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Meeting Minutes 14 August 2012
Digital citizenship - national work being done on national curriculum. Pinehill to hold fire.

Get parents involved in digital citizenship. Potentially send a letter home to parents to let parents know about class wikis and blogs.

BOT report - 13 September, who can attend? Jane, Abby, Kate


 * **Increase parent involvement in online world,** share their child’s work out to their network… Twitter etc. How do we know that it is being read and taken on?
 * 2013, need to push the expectation that parents and family are the audience and community. Meet the teacher evening needed? How to join Wikispaces, Blogger,Twitter etc. Discuss how important it is.
 * Looking forward in planning - how are we reflecting elearning in our planning/level of thinking the children are involved in? Move from incidental learning to planning learning. Moving from teacher based wiki input and letting children take ownership of what they produce.
 * How are we making a particular app work on the ELAPS wiki? DLT to add to it in the next four weeks.
 * How do we know that the time the student is spending on an app is valuable.
 * Google doc for ULearn attendees?

__Staff meeting__


 * 1) ELAPS reflection, add to it as a planning team.

Staff Meeting 23 July 2012

 * __Week 2__- use of iPads (email accounts, classroom protocol etc)
 * Role in the school, not personal use - gmail, messaging, photos
 * Consider creating class rules for use of iPads in room (Amy and Abby)
 * DLT share

Meeting Minutes 22 May 2012

 * 1) eLearning plan - share with staff - Abby, David (see here)
 * 2) Survey results - Abby
 * 3) Basics of the system: wireless network versus internet speed (completed on Friday)
 * 4) Plug into the wall, but turn off airport to make sure the cable is in control
 * 5) Problem solving strategies - classroom ports not working (switches, internet/blog not working) David - info graphic and Jono
 * 6) Youtube account - If available
 * 7) iPads - there will be collatoral damage. Covers are coming. Rules for how people have managed using them in the classroom. Storage - in lockable drawers. More sharing of how they can be used in the class. Julien
 * 8) DLT sharing of apps - All DLT members
 * 9) Offer for others to share apps and/or things working well in their class

Meeting Minutes Monday 7 May 2012
Blogging naming criteria
 * Use initials for labelling/tagging children in your class.
 * Please don’t go back and adjust what is on your blog.
 * Yet to decide how long we will keep content online, will advise at a later date.
 * No individual photos of children, at least two children in each photo.
 * Don’t use childrens’ names when videoing, if they are in the video.

Children are able to use the iPads, but the main reason for this round of iPads is for **us** to become comfortable and familiar with them - navigating, using apps etc., and to see how we envisage use them in the classroom.

Covers will be coming for iPads, treat this with utmost care in the meantime.

Beginning iPads - Rm 12 - new to iPads, would like good amount of support Middle iPads - Rm 2 - Perhaps haven’t got one, but feel ok about setting them up Advanced iPads - Rm 10

Labels - one on the power supply and spare for where we decide on the iPad (photo of number on lock screen?)

Meeting Minutes Thursday 26 April 2012
Discussed what an eLearning classroom would look like: Discussed a questionnaire to give to staff to find out what equipment they have / like / dislike / want, as well as finding out more information about PD for ICT. Survey designed by Abby, Amy and Kate on Monday with David, sent out to all staff to complete by Wednesday.
 * integrated within the running of the classroom
 * in each curriculum
 * similar to differentiation
 * children using technology to develop their thinking further

Discussed a questionnaire for students - this will be discussed and confirmed on Monday with David (how will this be run - juniors, seniors etc??).

Discussed what we envisage students do with eLearning - work collaboratively, sharing and deepening their learning, reinforcing that eLearning enables the weaker skills in writing, they become the experts, rather than expecting teachers to know everything, understand the scope of the wider audience, using eLearning to differentiate within the classroom, breaking down the walls of the classroom.

Design a tracking sheet (similar to the Numeracy sheets) to show what skills the children have learnt during their past years at school.

Discuss consumables for the classrooms - cameras, iPods, computers, laptops, headphones, etc - add to survey to ask each teacher what their priority is for their own classrooms. Make a list of what each class at each level should have for equipment. Discuss what to do about extinct computers - suggested to collect and give them to the Junior classes.

Parent Digital Info evening (Date tbc - week 4 - Wed 7pm? or Term 3??) - teachers involved in second half of evening, possibly displaying eLearning in a couple of classrooms and the ICT lab to demonstrate what we are doing at school with the children, eg. twitter, audioboo, etc iPads ordered, network updated, band-width will be doubled at least, technology will be updated. Can't load Lion onto computers which are needed to interact with SchoolMaster.

