Glenholme+Milestone+5

Students showing - digital etiquette - digital communication and - digital literacy -accessing digital tools. Students are using e-learning and SOLO Taxonomies to support and enhance their achievement. ||
 * **National Goals** || **RCICT Cluster Goals** ||
 * **Goal 1:**
 * Students to become successful digital citizens** || **Goal 1:**
 * **Evidence:**

__** Junior Syndicate **__
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 * **Keyboard skills**
 * **Basic Word skills**
 * **Class blogging**
 * **Mobi Pad and Pen**
 * **Mathletics**

**The children in the Junior Syndicate show how skilled they are using ICT tools and applications.**
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__** Middle Syndicate **__

 * **Use of wireless keyboards, flip videos, iPod Touch and cameras**
 * **Class blogging**
 * **Mathletics**
 * **Superclubs Plus**
 * **Fotobabble**
 * **Cam Wow using the iPod Touch**
 * **Wordle**

** Here the Middle School Syndicate show how they use e-Learning tools in their classrooms. **
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__** Senior Syndicate **__

 * **Class blogging**
 * **Fotobabble**
 * **QR Codes**
 * **Blogging and creating videos with iPod Touches**
 * **Mathletics**
 * **Superclubs Plus**
 * **Use of wireless keyboards, flip videos, iPod Touches, iPhones, iPads and cameras**
 * **Wallwisher**
 * **Photopeach Displays**
 * **Jib Jab**
 * **Voki**

**This senior class used Wallwisher to communicate their thoughts and ideas about Digital Citizenship.**
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**The senior students' topic study focused on Keeping Ourselves Safe in an Online Community with a focus on digital etiquette.**
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**Yr3 to 6 students are registered with Superclubs Plus, a safe social networking site which educates children how to be safe online and how to communicate appropriately using digital ettiquette.**
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**The senior school children have been creating Q R Codes and using the iPod to read them. They have presented these Q R Codes in a widget called Embedit.in.**
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 * The Te Roopu Rangatahi Cluster meet twice a term and have shared ICT presentations using various Web 2.0 tools and applications to depict what they did over the Christmas holidays. They are currently working collaboratively with their Te Roopu peers to create e-Books on Cyber Safety. Their goal is to use Powerpoint and other Web 2.0 tools to demonstrate their knowledge and skill with various ICT tools and applications. Visit our Weebly site to follow their progress []**=====
 * Here the Te Roopu Rangatahi tamariki are being shown how to navigate their way around the Weebly website by Whaea Wendy. This site is where the children share their e-Learning work and experiences. You can see below how engaged and focused they all are as they work on their e-Books.**

