Notes+from+October+23rd+Meeting

__**CNI mtg HG mtg**__
Ross – Wellesley College (Eastbourne) Doug – Host – Bunnythorpe Cluster Lynn – Bush Cluster Ange – Lead tch – Feilding Cluster Geoff – Feilding Cluster Jan, Barbara, Carolyn – Online Bridges Cluster Sara – Whakarongo Cluster Jan & Richard – Coley St Nigel & Andrew – Petone Foreshore Cluster NSSF: Tessa Gray / Suzie Vesper / Kathe Tawhiwhirangi-Perry
 * Venue**: Bunnythorpe
 * Date**: 23.10.08
 * Attendees**: 16

__//** Session 1 **//__
• Introductions • Video clip and discussions + freely sharing – how do you earn a living from this? + self promotion?

__**Sharing**__ • Geoff – ULearn: Manaia View Kindergarten presentation – Are Primary schools ready for these children? • Carolyn – Learning Management System update • **__Jan__** (Coley St.) – www.icwcclusterblog.blogspot.com Schools reflecting…….Case studies. A cluster blog site set up – reading links etc. A simple way of students recording their journey as opposed to an Action Plan in regard to investigating their Inquiry Each school to……a set of requirements / considerations / questions A strong sense of sharing and al learning together / the collaboration Foxton schools were all competing for clients – 90% of schools have opened up (Faith – Y5 & 6: Tchr requires each student to blog twice a week) Easy for MS writing – just paste the url Cluster wiki as a repository for cluster resources too NOTE: Mark Teadwell’s spotlight • __**Ange**__ (Lytton St) www.feildingictcluster.wetpaint.com Cluster wiki – set up primarily for our tching staff as a repository of resources Wetpaint – was my 1st hit so we went with this! Played with moodle Vision / Mission statement / Our goals – taken from our proposal School showcase – Chns learning iMovie to reflect on their peer and self assessment – integrating visual language with iMovie 2 x schools use Mac / the rest on PC’s Teachers Blogs in our cluster Blogs in the classroom School blogs Room 18’s learning journey Learning websites 5 of us have discussion through threads – GREAT for capturing ALL the discussion (Ideas: Task driven incentives to invite partcipation) • __**Jane& Barbara**__ (Facilitators - Online Bridges Cluster) Interact: Online Bridges Cluster (Interact is clunky!!) 4 x PLC groups – Professional Learning Circles Through Interact – a website for our cluster Each workshop – there is a reading (The last one was an article from Interface) Site has been split up into groups At this stage – looking at opening up the tchr blogs so that this team can learn from each other • __** Andrew **__ (Muritai) www.muritai.school.nz Building sustainability – building for a future Working with other schools – everyone is at a different stage BOT page – an ICT strategy which was refreshed in 2008 eLearning report 20008 Digital Horizons – Learners, Teachers, Leaders, Community etc (The reason for this – a pathway) Class blogs – Sam’s reflection on Romeo & Juliet ☺ Daniel’s short story Voice Thread – powerful / easy to use

What does good reporting look like? Permission of photos from parents ?

// __Session 2__ //
• ** Sara ** (Whakarongo School) www.whakarongo.school.com http://sarataylor.wikispaces.com www.staylor.whakarongo.wikis.com (All links are on here) (Currently transferring everything over from Centre4 to the wiki! Renaisance printed the posters Posters – Literacy / developing thinking & creativity through e-Learning (A guided step by step process) All teachers have a SMART goal for the term – identify this and log in the intention, the journey, the outcome, the evidence www.mic-home.wikis.com Learning criteria- Success criteria – Evidence Learning intentions with a description SMART goals and reflective journals A move from skills to learning Initially blogs – a move now to wikis • **Nigel** (Korokoro) http://korokoro.school.nz Making tchrs accountable Action Learning – Teacher based Inquiry All tchrs had a wiki space to document/journal their learning Teachers Portal Year group spaces Set up early in the cluster Tchrs contribute to their wiki space at least twice a term Hindsight – Would use a team page as opposed to an individual page (Set up a feed to alert when someone has contributed) Y3 & 4 – Richard (Links to his class blog) (A widget can be used for quick comments to a blog/wiki etc) Google: SPIKE – Welcome – Korokoro School website – Contact details, links, Calendar etc, Class – Learning Caves (Rm 5) A great way to build resources $40.00 a month – hosted externally - $1500 set up fee Unlimited space/size in this space A little clunky at present re videos/podcats

__**Video**__: A portal to Media Literacy (Michael Wesch) YouTube- Web 2.0 how the machine who uses us How we like learning (From children) Tchrs – how not to teach?

