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What has been going well?

 * Inquiry Learning – Staff to develop a School Inquiry Model
 * Beginning to integrate technology authentically into the programme
 * Class blogs (once a week) – Children trained up to share with other classes – the power of using the older kids – younger children can express ideas orally – purpose: home/school partnership – ultimately it will be taken over by the children – staff being encouraged to keep adding to the virtual environment
 * Typing Tournament – a positive way of introducing children to typing skills
 * Flat screen televisions being used in classes (some more than others) – great for spontaneous questions, Inquiry, Current Events, etc.
 * ‘Maths Week’ website (Mathletics – free for 2 weeks then Spelling Week)
 * Computers taken out of the computer suite and put into the classrooms – encourages integration of ICT into class programme
 * Websites to support Numeracy and Literacy – this year Inquiry will give children an authentic context for using Web 2.0 Tools


 * School-wide blog has taken over the school website (Goal 4 communicating with Whanau) – Lead teacher has a class blog – this year other teachers will set up a blog
 * Teachers have been using Comic Life in the classroom
 * School filmed a video – using iMovie to make clips of what they have been doing in the school


 * Computer Suite – no computers in the classrooms other than teacher laptop – projector now set up for demonstrating
 * Ultra-net – a good way of sharing resources and promoting the school – no remote server needed
 * Wireless generally works well
 * In the past few years the school has had a major upgrade of hardware, including a computer suite, Speak-Easi Microphones, BotBot Robot, Speaking photo album, Vado Camera (video and still), USB Microscope and Active Boards in each classrooms – this year will be maintenance of hardware and back-up (external hard drive)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Innes booked in for 6 days this term – teacher time, group time, class time


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Teachers working on lots of applications and with various technologies; videoing, photographer of the day, etc.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">TV screen/Projector in each classroom
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Computer suite taken apart and computers in rooms, having a variety of computers is a positive (netbooks, n computing, desktops)


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Blogs are a really POSITIVE – the kids and the community love it! The parents feel like they are a part of what is going on – parents comment on kids work – interactive – teacher’s post twice a week on average
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">A high percentage of internet access at home
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Use of data projectors in the classrooms – youtube video, teacher tool, whole class learning – demonstrating how to..
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Use of digital cameras (one per room) – “photographer of the week” – 2 blog reporters of the week about what we have been doing in class (journalism during writing time)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Used Mathletics in 2010 – using tutpup this year for free – making use of free Web 2.0 tools
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Skyping – last year skyped a local school and a school in the South Island – also, skyping between classes
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Purchased infrastructure last year – server, N computing, etc (Home & School & BoT on board)


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Class blogs ticking along well – cluster maps from overseas is really powerful for children – motivating, even ex-pupils are commenting on the blog
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Middle/Senior team, each class has a data projector, junior classes have either a flat screen tv or a data projector
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Every class has a digital camera – children are using them rather than the teachers
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">A whole-school thematic unit brainstorm produced lots of ideas for using technological tools


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Classes beginning to use computers as an integral part of their Literacy & Numeracy programmes – groups of children are being rostered onto use a variety of software applications and Web 2.0 Tools
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Last year we put an iMac and a Macbook into each room and created a small pod of Macbooks to be booked
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Upgraded the server to make it more reliable
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Each class has a digital camera
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Mind-shift of teachers – e-learning is an integral part of their teaching
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Individual students are more engaged and cooperative using digital tools
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Sending staff to Learning@School created a real buzz and an infectious level of enthusiasm – these teachers have been sharing with others about what they have learned


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">New Active Boards 2011 – Teachers are keen to use them for instruction to enhance the children’s learning – children are able to use them for tasks (teachers are happy to let them have a go – maybe to do with the size, durable)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">New mini toys, eg. Flip videos, Easi-Speak microphones
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">New ‘Information Resource Room’ under construction – combining the old computer suite with the library – each class will has one time slot (juniors), or two time slots (seniors) – new flat-screen monitors for PCs
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Each class has their own desktop PC for their own use
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Kids are keen to go on the computers and Active Board, they are not fazed by it – let the kids have a go and they can teach the less-confident teachers
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Ultra-net set up for kids and teachers – everyone has their own secure space – can create a blog, messaging, photos, portfolio, links – kids can send an electronic report to teachers if someone has written something inappropriate to them

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Where would we like to go next?

