Kirsty

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= NEAL Moodle PD day =

Wednesday 14th November 2012
Notes to download below, these are my notes and Naomis

I personally would have got more out of the day if the internet worked and we also had a few hiccups accessing our school Moodle site from outside the school.\

The things i got from the day
 * We NEED to upgrade Moodle to the latest version (easier and more user friendly, more you can do, etc)\
 * We neeed to make it better to do Moodle work from outside school, eg - home
 * I can now to completion tracking and restricted access :)

= Pt England Visit - 8th November 2012 = __Personal Reflections (from blog):__ //This was an excellent day at which i was exhausted at the end due to many hours of thinking, focussing and asking every question i could think of. The group that went was made up of (mostly) primary teachers, some intermediate teachers (and a principal) and Rima and I from Fairfield College. We got to go into Pt England Primary and Tamaki College, both schools part of a large cluster of schools with a high focus on ICT and blended e-learning. The year 6 students gave an articulate presentation on their journey and their learning and gave us a strong focus for why and how we can do this. We were shown the journey and the process for setting up BYOD in schools (the website [|www.manaiakalani.org] has fantastic resources and documentation including research) and got to ask questions. I paticularly liekd how kids literacy was improved (a big focus for this decile 1 school) through hooking kids into reading by podcasting. Students would create a podcast of a NZ novel/book review, they had to read the book, write a script, record and edit the podcast. If their podcast was published the 2 kids were then given a fully charged iPod to take home for 1 night which was filled with all the podcasts to that point. The school has still has their 2 iPods (no stealing or breakage) and says it always comes back flat and with kids buzzing to write the next podcast - therefore read their next book.//
 * Also Collaborative notes here**

//This has also flowed into Tamaki College their feeder high school, which uses Google apps for education as well to run class sites and teacher dashboard (supported by Google drive). We got a quick presentation by the deputy principal on how this looks in a high school and we got to go into classrooms and see this in action while asking questions and thoughts of students and the teachers.//

//Overall a very worthwhile day which has inspired me and given me a lot to bring back into my school so we ca make some changes in our area too//

= ULearn 2012 = This was a full on 3 day conference in October, during the 2nd week of the term 3 holidays. I attended 4 keynotes and 6 Breakouts, each on different aspect of e-learning. Below are all my notes (summarised and full), my full reflections are in my blog and my discussion with other teachers can also be seen in the 3 day Twitter feed @km180 or #ulearn12

Full keynote notes (Collaborative Google docs on Blog)

Full breakout notes

ICT PD cluster day notes
 * ICT PD Cluster day**, I really felt good about this day, I spent the sessions jotting down ideas to use in class and my teaching more than the notes, I was also challenged to think about my self as a teacher and what I am doing as an ICT PD facilitator. I had a lot of opportunity to talk, network, reflect and think. That is always a useful thing for us to be doing as teachers, I now feel ready to tackle new challenges and ideas to end term 3 and to take into term 4. I hope to share these ideas and how well things went on my blog.

[|Notes from Apple learning tour]
 * Apple learning tour**, a really engaging afternoon around practical BYOD, tools, tips, planning and the future that teaching should be like

Heres my resource:
 * Fabulous 5** Feedback and sharing with the staff,

The afternoon discussed the rollout of fibre into school and the SNUP upgrade (which the school has already had) news recieved to my home has stated that fibre is looking to be early next year in the community, so ideally I think we are looking at mid 2013 for it coming into the school
 * Learning without limits** Seminar

We also saw examples of schools using BYOD, Bring your own devices and fibre will help FFC's plan of BYOD move along and become more of a reality

We also need a schoolwide wireless system.

[|My Reflections on the course]
 * Fabulous 5:** ICT PD

We have now had our first training rollout with the support of David Kinane to start using Moodle and upload courses outside of the digital faculty. I spent a day working with the Science faculty.
 * Moodle training and setup**

I quickly learned that the 2 hours goes very quickly even just with setup and practice and that the teachers will require more time, probably later in the year (or even holidays?) to get more time specifically for uploading, practice and asking questions.

The next goal will be to work with a different faculty and hopefully work on improving my approach to make it easier for all to learn and be comfortable with moodle.

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These are my notes made at the **Learning @ schools** conference: They contain very condensed notes as well as links to the ideas and websites mentioned

After the conference I felt inspired by all the tools and opportunities I saw at the conference and I especially liked the idea of entirely electronic planning of lessons and portability of mobile devices. Especially after talking to MUSAC, as they are making a web application, so that teachers can sign in from any mobile device to put in absences etc. Other ideas I want to put into action through the year - eportfolios, 3D modelling, using and students creating. Blogging or Online journals.
 * Initial reflection**

Now a few months on from the conference I have done a few new things with my classes, Lyn Rogers and I are using e-portfolios with our junior classes. I am using mobile devices alongside computers and classroom work for research and informaiton gathering and processing in senior tourism. Improving on last year, I am using computers now in class to do group investigations - researching and writing a report to support a practical investigation my year 10 classes have done. Using www.glogster.com more in depth by getting students to incorporate video and animation that they have to search for and put into their posters, on top of the other informaiton they would normally put in.
 * Down the track**

I am feeling more optimistic now from talking to my students about the effect this is having on both their engagement and learning and I want to make an effort to keep getting their feedback and incorporate it more into what we are doing in class with ICT. My next step is to introduce Google Sketchup as an online measn to completing our year 9 Energywise assessment and to use video capturing and editing for a year 10 How fit am I? project. I will also assess and evaluate how well the eportfolios are working with the classes. []
 * The future**