Sunday, October 23, 2011

1 -1 Making It work in the school

1 -1 Making It Work in the School

The Helens - Pt England School ptengland.school.nz

Blogs

Google Apps

Parent buy in - Lease net books $15 per month

First learning

Google user name and password

Blogging - managing own individual blog

How to navigate the class site

Netbook agreement

Positive

It’s a learning tool!

Term 1

  • infrastructure problems
  • student problems solving
  • boot camp
  • extra support for struggling students - Learning facilitators, uni students
  • cluster support and learning
  • student reflection

Every single day

  • Google - teachers’ dashboard
  • blogging incl commenting on others’ blogs
  • copy/paste comment onto class comment site on Class blog
  • language of success

Reading

  • Google forms
  • still traditional with extra activities using netbooks

Maths

  • Digistore via nzmaths
  • Maths Whizz - online programme, with cost
  • still using books alongside netbooks

Integrated Topic

  • using multimedia on desktop machines - making animations, garageband...
  • self assessments
  • rubrics on class site
  • self reflect against the rubric using google forms

Where to next?

  • being cyber smart - dvlping a schoolwide programme
  • downloading movies, music, use of Facebook (underage)
  • multimedia tools
  • using more Web 2.0 tools - Flickr acc

Improv Everywhere

Google certified teachers (look into applying for this!!!)

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