Learn, Create, Share

It was well worth attending the presentation by Dorothy Burt about the Maniakalani network she is involved in - a cluster of low decile schools in Auckland. her school Pt England is firmly committed to ICT's and is certainly made me wonder where our staff see the place of ICT's. I was interested to see the use of Google apps and I certainly need to continue sorting out access etc.. for my class. I really need to do the on line tutorials -maybe these holidays...??
I found it fascinating to see what the cluster is doing but it also made me keenly aware that in terms of technology I am blundering about in a dark room -literally feeling my way, with the occasional light showing under the door!
I was interested to see that mimio's did not seem to feature in classroom practice but I could be wrong.
It was great to see video making, music, animation being included as part of the literacy programme -a good re look at what I do with my class. I did ask my class about having individual blogs but there was sort of a horrified hush when I mentioned it - they prefer to have a class blog -(not so much work involved was the consensus).
It was good to see how Google docs are being used and how pupils take screen shots of on line programs they are using to show where they are up to. I found it interesting also the sharing of  Google docs rather than one pupil producing their work.
Freeware mentioned was: Mathwizz; pixlr -photo editing ; vimeo ;animoto - video slideshare.
A good presentation but the fourth meeting for the in the last week of term...........