Lead teachers

Meeting on Thursday 7 May at eTime

·  Cyber safety- how’s your school policy

·  Bishopdale - to seek permission when photos are being put on the internet

·  Lyttleton Main - a blanket letter to all about permission for names and photos

·  Lyttleton West - permission is sought when students enrol

·  Heaton - permission is given at enrolment, students sign an individual contract, internet times out to not allow lunchtime access

·  Chisnalwood - similar to Heaton, frustration over tight boundaries around what is accessible

·  Cybersafety is a need that is being addressed by schools in different ways. Examples of letters could be linked to port hills wiki

·  Creation of a rubric for tracking teacher and students use of IT in school

·  Examples to be provided to allow lead teachers to create a tracking teachers progress and to indentify next steps. A rubric will be planned for

·  Discussion of how things are going so far in school with application of new skills

·  Schools have shared ideas learning with teachers via a staff meeting. Some schools have established buddies etc.

·  Seniors have moved more quickly than juniors as the students can take a lead.

·  Teaching staff are aware of the aims and the direction that could be taken. Schools have spent the past term looking at their own systems.

·  Lead teachers have been examining their own class programmes and then exploring how these can connect.

·  Important that staff do not feel the pressure to complete the standard / prescribed activity

·  Practicum overview- Digital Literacy in regards to using ICT in building creativity in classrooms

·  The next practicuum will focus on a some easy class based programme for use within the class programme. This will include comic life, photo story and scrap booking.

·  These may be suitable for other teachers from your school. Suggestions or requests could be forwarded to Nick.

·  Need to explore ways to meet the very practical basic needs of staff. We could consider holding open staff meeting with a specific purpose.

·  How we want our sharing sessions to go?

·  The intention is to increase the social/collaborative aspect of these sessions. The next session will be at Chisnalwood early next term. The planned format will be 3.30 welcome, go to seperate rooms as a breakout focus. Presentations will be delivered once for a duration of about 20 or 30 minutes followed by drinks/mingle and share.

·  Examples might be to share a wiki, how have you included ICT in your programme.

·  Nick will send an invitation/request for people to share their work.

·  Lisa and Nick to discuss the practicality of getting access to ICT requirements

·  Launch

·  Positive feedback about the launch

·  Web 2.0

·  Tools

·  shelfari

·  Jing

·  Flowgram

·  www.spellingcity.com

·  vuvox

·  If you need to find links chcek the nick@etime link from the port hills cluster

·  Meeting closed 3.00