Introducing Rob

ECE facilitators

ECE Virtual Meeting Agenda

Purpose: Exploring the possibilities
Present: Sharon, Naketa, Rob,
Apologies:Shayne - Greenwood Kindergarten

Agenda:

1. Intros - Sharon, Naketa, Rob,
   
2. Background to FOS Live project. Digital Safety stuff for FOS.
   
3. 2 mins each to share blog(s) - overview and purpose of your ECE blog(s).
   

• Greenwood Kindergarten
• Grasslands Kindergarten
• Rotorua Girls' High School Childcare (Example 1)
• Next Generation Childcare
• Manaia Kindergarten
• Beverly Kaye Professional blog
  
• Thames Early childhood Education Centre (Eden T's Blog, Sophie's Blog)
  

1. Blogs in primary - Rob
2. FOS Live - Rob to share new school web site, vision, purpose, etc.
3. Explore the similarities, differences and possibilities.
4. Common issues - cyber safety, ethics, open/closed access sites, sustainability, parent involvement.
   
5. Discussion on how children may be able to transition from a ECE blog setting to a primary blog setting.
   

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Web 2 Tools

Here is the link to my Delicious account where I've put sites about various web2 tools.

Tool for blogging

Here's something for you to try if you are using a Mac - widget for your dashboard which allows you to quickly make blog posts without having to go online.

The advantage of a tool like this is that you can quickly record ideas and define which blog they go into. Here is an image of me setting it up on my Mac. Excellent possibilities here.

I've labelled this post with techie and tool plus put a link to the right so you can find all items we post.

Welcome to this workshop

Welcome to this workshop about learning portfolios. Please check out these instructions before we start. Here is the link to download the inspiration mindmap with loads of links to other sites/reference/etc. You can get a trial copy by clicking this link. I hope you find this helpful.

I hope you learn some useful new skills which you can transfer into your classroom/school. I also hope to be able to learn from you.

Rob

Learning portfolios

Have just been to a sensational session about learning portfolios with Rob Clarke from Fendalton Primary school. We have looked at using blogs for learning portfolios and the ways that children have been using these as reflection tools and logs of their own learning. I have also learned about di lic ous (not sure about that spelling) and will be looking at exactly how this works and how I can use this for reducing my workload. Lynne's class at TAI have been into the blogging since the beginning of the year so I will be referring to that as well. I would like to examine the benefits for families of using blogs as a learning reflection tool too. I do think that having parents being able to be right on the learning journey and actively participate in the feedback process will be beneficial to the children.

We will need to be looking at the digital safety and ethics involved in blogging as a result of this shift too. Further research is necessary on this from my part.

All in all... looking forward to this journey :-)

Thanks Rob

The big thing for me was a clearer understanding of the use of tags. I am going to be a much better blog facilitator because of this. I have only just started doing this WEB 2 stuff with teachers and students. You have have also given us some very useful links. I also agreeDe-li-cio-us is absolutely great. Have you used google notes - new and really cool.

John P

Issue - Coping with Digital Safety

Here are some links relating to Digital Safety:
Fendalton's Digital Safety Site. It will open in a new window.

Here is the link to my Delicious account pages relating to digital safety. Some of these are sites, others are movies on youtube. Some relate to general concepts such as privacy, sharing personal information, while others are specific to particular technologies such as blogs.

Here is a snippet of the movies I've found on youtube:


Here is a link searching youtube for 'internet safety'. You could also do a search on teachertube for the same keywords.

I hope you find these helpful.

Great session

Wonderful session today thank you. If I was thinking of this in terms of an Ignorance Log I have been working in the unknown area. So much to learn but looks like fun. Need some time now to play around with it. Keep up the good work. Very worthwhile session.

an eye opener

Thanks Rob for the very interesting and practical workshop. I'm thinking about the applications of this for the senior secondary classroom - where we are trying to encourage feedback before summative assessment. Blogs could also be a great place for media students to share their work with a gobal audience (thinking about how to circumvent curly copyright issues though!)

Delicious link

This is my link to delicious http://del.icio.us/wombatstew

Great workshop

Great hands-on practical session. Megan from Toko on the 'Forgotten Highway'

Great site - Te Awamutu Intermediate

Here is a fabulous example of a blog site. Click here to view it

Issue new blogger - using it with NE kids

Issue - how will this be of benefit to New Entrants - many of whom are unable to read or write.

first time blogger

Excited about learning to use another tool to communicate with the wider community and that allows children to share their work!!!!

Issue - making this manageable in the classroom

I am wondering how to make blogging easy in the classroom. What can I do if children forget their username and passwords?

I'm also on the hunt for practical ideas from people as they learn to use these tools in their situations...

Tags/Labels????

Any suggestions on how to use with New Entrants?

Delicious and the rest...

Thanks for today. There is plenty of new learning going on for me and I can see loads of applications for the class and school I teach at. Is the blog page we are reaching you on now one that we can continue to use to communicate with you post-conference?