Agenda - Meeting 26.4.12
Meeting Agenda for Pinehill DLT, Thursday week 1, Term 2


 * Discuss role of DLT in conjunction with how to use David’s time with us at school
 * In class
 * With planning groups
 * Policy/Vision development
 * What is Pinehill School’s vision for digital learning?
 * Draft of Digital Citizenship policy to discuss with staff
 * Staff meeting focus - do we need to have as many as are timetabled? Can we adjust these to include DLT time to work on policies which need to be finalised (dates, staff involvement, etc)
 * iPads (insurance, accounts, general use expectations....), run lion on trial (app config), Lion and beyond allows iPads to talk to the server...wait until next update - saving work, etc.
 * Technical support/purchases (cameras/iPod touches etc)
 * Planning for Parent digital info evening - shape, background, parent survey issues, what chn are doing now - How can we demonstrate what we are doing with the kids.
 * Info skills/ICT spiral

4th April
- Meet with DLT Term 2 Thursday week 1 - Discuss role of DLT, staff meeting focuses, DLT focus, policies needed to be finalised (dates, staff involvement, etc) - iPads (insurance, accounts, general use expectations....), run lion on trial (app config), Lion and beyond allows iPads to talk to the server...wait until next update - saving work, etc. - Technical support - 3 year e-learning plan (time to develop this asap, who, when?) - Organise agenda for meeting on Thursday so we stay on the right path - Draft of Digital Citizenship policy to discuss with staff? - We all agreed that we need to meet on a more regular basis during the term (and are all happy to do so) and have clear goals for the meetings. Agendas need to be sent out and added to a week before the meeting so that everyone is prepared for the discussions that are needed.

David's Timetable - please click here to fill in the timetable for DK's next visit/s

6th March 2012
Present Kathryn, Karen, Jono, Amy, Jane, Abby, Julien, David, Brian (Massey)

Starting the Journey - Do we feel the need to change the Cyber Safety policy?

DK - Digital Citizenship i.e. more than cyber safety. Looking at the data the children are creating, how do we manage this and how do we protect students in the long term. How long do we leave children's work online after they leave school? We don’t want to get rid of it too soon but some children might require this after a few years. Do we need to remove the “Walled Garden” at school? Is this giving them a false sense of security as they use electronic devices at home without filtering? DK - we need to work with the parents to create a new policy. discussion about Blogger and the creation of an email for the class. The children need to be authors and be able to create content not using the teachers log-in. The email address would follow the protocol - room(number, 1-9 preceeded by 0)@pinehill.school.nz e.g. room02@pinehill.school.nz; room20@pinehill.school.nz... Would we use the school server, or would we use Gmail? (need a google account to sign in to Blogger) Children therefore need to label all their work on the blog with their name, to make it theirs. We also discussed digital heritage and archiving work for the future.

2012 is a transitional year with individual teacher blogs as we need a school account Pinehill Blog. This means that you no longer have access to the blog when you leave. It gives management the final/controlling say. This will need to happen in 2013 We need a tighter structure with a school Youtube account not individual accounts. Things are moving fast but we need more control.

Staff meeting in two weeks is to be a discussion about cyber safety and setting up a new digital citizen citizenship policy.

Do planning teams know the policy on naming children on blogs? - check this Do we need blog rules on each individual blog? - a parents guide

8th Feburary, 2011
**__Present:__** David Kinane, Abby, Amy, Kathryn, Jane, Karen, Jono, Maraea, Kate, Helen, Julien


 * 1) David – summarised his day with us on Tuesday 7th and emailed to each of us. Also posted onto the Pinehill ICT wiki. This could be useful to see what other people are exploring and using – might give you some great ideas!
 * 2) Use the wiki to set our own goals for each term. Identify the 4 or 5 skills to teach the children to do well this term. This can build up to something more major by the end of the year, but break it down to smaller goals.
 * 3) Main thing that people seem to want is to get the children to be more involved in publishing onto blogs/ wikis/ twitter.
 * 4) Schedule David to visit every teacher in the school during this term.
 * 5) To encourage conversations between staff – we need to keep a diary on the wiki, which outlines our term’s goals, how we are progressing, what are our successes and what are our obstacles. Next staff meeting (Monday 27th February) will be focused on wikis – David will talk us through joining our wiki, making our own pages and adding some content to our own pages. Abby to email staff and to ensure there is an Airport in the staffroom.
 * 6) David will email 10 questions to us and he will video our responses to reflect on at the end of the year.
 * 7) It is recommended that each teacher learns to use a blog. Some senior teachers may choose to use a wiki instead (particularly if their focus is on having a page for each child).
 * 8) We need to develop a Digital citizenship plan. We have policies around student photos online. Only use children’s first names with pictures (drawings etc). If it is a photo of the children, we don’t need to use names at all. Videos – children may say their first names. Parent agreement – needs to be sent to all students in the school (not just seniors). (mylgp.org.nz)
 * 9) Track the beneficial outcomes for the children of what we are doing with ICT. This will also communicate to the BOT the effects of our increased efforts. (as part of our wiki diary??)

