After school today I held a Photopeach workshop for any staff interested. Greg, Morag, Lynda, Susan, Monique and myself were in attendance.
Monique helped out in a teaching capacity and we were able to set up photo displays for all the attendees and place them on their class blogs.
I also showed Greg how to embed a fancy blog background on to his blog.
A successful workshop. They all left with some new tools in their belt and some bling on their blogs.
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Click It Workshop at Westbrook with Paula on 10th of March 2011
Today Monique, Shari and I attended Paula's 'Click It' Workshop. What a fantastic class. We learnt about a few programmes.
Photopeach which displays photos with accompanying music in a fun way.
Photofunia where you can superimpose a face into various situations and backgrounds.
I now have examples of the above on our class blog.
fotobabble is a talking photo - allows you to take a photo and accompany it with a recording. You can use fotobabble straight from iPad.
www.slider.com allows you to add pictures and written language to produce an ongoing slide, would be great when making books. YOu need to sign up for this programme.
www.picturetrail.com is a free sign up.
You upload photos to it in the first instance, then create a flick - flick designs which has fancy transitions and cool shapes and sound effects. This feature has a fabulous rotating cube.
I really loved this workshop. Learnt so much and really excited to get back in the classroom and show the kids how to use these programmes. I am also excited that I can actually use them with SUCCESS!!!
Photopeach which displays photos with accompanying music in a fun way.
Photofunia where you can superimpose a face into various situations and backgrounds.
I now have examples of the above on our class blog.
fotobabble is a talking photo - allows you to take a photo and accompany it with a recording. You can use fotobabble straight from iPad.
www.slider.com allows you to add pictures and written language to produce an ongoing slide, would be great when making books. YOu need to sign up for this programme.
www.picturetrail.com is a free sign up.
You upload photos to it in the first instance, then create a flick - flick designs which has fancy transitions and cool shapes and sound effects. This feature has a fabulous rotating cube.
I really loved this workshop. Learnt so much and really excited to get back in the classroom and show the kids how to use these programmes. I am also excited that I can actually use them with SUCCESS!!!
Paula's PD with Glenholme Staff - Wednesday 9th of March 2011
Today Paula worked one on one with staff for 45 minute blocks on blogging - Sue Caldwell, Jenny Burnett, Lynda Williamson and Sue Edwards.
In the afternoon Paula worked with me and gave me some tips on how to use the iPad. I forgot to say, YES, Nancy bought an iPad for the school last week and I get to play with it. It's very exciting. I love how simple it is to use. That everything is at your fingertips and comes to the fore by touching the pad. I wish I had more time to play with it and familiarise myself with it, however there seems to be so many other things I have to do.
After school Paula had a blogging session with any staff who wanted extra help. Lynda W, Jenny, Iain, Nancy, Shari, Sue C and I attended. Paula also showed us the Photopeach programme, which is a fabulous way to present photos. She also showed Iain and I how to create exciting template backgrounds for our blog at http://www.thecutestblogontheblock.com.
I spent all night dollying up my own blog with Photopeach and a cool looking background from the cutest blog website, and and am very happy with the results. I feel like I'm really learning and achieving in e-Learning this year with Paula's help. She's giving us very good PD with programmes we can use in our classrooms which are simple to use and which have great results.
In the afternoon Paula worked with me and gave me some tips on how to use the iPad. I forgot to say, YES, Nancy bought an iPad for the school last week and I get to play with it. It's very exciting. I love how simple it is to use. That everything is at your fingertips and comes to the fore by touching the pad. I wish I had more time to play with it and familiarise myself with it, however there seems to be so many other things I have to do.
After school Paula had a blogging session with any staff who wanted extra help. Lynda W, Jenny, Iain, Nancy, Shari, Sue C and I attended. Paula also showed us the Photopeach programme, which is a fabulous way to present photos. She also showed Iain and I how to create exciting template backgrounds for our blog at http://www.thecutestblogontheblock.com.
I spent all night dollying up my own blog with Photopeach and a cool looking background from the cutest blog website, and and am very happy with the results. I feel like I'm really learning and achieving in e-Learning this year with Paula's help. She's giving us very good PD with programmes we can use in our classrooms which are simple to use and which have great results.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
e-Learning Community Meeting Monday 7th of March
I started with the inspirational piano video, which the staff enjoyed, I then shared Paula's wikipage and navigated around the pages to show staff where they could find resources to help them with their e-Learning journeys. www.paulaspages.wikispace.com
Monique then spoke about Superclubs Plus and how the programme worked where the children are learning about Cyber Safety and working on their own little social network.
Nancy then shared results from the e-Learning and SOLO survey she had issued to staff which identified what e-Learning and SOLO they had used so far this term. Most staff had been using define maps and very few of the other maps, which was a clear indication that staff need to move on and use other maps. Staff were also surprised to see how much e-Learning had actually been going on in classrooms which was nice to see. Still a lot of work to do.
A success is that everyone had their blog up and running today, which is great!
