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listened to their particular situations. They have been using Phototstory 3 to create a an image record of student progress and then burning the video to DVD for sharing with parents. DK showed and demonstrated the following tools that could be used to help record progress of student attainment: http://dipity.com an online timeline tool that could be used to embed images, videos and text to record student attainment over an extended period of time. This tool although online can be set to Private for security. Sam Animation http://www.samanimation.com/ was shown as a way, using timelapse photography as an assessment tool to help record subtle changes in student behaviour or actions. http://vocaroo.com and Audacity can both be used by teachers to create and save verbal anecdotal evidence for students. DK suggested that Powerpoint DK to create PP template for assessment and record keeping log for individual students. Investigate TELA latpops for staff, in order that they may use them to record and enhance student learning outcomes. dakinane limited 2010 could be used as an assessment and recording tool to gather together evidence for individual students over time, this could then be packaged and shared with parents at year end. We looked at how e-learning/ICT interventions should be made explicit in the long term planning and in individual IEPs for students and that they should be referenced to as part of the assessment process. DK also introduced resources such as the Creative VADO video http://www.shopbot.co.nz/ppcreative- vado-pocket-video-camcreative- 119194.html recorder and the Easi-Speak microphone http://www.edsoft.co.nz/shop/pr oduct_info.php?products_id=123 78 as tools that could be used to capture student voice and responses as evidence and for use by teachers and TA’s as tools for capturing their own observations and evidence. || DK to create PP template for assessment and record keeping log for individual students. Investigate TELA latpops for staff, in order that they may use them to record and enhance student learning outcomes. || Concentration on student achievement. More detail on the wiki from the schools, Focus Teachers should be in-charge of directing this in their schools. Jay and Suchi shared the [|http://clickspecialednz.com] website and the resources that are suitable for mainstream schools. Develop questions for gathering evidence that relate directly to the success indicators, send to Tessa for checking. Wiki updates and feedback from this day captured in the discussion area of the Focus Teacher page. || Tessa replied with information that we could include for the data gathering. This was taken to the management meeting on the 11th of March. Survey information was formed. || Laura Gearny Sam Tapane Susan MacDonald Teresa Fouhy Todd Reid || Looking at literacy blog research and setting up class blogs to link to school website. Managing photos for the web ie reducing size. Into to TutPup for numeracy, basic facts and spelling. || Class blogs were established for parent/school partnership communication and discussions with students. || and I am looking forward to seeing what will develop throughout the year. We worked through Suchi’s plan for her class for the year. We looked at how she should explicitly include e-learning strategies and tools within each strand of her planning, where appropriate. We explored Clicker5 and how it might be used to create a decision tree to help students identify butterfly lifecycle stages and the various elements that make up a butterfly. We looked at SmartNotebook tools and how strategies could be implemented to encourage independence and participation and contribution by the students. I showed Suchi how to use the record function and the spotlight tool and how this could be used to assess attention as well as focus students on the key elements of the screen. I have also suggested that Suchi looks at the flipper and blank die that are in the essential tools kit to create resources for the students. Ensure that the Smart tools and essential tools for educators modules are installed on both laptops in the unit – Carlson IT may have to do this. Ensure that the latest Flash player and Shockwave players are installed to get the most out of the web: http://adobe.com Copy over all of the resources that are on the Carlson server to the satellite unit so that all staff can access the great PowerPoint resources already created. dakinane limited 2010 We looked at different ways in which each of these tools could be used not only to enhance student learning outcomes, but how they can also be used to record evidence of student attainment. DK has suggested that Suchi create a continuum of Smart Board resources that reflect the gross motor skills of her students and use these as a method of recording student attainment. EG different types of enrolment document for first thing in the morning. We discussed how the shapes unit could be extended for some students, with regard to their maths, how their work could then be used for students at the Carlson home unit and also how the shapes unit could also be integrated into the art and design units for later in the year. We explored the potential for tools such as http://iknowthat.com and http://www.arcademicskillbuilder s.com/ might be used with her students. I worked with Suchi and showed her how to convert word documents to PDF then upload them to the cluster wiki. In addition Suchi was shown how to then embed these files into the wiki. I then showed Suchi how to dakinane limited 2010 upload resources to the http://clickspecialednz.com/ site Now that Suchi knows how to do this she is going to share all of her wonderful PowerPoint resources on this site. I have also showed her how to link from the wiki to the uploaded resources on the http://clickspecialednz.com/ site. || Ensure that the Smart tools and essential tools for educators modules are installed on both laptops in the unit – Carlson IT may have to do this. Ensure that the latest Flash player and Shockwave players are installed to get the most out of the web: