Ngongotaha+Milestone+6

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 * Te Whanau Manu staff revised how to then updated their [|blogs].
 * Te Whanau Wai staff revised how to then updated their [|blogs].
 * Principal shared i-movie she had made of her trip to South Africa.
 * Room 2 produced an i-movie about feelings.


 * Paula worked with Principal on i-pad data transfer.
 * COW's used throughout the school. Students engaged in collaborative work researching an artists biography then copying their style.
 * Senior and middle school staff using e-AsTTle for standardised testing and data gathering. AsTTle alignment tools used to help form OTJs. Junior School teachers using the e-AsTTle writing matrix.
 * Junior school students in Room 16 (Year 1 and 2) have been using online tools to create their own Jackson Pollack styled art.

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 * Staff completed ICT end of contract survey with Paula.
 * ICT team meet to complete budget purchasing - looked at ipad costing with new models release.
 * Teachers in senior and middle school using YouTube clips to explore the works and lives of famous artists.
 * Children in Room 1 used Free Rice to see if they could identify the work/style of different artists.
 * Some teachers now using text messaging to share students work and notices with parents. Below are examples of senior maths works that students recorded and then text their parents using the teachers cellphone:
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 * Staff meeting shared SOLO planning for 2013.


 * Congratulations to Leihia who is a finalist in the static image category of the MADE awards. We had a number of students entered in this competition.
 * ICT experts interviewed staff and began production of movie to introduce or school to local kindies.

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 * Art and ICT Staff meeting. This was a repeat of the workshop that was run as part of the Making It Happen mini conference earlier this year.
 * Paula in school - meet with ICT team leader to discuss future purchasing and sustainability moving forward. Worked with teachers and Teacher Aides around the use of i-pad aps to assit with the teaching/learning of ORS students.
 * Room 14 worked in the tech suite on their holiday art.
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 * Planning for Term 4 with an Art focus was finalised:

=Week 10 Term 3=
 * Te Whanau Maunga held a Whanau Hui to consult with parents. The use of ICT to enhance learning was discussed.
 * Digital images used to promote thinking using the See,Think, Wonder approach:
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=Week 9 Term 3=
 * Senior and Middle school teachers using video clips from the Literacy Hut and Youtube to promote writing and oral language.
 * Junior classes using Comiclife and Pizap to assist with writing procedural texts.

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 * Techies (with assistance from Miss Coles, Mrs Naera/The Principal and Paula) shared an i-move they had created for Mrs Naera to share while she was overseas visiting other schools.

=Week 8 Term 3= created by cluster Techies to promote their schools. This was one of the workshops run at our school. || =Week 7 Term 3=
 * Room 1,2, and Room 6 students used the digital cameras to go on a geometry scavenger hunt and take photos of 2 and 3 dimensional shapes around the school.
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 * Room 2 students identify geometric features, photograph them then lable them in Te Reo Maori. ||
 * Students in the Senior and Middle school are using the COWs to research treasure boxes from around the world.
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 * All staff attended the Cluster share event held at Aorangi. 4 staff members were involved in running sessions as were 2 members of the student Techies group. Cathrine shared how her junior class were using [|Tagxedo] to create visual poetry based on the Seasons:
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 * Ngongotaha School hosted the Techies groups from the cluster. Miss Coles worked with the teams from each school to assist them create a promotional poster/books about their schools. They used Comiclife and Little Bird Tales. Hopefully all these student go and share the new skills they have learnt with their peers.
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 * Room 14 used MS Paint to illustrate nursery rhymes they are learning.
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 * Senior (Rm1) and Junior (Rm14) students worked together (tuakana teina) to complete a same and different picture using Pizap.
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 * Student's used [|Cubeecraft]and Photofiltre to create 2-D nets with their own faces on then construct the 3-D structure.