|| Principals to facilitate the development and maintenance of school ICT/e-learning strategic plans which will include reference to meeting the needs of Maori students. Principals will coordinate the development of e-learning leaders by providing targeted PD opportunities for themselves and Lead ICT Teachers. Unpack Kahikitia document & explore the implications it has for teachers & Maori students. || =Principals PD Trip to Nelson (Sustainability Focus) Week 8, Term 1= [] =Nelson Timeline= [] media type="youtube" key="1a5QBKMoMqk?version=3" height="315" width="420"
 * **Goal 2:**
 * Principals to lead the integration of e-learning in their schools (strategic and operational)** || **Goal 2:**
 * **Evidence:**
 * Whole school wireless upgrade completed Term 4 2011
 * Term 1 Week 2 - Lead Teacher attended RCICT & Town and Country Lead Teacher Professional Development at Kaharoa School - Opportunity to share and gather ideas across clusters.
 * Term 1 Week 3 - All staff given the opportunity to meet with Paula Jamieson to set personal ICT goals for the term.
 * Term 1 Week 4 - eTap [|Student Management System] Training for all staff. Whole school now using this system.
 * Term 1 Week 5- Two new staff members attended Introduction to SOLO Taxonomy with Pam Hook - Part 1 and 2
 * Term 1 Week 7 - Lead Teacher attended RCICT & Town and Country lead teacher professional development at Glenholme School - e-Learning Planning Framework presented by Tessa Gray
 * Term 1 Week 9 - All staff attended a Superclubs Plus Workshop, presented by Monique Palmer
 * Term 1 Week 9 - All staff attended the Make It Happen Cluster Share Event at Westbrook Primary School. Four staff presented workshops.
 * Term 1 Weeks 5 & 9 - e-Leader attended RCICT Cluster meetings at Glenholme School. This provided an opportunity for cross school collaboration as well as the opportunity to explore Maori student achievement for the Te Roopu Rangatahi students.
 * Term 1 Weeks 5 & 9 - e-Leader and the Te Roopu Rangatahi children met at Rotorua Primary School with the other cluster children to work on their electronic books. This provided an opportunity for cross school collaboration, to explore Maori student achievement and to share e-Learning skills.
 * Term 2 Week 2 - e-Leader attended RCICT & Town and Country lead teacher professional development workshop with Paula Jamieson with a focus on Milestone 5 reporting.
 * Term 2 Week 3 - e-Leader attended RCICT cluster meeting at Glenholme School. This workshop provided professional development for the lead teachers to focus on the maintenance of the Te Roopu Rangatahi Weebly website.
 * Term 2 Week 3 - e-Leader and the Te Roopu Rangatahi children met at Rotorua Primary School with the other cluster children to work on their electronic books. This provided an opportunity for cross school collaboration, to explore Maori student achievement and to share e-Learning skills.


 * MILESTONE 5 PRINCIPAL'S REPORT **

//"This year, to date, it feels like things are coming together. Glenholme School is utilising all the resources, tools, funding, learning and goal setting of the past two years. The Board of Trustees has recently invested in infrastructure and tools that has supported the staff and students' e-Learning development. Reliable wireless access has minimized barriers to staff and student e-Learning. Availability of the server and internet anywhere in the school has increased the use of tools in the classroom with tamariki and in and around the school with staff.//

//Staff meetings have on a regular basis been interactive. The wireless access has allowed a progression from demonstration to participation. Teachers learning and experiencing the technology at the point of learning time. Another component that has contributed to the development is the introduction of a web based student management system and an eRegister. The expectation on teachers to maintain classroom blogs and utilize tools to maximize blog posts has continued this year.//

//We have introduced Super Clubs Plus and Mathletics to classroom teachers, a responsibility that was once overseen by one teacher across the school, has now become the responsibility of each classroom teacher. Ensuring that teachers are aware of student capability and knowledge, that teachers are monitoring students developing skills and setting a programme accordingly using these online tools.//

//Google Docs was introduced last year to Glenholme School. Staff have been encouraged to continue to collaborate and plan using this tool. This year management and the administration have also utilized Google Doc tools to increase efficiency. Relievers' schedule, relievers list, meeting agendas and minutes have been successful. With the successful development of such tools it has encouraged me to consider the introduction of such tools at the Board of Trustees level. Community consultation, staff and student voice using Google Docs and a BOT Wiki are goals I have set as future developments at Glenholme School." **Nancy Macfarlane - Principal Glenholme School**// || Increase teacher knowledge and expertise that will work towards raising student achievement through e-learning and SOLO Taxonomy. || "//We are thrilled to have a new piece of ICT equipment in our class. The iPod Touch has enabled us to post on our blog from anywhere within the school and the process is much quicker. I have been able to complete the attendance register on eTAP when we have had a swimming session first thing in the morning or after lunch time out at the pool. I have been able to use the recording function to video each child for their end of term 1 swimming assessment. The children were then able to view themselves, which is always a powerful reflection tool. We take photos and can post them instantly on to the blog – no downloading from a digital camera, no saving the photo into a folder and then posting it. I am finding the iPod Touch an essential tool for teaching and learning and whenever we leave the room we take it with us//." Whaea Susan
 * **Goal 3:**
 * Teachers to integrate e-learning effectively into their practice creating an innovative and exciting learning environment for all students** || **Goal 3:**
 * **Evidence:**
 * A teacher's reflection about how she has been teaching and implementing the use of the new iPods issued to 5 teachers within the school:**

