e-Leaders+Meeting+6


 * Date: September 3**
 * Venue: Everglade School - Library**
 * Time: 9:15**



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 * Sharing Session - please bring any ICT ideas/products/work in progress to share
 * Milestone 2 - online
 * Thinking Toolbox Development - progress, next steps - ICT PD Goal
 * Inquiry - implementation, monitoring and evidence, next steps - ICT PD Goal
 * School Tour - Everglade
 * Cluster Survey - end of year - Milestone 2
 * Cluster Calendar - Dates - changes/updates
 * Workshop(s) - Greenscreen, ? [|doink.com], scriblink

** Sharing time ** //__ Rachel- Literacy __// - Poetry writing tools-templates for children to record their poems in    [|http://tagul.com] [] //__ Jan – Literacy __// - Report writing-in newspaper format [] good for recording short stories, not a lot of text can be inserted //__ Nikki- Literacy __// - ideal for brainstorming activities- words can be placed inside a shaper related to the topic [|www.tagxedo.com] //__ Wendy-Numeracy Software- “Targetting Maths Labs” __// Can be purchased from Essential Resources $170 per lab –includes a multi user site license Creating animations- **__Literacy / Topic__** – [|http://www.doink.com] Simple animation tools to record a short story, large collection of ready made animations or make your own //__ Nathalie- __//**__ ( __** Everglade) Sharing progress with her class BLOG, Angela (Papatoetoe Central) using Nathalies Blog to get ideas on how to improve their writing Nat- takes photos of her children’s writing in their books and post online so others can see the improvements made, success criteria highlighted etc //__ Alex- Technology __// [] Used “sketchup” during her class technology unit – children drew 3D pictures of structures eg to create a solution to a problem-improving school cloakroom storage //__ Angela- Literacy/ Topic __// - children have been creating brochures //__ Nadine __// - shared her class podcasting **__ Professional Reading __** – Lynn has found a good reading that would be suitable for staff to read “Student Inquiry and Web 2.0” **__ Milestone 2 __** · Reviewed the Milestone 2 reporting document · What do we need to include · School s to update the appropriate areas // Inquiry // Include evidence to show progress Eg photos of wall displays, charts, lists of readings, staff professional development, children’s work **__ Milestone information to be on wiki by Term 4 wk 1 as Milestone will be written in wk 2-4 __** **__ Thinkers Tool Box __** · Samples of Thinkers tool boxes from other schools viewed · Each school has now begun their own tool box- to be placed on wiki **__ E-tour of Everglade School __** **__ Cluster survey- end of year data __** · Discussion on what type of data we want to collect for the end of yr- felt it was too soon to conduct an other survey using the baseline data survey · What do we want to find out? · Looked at Everglades mid point survey- on Inquiry, e-tools, software, hardware · Perhaps this could give us more useful information?? Copies sent to each school for reference **__ Cluster dates __** Some changes to dates due to events that were not scheduled in at beginning of the year · Eg national facilitation days x2, national facilitator visits x1   · Changes to calendar to be made and issued to all cluster schools · National facilitation day Sept 16 Wendy and Stephen- Reremoana day to be rescheduled to Dec 8 ( previously and e-leader day) · National facilitator to visit cluster schools with project director on Oct 27 then work with project director and facilitator on Oct 28 (milestone variance ) **__ Workshops __** Nathalie- Greenscreening- hands on practice – instructions on wiki