Goal wording… I want to implement x into our e-learning and this will impact on our x (eg. Literacy, Numeracy, oral language, written language, more input into their children’s learning, more interaction with the teacher, children writing more enthusiastically, etc.)

3rd February, 2012
David Kinane - 7th February - 1st visit, set up learning spaces - go into each DLT member's room, look at furniture set up or how collaboration can work in the classroom. 45 minutes each year level. 9 - Kate Y2 9.45 - Abby Y6 11 - Yr 3 11.45 - Amy Year 5 1.30 - Jane/Karen Yr1 2.15 - Marea

Scanned reading books - set up folder in server?

14th December, 2011
We need to decide Julien's thoughts - use blogspot for class blog (blogger) - design a header for all blogs - include logo and same title, changing classroom number - use blogspot, Pinehill(room #)_2012 - issue with _ How do we name them and identify that it's a 2012 blog. - Twitter accounts
 * what our blogs/wiki spaces are going to be called
 * how they are going to be uniform (logo, title etc)
 * what to do with this year's work
 * class blogs vs individual blogs vs individual wikis

**12th December, 2011**
Welcome to David Kinane to Pinehill. toc
 * Introductory keynote - IT learning is not a fad…
 * Every sector of life is changing due to the internet
 * We have to change as this is the life our children are living
 * We have good understanding of what learning is
 * E-learning - it’s just learning
 * 90 tools in 90 minutes :)
 * Disjointed e-teaching (OHP, photocopier, TV, video recorder) in the past **Changing the tools isn’t enough. What we do with the tools is what is important.**
 * Sharing childrens’ learning with the community - amongst staff, outside experts, with children
 * Great to communicate with parents ‘notify me/rss - a window into my child’s class
 * Strands of e-learning - where am I?
 * 4 Levels
 * Enrichment (Spelling city, Sumdog)
 * Publishing (blogging)
 * Collaborating =
 * Problem solving =
 * Web 1.0 (passive) - Web 2.0 (active) - Web 3.0 (immersive)
 * Are you a Z or F reader? (Hyper-plasticity of the brain)
 * Our brain is not static, changes for the better
 * They’re changing the way they read
 * Z - left to right, top to bottom
 * Chn are becoming F readers
 * Students power down when they come to school. Underestimate their cognitive ability at our peril
 * Moshi Monsters and Club Penguin are examples of social networking for 5-6 year olds
 * YouTube and the visual learner. Kids use it to learn from, amalgamate info. Khan Academy
 * 2nd most used search engine after Google
 * 35 hours of new content added every 2 minutes
 * 2 billion videos viewed every day
 * Us/Them - ‘Understanding the digital classroom’ - Lee Crockett
 * We need to get them to dig deeper with what they are seeing/learning.
 * White/black vs black/magenta or green
 * Sharing student voice
 * Extending long-term memory
 * Children are disengaging from their learning
 * Not just from secondary school, but from primary school as well
 * Sugata Mitra
 * If only I had more ..., I could do more
 * Children will be the expert on how to use the tools, we are the ones to see how it could be used
 * Class experts - distributed expertise - yellow pages of students who have skills that teachers can use
 * Children becoming independent users of the tools
 * David Jakes - the furniture in the classroom. How you set up your furniture leads to different styles of learning in the classroom.
 * Life long learning -
 * new ERA
 * Engaging learning
 * Relevant learning
 * Authentic learning
 * SOLE (self of learning environments)
 * Less is more
 * Student voice
 * Time poor, student rich
 * Passion

28th November, 2011
Hi all,

Thank you Amy for starting this. Have to get you to show me how they work :) I know I sent you the email, but thought I'd put what we talked about on here as well... Ab 2012


 * 1) Coverage of fundamental skills eg saving to the server
 * 2) Revision of ITS spiral
 * 3) Each class to have a blog - consolidate on blogger/blogspot, and create a school protocol
 * 4) Clarify policies regarding childrens’ use / identification on the web
 * 5) Each person on the staff to share something they’ve been doing in the class for 5 mins at staff meetings, will lead to more sharing and learning among staff
 * 6) Have David Kinane in the classrooms to work alongside us, on our needs

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 * Next step - discuss with planning groups ideas / areas to be worked on with David next year. Talk tomorrow with planning groups. Amy will send a link for a group wiki space :)Dates to be confirmed.
 * Twitter, QR Codes, Blogs, Wiki spaces...
 * Massive differentation potential. Really positive and powerful learning possibilities for our students!