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VISITS TO CLASSROOMS - MARCH 17TH
Thank you for the opportunity to join you onThursday morning for
ICT PD. Great to see
teachers enthusiastically exploring websites and
building their skills. It also gave me ideas for how
we can utilise this 1/2 hour time next term. Here
is a very quick overview of what each class will
begin working on during Term 2.
Room 2 - Mrs Brits - Keen to learn more about
integrating ICT with children.
Room 3 - Mrs Gillett - Would like to know more
about how to integrate into each curriculum area so
can have small groups of children utilising ICTthroughout the
day. Feels she has upskilled self and
is now ready to integrate into her classroom.
Room 4 - Mrs Young- Using Google to share current
topical information with children around ChCh
earthquake. Wanting to know more about what else
is available and ideas to extend current learning.
Room 5 - Mrs Thorne - Needing more ideas for
exploring literacy/numeracy. Extending childrens
skills. Downloaded Tux Math onto class computer.
Room 6 - Mrs Sayer - Would like to explore kidpix
for digital storytelling, increasing oral language.
Room 8 - Mrs Ireland - Shared the amazing work
her class had been doing with graphs using excel
and kidspiration. Class very keen to share stories
and learn more
Room 10 - Mrs Lints - Starting to use cameras with
children and would like some more ideas.
Suggested using comic life and photo story 3 to
extend this learning.
Room 11 - Miss Rook - Where to begin? Want s to
focus on ideas for oral language. Suggested starting
with digital camera and putting together photo
stories.
Room 16 - Mrs MacPherson - Would like to explore class
blogs or wiki.
Room 13 - Mrs Widger - Would like to start with simple
stuff.
Room 18 - Mrs Crawford - Explore animation and movie
making. Very keen to purchase digital blue movie maker
for her class use. Would also like to check out scratch.
Room 19 - Mrs Foster - Very keen children who enjoyed
telling me about their ICT skills. Shared story about Holly
who had experience in movie making with cousin in
Australia. Would like to do a class movie project.
Room 20 - Mr Henson - Another very keen and eager class
keen to give anything a go. Also shared their current
skills and interest with me.
Still to visit - Mrs Harrison, Ms Codlin, Ms Abercrombie,
Mrs Macdonald, Ms Boaz, Mrs Phipps and Katarinas
class. Would like to re-visit Jill Fullers class as she was
busy with group time on this visit.
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After school discussion notes:
To work with 6 classes each day 45 minutes each - 2 Junior, 2
Middle, 2 Senior
- Katarina to sort out timetable.
Utilise 4 laptops in each class during this time.
Katarina to ask Matt to send through teachers email addresses to
me.
Katarina to invite me into milestone document so that I can put
exemplars/
links in.
I will set up Whangarei Primary School Blog. This will be a
private space withthe vision of it being a teachers play space and
place to showcase what is
happening in their classes.
Share this blog at first morning PD session - talk about
purpose, what they
would like to see on there etc. Will put links to other
school/class blogs on this
so teachers have access to check out the what is happening in
other schools.
I will be available after school on Thursdays from 3pm until 4pm
to work with
individual teachers and/or groups. To begin with this will be
casual and if need
arises we will set time spaces.Discussed Google Teacher Academy
I am attending in Sydney in April holidays
and how this will impact on Whg Primary - lots of new learning
to share!
I will visit again 5th April and finish visits to classrooms I
have missed:-)
As discussed this visit was more around relationship building
and just getting a
starting point for working with teachers at the beginning of
Term 2. I imagine as
the term progresses the ideas will flow! Please feel free to
email/phone if you
have any questions or further thoughts/ideas.
Tania