 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Need to promote the school wiki and senior team wiki – website is non-interactive – put school policies up on the wiki
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Lead Teachers to set up ‘Tech Helpers’ (with a more creative name) within their own team to help instruct, support and encourage children and teachers from other classes
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">We would like to see more leading and sharing of ideas within the school and across the cluster (small group, practical sharing – step by step) and to build up a record of practical learning websites
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Lead Teachers to meet together regularly to share new ideas and experiences


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Over 50% of kids don’t have internet access at home – funding for some community computers that people can use at school – how to monitor?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Research skills on the internet
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Take Software and Web 2.0 tools that are working well (eg. Comic Life, Voice Threads) and make use of them as a quality learning tools
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Find Literacy and Numeracy activities that can be used in the class each daily with small groups


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Need to be consistent & secure in anything we do on the computers, eg. Children not changing settings – the computers are tools for learning, not home computers – password security, change every term – understand why (Digital Citizenship)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Build up Digital Literacy rather than just specific skills – eg. Copyright
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Sorting out what is on the server that could be more useful on the Ultra-net
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Who does the moderating of Ultra-net when the children are at home? – make sure it is used appropriately
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Active Board Play Day – Teacher Only Day


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Can’t use certain applications at the same time in the n computing suite (5 connected per CPU), eg. Comic Life
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Some families are still on dial-up (from 3:00-3:30 children can take parents into the computer suite)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Cross-school Skyping would help to create a collaborative environment and allows people to tap into resources like interviewing authors
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The new server has meant a delay in getting programmes up and running this year
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Students getting individual passwords and folders


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">In the middle/senior school – get the children to post onto the blog – senior class has a class blog and individual blogs (social) – this year we want to try out the full potential of the commenting
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Purchase more digital cameras
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Wikis – for teacher use – a school wiki already exists
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Subscribe to RSS feeds/Blog emails for the community


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Put more children’s voice onto class blogs, learning the tools and teaching other children
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Working towards individual blogs – [|www.kidblog.org] (they can only see blogs from their own class – teacher has to approve each post)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Teachers don’t need to always be the experts – teachers need to why to use the technology in an educational way rather than how to use it
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Empowering the children with technology – children to get to the stage where they are able to choose appropriate tools for the task
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Each teacher to come up with a project where they have a proposal as to what they would like to trial that reflects the national/cluster goals
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Teachers to reflect on what is would be a good model for Digital Citizenship


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Taking Digital Learning to the higher levels of Blooms
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Developing Class Wikis as a hub for presenting children’s voice, providing instructions and guidance for children, collaborating on tasks and communicating and linking with home
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Exploring E-Portfolios as a way of linking with home
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Digital Citizenship
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Linking Digital Learning with Thinking Tools
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Introduce TV screens into classrooms to allow for collaborative whole-class and small-group learning and sharing
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Investigate iPod Touches to allow for mobile learning


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Wireless around the school – doesn’t always cope with high numbers using it at the same time when having PD or meetings – the network ports do work well
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Use positive things that are happening around the school to fit in with National ICT Goals when writing your Strategic Plan, eg. Goal 3 – “Teachers to integrate e-learning effectively into their practice…” – the new Active Boards can be used as an example of what you propose to do to meet the goal
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">eg. Goal 1 – Active Boards – Reading/Maths groups, Kids to be using ICT equipment to promote authentic learning throughout the week – eg. Flip Videos – demonstrate activities (make a tutorial), Easi-Speak – reading out loud