Kaharoa+Milestone+6

= For Milestone 6 = Term 4 2012 SUccessful in a funding application for 15 ipads from the PTA and have placed order. ** (Goal 1, 2, 3 & 4) ** Attended the MADE awards and the school gained a 2nd in Static Image Photography yer 7/8 and Overall best actor. Very proud moments. ** (Goal 1, 4 & 5) ** Tawa class had a short throw projector installed into their classroom and their old one was put into another classroom. Work began around the school on the ultrafast broadband upgrade. Lead and Principal met to review strategic plan for elearning at Kaharoa School. ** (Goal 2 & 3) ** School newsletter went out with a blurb about ICT use in Room Tawa written by students. ** (Goal 1 & 4 ) ** [] Held an open afternoon for parents to and come in and see what their children have been doing with ICT and SOLO. Lead teacher attended a Teacher Only day at Matata School to present about students use of photography. ** (Goal 3, 4 & 5) ** media type="custom" key="21288486" Paula in for a day to work with lead teacher Principal attended principal meeting reguarding sustainability for ICT contract ** (Goal 2) ** ICT Lead teacher day at GlenholmeICT team met - We had a PD session on using Pizap showing the teachers how to put in the background and then add a picture to cut outand superimpose onto background. Teachers made own [|www.pizap.com] cutout. Lead teacher and principal met. Looking at what needs we have for next year with regards to equipment and teacher development. Staff meeting teachers were given instructions for the google doc so the teachers completed a small survey to aid in future planning.** (Goal 3) ** [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [|https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wWc62ffTOdGQlKxN9-G2DDPmxA8CGHxoRI6ngNtd25c/edit] Group stations put into 3 classrooms - now all the classes have group stations for the students.** (Goal 2 - Hardware purchasing) ** Students made a top 10 list for ICT tools used this year. Here are some examples ** (Goal 1) ** Senior syndicate shared how to use e-asttle to aid in OTJs for national standards.** (Goal 3) ** Room Rimu had a piece about the ICT use in their classroom** (Goal 1) ** [] Finalists were announced for the 2012 MADE Awards. We have finalists in 2 categories, year 7/8 documentary and year 7/8 static image. [|www.madeawards.com] media type="custom" key="21288070" Documentary Finalist Lead met with staff member to work on blog with go through how to post to a blog and upload to youtube. [] Term 3 2012 Year 6 used e-asttle with Principal for maths. ** (Goal 2 - Principals Leadership) ** Room Tawa shared powerpoint pick a paths with juniors and in assembly. media type="custom" key="21288976" Room Rimu shared photostory in assembly to show science experiments.** (Goal 1) ** media type="custom" key="21288076" Room Rata had a piece in the newsletter about ICT use in their classroom** (Goal 1 and 4) ** [] Teachers continued to work on Paula's lessons in their classes. ICT team meeting - focussed on questions for a small staff survey for the end of ICTPD reflection from staff. Also decided to survey students from Room 4 up andjust select a couple of students from each class to participate in it.Finalised entries to the MADE awards. We have entered in two categories this year - the Static image and Documentary Categories, really excited to be enteringthis competition again after last years success. Below are our 6 photo entries. ** (Goals 1 and 3) ** PTA have agreed to fund group stations in 3 classrooms - this will mean we have a bank of 4 computers in each classroom. They should arrive early term 4.Teachers were given a copy of Paula's end of PD survey to read through over the holidays so they come prepared to staff meeting with ideas in week 3 term 4when Paula will be here to lead it.Lead teacher and principal met and discussed sustainablilty for next year and where to next for us. We will being strategic planning early next term. Room Miro had a piece in the newsletter about ICT use in their classroom ** (Goals 1,2,3 and 4) ** [] Paula spent 3 days at Kaharoa school working in classrooms with teachers using IWB, cameras, photo editing tools, little bird tales online stories and netbooks.Teacher thoughts on the session ** (Goal 1) **[] ICT team team met to learn more about the upcoming SOLO share next term. Clustershare event was at Aorangi School, 2 Kaharoa teachers presented (one showed how they use IWB with new entrants for writing and handwriting and the other shared her experiences with photostory). All Kaharoa teachers have now presented at the clustershare events. Room Matai started a blog [] Monday Tech Angel Day, the lead teacher took 4 students to Ngongotaha School for a day about collaborating, making connections and learning. Today the students learnt new skills to share with each other. We put all tasks together using Little Bird Tales.** (Goal 1) ** Lead teacher day at Glenholme Lead and principal discussed next term and next year in regards to sustainability and the changes to the cluster. Room Matai put a piece in the newsletter about ICT use in their class (Goal 4) []