• To learn is to acquire information • The web will produce …………….. • Digital information – putting into files may not be the best way to organise this digital material • Information can be in more than one place at one time • Blogging taught us that anybody can be creative..... • Information is scarce and hard to find • Trust authority for good information • Is being challenges • Authorized information is beyond the discussion • The above is now out! • We need to SEE the discussion (Wikipedia) • Our students can find the authority deep in the discussions • Obey the authority • Follow along • Now – students and every day people are producing • Diigo – on Web 1.0 – you have discussions on the page so that it can now be interactive • Delicious – aggregating / orgnising / tagging – the information
 * Student expectations**

• See Suzie’s website http://educationalsoftware.wikispaces.com/ • Subscribe to a feed • Google readers / Bloglines that are free • iGoogle / Netvibes
 * RSS feeds – teaching us that information can find us!!**

GREAT questioning is the catalyst for GREAT learning!!

Something in the air.............


 * PM session:** How can we glean what has have shared today for future use/planning/pathways etc

Learning is about…………

To learn is to CREATE……….helping students to make meaningful connections How do we create students who can create?

• 2 types of meaningful connection Semantic:.. Personal…. The above 2 meanings are inseparable!!

1. Find a grand narrative to provide…. 2. Create a learning environment…… 3. Do both in a way that realizes and leverages media environment….
 * Creating significance**

2005 YouTube 2004 Facebook 2002 …… No digital natives here!!

The Law of accelerating time….. A new way of learning emerges – flickr / twitter…..

The challenge for higher learning…. Create platform for participation………..NETVIBES

• Wiki A schedule is locked down (Nothing else is though!) Discussion sessions Pictures o the left – the more contributions, the bigger your head • Diigo Highlight something on the web and leave notes • YouTube On the left an then Zoho on the right – can add your notes as the Video is playing • The moment it is posted to the blog ……

2 students – a relationship (the value is in their connection and them maintaining this) (Number of links = N(N-1)2 12 relationships = 66 links


 * Network** = Participation ☺ (GOOD – if it works!!)
 * Hierarchy** – authority :-]
 * Mass** – follow along ☹

How do we get BIG groups working well together Something that will really engage them! A world map – each student is designated a place They have to learn everything about that environment and be the experts 1.3 billion live on less than $1 a day Building significance within the classroom… Technology secondary – collaboration the highlight

__**Jott**__ - transposes your voice in to text Then, can broadcast in to a twitter forum

__**// Session 3 //**__
What’s on Top – from the earlier video • Staggering – the rate of change ie. No natives now! • Altho’ we’re natives alongside the students- what is the potential!?! • Knowledgeable? – Knowledge-able our students • Theory directly linked all the way through his work • He was organizing his students through many Web 2.0 tools • Scarey – what we need to know to meet their needs • Where might we get the information from? • We would still need the mentoring?? • Ross – Google reader is a GREAT way to keep networked (Not on an ICT PD cluster) • The energy this lecturer had! • Peer mediated stuff etc – lots of learning along the way • Accountability • Let the journey happen – however – an increased level of accountability from the tchrs • Strong ethical moral message • Concept – he wanted his students to have an understanding of…..

**Netvibes – a tool for live feeding – an aggregator (Tessa)**
• Live blogs I subscribe to • Web note – intro the page • html – embed the movies • Live feed from YouTube – sits on Tessa’s page • Live feeds / Asynchronous / Synchronous – all on the one page • Threads • Stickies • NO ONE can come in to my page and add (Like a portal) • Wiki – interoperable space • Facebook / MySpace / Calendars • Maps – Click on the links • http://www.netvibes.com/homegroupCNIconferences • conferences – feeds • spliced • Tools, tips, trips tag – Suzie’s Web 2.0 link in here • iGoogle.com VERSUS netvibes: netvibes can have a private and public (Just a lot of urls in a visual interface (iGoogle is totally public) • Google reader - • Search engine in delicious – is great • New tab – Title – to edit – arrow – ad content – web page – edit – url – CNI HG – add page (Now whole CNI wiki is loading)

**Recommendation**: Get a username and create your own portal / RSS feeds etc!!
• New tab – Title – to edit – arrow – ad content – web page – edit – url – CNI HG – add page (Now whole CNI wiki is loading)