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Facilitator - Lyn Ross Email Lyn

Lyn is now the ICT Facilitator for the Te Apiti ICT Cluster in Palmerston North

	We are a collaborative group of 6 schools (90 teachers) pursuing common goals in teaching and learning professional development. This website is our online learning community, where we share ideas, resources and web links not only with each other, but with the wider education world. Anyone can join this website. Schools in our cluster are: Ohope Beach, Allandale, Apanui, James Street, Paroa and St Joseph's Whakatane.	eBest website visitors and collaborators
	eBest Schools' Websites Ohope Beach School Apanui School St Joseph's Catholic School James Street School Pāroa School	New Zealand Curriculum Online A treasure trove of curriculum implementation ideas, examples, resources and links for New Zealand teachers and school leaders. Download the Curriculum Objectives as a Word Doc

	Inquiry Learning: Real, relevant, authentic and fun! A learning wall and newspaper article about James Street School's Inquiry which provided answers to the big question: 'How can we make our playground a more interesting place?'

	Inquiry Learning Resources Resources to scaffold and support Inquiry Learning eBest Blog Whakaaro mo Rumaki	Blog & Cyber Safety Letter Promote your blog and inform parents! This is an example of a letter you would send out to parents when you start your class blog. Be sure to add the URL of your blog! (at the bottom) Remember to inform your principal and check your schools Internet policy and acceptable use agreements

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Vicki Maguire 22 May 2010

ICT PD Online 21/5

Welcome to the latest edition of the fortnightly ICT PD Online newsletter for 2010. In this edition, we profile some resources that help promote digital literacy and digital citizenship. Primary and secondary schools share ways to connect with others via newsletters. Please distribute this newsletter to colleagues who are involved or interested in cluster projects. The newsletter can be accessed here.

http://centre4.core-ed.net/382/82522

Items featured in this newsletter:

Feature Video - Derek Wenmoth talks about cyber citizenship
Tricks, Tips and Web 2.0 Tools - Learning about Web2.0 wiki
Resources - NetSafe's grid, Computers in New Zealand schools, Interface magazine, FutureLab research paper, Marvin competition
Primary News - Southwell School - video conferencing with Te Papa
Extra - Digital citizen - who will you be?
Secondary News - Timnet Cluster newsletter
Sharing - Muritai School newsletter
NZ Curriculum online - National Standards - Self review tools for reporting
ICT PD Online - Time4Online, Blogging online seminar
Another Perspective - Southwell School - Fibre and the difference for us
Current events - Digital citizenship and cyber safety module
Up-Coming events - MLearning day
Timelines - ICT PD up-coming events

Lyn Ross 19 Nov 2009

Schools' Tour

Our Principals and ICT Lead Teachers visited Paroa, St Joseph's and Apanui Schools. Tessa Gray, our National Facilitator came too. We all had a fantastic day. Here are some photos of our classroom environments ... 21st Century teaching and learning in New Zealand schools!

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