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BOT Report - 22 February 2010

I will be attending a 3 day conference called Learning in Schools in Rotorua (24th-26th February). Thank you for allowing me to attend. It is part of the I.C.T Contract Requirements for Principals. It would have been ideal if all staff could have attended. I will give the staff as much feedback as I can. There are about 232 workshops and over 1300 delegates to the conference. I will report back at our next meeting.
 * PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT **


 * Appraisal Goals**

Integrate ICT into classroom practice through effective planning.

Actions:
 * Use the wiki for maths practice activities to reinforce their stratgies and number knowledge.
 * Use comic life to retell and report their experinces and information.
 * Use photostory to retell stories of camp and sports days.
 * Use skype to communicate with experts.
 * Use gmail account to communicate with other children.
 * Use wiki for sharing student work.


 * BOT Report - 31st May 2010**

The ICT Facilitator was present at school on Wednesday 26 May. I worked with Kim Easton the lead teacher to discuss a plan where we can move forward with ICT. Since ebing involved with the contract we are all on Skype, teachers are using the data projector to help with modelling, testing and presenting. Teachers are also using more of photostory a writing programme for students. We look forward to purchasing at least 2 more data projectors in the near future.


 * Call Back Day Feed back**

I listened to Nick Billows, he talked about people sharing, as the more people that share the greater the impact. He talked about people taking risks without learning anything. You have to encourage everyone in the things that they do. There are lots of pockets of potential and you have to develop learning styles in curriculum, competencies, cognition and computer literacy.
 * Jackie**

I attended Jill Hammonds National Standards Literacy workshop at the call back day. The key message I got from her if children start with a then they should end with a pencil. She suggested children starting on the computer and finishing on the computer. Jill offered many different ways to implement ICT within the classroom. I have had children starting on the computer and finishing on the computer. Children found this easier as they could edit their work faster on the computer. We have started using Comic Life and the children find this to be an amazing program to use.
 * Kim**

Enjoyed the session with Jill Hammond and got lots of useful tips:
 * Noeline**
 * how computer use can be managed in the classroom which is always a challenge
 * tracking editing changes
 * comic life licensing

Completed her feed back via link sent to us.**
 * Roz