Staff then shared examples of SOLO that they had been done in the classroom. It's really good to see some staff really having a go at it. Sue Caldwell is really going hard out with SOLO and even using generalisation maps with her little juniors. Nice one!
All in all a very good meeting. Well done team!
Monique then spoke about Superclubs Plus and how the programme worked where the children are learning about Cyber Safety and working on their own little social network.
Nancy then shared results from the e-Learning and SOLO survey she had issued to staff which identified what e-Learning and SOLO they had used so far this term. Most staff had been using define maps and very few of the other maps, which was a clear indication that staff need to move on and use other maps. Staff were also surprised to see how much e-Learning had actually been going on in classrooms which was nice to see. Still a lot of work to do.
A success is that everyone had their blog up and running today, which is great!
Staff then shared examples of SOLO that they had been done in the classroom. It's really good to see some staff really having a go at it. Sue Caldwell is really going hard out with SOLO and even using generalisation maps with her little juniors. Nice one!
All in all a very good meeting. Well done team!
e-Learning Workshop with Paula - RCICT and Town & Country Cluster Thursday 3 March 2011
Today both clusters met out at Mamaku. First the first part of the day we all shared our school e-Learning journeys. We also looked at the VLR website which is kind of like a facebook for teachers. I have signed up on it. Paula feels it's just another website that we'll have to attend to as we already have our own cluster wikis, plus Paula's wiki, however the Ministry has said that we must all sign up for this one.
We also looked at skyping each other. Paula showed us around her wiki site and shared some inspirational videos with us.
The two clusters tried to come to an agreement on how Paula's workshops would look in Term 2. Most of the Town and Country Cluster wanted PD during the school day, whereas our cluster wanted workshops after school.
Was a good day to catch up with the our cluster and make connections with teachers from the other cluster.
We also looked at skyping each other. Paula showed us around her wiki site and shared some inspirational videos with us.
The two clusters tried to come to an agreement on how Paula's workshops would look in Term 2. Most of the Town and Country Cluster wanted PD during the school day, whereas our cluster wanted workshops after school.
Was a good day to catch up with the our cluster and make connections with teachers from the other cluster.
PD with Mike Scaddon Wednesday 2nd of March
Today the e-Learning Cluster Leaders and Staff Leaders met with Mike to work on our Leadership Skills.
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Learning at Schools Conference 23rd, 24th and 25th of Feb
Wednesday
Enjoyed the keynote speaker Scott McLeod, as the message that shone through was that we need to move forward with e-learning and SOLO to give the best learning opportunities for our students, which is our goal this year at Glenholme.
My first breakout was on Literacy. I really enjoyed this workshop and will do more shared reading with the whole class with challenging texts.
The thing that I got most out of the workshop was that the globally low readers usually read easy, non relevant material and don't get the chance to be exposed to more challenging text. The method of teaching as a whole class and reading the text aloud along with the students, exposes poor readers the opportunity to learn challenging text that they may not normally come into contact with.
Also using the activboard to engage the children with reading is a great way to improve their reading ability.
The second breakout was using digital tools for music. Although it was more targetted at music teachers, I was introduced to some very cool software programmes such as guitarband, audacity, skype, using the iPad to give music lessons.
I also sat in on a short activboard session and picked up a few tips to take back to class, included reading cloze activities and recording questions and answers against the backdrop of a picture.
All in all a very enjoyable day. Looking forward to learning more tomorrow.
Thursday
Web Tools for Schools was a great little workshop - Shown tools such as scribblemaps.com which is a programme that uses google maps to work on. You can write information on the map. Would be great for our Identity unit, plotting where we come from. Twiducate.com is a social networking tool for the teacher and students only. A great way to post homework, ask questions and collaborate. The children learn social media networking skills through this programme.
Friday
Building a 5th Wall in your Classroom by David Kinane was a fabulous workshop. Stand outs in this workshop was to rearrange the layout of my classroom computers by turning them into a rectangular position and putting the computer at one end, leaving space for five children to collaborate around one computer. This has worked really well in my classroom. The children all share the keyboard and it's just fantastic.
Another tip was to make children e-Learning experts for the class and for staff. Trying to make the children independent of the teacher. This is something I really want to get up and going in Glenholme School.
Attended Willow's SOLO Taxonomy workshop. I wanted to see if I would learn anything new to implement in my classroom, but they just went over what I already know. I was very proud of the girls presenting. They did a really good job.
Overall, the conference was fabulous, picked up some great ideas to use in my classroom. Have already rearranged furniture for computers and starting to train experts in my classroom. I have used scribblemaps for our identity unit. I am fired up and really keen to utilise and teach what I have learnt.
Enjoyed the keynote speaker Scott McLeod, as the message that shone through was that we need to move forward with e-learning and SOLO to give the best learning opportunities for our students, which is our goal this year at Glenholme.
My first breakout was on Literacy. I really enjoyed this workshop and will do more shared reading with the whole class with challenging texts.
The thing that I got most out of the workshop was that the globally low readers usually read easy, non relevant material and don't get the chance to be exposed to more challenging text. The method of teaching as a whole class and reading the text aloud along with the students, exposes poor readers the opportunity to learn challenging text that they may not normally come into contact with.
