Cluster+Workshops

=Cluster Workshops=

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**Cluster Workshops 6 - 28th June 2011 - 3.30pm - 4.30pm**
This round of workshops are hands on. So unless stated you will need to take your own laptop. Workshops offered, have been decided upon because they reflect the needs across the cluster in relation to goals that individual teachers have set. We have tried to cover a wide variety of these goals. Some workshops have been repeated as a reflection of the feedback we recieved last time around. The Workshops will be held at schools across the cluster and a list of exact rooms for schools will be sent out closer to the time. Please get your bookings done as soon as possible ( **by Friday** would be good). There is a __**limit of 10**__ for each workshop.

__Workshops Offered as Follows:__

 * 1. **Wikis/Blog - Bits and Bobs for Beginners** - Havelock Primary || 2. **Green Screening** - Havelock Primary ||
 * 3. **Comic Life Across the Curriculum** - Parkvale School || 4. **Movies and Mouths** - Te Mata School ||
 * 5. **"Phunky Photos"** - Parkvale School || 6. **Let's Get Literate** - Frimley School ||
 * 7. **E-Learning and Numeracy for Beginners** - Mahora School || 8. **[|Google Sites]** - Frimley School ||
 * 9. **Sharing with Google** - Frimley School || 10. **Voki and Animoto** - Mayfair School ||
 * 11. **Using My Portfolio -** Parkvale School || 12. **Google Spreadsheets -** Frimley School ||

Click on the link below to see a page with all the workshop blurbs. = [|Blurbs] =

**Cluster Workshops 5 May 17th 2011 - 3.30 - 4.30pm**
This round of workshops are hands on. So unless stated you will need to take your own laptop. Workshops offered, have been decided upon because they reflect the needs across the cluster in relation to goals that individual teachers have set. We have tried to cover a wide variety of these goals. The Workshops will be held at schools across the cluster and a list of exact rooms for schools will be sent out closer to the time. Please get your bookings done as soon as possible ( **by Friday** would be good). There is a __**limit of 15**__ for workshops

__Workshops Offered as Follows:__

 * 1. **Wikis for Beginners** - Havelock Primary || 2. **Blogs for Beginners** - Havelock Primary ||
 * 3. **Advanced Blogging** - Parkvale School || 4. **Photos in the Classrooom** - Beginners - Te Mata School ||
 * 5. **"Phunky Photos"** - Parkvale School || 6. **Let's Get Literate** - Frimley School ||
 * 7. **E-Learning and Numeracy** - Mahora School || 8. **Computer Basics** - Te Mata School ||
 * 9. **Everything Google** - Frimley School || 10. **Online Collaborating** - Mayfair School ||
 * 11. **e-Portfolios for Teachers My Portfolio** - Parkvale School ||

=__Workshop Resources:__=

E-Learning and Numeracy
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** We Learn! Now U Learn 2 - A Continuation from Last Year's Workshop **
Round 2 of our follow-up to last year's U Learn Conference. Workshops as follows: 1. **Creating Shutterbugs** - Great ideas for motivation and utilisation of the digital camera in your classroom. Go away with heaps of ideas that you can use across the curriculum. 2. **Managing a Blog in the Classroom** - not a How to blog, but a process, how to get it going and manage it in class (could be applied to a wiki, website etc) 3. **@Telling Stories in Your Own Voice** - Giving real ownership to your students by letting them tell stories by recording in their own voice. Gives students the opportunity to get inside the character with making their voice like the character. 4. **1-1 Laptop Classrooms** - Rational behind establishing 1-1 classrooms - consideration, parental involvements, teaching and learning, costs, examples. 5. **E-Books** - Literacy e-books - Heaps of resources and links to online books that you can use in your classroom tomorrow! 6. **Video and Tex**t - This workshop will give you an example of a practical process you can follow and adapt for making video in your classroom. You will receive an outline, which you can follows and adapt to take away with you. This workshop will explores ways in which you can use video as a motivational tool to learn literacy and numeracy as well as highlight the literacy and numeracy involved in the process of making video. 7. **Good Golly Google** - Having a look at Google - and realising there is more to Google than just a search engine. 8. **Bling Your Wiki or Blog** - Learn to use some new application to make your wiki or blog stand out from the rest! 9. **Tools for the 21st Century Classroom** - Snippets from a range of Web 2.0 tools for use across all levels of the currriculum. media type="custom" key="8445942"