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 * Week 7 **

Julie reported to the BOT about the progress of ICT and whats happening in the school with ICT. Warwick and Julie met with Chris (a web designer) to discuss our vision for the school website. Looked at ideas and what to include in the site. ICT team met we discussed Paulas visit in week 8 and how best to use her here since she is here for 3 days. Teachers think she is most valuable working inclassrooms with teachers to model lessons. Timtable to be created for this. The ICT team also worked on the cluster newsletter that we are producing this month. ** (Goal 2 and 3) ** media type="custom" key="21288243"   Newsletter was sent distributed to the two clusters.Warwick and Julie met to look at the tech angel thoughts for next year and gave our input.Warwick has started a moviemaking club to create a documentary about the Kahaora Kokako trust and the Kaharoa Forest, they shared some of thier videos on assembly. ** (Goal 1,3 and 4) ** Principal and ICt lead met to look at sustainablilty in ICT for next year when the contract is over and also bounced some ideas about how it could work acrossthe cluster.ICT team met and discussed/worked on whole school ICT skills progression that we are developing. Looking to change our website so the students have a more visible part of it as there are few photos. Have looked at other school websites for inspiration andideas of how this might look/work. Going to approach a someone in the community to see if they could help us with the design part.The facebook page is beginning to be utilised by more people to celebrate, remind and share information to community, we are also finding the more we post,the more we are being followed. ** (Goal 2 and 3) ** School electives started, some included ICT focus Shared olympic videos websites with staff on teachingvideos.co.uk During the school holidays 2 members of staff attended a SOLO workshop held at Otongo with Julie Mills. They fed back to staff at staff meeting what they took from the day. Staff meeting the staff shared what elearning opportunities they have planned for this term. **(Goal 1 and 3) ** media type="custom" key="21288221"
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Term 2 2012 Funding application made for ipads, ipods and classroom computers for the school. ** (Goal 2) ** Room Tawa posted their first video on their class blog. Students continue to control the class blog by creating the posts. [] ** (Goal 1) ** Started posting on school Facebook page, getting a positive response from community. ** (Goal 3 and 4) ** Staff meeting introduced Olympics tab on the schools only2click account and encouraged others to book mark more sites to share. Also talked about the school facebook page and what is appropriate for it and what isn't. We are a school and business so posts need to be grammatically correct and promote the school and students.** (Goal 4) ** Tech Angel day at Aorangi with 4 students and lead teacher. Students took part in sharing, learning and a competition. Kaharoa Tech Angels came 1st in the competition.** (Goal 1) ** http://townandcountry-rotorua.wikispaces.com/TECH+ANGELS Staff meeting sharing about the cluster share and ICT making IT happen conference. All staff shared about what they got from the sessions. (goal 3) Art exhibition with digital photography showing throughout the exhibition of what happened in our classes for art week.  (goal 4) Photography club provided photos from the club to display at the exhibition (goal 4) Lead teacher attended ipad work shop with cluster facilitator to learn about aps for the classroom. (goal 3) School newsletter had a piece from Room Kowhar about what is happening in their class with ICT (goal 4) []
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Cluster share at Kawaha Point School and 4 teachers presented 10 minute sessions http://paulaspages.wikispaces.com/T%26C+Clustershare+Term+2%2C+2012 Mark Smith came out and sorted out some computer problems Lead teacher went to lead trip to Tauranga schools to see leading schools (Te akau ki Papamoa and Selwyn Ridge School). Introduction of study ladder in some classes from conference. Kaharoa School joined facebook to communicate to community. [] school newsletter included a piece for a class about what is happeing in their class with ICT (goal 4) [] The 4 tech angels selected from the photography club to represent the school at the cluster tech angel initiative. Students experimented with QR Codes [|www.goqr.me] when they wrote their flight reports, the QR code linked to a video of their flying machine in action. They had been introduced to QR codes when Paula worked with small groups last term. media type="custom" key="21289086"
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