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=**Increase e-learning leadership and ICT strategic planning capability of principals and teachers** = Strategic Plan reviewed November 2010
 * Albury School**


 * Pleasant Point Primary**
 * [|Reviewed ICT Strategic Plan 2010 - 2011 Pleasant Point Primary.pdf]**


 * Sacred Heart**


 * St Josephs**

Strategic Plan reviewed November 2010
 * Winchester Rural School** -

[|Woodbury School ICT STRATEGIC PLAN 09-11.pdf]
 * Woodbury**

 = ** Conference Feedback ** =

= **Learning at Schools** = Barton Rura || Learning at school was a great way to gain a lot of different ideas to use in the classroom. One particular workshop about using interactive whiteboards easier and smarter was really informative. From that workshop I have completely changed the way I deliver and plan my numeracy programme and have been able to assist other teachers in using the interactive boards in a similiar way. Another workshop I attended showed a lot of cool, easy tools to use in the classroom. I have taken these back to the less confident staff to assist them in integrating e-learning into their classroom with more confidence. || St Andrews || I came back from Learning at school enthused by what I had seen. As a result we purchased easy speak microphones (2) and started using them. Due to demand from teachers we purchased 2 per classroom. These are in use everyday in some way in every classroom. I have been able to start providing teachers with useful websites as I feel they are ready for new tools. I have been able to have professional conversations with other people who attended the conference and regulary check sites that belong to some of the presenters. I gained more confidence to go and show teachers how tools can be used after being a participant. There are still things that come to mind that I am trialling in my class. || Fairlie Primary School || I came back from Learning at School with some great ideas about possible directions for our school. It was great listening to the keynote speakers. Our school sent everyone on the bus tours this year, as it has proven to be a valuable experience rather than listening to one person talking about what they have seen. I have demonstrated and modelled some of the tools that are available, that I learned about and some of the breakouts were partictarily valuable as I selected them on a 'what about if my school wants to go down this path', that has been very useful as I have been able to talk about the pros and cons of different things such as e-portfolios. The resource nine in 90 minutes has been very useful, especially for giving some direction to the Techie Angels in the school, around digital storybooks. || Pleasant Point || Learning at School was an inspirational experience. The key note speakers were interesting and shared valuable insights into the way they saw ICT helping to educate students for the future. There were key ideas from each of the key note speakers that we were able to share back at school and adapt to the needs of our staff and our students. The Breakouts were a mixture of interesting and inspirational. From the Breakout called a Mishmash for Juniors I came back to school with remnewed confidence in the teaching of Inquiry and ICT and with lots of cool ideas to share with other staff and my class. Other breakouts gave us the opportunity to think and reflect on the implementation of National Standards and how we could seamlessly integrate these into our school programme with the use of ICT. We found it beneficial having two of us from our work site attend as in the evening we were able to reflect on what would be useful to bring back to school and to share our ideas with each other. Some of the ICT tools that were shared at Breakouts we are now using on a daily basis within our classroom programmes. || media type="custom" key="7447687" SHPS Ulearn comments by Hayden, Nic, Mel and Katie on page 5 of Voicethread above. E-Time Bus Tour comments by Jenny and Amanda are on page 6 of the Voicethread.
 * Teacher Name || Comment ||
 * Hayden Inkster
 * Karen Porritt
 * Jane Clarke Winchester Rural School || Some of the breakouts I attended were particularly useful. I have used the resources provided by Lynn Ross from the on the Inquiry Track Breakout and as a school our integrated unit plans have been adapted in a similar way to her layout. As a school we purchased an easi-speak microphone for each class and these are used in a variety of ways. The CD resource from the nine in 90 breakout has been very beneficial and in my own class I used the digital story format. ||
 * Andrea Fryer
 * Ann & Jo