**__ SOLO Taxonomy __**
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 * The teachers and students have been working co-constructively with SOLO Hot maps to increase students' understanding of various subject material.**


 * All teachers are planning their topic studies using ICT and SOLO Taxonomy planning templates. Planning for Junior, Middle and Senior Syndicates here**

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 * Term 1 Week 9 - All staff attended the RCICT Clustershare Event. Four staff presented 10 minute workshops from Glenholme School. This was a great opporunity for the 5 Cluster schools to collaborate and share their e-Learning and SOLO Taxonomy skills and knowledge. **
 * ** Lisa - Youblisher **
 * ** Susan - Powerful Powerpoint **
 * ** Anaru - Blogging from the iPhone **
 * ** Shari - Mobi slate and Interwrite software **
 * Click Here to view the "Purposeful Powerpoint" handout that was shared with all those that attended this session**
 * One of our Glenholme teachers reflects on her Clustershare experience **
 * Follow this link to view the programme and feedback from ALL teachers that attended**

__** e-Tap Student Management System **__

 * Our Deputy Principal, Sarah Thompson reflects on the benefits of eTap's [|Student Management System], which Glenholme School staff began using in Term 1, 2012:**

"//In the short time that we have been using the eTAP Student Management System I have found that it is effective and very easy to both enter data and retrieve information from the system. We had been using our previous system for approximately 6 years and although I was very familiar with it I still had difficulty retrieving whole school data when I required it.//

//I have found the eTAP professional development effective, for setting me up to use the new system and have been impressed with the help desk. If there is something that I am unsure of, such as how to identify our Ngati Whakaue students, I have been able to get instructions that I can easily follow from the help desk within a couple of hours.// //I am able to enter data regarding our special needs children which can be printed out in a report format, rather than checking in a series of folders to see which agencies are involved and the intervention programmes a child has been on. We will be able to build a record over time about individual children which we were not able to do with our previous system.// //The report formats that have been created are wonderful.//

//Our reception class teacher is able to complete the report for a child and then let me know that it is ready for me to add my comment on once I have reviewed all of the testing data on the child. The most difficult part of this process was working out how to print the report when it was complete. This has created an efficient system which cuts down on the time we spent using a template and emailing the information between the teacher and myself.//

//eTAP being available on the internet is also a huge advantage as it is easy for me to access data when I am working at home."// || Communicate changes in pedagogy and use of e-learning and SOLO Taxonomy to the school community. ||
 * **Goal 4:**
 * Family and whānau to actively participate in their child’s learning** || **Goal 4:**
 * **Evidence:**


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 * All Glenholme staff have class blogs. Teachers have set personal learning goals to increase their blogging skills and to expose their students to various web 2 tools and applications that they can present on class blogs. Whanau are encouraged to actively participate in their child's e-Learning by visiting blogs and posting comments.**

__** Parent Evening on Cyber Safety **__
Cross-school collaboration within the cluster extends professional learning and enhances pedagogical practice and culminates in a series of e-presentations for a national audience. ||
 * Whanau were invited to attend a Cyber Safety evening presented by our National ICT Facilitator Tessa Gray to educate parents about how to keep their children safe online.** ||
 * **Goal 5:**
 * Sharing online professional reflections to inform colleagues of the challenges and opportunities afforded by e-learning** || **Goal 5:**
 * **Evidence:**
 * == Westbrook School has contributed to the VLN as part of our Milestone 5 requirement. ==
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 * === ALL teachers now receive our monthly Cluster "Noticeboard" Newsletter via email (for Sustainability each school in the cluster is having a turn at this on a rotation basis).  ===
 * Link:** https://paulaspages.wikispaces.com/Notice+Board ||