The Nati Cluster

1. The Nati Cluster ICT PD 2008 - 2010 Tokomaru Intro Hui – Wednesday 5th March E tipu e rea mo nga ra o tou ao Ko to ringa ki nga rakau a te pakeha… Hei oranga mo to tinana Ko to ngakau ki nga taonga a o tipuna… Hei tikitiki mo to mahunga Ko to wairua ki te Atua... Nana nei nga mea katoa.

2. The world outside… “The last 25 years in technology have just been ‘the warm up act’. Now we are going into the main event; and by the main event I mean an era in which technology will literally transform every aspect of business, every aspect of life and every aspect of society.” Carly Fiorina, CEO Hewlett Packard 2004

3. This Professional Development is about Teaching and Learning using ICT to enhance student outcomes. It’s not just about ICT skills.

4. www.teachertube.com Pay Attention http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=40c570a322f1b0b65909 Do Schools Kill Creativity? (Dr Ken Robinson) http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=9926e1944714f747d330

5. Are you ready? Flickr Wikipedia Garage Sale Radio Encyclopaedia News Amazon Myspace Youtube Library The Mall Google Photo album Podcast Book Club Diary Trade Me Bebo Reality TV Telephone RSS Feeders Blog

6. This months cluster kupu! Feedback Personalised Learning Formative Assessment Feed Forward Assess for Learning Metacognitive Web 2 Pedagogy Wiki RSS Feeds

7. CLUSTER GOALS Teacher Capability All teachers are knowledgeable and confident in using a range of e-learning tools and resources. Personalised Learning All children are actively engaged in determining a challenging, suitable learning process for themselves. Best Practise Pedagogies Best practice pedagogies are understood and applied in the teaching and learning programme. Matauranga Ngati Porou Matauranga Ngati Porou is integrated into the curriculum and e-learning is used to engage whanau. Professional Learning Community All teachers actively participate in a PLC to enhance sharing, collaboration and ultimately student achievement.

8. Hatea a Rangi • A sustainable professional e-learning community will be established at Hatea-a-Rangi School by: • Ensuring all teachers meet the expectations of their roles within the cluster • Regular staff hui dedicated exclusively to meeting the objectives identified in the Hatea-a-Rangi action plan for ICT professional development • Providing regular feedback on the effects of our professional development to our children, BoT and whanau • Keeping a reflective practice journal to be shared with a critical colleague • Explore opportunities to share our individual learning within each others classes • Celebrate our successes with our community • Ensure that appropriate resources are made available to progress our action plan

9. Te Kura Kaupapa Maori o Nga Taonga Tuturu ki Tokomaru • Our Kura will ensure that: • Provide funding so that staff can have ongoing benefit from improved access to ICT professional development and online programmes that provide training and support. • Development and maintenance of a kura website. • Negotiation of personal e-learning goals to be incorporated into each teachers annual appraisal. • We will develop of an e-learning framework that will guide teaching and learning. • Collectively identify and develop strategies to increase the levels of whanau engagement in the e-learning and teaching.

10. Mata • Mata School will ensure that a professional learning community is sustained at our school by: • Including our BoT and whanau into the learning journey • Ensure that our Principal has opportunities for professional dialogue and reflection with other colleagues in the cluster and in similar contexts to our own • Provide the resources needed for our Principal to meet the objectives of the Mata School action plan • Incorporate the goals of the cluster into our strategic goals • Continue to build the capacity of our infra-structure 

11. Teaching Staff  Responsibilities... • be committed to personal and Professional Development • attend workshops • undertake all tasks in preparation for and as a result of professional development • actively engage in making shifts in classroom practice • work collaboratively with colleagues both in school and across the cluster • develop reflective practices  

12. Clarification of Beliefs About Learning In pairs discuss each learning belief and make a comment about one learning belief.

13. Check out our Nati Wiki, leave a comment, an idea or a link to something cool! http://naticluster.wikispaces.com/

14. We need some help! Can you help us design a cluster Logo? Get your kids to design a logo that the Lead Teachers will judge and the best selected will win an MP3 player and 2nd and 3rd will win a 1gb flash drive.

15. Your e-Learning Personal Coach • Meet for 20 minutes to discuss e-Learning in your class. • Set 1 easy goal for implementing ICT’s in your class. • Follow up meeting a few weeks later to discuss progress on identified goal, (Possibly in class)

16. Your first challenge! • Install Comic Life on your laptop and have a play. (you have 30 free days) • Get Comic Life installed on your Network. • Use Comic Life in your literacy programme within 30 days.

17. Leading the Future “Insanity is doing more of what you are already doing and expecting a different result.” Newt Gingrich quoting Albert Einstein!

18. A collaborative Web site set up to allow user editing and adding of content.

19. Pedagogy The study of the methods and activities of teaching. http://dictionary.cambridge.org

20. RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines or podcasts. ...

21. A second generation of web-based communities and hosted services such as social-networking sites, wikis, blogs, and folksonomies, which aim to facilitate creativity, collaboration, and sharing among users.