**Ulearn**
(St Joseph's) || Ulearn was an excellent opportunity to hear from a number of international speakers and participate in a wide range of workshops. It also provide our staff the opportunity to reflect on and discuss ideas presented in these workshops and see which ones would be of the most benefit to our school and where we are wanting to move to next with our Inquiry Learning. Art Costa's 'Habits of Minds' and Tony Ryan's 'Thinkers Keys' are two syles of thinking that we all connnected with and could see how well they would integrate with our current school development and enhance it further. We will develop an Action Plan for 2011 around how we can implement these across the school and design a developmental rubric to support the learning progressions. || (St Joseph's) || Ulearn was a very useful learning evironment for myself. From the " key note speakers" to the workshops. Two workshops of particular importance for myself were the Habits of Mind with Karen Boyes and the Thinkers Keys with Tony Ryan. I will be implementing the latter into my 2011 inquiry model. One of the minor workshops could have delivered a more practical content over a longer time frame, as it basically focussed on websites and not the structuring of a lesson that I hoped it would deliver upon. || Ewer (St Joseph's) || I enjoyed most of the workshops that I attended. I got some great tips to help children to effectively research when using the internet and also some helpful shortcuts to use on Word 2007. I have already begun implementing The Habits of Mind into my classroom as they fit in so well with the Key Competencies and our MacKillop Values. I also attended Effective Communication and Professional Development workshops which were also very useful. || Pleasant Point Primary || I found ULearn especially inspirational this time. I was especially affected by Lane Clark. I attended her keynote address and also both her breakouts. I had worked with Lane in the past, and the work I did with her refreshed my memory about her ideas and also gave me the benefit of the changes and advances she has made with her work. I have reviewed and refreshed her authorthink publishers process. I also attended two breakouts with Julia Atkin, and one with Tony Ryan. Both these speakers had interesting insights into the Key Competencies, as did Trevor Bond. I have shared some of these ideas in my learning team. My intent is to trial some new approaches with monitoring the Key Competencies to see if they might enhance our current school practice. If our trial is successful I will bring the ideas to our management team for consideration. The central message of ULearn for me is that ICT is only part of the changes needed to ensure success for my learners. || Pleasant Point Primary || I really enjoyed ULearn. I found it quite inspiring. I have started to experiment with including Tony Ryan's Thinkers Keys into my classroom with a view to making it a cornerstone of my classroom programme next year. I have started incorporating some of the ideas from Karen Boyes' Anchoring breakout into my class management routines. I was particularly affected by Lane Clark's keynote. It made me consider how much more powerful I could make the Inquiry Learning process in my classroom. || Pleasant Point || I found ULearn to be a powerful learning experience. I attended a breakout with Tony Ryan based around his Thinkers Keys. I have experimented with these with my current class with a view to incorporating the keys in my classroom programme from the start of next year. My breakout with Karen Boyes allowed me to revisit and reinforce my use of Teaching Zones within the classroom. I expect that as I reflect more on my experiences that I will have more ideas to bring to my class in 2011 || Woodbury || Ulearn was a great experience. I particularly enjoyed Lane Clark's address entitled "Think!nQ" She discussed real world learning, the meaning of learning and the difference between knowing & learning. It was great to be able to down load notes during the address. I spent time at the displays talking to people with whom we work, but don't usually get to meet. e.g. the NZCER team. They had info on the latest developments in online assessment and were extremely helpful. A hands on workshop I attended on the last day saw us leaving with a disc full of cool programmes to use with our children and a feeling of having had a glimpse at the future of learning in our schools. - I am definitely a digital immigrant! ||
 * Teacher Name || Comment ||
 * Lisa Morrison (St Joseph's) || Ulearn provided me with a range of tools, approaches and ideas that are easily transferrable straight into my teaching and learning programmes. As a result of attending I have introduced Tony Ryan's thinkers keys into a number of lessons and intend to develop these further throughout the term. These and Art Costa's Habits of Mind will become a school wide focus in 2011. I have also adapted some of my planning in order to implement ideas from a workshop on using Movie Maker as an inquiry and communication tool to further enhance my children's learning. I have also shared these ideas and tools with the rest of the staff to support their inquiry focus and use of Movie Maker this term. ||
 * Collette Sandilands
 * Karen Scott
 * Bernadette
 * Barb Curran
 * Jacquie Wrigley
 * Elsie Greenwood Pleasant Point || U-Learn was a great experience for me. I enjoyed being around other teachers and finding out about things that have been happening in other parts of the country. I have used more ICT as part of my daily classroom programme - we use the digital camera and the LCD screen for theme and for literacy. U-learn made me look into my teaching and to raise my expectations of the things that 5 and 6 year olds can achieve. I enjoyed Lne Clark's keynote about the Inquiry process and it made me think about how important the 'so what' stage of the inquiry process is, and i will use this as a base for my planning in the future. ||
 * Sarah Williams
 * Hayden, Nic, Mel, and Katie SHPS || Comments in the Voicethread posted above this table. ||
 * Claire Haugh

** School Tours **
Sandra Blakemore St Andrews. || These teachers attended the e-time bus tour in Christchurch. They shared their findings in a staff meeting with a power point. (Thinking Tool) Staff are now using the reflection time questions in their classes to improve students understanding of their learning. || Rural School - e-Time bus tour || What I have implemented from the eTime tour? Winchester Rural School - e-Time bus tour || Ideas implemented into my classroom/school · Classroom displays · Presentations of children’s work Fairlie Primary School || || Fairlie Primary School || ||
 * Teacher Name || Comment ||
 * Gina Grieve and
 * Ali Bowan - Winchester
 * Displaying some of the children's artworks in clear plastic pockets.
 * Displaying Inquiry Model at front of the classroom to be highly visible and easily referenced.
 * To get the children to be more reflective in their learning more frequently - "I feeel great about...", "I was pleased with....","I used to...but now I..."
 * Continueing to reinforce and display The Thinker's key's and use all technological aids to develop and strengthen learning in all areas of the curriculum.
 * Instill the thought that ICT is only one tool amongst others. ||
 * Aroha Gay
 * Some ideas for our Induction Programme for New Entrants ||
 * Senior Syndicate
 * Junior Syndicate
 * SHPS Jenny and Amanda || Comments posted in the Voicethread above the Ulearn table. ||

