2011

Our 2011 Journey

**October 25 - Facilitator's visit**
Sally worked with David. Used Jing and created tutorials for All tutorials can be viewed on http://ict-ideas-and-resources.wikispaces.com [|facilitation25_10_2011.pdf]
 * How to get on the Internet
 * How to use Jing
 * How to edit Wiki
 * How to use Delicious
 * How to view school __email__
 * How to store __information__ on school network
 * How to use Excel
 * How to use Power Point

**October 7- Milestone 4**
Submitted our milestone document

**September 29 - SNUP meeting**
Meeting between Telco Consultant (Phillip Turner), principal, IT lead teacher and IT technician. Consultant went through the __new__ Linux Server and explained its properties and processes

**September 26 - Facilitator's visit**
Sally worked with David - spent the whole day trying to solve our school internet problem. [|facilitation26_09_2011.pdf]

**September 13 - Facilitator's visit**
David's visit. Another group of teachers were paired off and allocated either 60 minutes or 90 minutes slot to work with David. As before, teachers were given the opportunity to choose an E-Learning tool they would like David to help them with. Meeting between the SNUP Project Manager and Pukekohe North regarding issues about the __new__ network system.

**September 5 - Staff meeting**
Staff meeting lead by the lead teachers.

**August 22 - Facilitator's visit**
David's visit. Teachers were paired off and allocated either 60 minutes or 90 minutes slot to work with David. Teachers were given the opportunity to choose an E-Learning tool they would like David to help them with. [|facilitation22_08_2011.pdf]

**August 15 - Staff meeting**
Staff meeting lead by the lead teachers. Staff were shown [|Digital Citizenship.pdf]
 * how to login onto the new network system
 * how to get onto their new school email address
 * Digital Citizenship matrix

**August 8 - Cluster meeting**
Cluster lead teachers meeting.

**July 19 & 20 - New network**
New network server was set up.

**May 23 - Facilitator's visit**
Worked with David - finished off our Milestone 3 report. Went for a walkabout to show David where we are in our SNUP project - we are in week 4 of our week 7 project. Started creating a mindmap for our term 3 topic 'Changes in Aotearoa'. [|facilitation23_05_2011.pdf]

SNUP project

**May 16 - IT equipment**
Received a new projecting screen.

**May 9 - Cluster meeting**
Cluster lead teachers meeting at the Franklin Centre. Looked at Milestone 3.

**April 26 - SNUP**
SNUP project started.

**April 19 - Lead teachers' workshop**
Cluster lead teachers __workshop__ at Pukekohe Intermediate School. 7 of our staff members attended the __workshop__ ran by lead teachers. The aim of the workshop was for the lead teachers to show/demonstrate IT tools that can be integrated into teaching. Lovey and I did our workshop on 'Talking Book'. We thought our workshop went well as it was relevant for the teachers who attended as they were mainly junior teachers.

**April 15 - SNUP meeting**
Meeting between the Project Manager (David Oades) from Telco Asset Management Ltd and the Project Manager (Sanil Singh) from PBS Data Limited and Pukekohe North for SNUP project. Spent the whole day going through the mobilisation checklist. All parties agreed for contract work to be done from 2.00 pm to 11.00 pm. School was informed that project will take 7 weeks to complete.

**April 12 - IT equipment**
8 new all-in-one computers arrived for our computer. To date, we have __now__ 22 computers in the computer room plus a 2Touch interactive whiteboard. The board was bought towards the end of last year.

**March 28 - Facilitator's visit**
Lead teachers worked with David - continued __working__ on our mindmap on Digital Citizenship. Looked at the 9 strands to becoming a good digital citizen... Lead teachers ran a staff meeting focusing on Digital Citizenship. Teachers were grouped and asked to add more detail/ideas to the strands. Teachers were quite overwhelmed at what is expected of them to promote and ensure that the school, teachers and students are good digital citizens. See Digital Citizenship mind map under Planning. [|facilitation21_03_2011.pdf]
 * 1) A digital citizen is a confident and capable user of ICT
 * 2) A digital citizen is literate in the language, symbols and texts of digital technologies
 * 3) A digital citizen respects the concepts of privacy and freedom of speech in a digital world
 * 4) A digital citizen uses and develops critical thinking skills in cyberspace
 * 5) A digital citizen demonstrates honesty and integrity and ethical behaviour in their use of ICT
 * 6) A digital citizen uses technologies to participate in educational, cultural and economic activities
 * 7) A digital citizen uses ICT to relate to others in positive meaningful ways
 * 8) A digital citizen is aware of ICT challenges and can manage them effectively
 * 9) A digital citizen contributes and actively promotes the values of digital citizenship

**March 21 - Facilitator's visit**
Lead teachers worked with David - discussed Digital Citizenship and browsed through [|NetSafe - Learn, Guide, Protect] Started a mindmap on Digital Citizenship focusing on School as a Digital Citizen, Teachers as Digital Citizens and Students as good Digital Citizens. [|facilitation21_03_2011.pdf]

**March 14 - Cluster meeting**
Cluster lead teachers meeting. Started off at Valley School. Maureen showed us her classroom and how she had organised it to integrate e-learning. She had groups of 5 desks with a computer on the end desk. Brilliant idea as children had easy access to computers without moving around.

**March 4 - Staff meeting**
Lead teachers and Papa Chris ran a staff meeting showing teachers new IT tools (learnt from Rotorua Conference) that can be integrated into their teaching plan. Teachers had a play with tools. Lead teachers had also invited a rep from Sitech to come in and show/demonstrate some of their IT equipment.

**February 22 to 25 - Learning @ Schools**
Our second year to attend the Learning @ Schools conference in Rotorua. This time Papa Chris came along with us. Another fantastic conference. Lovey and I went there with confidence this time as we were familiar with the area and our expectations. As usual, learnt lots of new IT tools.

**January 26 - Professional Development**
We all went (with other members of the cluster team) to Mt. Wellington to attend Tony Ryan's workshop on 'Zest Practice'. The day was entertaining and practical - looked at making our classrooms zestful. Fantastic speaker.