Saturday 19th March

ICT Day
Peter and I met today to attend to the following items:
1) Ordering new laptop from tela.
2) Work on staff meeting for Monday.
3) Work on the strategic plan.
4) Look at the website.
5) Work on beginning to design the photography session for the student conference.

Release day objectives for Faye - Week 7

        Order new TELA laptop

Get rid of the 3 OHP's

Put the screens onto TradeMe

Perhaps get a screen for the hall, or see if one of the old ones fits

Get the student presentation organised

Get the Opensource presentation organised

Get the simple ICT presentation organised

Load office 2011 onto Kristy's and Glenys's macbooks

Lead a staff meeting on where we are going

Think about IWB training

Get the website up to standard (before Monday so we can show staff)

Develop a plan for the photography competition

Finalise the strategic plan

Get started on documentation for school ICT started 

Have another clear out of old computer hardware that does not work - Faye to check each classroom and see which machines need clearing out. 

ICT PD Lead Teacher Day 2

Another busy day discussing the plans for our second year in the cluster. The rubric creation we did in the afternoon was good as it gave me some idea about what we should be looking for in our schools, related to the students, teachers and community. The morning session building up to that was also quite useful as it reinforced or reminded me of all the tools out there that we can use in our teaching.

The short session on the student workshops was interesting, I think we could have spent a little more time on that as it seemed a bit rushed at the end, but we now have something to focus on for that and look forward to sharing it with the students in week 2 of term 2.

Peter

ICT Blogging staff meeting

On Monday afternoon, some of the staff attended a meeting to get their blogs set up.  We went through the set - up procedure on blogger (this was helped by our new school email set-up).  We looked at design, posting, adding images and video.

We had an interesting staff discussion on our privacy policy regarding images of children and refreshed and informed all staff members of this.

Finally, we linked this together with our school wikispace, reminding each staff member that this is where they can find information surrounding blogging.

A very successful hour and a half ! 

test blog

hi Faye

Friday 11 March

An ICT day for Peter.

First 2 hours was spent trying to get easttle working for room 8, however we had several issues. The students got onto the test but could not see any of the text or pictures, they could see the questions though.

We purchased Office 2011 for Mac and installed it onto Tony's macbook. Unfortunately we still cannot do online registrations so resorted to a phone registration and ended up having to talk to Microsoft for the authentication code.

Fixed up Ros's computers so she now has 2 connecting to the Internet and one for games only.

Emailed Clinton for documentation templates so we can ensure we know passwords, hardware id's etc for school and it is not only in peoples heads.

Tried to download camp photos from a CD so we can have some confidence photos up on the wall, but unfortunately the CD was not readable. I did manage to get some more photos from the year 6 directory and the photos are now up on the wall and looking good.

All the student laptops now have power leads and are charging.

Room 10's new desktop is now running authentic office software after I registered it, again by phone.

That's about it.

Week 6 Term 1

This week Peter and I had our first release day for our ICT PD this term.  We had a rather extensive agenda to cover.
1) We met with Mike to discuss various issues for the school including eTAP, our school wiki spaces, our cluster group meetings, school equipment and the website.
2) We met with Jacqui B to begin to talk about the development of our new school website.  We have been working to maintain our existing website, this has proved rather problematic owing to a corrupt file on the website documentation. It is now up and running again on a temporary basis.
3) We attempted to purchase 'office for MAC' to enable word etc. to run on all computers in the school. We are currently having some problems as the programmes are out of date.  We as yet have not been able to purchase this as it has been out of stock in all shops that we have visited.
4) We planned an ICT staff meeting for 21st March.  All staff are requested to bring their laptops.  We have decided this term to look at our school wiki space, our class blogs and to revisit what is expected of us this year with in relation to our ICT Cluster responsibility.
5) We have made an ICT Notice board in the staff room to raise staff awareness of the current ICT activities in school.