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This goal about digital citizens has continued to be a focus with regard to the concept of copyright. Teachers have examined issues pertaining to copyright and become familiar with the use of creative commons for copyright free images. Students are beginning to develop their awareness of copyright and are being selective of the images they use with teacher guidance and consider how they share and publish these in a range of ways including on the class blogs. Their knowledge and understanding of rules and copyright laws is emerging and contributing to their overall understanding and success as a digital citizen.
 * Digital Citizens **

Teachers and students are making effective use of their own [|digital images]  for manipulation and presentation.

Teachers are making use of [|web 2 tools] with copyright free music to create engaging multi media presentations and movies that are copyright compliant. These are uploaded to You Tube accounts and marked as unlisted to preserve privacy and then uploaded to class blogs.

Effective digital citizenship continues to be a focus area, particularly with the new computers and mobile devices recently leased and purchased. Hector’s World safety software has been installed on the new classrooms computers for students to use appropriately as one measure of being safe online. The Hector’s World website has also been added as a favourite for students to access and work through the modules at their own pace. This allows for new students to the school to also participate and access learning opportunities in cyber safety and digital citizenship and not just miss out because this was a learning focus earlier on in the year. Goal 2 The Principal has prioritised the upgrade of the class computers. Considerable amount of time was spent examining options including leasing and purchasing. Staff spent time reflecting on what was required to support quality teaching and learning programmes in the classrooms. The Principal facilitated the trialling of notebooks  in the classrooms for a 6 week period and provided a forum for reflective practices and effective evaluation of these as e-learning tools. The Principal has continued to communicate her vision for “anywhere, anytime, any place” access and the use of mobile devices to achieve this flexibility. She has worked with the staff to develop a vision for what the technology upgrade would look like, sound like and feel like in the classrooms. She has encouraged both the staff and Board to think about providing cutting edge technology and has researched best practices with i-pads.

The Principal arranged for the purchase of 4 i-pads per classroom and the leasing of 4 desktop computers per classroom. Each classroom now has 8 up-to-date tools/resources which with the low class numbers, equates to one computer to approximately 1 and a half students!

The Principal facilitated a staff call back day in the holidays to introduce teachers to the i-pad technology and provide professional learning and training. She has motivated and inspired the teachers to get involved and engaged and identify the great potential the technology provides and the numerous ways to improve student engagement, progress and achievement.

The Principal has continued to encourage reflective practice from the teachers and set up on online forum for discussion on the new technology, through strategic questioning <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> and a focus on student outcomes.

The Principal has shared the new technology with the <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Board <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">and has facilitated discussion and encouraged feedback to capture <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Board  <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">and <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Parent voice.

<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Principal has successfully arranged for the transition of the school email accounts to a Google platform and has worked with the school’s ICT technician to set up Gmail for the teachers and students.

The Principal has also started using Google docs with the staff and has shared documents relating to teacher reflective practice in ICT, teaching and learning pedagogy and student engagement and achievement. This has been most successful and the teachers are managing this easily without any issues. It is proving to be a very effective way to capture teacher voice, collaborate and share ideas, challenges, experiences and next steps. <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Goal 3 <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Teachers are continually challenged and encouraged to take risks and try new things with e-learning and share their successes with each other and on the school’s wiki for teachers. <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Provision has been made for additional professional learning opportunities for staff to motivate, inspire and up skill so that meaningful integration of e-learning can occur. <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">One teacher has participated in a Part B <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">ActivBoard training day <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> and is very keen and excited to have improved and developed <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">[|new skills] <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> and confidence with the software. This in turn is providing students with greater access to the ActivBoards and engaging learning opportunities. <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;"> new staff member <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> has been inducted this past term and has worked alongside other staff and the principal to get up to speed with using the class wiki and blog. The wiki has been <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">updated <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> with <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">new learning links <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> and appropriate resources pertaining to class topics and inquiry. The class blog has been added to with multimedia presentations about aspects of school learning. The online web based learning environment and the use of web 2 tools was all new for the teacher. The students have been introduced to using <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Animoto] <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">and <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Smile Box] <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">to create movies and presentations. <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">At a Self-Review level it is very pleasing and encouraging to see that the school’s commitment to ICT professional learning has created sustainable practices for the development and project. Although a new staff member who has not been part of and ICT cluster before has been appointed, ICT continues to be promoted and developed school wide through effective leadership and an infectious enthusiasm. The principal and teachers are all to be congratulated for their high level of commitment to on going professional learning and making a huge difference to student engagement, progress and achievement with the integration of effective 21st century digital learning opportunities. <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Goal 4 <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The class blogs have continued to be a vehicle to share and showcase our school wide learning and develop effective partnerships. Students are delighted about sharing their learning. We have found the students to be the most successful way of getting their parents to actively participate in their learning by showing them all the exciting things they have been doing on the blog and encouraging them to leave comments. What parent can resist when their child/children shows them their work or happy face in a photo or them talking in a video? <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Teachers are becoming more strategic in encouraging students to share their blogging with immediate family and extended family in other parts of New Zealand or the world. Some parents, whanau and community members have joined the class blogs as followers and are leaving <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">[|quality comments] <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> and <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">[|supportive feedback.] <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> The teachers are supporting this process by getting the students to reply to these comments and create a conversation around learning and work on the blogs. <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">E-portfolios are a feature of our Three-way conferences and were held again during Term 3. They are a very effective tool to get the students and parents involved in the learning process and next steps. They also utilise ICT technologies and digital learning easily and meaningfully. <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ICT has continued to be a focus for school wide learning and parent and community members have been kept up-to-date through weekly <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">newsletters, <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">community/district newsletters, class wikis and class blogs.