10. **The Tech Team - Children as Experts** - Taking the time to train a groups of technical assistants and problems solvers makes managing classroom technology easier for the teacher. It also teachers e-Learning skills and builds self confidence in the Techs who in turn, inspire and support the same in others.

You can book your workshops here - click on the link. Remember there is a limit to 15 at each workshop.

__** We Learnt! Now U Learn! **__
Sixteen teachers from our cluster attended the ULearn Conference in Christchurch in the school holidays. We have come back with lots of great ideas and a wealth of information to share. You will be able to choose two workshops to attend. These are half hour presentations. There will be drinks and nibbles in between workshops. Click here to follow the link to book your workshops. There is a strict limit of 15 per workshop. If a session becomes overbooked we may have to move you to another workshop. So be in quick! A brief explanation of each workshop:
 * Digital Storytelling - how to put together a digital story book with text, graphics and sound.
 * Shutterbugs - taking great photos
 * Video in class - how to do it, what to use, integration ideas and inspiration
 * SMACdown - heaps of quick hints and tips for Apple users
 * Literacy Ebooks - I went to this one, HEAPS of resources and links to online books
 * Prezi - an online alternative to Powerpoint and Keynote, very snazzy!
 * Blogging - not a HOW TO blog, but a process, how to get it going and manage it in class (could be applied to wiki, website etc.) - Scroll down for a link to the presentation
 * Tips for Leading Schoolwide Professional Learning - self explanatory really

**Digital Storytelling - By Amy & Jodie**
Here is an example of a Digital Storybook created using powerpoint. Sound was also added to this storybook (although you may not hear this) so that younger readers could hear the story being read to them.

Powerpoint 2007

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A link to download Audacity (voice recorder) can be found here. Help with Audacity can be found at this webpage here

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Cluster Workshop 2 - September 7th 2010 - 3.30pm - 5.00pm
Click on the survey link below to give us your feedback on today's workshop to help us with future planning. It's short and sweet!! media type="custom" key="6844893"

We have 10 fabulous workshops to choose from. Below is a list of the location of the workshops and the facilitators.

 * Workshop || Facilitator || Location ||
 * 1. Photostory || Ngaio Dalton || Parkvale School Room 3 ||
 * 2. Wordle || Toni Stewart/Karen Duligall || Havelock Primary Computer Suite ||
 * 3. Voicethread || Leigh Johnson/Andrew Dickson || Frimley Primary Computer Suite ||
 * 4. Movie Making || Lynley Edmonds || Mayfair School ||
 * 5. Advanced Blogging || Janette Hoggard || Frimley School ||
 * 6. Wikis for Beginners || John Willoughby/Kim Wilson || Mahora School ||
 * 7. Interactive Learning Centres || Amy Foy || Te Mata School Computer Suite ||
 * 8. Comic Life || Sandy McFadyen || Parkvale School Computer Suite ||
 * 9. Tidbits for Everyday Use || Alan McKeesick || Frimley School ||
 * 10. iMovie 09 || Luke Fitzsimons || Frimley School ||

Cluster Workshop 1 - May 25th 2010
Below are the links to course notes and materials from each presenter: media type="custom" key="6870689" **Voicethread: (Workshop 2 - September 7)**

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Other Links: http://voicethread4education.wikispaces.com/ ** Blogs and Wikis ** The links to check out are on the **workshop blog** and the **workshop wiki**. Check out the sites of classes who are using blogs and wikis to see what can be done (they are all on the right hand side-bar). Each site also has a discussion page or forum to add your ideas on each format and what it may be useful for.

**__Photostory Workshop Notes__**



 * __Wordle Powerpoint__**