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Please Provide Examples of ICTPD at Foxton Primary

• A PD component in most Staff Learning Circles-included how to use Interactive Whiteboard in numeracy and literacy.
• Taking photos from iMac and transferring them into student's drive for student's to use in their work.
• ICT Cluster Co-ordinator attending staff Learning Circles to take staff through using ICT in our Inquiry Learning Model
• How to regularly update software on the iMacs.
• How to access School Master System and to enter reading running records data on this system
• How to use and implement and easi-speak (USB Microphone) to record student's thinking by recording through the microphone
• Sharing class 3-way PowerPoints with staff and using this as an opportunity to share as a staff, ways to how students create more effective PowerPoints
• Outside experts with IWB's attending staff meetings to run PD sessions using the IWB's
• Personal from Sitech attending Staff meetings to run PD with their IWBs
• Sharing of many numeracy, literacy, inquiry, and thinking tools websites during staff meetings, eg: smartkiddies.com, mathslice.com, mathsisfun.com, freerice.com,
• Using the class IWB as a numeracy modelling book with groups rather than just the more traditional large scrapbook

Please Comment on the affect this ICTPD has had on your capability/confidence to implement ICT into your class

The constant and consistent component of ICTPD in staff meetings and staff Learning Circles has been very beneficial for my own knowledge and confidence with implementing ICt into my class this year. The collaborative nature of the staff and the openness between the staff have allowed staff to share the highs and lows with implementing ICT into the class more effectively.

Having the opportunity to attend cluster meetings, ICT conferences such as ULearn and the Sitech IWB conference early in 2009 has been hugely beneficial for my confidence and implementing ICT. These conferences have facilitated a real mind shift and pedagogical shift with teaching and the role ICT plays with education in the modern age.

Please comment on how your ICTPD has (if any) impacted upon student's learning in ICT in your class

The class have grown and really developed in many positive ways this year. This growth is evidenced in that ICT use makes up on average between 50%-75% of our day. Students have gone from using predominantly using Microsoft Word last year, to using Microsoft Publisher to create posters, brochures, business cards; using Microsoft Excel to create different graphs, to using Microsoft PowerPoint to create a 4 slide record of their learning for 2009 that will be presented to their parents in our 3 way conferences for the first time at our school. The internet has now become an important resource in our class this year with our inquiry model, with research for example and sending emails to receive information from an variety of sources.

Students enjoyment and motivation for becoming more masters of their learning has been very empowering for our students. Students can now see they can be more in control of what they, when they learn and perhaps to a lesser degree how they learn. It is more learning for students, by students and with students

With regards to ICT, please list the most important shift in pedagogy for you.

As a teacher, i have gone from solely teaching onto the kids to becoming part of the class and now learning with the kids. ICT has allowed our students to become more central to the teaching/learning process. While this cannot be solely attributed to ICT at our school, it has been a major catalyst for this.