Connect Week
Week 8, Term 1, 2019
Connect Week is a chance for teachers to attend a short professional development session of their choice and to connect with teachers from other schools. Principals have agreed to limit other school meetings that week so that the PLD session should replace something else, rather than add to workload.
Registration is essential for these workshops. You may register for more than one workshop if you wish.
Monday 18th March 2019
Netsafe Event
Annesbrook Church
40 Saxton Road
3:45pm-5:30pm
(Light refreshments provided)
Keeping it simple at the coalface – developing online safety, digital citizenship and wellbeing in the classroom.
One in four young people experience online challenges and whānau often look to the school for guidance.
Schools need to offer safe digital spaces and we want to help our students to become citizens in our digital world - safe and effective use of technologies is best done in the context of powerful learning.
This interactive session will surface some of the challenges and opportunities for young people the online world provides and look at ways to develop 'digital' capabilities effectively across the curriculum. The session will offer a practical, familiar approach to inform curriculum planning in your school.
Tuesday 19th March 2019
All sessions run for one hour, beginning promptly at 3:45pm.
Collective Libraries using Book Creator
Facilitator:
Allanah King,
CORE Education
Venue:
Waimea Intermediate Library
Collaborative libraries using Book Creator for Chrome - works well with both primary and secondary.
Scratch
Programming
Facilitator:
Karl Summerfield,
CORE Education
Venue:
Waimea College Library
Using ‘Scratch’ to teach computational thinking (primary and secondary)
E-learning tools
Facilitator:
Phillipa Hood
Year 7/8 teacher
St Paul's School
Venue:
Whio Class
Saint Paul's Catholic School
Come and try a variety of online tools for the Primary and Intermediate classroom.
Coding & Robots in Primary School
Facilitator:
Ryan Higgins
Year 5/6 teacher,
Richmond Primary School
Venue:
Room 5, Richmond Primary School
Come and try a variety of coding apps and robot types. Most suitable for Y3-8 classes.
Digital Tool Sharing
Facilitator:
Hannah Douglas
Year 3/4 teacher,
Henley Primary School
Venue:
Room 10
Henley Primary
School
Using digital tools to support and enhance learning at primary school. Bring your favourite e-learning tool ideas along to share with others.
Wednesday 20th March 2019
All sessions run for one hour, beginning promptly at 3:45pm.
Insert Learning
Facilitator:
Allanah King,
CORE Education
Venue:
Waimea Intermediate Library
‘Insert Learning’ is a service that can make static web pages into interactive web pages inserting glossary, notes, videos and questionnaires.
(Secondary and Upper Primary)
Y9-10 Digital Curriculum Integration
Facilitator:
Karl Summerfield,
CORE Education
Venue:
Waimea College Library
Integrating the 'Designing and Developing Digital Outcomes' strand in the Year 9-10 curriculum.
Digital Tools to Integrate into your Programme
Facilitators:
Sarah Rankin
(Garin College)
Nicola Gibellini
(Waimea College)
Venue:
Waimea College Staffroom
Have a go at using a range of digital tools that you can integrate into your programme.
(Thnglink, Storyboardthat, Spark Video, epals )
Bits, Bytes
& Byte Arrays
Facilitators:
David Dewhurst & Amy Cornelisen,
Garin College
Venue:
Suite R2
Garin College
A practical session in which you will get down to the most basic elements of programming and use these to make a LED matrix come to life using the Arduino IDE. This will be a life changing experience for those worried about supporting CT to any age group.
Thursday 21st March 2019
All sessions run for one hour, beginning promptly at 3:45pm.
Collective Libraries using Book Creator
Facilitator:
Allanah King,
CORE Education
Venue:
Waimea Intermediate Library
Collaborative libraries using Book Creator for Chrome - works well with both primary and secondary.
Scratch Programming
Facilitator:
Karl Summerfield,
CORE Education
Venue:
Changed to
Waimea Intermediate Science Room
Learn to use ‘Scratch’ to teach computational thinking
(primary and secondary)
Learning Portfolios with Google Sites
Facilitator:
Sami Tangimetua
Year 8 teacher,
Waimea Intermediate
Venue:
Room 16,
Waimea Intermediate
Online learner profiles using Google sites. Suitable for Y4-13. Google Sites is a website app where sharing settings can be set so website is only shared with specific people. Great app for a class website also.
Etap
SMS
Facilitators:
Andrew McFarlane
Etap Facilitator
Venue:
Room 2,
Waimea Intermediate School
All primary and intermediate schools in our Kāhui Ako use Etap as their school management system. Come and learn more about the features of Etap via a virtual workshop.
College Curriculum Integration
Facilitators:
Amy Cornelisen &
David Dewhurst
Garin College
Venue:
Suite R2
Garin College
Amy and David and share their work on an integrated topic - tying together Maths, Hard Materials, Music and Digital Technology.