Lead+Teacher+Meeting+27+June+2011


 * Lead Teacher Meeting - 27 June 2011 - Central Normal School - 9:00-3:30**

Attended by Michael, Janice, Kathy, Martin, Trevor, Ben, Shona, Melissa, Ronald and Raina. Apologies from Mel


 * 1. Welcome** - thank you to Central Normal for agreeing to host us today - a reminder that lunch is BYO


 * 2. Cluster Mini Conference**

Draft timetable of the day:
 * 8:15 || Registration - Tea & Coffee - Name Tag: Name, School, Year Level, Buddy Teacher & School ||
 * 9:00 || Welcome/Admin ||
 * 9:15 || Opening Keynote - Suzie Vesper (50-60 mins) ||
 * 10:15 || Showcase - videos from Ben & Janice ||
 * 10:30 || Morning Tea ||
 * 11:00 || Workshop 1 (45-50 mins including plenty of 'play time') ||
 * 12:00 || Workshop 2 (45-50 mins including plenty of 'play time') ||
 * 13:00 || Lunch (45 mins) ||
 * 13:45 || Second Keynote - Sean Lyons - Netsafe, "Digital Citizenship" (50 mins) ||
 * 14:45 || Meet your buddy: ||
 * || 1. Swap email addresses, ||
 * || 2. Discuss one ICT application which is enhancing your children's learning in a core area already, ||
 * || 3. One thing you will take away from today, ||
 * || 4. How and when you will next communicate, Wednesday 10 August. Where? 1 hour. ||
 * || 5. What you need to do to enable your classes to collaborate. ||
 * 15:15 || Closing message, photo showcase, general thanks ||


 * 3. Workshops for Cluster Mini Conference**

Results from the poll: (thanks Mel) 1. Digital reading - ebooks 2. Just time to play and chat 3. Beginners skills for wikis and blogs 4. Maori language for senior primary children (reading, writing). 5. Ideas for new entrants and classes with very limited ICT equipment 6. ICT use for children in Junior rooms day to day use work children can do with little teacher direction 7. A Workshop taken by junior teachers - ideas for easy to use ICT programs/ how to make the most of kidspix with juniors. 8. ICT for junior classes ICT for special needs students FUN and interactive ideas 9. Workshops that relate specifically to junior classes and how to get underway with I.C.T. in a N.E class 10. Google Docs

Bearing in mind what teachers are asking for, it is our job to determine what workshops provide good "hands on" learning opportunities for those attending.

Ideas that we have for what we would like to share with teachers and how the workshop might be structured.

Mini Conference Workshops:
 * Workshop || 11:00-11:45 || Workshop || 12:00-12:45 ||
 * 1 || Suzie Vesper - TKI Digistore website || 11 || Suzie Vesper - TKI Digistore website ||
 * 2 || Sean Lyons - "Digital Citizenship", Netsafe: My LGP website || 12 || Sean Lyons - "Digital Citizenship", Netsafe: My LGP website ||
 * 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) || 15 || Animation: Practical tools & Web 2.0 (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, Journalsurf listening post to name a few - and how to make them easily accessible for children to use independently. || 16 || Junior ICT literacy rotation ideas (Kathy & Melissa) ||
 * 7 || Senior ICT numeracy rotation ideas (Trevor) || 17 || Junior ICT numeracy rotation ideas (Trevor) ||
 * 8 || Introduction to Google Docs (Martin & Mel) || 18 || Introduction to Studyladder & Spelling City (Martin & Mel) ||
 * 9 || Maori language ideas (Ronald & Alana) || 19 || Motivating children as writers (Ronald & Alana) ||
 * 10 || Web 2.0 tools for blogs (Nick): voice thread, webdocs, etc. || 20 || Web 2.0 tools for blogs (Nick): voice thread, webdocs, etc. ||


 * 4. Tour of Central Normal School - look around the classrooms - look at potential areas for delivering workshops**


 * 5. Buddy Teachers/Classes for Term 3-4**
 * How can we support and encourage our teachers as they create collaborative partnerships with their buddy teacher/class?
 * Have an after-school visit between buddy teachers in week 2 of term 3. Wednesday 10 August - Buddies to decide which school to meet at - instead of school PD.
 * Tools that could be used for communicate: Skype, Wiki/Blog
 * Buddy Teachers page on cluster wiki - teachers to discuss progress using Discussion tab


 * 6. Student Workshop for Term 3?**
 * Students from each school to attend a workshop?
 * What? Animation
 * Where? Hokowhitu School
 * When? Tuesday 16 & 23 August from 9:00-2:30 pm
 * Why? Children across the cluster collaborate and learn skills to take back to their school
 * Who? Ben & Michael & 2 year 4-5 kids from each cluster school


 * 7. Next steps (quoted from VLN Reflection for Milestone 3):**

**What are our next steps?**

**Principals will model online collaborative practices on the cluster wiki by posting links that may be of interest to** **other principals, by commenting on previous posts made by others and by encouraging staff to access both the** **cluster wiki and share their own blogs and wikis during meetings.**

**Teachers will continue to use blogs, wikis or LMS as part of their integral class practice. Digital Citizenship will be a** **big focus at the Cluster Conference to be run in the July School Holidays. Teachers will use this message to** **continue to teach positive digital citizenship practices to their students. Teachers will be introduced to a buddy** **teacher at the Cluster Conference who they will make contact with in order to share ideas about digital learning and** **about setting up buddy classes.**

**Students will be introduced to their buddy class via their teacher and will be able to communicate digitally with them** **in order to establish a collaborative project. A selection of students from each school will be invited to join a** **workshop to learn a new ICT skill that they will take back to their own school.**

**The community will continue to benefit from the greater level of online presence of the schools. They will be invited** **to attend a school-led presentation or workshop about digital citizenship and their school's focus on the benefits of** **creating class blogs, wikis and LMS.**


 * 8. Lead Teacher's ideas:** See the Lead Teacher Voice page.