appropriate and preparatory for the world in which they will function as adults
 * Schools will use e-learning to give effect to the New Zealand Curriculum / Te Marautanga o Aotearoa by increasing the capability of ** :-
 * National Goal || Cluster Goals || Success Indicators || Evidence could be - || Comment and Links to Evidence ||
 * Students to become successful digital citizens || To assist teachers to provide opportunities for students to work in ways
 * Students to become successful digital citizens || To assist teachers to provide opportunities for students to work in ways

To develop teacher understanding and use of online areas so that they and their students will regularly work in online environments and follow netiquette. || Each school has explored their understanding of digital citizenship and implemented programmes that have enabled students to develop necessary skills, values and processes.

Students are responsible users of the internet aware of how to operate safely and treat other people in this online environment. . || Student voice (video, text, audio) Teacher voice Photos Blog / wiki posts Rubrics ||  || and responsible users of technology who collaborate and problem solve to meet challenges || Students are exploring new software / web 2.0 tools and are problem solving and collaborating both face-to-face and online to teach themselves and others
 * || To upskill teachers to ensure that students will become regular, informed

Students are regular users of a range of ICTs within their learning programmes and are able to select appropriate tools. || Student voice Teacher voice Photos Blog / wiki posts Rubrics Examples of Students using a variety of tools ||  || of e-learning in their schools (strategic and operational) || Principals will lead and resource ICTPD in their schools through strategic and operational planning, which addresses professional development, infrastructure and sustainability that enhances effective teaching and learning programmes || E-learning is an integral part of all school documentation, including planning and appraisal goals Principals are leading the professional learning of the process of inquiry throughout the school. Distributive leadership is evident across the school Principals are modelling and facilitating e-learning for their teachers, during professional learning Classroom walkthroughs show that the new learning is being embedded in classrooms. Schools are well resourced to meet e-learning needs of students || Unit Plans showing student use of ICTs, links and thinking strategies Snapshot of appraisal goals and reflective practice Lead teacher leadership Principal use of ICTs during PD Principal reflections on focused walk throughs ICT Strategic planning included vision, professional development, planned expenditure based on needs ||  || creating an innovative and exciting learning environment for all students || Teachers will plan innovative programmes that excite and motivate learners through authentic concepts that allow for student input into decision making || Teachers’ planning includes relevant, purposeful, meaningful, coherent, e-learning opportunities focused around authentic conceptual understandings based on identified school and student needs Students are using an inquiry approach to learning Students are motivated learners, able to articulate their learning, reflect on their learning processes and outcomes, and set next steps Teachers and students are contributing and responding to online environments || Concept unit planning Examples of student inquiry Student voice about their learning / goal setting Students contributing / responding in online environments Teacher reflections ||  || Schools share changes in pedagogy and technology with family and whanau || Principals and teachers are reporting evidence of progress in all curriculum areas and particularly literacy through the use of e-learning. Family and whanau havare accessing and contributing to class wikis / blogs Family and whanau are informed of changes in pedagogy through school websites, newsletters and attending face-to-face and community meetings. || Student samples of literacy on blogs / wikis - audio, video, visual Parents communications on wiki / blogs School facebook pages Newsletters Websites Parent evenings/ afternoons ||  || of the challenges and opportunities afforded by e-learning* || Schools will make regular contributions to professional online community sites, including KCC wikis, blogs and the VLN || The cluster contributes stories to the VLN that demonstrate the challenges and successes they are experiencing as part of the programme development, including teacher reflection and further action plans. || School stories focused around cluster goals uploaded to cluster page as a resource in VLN. ||  ||
 * Principals to lead the integration
 * Principals to lead the integration
 * Teachers to integrate e-learning effectively into their practice
 * Teachers to integrate e-learning effectively into their practice
 * Family and whānau to actively participate in their child’s learning || Schools will share, with family and whanau, students’ progress and achievement.
 * Family and whānau to actively participate in their child’s learning || Schools will share, with family and whanau, students’ progress and achievement.
 * The sector by sharing online professional reflections to inform colleagues
 * The sector by sharing online professional reflections to inform colleagues