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=Pukekohe Valley School=

2011 This year we have 5 classes with Wiki's. We try to meet each week and look at resources to place on our wikis. We have had an evening meeting with parents to show our wikis and also to get them to become members. After the meeting a number of parents became members and are now commenting on their child's work.

Term 4:
Maureen reflects on her first year in the cluster and its impact upon her pedagogy.

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Term 2 So far this term we have been working on developing our elearning policies for staff and students. At each staff meeting we try incorporate a bit of elearning, with questions put onto our wiki space and our staff members as a group put on comments to the discussions. Have a look- http://valleyschool.wikispaces.com/ The school bought microphones and these have been used in a number of different ways- students reading stories on to them and playing it back so they can increase their fluency, we recorded our prior knowledge about our Port trip and also took them on the trip so they could record what they saw. Most classes are using Spell City and digistore for maths activities. For Oral language a few classes are going online to NZ Herald site, Weather, History in NZ and a calendar site and giving a news report. Thanks to Jacqui Sharp's course I attended at Rotorua. __Meeting with David__ Set up a class wiki- haven't started using it as yet as waiting for policies to be in place. I'll put this up when there is something to look at. Set up a school delicious site. http://delicious.com/ValleySchool After the Intermediate came down and showed the students Google Maps, I went onto Google Earth and found you can do measurements of objects,stadiums, places of interest. David and I spent some time looking at this. Speeches have been a focus and some speeches have been videoed so students can see themselves and how they went.

Term 1 2010
__8 March__ Discussion with Roger (Principal) and Nicky (Deputy Principal) re action plan for implementing e –learning at our school. Main points __9 March__ Met with David on the. Main point our discussion were The survey has given us a good idea of where staff are at and what are our strengths. __Term 1 in my class.__ __Things I have been doing.__ __E- learning__
 * Integrate one e-learning tool into our planning for term 2.
 * Develop our inquiry planning and learning. We are going to organise to visit a school who has developed their own Inquiry model.
 * Infrastructure and equipment.- Systems of looking after it and where do we want to go. ( Interactive or mimio boards) Have arranged visits to see these and also have a demonstration at school planned.
 * getting our e- learning policies up- to- date.
 * staff joining the cluster wiki.
 * setting up a Valley School wiki to post notices, calendar of events and feedback from staff development we are undertaking
 * looked a series of tools that students can use to work collaboratively giving news reports.
 * did my interview, thank goodness that is over. I wasn’t too embarrassed when I saw it online.
 * began setting up a delicious account.
 * David led a staff meeting after school about What is e- learning? After his presentation we did our ICT cluster surveys and also a school survey develop using Kwik Surveys. Have a look at it if you like. __http://www.kwiksurveys.com/online-survey.php?surveyID=KKNEIL_a835ab86__
 * developed a set of class rules of using equipment in the class.
 * teaching children some basic usage of the computers- e.g. saving their work, connecting to the server.
 * set up classroom routines for their usage.
 * children have joined tutput
 * a number of children use Mathletics
 * we have had a school competition this term about the meaning of our houses- children are presenting a slide show using a number of different tools. I have tried to organise the project so that the computer is not a bottle neck. They have used cameras, video cameras, planning sheets so they are ready when they get to the computer. The learning goals are for the children to work as a team. Software programmes they are using are Kid Pix, pages, Kidspiration, wordle and iphoto. (I would like to share what we have done on a wiki but we do not have policies in place at the moment to allow this, so will probably just share it with other classes at our school.)
 * Training some students as experts – in downloading photos, using different programmes, fixing minor computer problems.
 * Training some students as experts – in downloading photos, using different programmes, fixing minor computer problems.

I have contacted Tracey at Pukekohe Intermediate to bring a group of students to our school to teach the students and teachers at our school how to use Google Maps. Tracey is keen, so we are all looking forward to it to seeing her and her experts next term.

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Staff meeting presentation 9 March 2010:

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