http://adobe.com Copy over all of the resources that are on the Carlson server to the satellite unit so that all staff can access the great PowerPoint resources already created. || Needed - Creative Thinkers in the Future Digital Work Environment - Judy Scothern || Giving the students the need to ask why. Creative and critical thinking ideas. Creative thinking begins with using all our senses and the body's computer - the brain. Creative games for student use - Random ideas generation. Find links between randomly selected ideas, objects or themes. work in groups of 4. Analyse and interpret 4 words, Adapt as a starter for 4 subject areas or design problems. eg - lithographs, ships, plants, 1622. What kind of starter could you use this for? eg - facilitation. || Laura Gearny Teresa Fouhy __http://blog.core-ed.net/learningatschool/__ || John Hattie - Ed Talks - Underpinning values and beliefs support changing teacher practice. Award Scheme - travel award, prfessionald learning award,eFellowship. www.core-ed.net Alan November - Emerging Technologies. Julia Aitken The Futures East e-Learning Professional Development Cluster || shorter is measured by longer. How do we get a voice into the debate.. Fundamental role is for us to be change agents. Clayton Christensen - Disrupting Class Wolframalpha Ways of Thinking, Ways of Knowing - Hermanns Wholebrain Thinking with cards How do we process differently? Crazy Talk has been introduced into each of the classes, this should further develop the oral language of students at St Therese School. || Jude Hudson Steve Sutton Kim Gray Kaaren Vodanovich Katrina Smith Melanie Cates || Class blogs were established for parent/school partnership communication and discussions with students. Melanie is preparing a greenscreening presentation for the ULearn conference and to share with other teachers in the cluster. || Writing a narrative on the computer. Using Planting my Ideas. Using Crazy talk to record narratives. Posting on blog. eileensttherese.blogspot.com Teresa Fouhy - reflections from Learning at School Conference - using the Howick Int software disk. Jackie is teaching the years 0/1 class and has just begun a class blog for communication with the parents, modelling the use of 21st Century tools and encouraging the students to write for an audience. Today, Jackie has been working on improving her blogging skills and viewing blogs from other classes around the country that are working with the same age level. One particular blog she looked at was - room08sps.blogspot.com/ Jackie uploaded the process for structuring a narrative with a context. Photos of the process with descriptions were uploaded to the blogsite - [|roomwonderful.blogspot.com] Sam Tapane and class - making graphs in Excel from raw data years 7/8. Choosing the best graph to represent the data. || Laura Geany Todd Reid Jackie McGiven Sue West Teresa Fouhy Sam Tapane || Laura has gained some valuable skills and is now linking the eLearning directly to the curriculum especially with the school big picture Inquiry for each term. Teresa gained a tremendous amount from the Learning at School Conference 10. She has investigated some of the software that was presented by Howick Intermediate and is integrating this into her classroom. Software such as CrazyTalk and AndreaMosaic. Jackie has created a class blog and is modelling the use of eLearning tools with her students. The students get to see the blog once a week as a class. Sam's students have learnt how to create a variety of graphs using raw data and then choose the best graph that represents that data. They are making huge progress with this and have had to explain their choices to the rest of the class. || Howick Intermediate School presentation - software ideas and implementation eg - CrazyTalk, AndreaMosaic etc. || All schools were invited to attend at Three Kings School. - Three Kings, Carlson || Three Kings School will use this in the environment waste-wise school study - impact of aluminium cans. (Marisa) Giving teachers an awareness of programs available to use within their class programs and planning. || TutPup class set up for Lana and Jennifer - years 0-1 extension students for literacy and numeracy || Robyn Skelton Te Kura - Jennifer Atkinson - TutPup Lana - TutPupu Simone Robyn || Class blogs were established for parent/school partnership communication and discussions with students. Teachers model the use of 21st Century skills with their class. Test TutPup on Yr 0 student (Jemma) in Jennifer's class - great results, student will now teach two other students. || video for his intensive therapy work. We looked at how Prnt Scrn button and MS Paint could be used to capture still images from a playback of a video in Windows Media player. We also looked at Http://www.jingproject.com/ and downloaded the windows version to capture still images. Unfortunately there is a capture issue and with both methods and the alignment of the images was poor. We worked with Movie Maker to and worked out how to split videos so that Nick could edit long scenes to include the clips in the order that he wished them to appear. Worked with Mel on Clicker 5 and showed her how to make a simlple grid so that a student is able to make a simple sentence using a mixure of text and images as prompts. We investigated pop up lists, but could not get this to work. Worked with Layo. I showed him how to set up the and operate the video camera both hand held Investigate how, if possible, Paint can be set up to auto save so that Nicks students can have their work archived before the edit them out of existence! Also suggest that prnt Scrn function be used too in the short term. DK will investigate the possibilities. Work out how to populate pop up word lists with words in clicker 5. dakinane limited 2010 and on the tripod. In addition I also showed him how to use the Creative VADO http://www.creative.com/myvad o/ and showed him how it could be used to capture student attainment and then be embedded into a wiki via YouTube. I then showed Layo how to use http://keep-tube.com/ to download and store You Tube videos and videos from other sharing sites. Finally