Notes+from+20.03.09+mtg

Christs College 40 attendees** **20.03.09** • Set up in 2006 • Govt funded • High speed research network • Initially to connect Universities etc • Traffic has grown now that people are becoming more familiar with the tools • Wgtn - 6 large schools - shared learning • Fair easier to connect loops as opposed to individual schools • Minus - state of internal infrustructure / some schools sat back with arms folded
 * Canterbury Cluster Network mtg(1)
 * KARAN network - wiki / website / CORE report (High speed network connection) **

**Wgtn loop - 6 schools including the Correspondence** • Secondary schools • Sharing content • Moodle • My Source matrix • High speed broadband • High speed definition access • Wgtn girls - have moved to google mail • How do you get on it? 16 neutral points at the moment / get a fibrotic connection • Next steps: Connecting different schools for a shared lesson / lecture / session • By working as a community ie 3 x Kura - more likely to be successful - aggregate • Conversations - • More mbytes = FAST!!! • Example of the streaming - fairly high definition • Any school - on the LOOP can pick up the programmes

• NASA television in the classroom - schedules

**http://digitalnz.org/** Will search a whole lot of digital software Memory Maker remix editor - can edit and create

Google Earth

Video Conferencing / Skyping

ReANZ

Christchurch Cities Network Ltd • Investment arm - CCHoldingsLtd • Open access fibrotic network • Can the schools of CHCH extract value from this • No one buys servers in the USA anymore, they buy connectivity and all material is hosted elsewhere/online??
 * CCNL**


 * Web lockers - ePortfolios **

- Ring Malcolm - How soon can we be connected? - Wait for a cluster of schools or....dive in now?
 * If keen to join.......**

A Super Loop group convenes during the year

If we're wanting to raise student achievement, we need to target this Why not align this around your National targets??
 * Milestone writing**


 * Creating SMART goals**
 * S**pecific
 * M**easurable
 * A**ttainable
 * R**ealistic
 * T**imely

ie. Improving the quality of student writing - vocab, sentence structure, genre....... What will this look like at different stages
 * How do we......**

- a rubric constructed Organisation & flow 1 2 3 4 5 Vocab 1 2 3 4 5
 * Gathering of the evidence**

Measuring shift - showing growth and development


 * PURPOSE**!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Baseline writing data - sampling

- needs to be a COLLABORATIVE exercise - Principals & Snr Managers need to be active participants in this programme - IMPORTANT - read and reread your Action Plan - have a look at setting up a google doc for your MS for time efficiency and user friendliness (Process: Upload, Browse, Locate it, Upload file) - SOMEONE needs to analyse and collate this at the end - a CONCISE progress report - links - downsize your photos (or put them online)
 * Writing of the MS**

- go in there and familiarise yourselves in this forum - a WEALTH of information, learning, connectedness, resources - admin handbook - a vital piece of equipment for you - consider adding your name to the 'Effective Register data'
 * ICT PD online**