Action Research

It was very helpful working with the Year 1 Elm Park School Lead Teacher, Veronica Afreddy, and discussing my progress with my Action Research project. It was interesting to see what she has been doing and she recommended the British Council website which has helpful information about Action Research. We also talked about the possible format that the final report would take.

I think at this point I would like to review the impact of the Digikidz in classes with a Google Form and then demonstrate how they can be used more deliberately when I am providing in-class support.

Lead Teachers Reflection 9.3.10

My 2nd post of the day. Feeling all inspired yet daunted again about inquiry! Am so keen to investigate SOLO further and am determined to trial some aspects where possible. Really wishing that this was the beginning of our journey on the Cluster Contract rather than the final year as I am JUST beginning to feel like I have enough knowledge (ha, ha) to start building on! Oh well, could be a future opportunity and in the mean time I'll keep plugging away and investigating possibilities!

Action Research

I am embarking on an action research project and am so excited to be at a Lead Teacher workshop at Elm Park School and Belinda is sharing some examples of where to check out some examples so I can get a bit of an idea of projects from beginning to end. I have begun a Digikidz blog to share and catelogue our journey. Come and see what we're doing at http://digikidzsps2010.blogspot.com/

Lead Teachers 24.08.09

I am in the middle of my 2nd lead teachers day today watching a clip from Presentation Zen by Garr Reynolds. I can see a lot of myself in this when I think about my presentation slideshow for the cluster EXPO and there were definately lots of things I can take on board to make a more detailed handout and a less 'busy' slideshow! Unfortunately this means I can't just export the slides as the handout!!!! I enjoyed that shortcut. Great prep for the upcoming cluster share.

We have been learning about peer coaching - very interesting. Not natural for me yet as too tempting to slip into the instructional mode. Really good things to keep in mind. We recorded our ideas using scribblar which has potential as a good tool for the classroom but there are a few thing to be aware of: anyone who is a guest on the page can edit the postings, it's better to set up separate pages rather than multiple pages in the same document as when people are all editing the page if they flick to the next page everyone goes to it together! Very visual and lots of 'gadgets'!

We discussed the milestone report which our friend KP does for us! Loads of awesome discussions surrounding what we will do at SPS for our cluster share and we are keen to get going.

Really enjoyed teara too.

Eastnet Cluster - ICT Lead Teachers

I had my first experience attending a lead teacher session on Wednesday and it was really neat to catch up with old friends and meet some new people. I was really surprised there are so many new lead teachers!

I had a great time hearing about the Learning @ Schools conference in Rotorua. I feel better informed now, as I didn't attend the conference this time. It was particularly good for me to find out about the Cluster Shares which are coming up soon and get some ideas about the sorts of things we might like to share - I had been a little bit too keen and am glad to now know the expectation for these sessions.

I enjoyed having an opportunity to share with teachers from other schools. I am looking forward to running a workshop at our Cluster Conference and supporting other people in my teams to have a go too. I am also excited to learn to use more e-Learning tools and participate in workshops myself.

Thanks everyone for a neat day!