17+May+2010

1. Planning - rich and relevant
Leanne - This has given me good thought about where we can go with our planning across the school. It promoted good dialogue and reflection amongst colleagues and we have committed to reviewing our planning. Leonie - Following this I reported to the BoT We thought the idea of having a big concept that you taught through different contexts throughout the year was something we are going to follow up. We have some aspects of this in our programme now and our next steps are to move from local to national to global contexts. Suzanne - This has affirmed how I have been thinking and planning. I thought I was doing intergrated planning but really I was planning for learning areas. I now have a framework of planning that I will be including in my school curriculum. ==**2. Digistore - Accessing Digistore, exploring learning objects and looking at learning paths Andy - I used the digistore to enhance my literacy program. It was an activity to  **do with recall and recount writing. The learning was; == students are able to; sequence and order a set of events add adjectives to make the writing exciting for another reader insert conjunctions to create full informational sentences manipulate language to create a recount of a unknown story students also learnt (ICT) the processes of using the selected literacy program Kirsty: My teachers left your workshop humming and eager to trial online resources and activities within their literacy and numeracy programmes. Susan gave us all a heads up and established a wiki for her class on the night! She has since 'tagged' a number of sites for her students to explore within her literacy rotation - awesome! We then discussed class and school wikis at a subsequent staff meeting - what is their purpose? how will be use them consistently across the classes? who wil be responsible for content? how can we use them for sharing information with our families and school community? We don't have all the answers yet but we're working on it :) ==media type="youtube" key="aQGzj0UhL_k" height="385" width="480" **[|Show and tell - That Cat!] ** ==

|| || ||  ||  || ||  ||  ||