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 * Leads attended Lead Teacher Day held at Glenhome.
 * ICT lead and Rm 16 Teacher Lesley using the video to capture student voice:
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 * Staff are continuing to develop SOLO rubrics. This is an example shared at the Te Whanau Ngahere syndicate hui this week:
 * As part of the ALL literacy contract the teachers in Rooms 1-4 and Mrs Astwoods writing group have been using interesting photos found via Google Images to inspire creative writing.
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 * Paula at school.
 * Junior and Middle Rumaki teachers creating onlie story books in Te Reo Maori:
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 * Principal and all senior managment attended Tataiako PD at Glenhome school looking at Maori student engagement.
 * Room 16 entered the [|ilovelearning] art competition. The children chose something the loved about learning and then created their artwork and wrote a caption/title using word art.
 * Room 4 have been working on ICT check lists compiled by their teacher. As the complete a piece the date the skills they have used.
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 * Room 6 used Crazy Talk.4 to record themselves speaking about their treasures. They were taught how to do this by their senior buddy class Room 1 as part of our Tuakana Teina approach.

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media type="custom" key="21318798" =Week 4 Term 3= > || ||  ||
 * Room 8 learnt how to Cartoonize photos of themselves. This was the motivation for a piece of procedural writing.
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 * Weekly assemblies feature a lot of work either created using or shared using ICT such as this example from our Junior Rumaki class this week (power point originally included video)
 * Many teachers are using Pinterest to locate ideas and resources. The following are examples from senior and middle school classes that were inspired by Pinterest.
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 * Room 3 (Riley, Shaun and helpers) created a movie about their art to share with the school and parents. This was created in Movie Maker Live and shown at a school assembly and posted on their blog.

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 * Room 16 shared their nursery rhymes at assembly including using the data projector to show the illustrations to the school and parents.
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 * Whole staff appraisal meeting. All appraisal documents are electronic, they also all contain a technology component/appraisal goal.
 * Room 1 attendend the opening of the [|Family Treasures] exhibition. Students submitted online images and descriptions via the museum's website. Of the final 27 items exhibited 13 were from our school.
 * After working with Pam Hook teachers attempted to put SOLO rubrics into cartoon format. The Rumaki staff liked this idea as it cut down the amount of translation that was needed.
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 * Room 9 students used Pizap to create a picture framing their special treasures, The school wide them this year is Taonga and we are looking at the ways people share their stories and treasures.
 * Principal attended a combined cluster hui re sustainability - Cathryn will look at the Techies role along with Nick Brell. Cathryn sent out a survey to leads to gather feedback.
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 * Te Whanau Ngahere hui - Focus on ICT each staff member shared: Lesley - BeeBot resource folder and ideas for their use, Michaela - Pizap, ABCYa design a car - Kylie, [|www.cookie.com] - Lesley, Then whole group discussion of presenting a SOLO topic from start to finish.
 * Paula (Facilitator in school)
 * Junior students interviewed class mates using the Ezispeaks.
 * Principal attended breakfast meeting for cluster principals.
 * Room 16 Interview their senior class buddy using the webcam to record the answers.
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 * Room 7 teacher uses the video to capture her student's initial thoughts about volume and capacity:

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 * Three teachers met to assist each other with the filling out of assistive technology applications for students with special needs.
 * Whole staff call back day. On this day the whole staff rotated through three set activities. Our school technician showed staff how to edit the webpage, The ICT lead (Dean) taught staff how to create Little Bird Tales and Pam Hook worked with syndicate teams to refine their SOLO focus for the upcoming term.

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 * Staff completed an ICT PMI chart to assist the ICT team with forward planning


 * Teachers in the Senior and Middle school have been using Rachel Boyd's Shutterbug photography unit. Here are some of Room 4's various shots:

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 * Dean helped run the Tech Expert day Aorangi Primary. Four of our students attended this session along with Dean and Kylie (staff).
 * Tech Experts from Room One ran a photography session with their classmates and teacher to share learning from the prior day.
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 * Teams completed there SOLO curriculum plans for Term 3 including the integration of ICT skills.
 * Cluster share at Kawaha Point (5 staff members presenting 4 workshops). All staff attended.
 * Three lead teachers attended school visits in Tauranga:

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 * Students in the Junior school are using the Ezispeak microphones to record themselves reading and improve their use of expression.
 * Lead teachers attended Glenhome Primary.
 * Ruma Tekau ma Rua created this Power Point about the tipuna Ihenga. It played in the background while they acted out the story i roto i Te Reo Maori. This was done infront of an audience of parents and students many of whom did not speak Maori.
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 * All staff attended the Making It Happen mini conference.
 * 4 staff members presented at the cross cluster conference.