Also using the activboard to engage the children with reading is a great way to improve their reading ability.
The second breakout was using digital tools for music. Although it was more targetted at music teachers, I was introduced to some very cool software programmes such as guitarband, audacity, skype, using the iPad to give music lessons.
I also sat in on a short activboard session and picked up a few tips to take back to class, included reading cloze activities and recording questions and answers against the backdrop of a picture.
All in all a very enjoyable day. Looking forward to learning more tomorrow.
Thursday
Web Tools for Schools was a great little workshop - Shown tools such as scribblemaps.com which is a programme that uses google maps to work on. You can write information on the map. Would be great for our Identity unit, plotting where we come from. Twiducate.com is a social networking tool for the teacher and students only. A great way to post homework, ask questions and collaborate. The children learn social media networking skills through this programme.
Friday
Building a 5th Wall in your Classroom by David Kinane was a fabulous workshop. Stand outs in this workshop was to rearrange the layout of my classroom computers by turning them into a rectangular position and putting the computer at one end, leaving space for five children to collaborate around one computer. This has worked really well in my classroom. The children all share the keyboard and it's just fantastic.
Another tip was to make children e-Learning experts for the class and for staff. Trying to make the children independent of the teacher. This is something I really want to get up and going in Glenholme School.
Attended Willow's SOLO Taxonomy workshop. I wanted to see if I would learn anything new to implement in my classroom, but they just went over what I already know. I was very proud of the girls presenting. They did a really good job.
Overall, the conference was fabulous, picked up some great ideas to use in my classroom. Have already rearranged furniture for computers and starting to train experts in my classroom. I have used scribblemaps for our identity unit. I am fired up and really keen to utilise and teach what I have learnt.
SOLO Taxonomy Workshops with Pam and Julie 21st and 22nd of Feb 2011
Susan, Lisa and George attended two SOLO catch up workshops. These two workshops were the initial courses that our staff attended at the beginning of 2010 when we first started our learning journey with SOLO Taxonomy.
Blog It Workshop with Paula 17 Feb 2011
Susan and Iain attended the Blog It Workshops this afternoon. Both have now set up their class blogs.
Voicethread Workshop with Paula at Westbrook 10th of February 2011
Today I attended a workshop with Paula on Voicethread. This programme enables users to record, upload pictures, videos and images from sources and the final product can be embedded into our blog.
I am hoping to use this to improve literacy through retells and sequencing. There are many uses for Voicethread and I need to take the time to look at the many examples that may be beneficial to my students.
It is a very easy programme to use and I like that once we have created a voicethread it is easily uploaded to our blogs.
I have shown the children in my class how to create a voicethread and over the ensuing weeks, I hope that they will have uploaded some types of learning using this tool on to our blog.
I am hoping to use this to improve literacy through retells and sequencing. There are many uses for Voicethread and I need to take the time to look at the many examples that may be beneficial to my students.
It is a very easy programme to use and I like that once we have created a voicethread it is easily uploaded to our blogs.
I have shown the children in my class how to create a voicethread and over the ensuing weeks, I hope that they will have uploaded some types of learning using this tool on to our blog.
e-Leader Release Wednesday 9th of Feb 2011
Today I met with Paula Jamieson our new e-learning facilitator. I took her around all the classrooms and introduced her to teachers.
We had a look at her wiki page www.paulaspages.wikispaces.com which has workshops she is running this term. Both the Town and Cluster and RCICT Cluster are included on this wiki. Each school has their own page which will record e-learning happening throughout the year.
I'm so glad we finally have a facilitator and can't wait to learn from someone who knows what they're doing instead of trying to muddle my way through things.
We had a look at her wiki page www.paulaspages.wikispaces.com which has workshops she is running this term. Both the Town and Cluster and RCICT Cluster are included on this wiki. Each school has their own page which will record e-learning happening throughout the year.
I'm so glad we finally have a facilitator and can't wait to learn from someone who knows what they're doing instead of trying to muddle my way through things.
SOLO Planning Glenholme School with Pam and Julie 27 Jan 2011
Today we met with Pam and Julie to go over the HOT maps that we didn't manage to complete in the previous day's workshop.
Katherine, Shari and I worked with Pam who helped us plan our Identify unit. It was a good learning curve to see Pam work through the NZ Curriculum document and focus on the achievement objectives at each level throughout the school and then match up SOLO HOT map activities.
Katherine, Shari and I worked with Pam who helped us plan our Identify unit. It was a good learning curve to see Pam work through the NZ Curriculum document and focus on the achievement objectives at each level throughout the school and then match up SOLO HOT map activities.
SOLO with Pam and Julie at Westbrook 26 Jan 2011
Today the cluster schools met up at Westbrook School and went over the HOT maps in depth. I felt the first session I went to with Julie last year was a lot clearer and easier to understand. Perhaps it was because we had a smaller group of people last year and more time to work with the maps more deeply and thoroughly. However, it was a good refresher and great to catch up with the cluster team.
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