Conferences

[|ULearn10]
Coming up - ULearn Conference October 5th - October 8th in Christchurch. Check out our learning at [] Sandy and Janette found some interesting items at the Toshiba stand!

[|Learning at School 2010]
This Conference was attended in February by the facilitators, some principals and lead teachers. It was great to get some ideas for starting our cluster on the way and for seeing what is happening out there in the big wide world. A huge conference with 1300 attendees, run over 3 days and across about 6 different venues. A good kickstart to the year.

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This presentation showcased a number (actually more than 9!) of pieces of software and how they might be used in the classroom. Whilst it was presented from an intermediate school perspective there was definitely a lot of opportunity to use this in a high school context.This breakout provided a free CD and the presentation's intention was to provide all the materials needed to begin using it on 'Monday morning.'Leigh and Sandy have a copy of the CD if you would like to borrow it to copy it.======

Otherwise Fine - Bernie Wills
Both these workshops provided us with great starting points for our cluster, with numerous ideas and links to some really fantastic successful places to start. This was really the aim of the conference for Leigh and myself. Both were full of great tips. __**Inquiry**__ **Mandy Dempsey - e Time, Christchurch**

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Communicate and interact with authentic audiences / Access rich resources of multimedia providing relevant learning anytime, anywhere / participate in collaborative and co-operative learning experiences / making global connections / addressing the needs of our digital natives / empowering student voice======

Online Professional Learning Communities - Tessa Gray
A fantastic thought provoking session. All information on the wiki. Reiterated the need to be sure that we are certain of the purpose of setting up our online environment - important to do all the pre planning before getting started.