I showed Layo how to use Movie Maker to import videos from devices, edit, trim and organize play order. We then added titles and scene transitions before publishing the video. At the end of the session I showed Layo http://pricespy.co.nz the best place on the net to compare technology prices before you purchase. I worked briefly with Jay and we discussed how http://jingproject.com could be used to capture evidence of student learning and attainment and how the growing library of video evidence at Sunnydene could also be used by staff to annotate student attainment and be used for future staff training. || Nick, Mel, Jay || Investigate how, if possible, Paint can be set up to auto save so that Nicks students can have their work archived before the edit them out of existence! Also suggest that prnt Scrn function be used too in the short term. DK will investigate the possibilities. Work out how to populate pop up word lists with words in clicker 5. || Data Gathering - Tessa's response Survey for staff - as relates to Tessa's response above Dates for the year Information from the Special Schools to discuss || Brenda Mauger, Jo Willmoth, Faye Phlip, Jude Hudson, John McKeown, Sue West || Management Meeting minutes are on the meetings page of this wiki. || Worked with Renu. We created a Power Point presentation that is a maths number bond test exercise. I showed how to create hyperlinks to different slides so that correct and incorrect answers could be dealt with. I also showed how to use Audacity to record .WAV files that can be used to automatically read instructions to students as each slide is opened. [] I also installed [] onto her computer and created several video tutorials for her to use to support her learning of the skills taught today. I created two Power Point tutorials and one Audacity tutorial. In addition I showed her how to use the keyboard shortcut Alt+Tab keys to move quickly between open programmes on a computer. Finally I showed her the You Tube channel that I have created that has many software tutorials already created. [] The teacher I was to work with in the afternoon went home ill. There was no other teacher available to be released. || Change grids to ensure that colour coding, location of index cells are consistent through out grids. The adaptation of the grid for Riley was designed to ensure that he tracks from right to left independently, please record how he gets on with this and any recommendations you might have for future improvements for this resource. The power point maths test idea is a really simple, yet powerful idea. Please share this idea on the cluster wiki and via the special ed website. Please take photos of the students using this resource on a touch screen enabled computer and if possible where you have included it in your planning and how effective it has been. || Todd Reid - Year 3/4/5 Jackie MGiven Teresa Fouhy Laura Gearny || Community Inquiry - group of 9 students looking at animating cartoons in Paint/MovieMaker so that they can become the tutors for the juniors. KC - Participating and contributing. Literacy - students use CrazyTalk to talk about their fable that they are going to write. Oral language, explaining their intentions. Students have writing plans that they discuss with their teacher, they then record their fable description onto CrazyTalk and share with the class and online. They then write their fable. Year Ones - logging on, creating Easter Egg animations so that they could practice saving their picture creations in the correct place. Year Twos - logging on and making easter egg animations to learn how and where to save files. Greenscreening using still images to prepare students for the video green screening that they will be doing in a few weeks. || Students successfully working with younger students to create animations - sense of community. CrazyTalk has enabled the students to be enthusiastic about sharing their work with other people and their fable writing should be improved. || Finally we looked at how to import images and insert them into the time line. After morning tea Daphe and I looked at Clicker 5 and how to create books and make grids to build sentences. We made a book about a trip to the beach. We also discussed how this resource might be re-packaged or re-used to capture student attainment. I showed her how to use [|http://vocaroo.com] which is able to record voice via the Internet. The downoads proved to be troublesome, so I installed Audacity and showed her how to use this tool instead. Interestingly the issues we had were resolved in the afternoon. I have created Audacity tutorials and these can be found on my You Tube channel: [] or you can see lesson one here: [] In the afternoon I worked with Lynda. We created a book for her student Chloe and explored ways in which she might use Clicker 5 in an increasingly independent way. We also looked at how [|http://vocaroo.com] might also be used to as a tool to keep a record of how Chloe's response times and recollections could be measured. We also created a grid of words and images for a student who needs to have the range of vocabulary increased. Using the sight recognition of objects and the words plus the ability of Clicker 5 to say the word we felt that this solution would prove invaluable in meeting the needs of this particular student. || Remember to post any data that shows student progress using the e-learning tools that you are using. Share your created Clicker resources on the clickspecial ed site, you know that your clicks are being counted! Investigate having the data projector ceiling mounted. Cost should be in the range of $700 - $1000 depending on the amount of trunking required and the size of the mounting bracket. Bill Taylor at Multilink can provide a quote for you: 09 418 1890 021 750 890 Check to see if you have Smart Board 10 installed on your computers, the upgrade is free and is worth the effort. There are plenty of tools in the “Essential tools for Educators” kit that is part of the upgrade that would work well with your students. || Student setup their Pixton accounts and explored the resources within the