eleaders+meeting0604

Ramarama Primary School - 30 April 9:15 am

 * ===Sharing time===
 * ===mini e-tour of hosting school===
 * ===1st year cluster goal progress -===
 * ===professional discussion - unpacking, analysis and reporting back for milestone 1===
 * ===Hands on - Survey Monkey tools and graphing===
 * ===professional reading - Inquiry===
 * ===Progress with homework - 6 school photos, photos/video for cluster launch (teachers holding signs/goals) for Stephen, reflections from conference,===
 * ===Upcoming events/follow up tasks===
 * ===Evaluation of day/workshop===

**Present : Stephen (Facilitator) Wendy ( Project director) e-leaders- Nathalie, Nikki (Everglade) Lynn, Kate (Reremoana) Nadine, Muriel (Ramarama) Alex, Angela (PCS) Rachel, Jan (Waiuku)** **Sharing time ** ** Stephen ** - **Using kid pix to create pictures eg for use in digital stories** Teacher / children import photos and add to drawings done in Paint to make a picture- Hint: Take pictures against a whiteboard to eliminate background items and make joining of drawings and photos easier. Children can also use these pictures as Avatars on their work. ** Angela ** - **Using tools in “Pages” to create/ present – context “Making cards”** Children choose 2 goals to work on using “Pages” Children use photo booth to take own photos eg colouring tools, gradients of colour, practicing flip and rotate tools, importing pics, Children given an open way to present their work ( locating images) but with specific criteria eg they had no internet use, had to use photo booth or kid pix. Children added sound to their animation. Work can be exported as movie or JPEG picture “King for the day” Green screen- teacher took photos of children in different roles eg on a throne and stuck them in the children’s books- used for children to write about Children then used “Easi speak” to record their story orally T made into Movie on Movie Maker for children to view/ listen to Making online books- context “Newspaper in Education- Front page competition” [] Writing captions for photos- use kidpix to draw a picture and write a caption underneath it Children had to save pictures in jpeg format Class website and blog now established- viewed by e-leaders School Working on cyber safety agreement before more content can be added [|http://www.Glogster.com] Make sure children have permission for work to be published online The page created can be exported to wiki/ blog etc Be careful if printing out as it is comes out as more than 1 page You can choose to publish or keep private- see previously published one pages for exemplars This tool would be excellent for use displaying photos on wikis and blogs ** Muriel- ** **Handwriting / Drawing tool-** juniors Downloaded “TUX PAINT” programme for free Simple, easy to use tool (like Paint) You can use this programme to model letter formation ( good for Juniors) ** Rachel- ** **Home / school communication** Sharing the creation of a school website- made on a Google site as its free hosting Managing a website: school e-leaders will be asked to help maintain the site Add public Google calendar for parents- parents given the link Class blogs can be linked to website once the website is live and all children permission forms in. Discussion on photo safety Idea: Put a photo of children who don’t have permission to have pictures online on the server for ALL teachers to reference quickly-watch for group shots of sporting / cultural activities
 * Nadine- Topic studies- Adding visual images / sound when presenting topic work **
 * Nathalie- using digital photography and green screen for written / oral language **
 * Kate- Writing/Visual language **
 * Jan- “glogster” Using an online scrap booking site to retell events in digital photos **

**Discussion on each school Inquiry journey to date **  These meetings will devlop teachers in depth knowledge of Inquiry processes/ skills and strategies Questioning and thinking skills to be linked into the sessions where relevant to ( e-leaders to send a copy of the programme outline) The whole day was focussed on Inquiry ( e-leaders to send a copy of the programme outline) Term 2 syn wide focus using new school inquiry model  Term 1 the school all did Inquiry unit on Diversity \ Term 2 each team will have an Inquiry focus
 * Everglade **- **scheduled in 2 staff meetings per term ** from term 2 focussing on Inquiry / pedagogy (1 session to date)
 * Waiuku-T.O.D April holildays **
 * Reremoana- January staff retreat day ** held. Staff reflected on present school model of inquiry ( e-leaders to send a copy of the programme outline)


 * Rama- T.O.D- Inquiry unit ** planned using the Waikowhai schools model ( e-leaders to send a copy of the programme outline)

A "Thinking team" has been created - they are meeting 2-3x term to discuss/ reflect on school Inquiry programme implemetation PCS – whole school inquiry- Term 1 "Out of this world" Term 2 "What's under our feet"
 * P.C.School model ** was developed in 2009- focus this year on implementation

Section D of cluster contract reviewed in school teams- reflections on progress to date and where to next Goals to be discussed and reflected on with school Principals on a regular basis. These goals sheets will be reviewed eact time with have an e-leader workshop Each school reflected on Q11 and Q13 from our baseline survey. These questions related to Inquiry learning knowledge skills and confidence amongst staff. It also looked at the inclusion of thinking and questioning skills in units of work. Each school wrote an analysis and where to next on the wiki. __**Professional Reading “Inquiry”** __ e-leaders viewed and discussed pages from a resource on Inquiry Learning From book by Angie Simmons (Essential Resources) :”Learning Journeys with ICT”:Inquiry learning and ICT How could these articles be used to support staff PD?
 * __First year cluster goals __**
 * __Baseline survey data __**

How could these articles be used to support staff PD?

e-leaders shown documentation required for our first Milestone Wendy and Stephen have already begun this and need e-leaders to collect evidence of programme implementation in the form of photos, charts, planning documentation, meeting schedules and outlines, meeting minutes These can be placed straight onto the wiki – Stephen to set up a page
 * __Milestone 1__**

Each school to have an action plan of their professional development programme for this year. This will go on the wiki too. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">[|http://www.wallwisher.com] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Each e-leader workshop member to comment on the day on the wall wisher “post its”.
 * __<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Collaboration tool- end of day evaluation __**

> Action plan for 2010 Inquiry in school PD > Principals to comment on Learning@School conference breakout session ( place on wiki)
 * __Homework tasks__**
 * Collect documentation for Milestone reporting
 * Remind staff about e-wrapper cluster launch on Wed May 5



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