenges.
 * 3) <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">The protective mechanisms schools can use to improve their immediate safety.
 * 3 || Class Wikis (Michael & Janice) - Sharing some examples of active wikis and setting up a class wiki with student guidelines. Personalising your wiki with links, adding bling and providing your class with access (bring a class list). || 13 || Class Wikis (Michael & Janice) ||
 * 4 || Class Blogs for beginners (Raina & Shona): setting up a blog, adding pictures, changing design, embedding links || 14 || Class Blogs for beginners (Raina & Shona): setting up a blog, adding pictures, changing design, embedding links ||
 * 5 || Mobile Devices: iPads & iPods Literacy/Numeracy (Ben)
 * 6 || Junior ICT literacy rotation ideas (Kathy & Melissa) Some examples of ICT activities we use as part of our normal reading rotations. Including Spelling City, Studyladder, School Journal Listening Post to name a few - and how we make them easily accessible for our children to use independently. [] || 16 || Junior ICT literacy rotation ideas (Kathy & Melissa) ||
 * 7 || Senior ICT numeracy rotation ideas (Trevor) In this workshop we will examine how, and which, ICT's can support your Maths teaching time. We will also explore websites that support maths learning at home || 17 || Junior ICT numeracy rotation ideas (Trevor)
 * 8 || __**Introduction to Google Docs (Martin & Mel)**__

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Google Docs allow collaboration on shared documents simultaneously from anywhere in the world! There are endless classroom uses from shared writing as part of your literacy rotation to collaboration with another school. You can even use them for shared planning too. Or use "Forms" to make quizzes, surveys or log events. This introduction will provide examples of how we are currently using this resource.======

NOTE: Participants will get more from this workshop if they already have a google account (follow the link to sign up if needed
[]) If you have gmail already you do not need to sign up for a google account. || 18 || __**Introduction to Studyladder & Spelling City**__ (Martin & Mel) <span style="border-collapse: separate; color: #333333; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 13px Helvetica,Verdana,sand-serif; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; webkitborderhorizontalspacing: 0px; webkitborderverticalspacing: 0px; webkittextdecorationsineffect: none; webkittextsizeadjust: auto; webkittextstrokewidth: 0px; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Easy to use, and suitable for all levels, Studyladder can support your Maths and Literacy programmes with games and activities that motivate learning. It is logically organised and easy for teachers to set tasks and monitor progress. Studyladder also includes activities in other areas of the curriculum...and it's free! ||
 * 9 || Maori language ideas (Ronald & Alana)

http://www.toondoo.com http://www.artisancam.org.uk http://www.writingfun.com http://storybird.com/ || 19 || __**Motivating children as writers (Ronald & Alana)**__ We will explore some of the tools used in classrooms to help inspire and motivate children to be successful writers. A look at publishing sites "Toondoo, Artisan, and Storybird" Be prepared to collaborate and create! || An overview of some of the basic Web 2.0 building blocks for blogs including popular tools for creating and embedding photos, audio, video and documents, with an opportunity to experiment, ask questions and solve problems. These will include, but are not limited to:
 * 10 || Web 2.0 tools for blogs (Nick): voice thread, webdocs, etc.
 * flickr
 * scribd
 * slideshare
 * vociethread
 * vimeo
 * youtube

LiveBinder for Session: http://livebinders.com/play/present?id=138786 || 20 || Web 2.0 tools for blogs (Nick): voice thread, webdocs, etc. An overview of some of the basic Web 2.0 building blocks for blogs including popular tools for creating and embedding photos, audio, video and documents, with an opportunity to experiment, ask questions and solve problems. These will include, but are not limited to:
 * flickr
 * scribd
 * slideshare
 * vociethread
 * vimeo
 * youtube

LiveBinder for Session: http://livebinders.com/play/present?id=138786 ||

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