programme. Students shared their learning with each other and then made comics to share with the principal as a first attempt. || Here is an example below. || We researched access devices for students to see if there were large buttoned and very simplified keyboards for students to use to access programmes and make selection choices. I made a rough template in PowerPoint that had large arrows on it pointing to previous and next slides. I then inserted music videos into each slide that play automatically for the students to choose from. Could be used with a touch screen or a mouse. Worked with Faye and we went through the advanced features of Power Point. I showed her how to insert images, insert videos and how to insert sound. We looked at how to animate images and text on entrace to a slide. In addition we looked at how to rotate and scale individual elements on a page. I showed Faye how to use [|http://zamzar.com] to convert movie files from one format to another in preparation for embedding into a slide show. In the afternoon I worked with Helen and we discussed the planning document that she is developing to reflect the ICT interventions that the syndicate are planning to include in their work this year. Helen showed me the Photostory slide shows that she has already created with a voiceovers demonstrating the progress and achievements of individual students. I showed Helen how she can import multiple images in one go into Photostory and how to select multple specific files. We also looked at timing of slides and how to use the tools of Photostory to visually emphasise key learning points. We also worked with her Easi Speak microphone and exported and re-named files. I showed Helen the following site that contains lots of [|royalty free music] for her to use as background music in her Photostories if she wishes: [] Finally we worked with the student report PowerPoint that I developed in conjunction with Helen’s wishes last time we met. I took her through how to edit pages and how to create hyperlinks to audio files. || Check that the necessary codec’s are installed on the Room 2 computer as the video should play, I have got videos to work in Clicker 5 at the Oranga satellite class before. It may well be the size of the file that is also causing the crashing. Look to see if there are any other selection interface devices available to students other than the Crick ones. These have been designed to work with Clicker 5 and not with any other programmes on the computer. It would be useful if there were the ability to enable students to navigate their way around and make choices in programmes such as Media Player for example [|http://zamzar.com] is currently blocked by SINA, you might want to consider having this useful site allowed rather than blocked in school. It might be a good idea to think about organizing a call back day for the special schools in order that the skills that are being developed by staff in the satellite units and base schools can be shared amongst others in the cluster. DK to work with Helen next time on Video editing and linking to these files from the student record Power Point. || I downloaded the latest version of the Smartboard software from the [|http://smarttech.com] website. The Serial number for the Smartboard can be found under the pen tray and is: SB280-R2-384139 The activation code sent from Smart for using the upgraded software is: NB-AEBAI-CIFVX-DXQFF-M6ASQ We looked at how the screen and spotlight functions could be used with students to focus attention. We also looked at how to set up a Notebook page in two colours so that words could be hidden or revealed as desired. I also showed Julia how the recorder function within Smartboard software could be used to record student interaction with tasks set on the board. We looked at how to layer and lock objects on a page. I showed Julia the kinds of Flash objects that exist in Smartboard software and the flippers and balloons that are available in Smart 10. We looked at Clicker 5 and how this tool could be used to build sentences with students. Again the record function of the board software could capture the student interaction with the resources created in Clicker 5 and be used for assessment. In the afternoon I worked with Liz. We looked at how Clicker 5 could be used with a specific student. I told her about the interface tools (switches and pads) available for Clicker 5. See links to side. We built a grid template specific to the needs of the child. I demonstrated how text, background colours can be edited. We looked at how online tools such as [|http://vocaroo.com] could be used with specific students to capture voice as a running record. We also looked at how Smartboard software could be used to help consolidate simple maths concepts by grouping. || Get the laptop talking to the data projector. Install latest version of SmartBoard software and install the Essential tools for educators kit as well as the gallery. Be warned this is a large download from the http://smarttech.com site so do it after school or overnight. Have a look at : http://primaryresources.co.uk for a range of curriculum resources that have been made with Smartboard software. They are free to download, edit and re-mix. Clicker switch interface: http://www.spectronicsinoz.com/catalogue/clicker-switch-interfaces Crick pads: http://www.spectronicsinoz.com/catalogue/adjustable-pressure-switches Julia would like more time with me to consolidate her understanding and use of the Smartboard and explore the tools available for her to use with her students. || Jude and Sue Lana Jude || AHG meeting review, finances Milestone googledocs and email out to FTs for uploads and process for contributing to the milestone. Blog for her class AndreaMosaic || Next FT Day planned. Lana has come a long way from the beginning of the contract, she is using eLearning for creating resources for her junior students and teaching resources to be shared in her syndicate. Her Netvibes page is proving to be a useful tool for her and her students. || Jackie Sam Susan Todd || Argument Mapping - transferring to individual blogs, voting to say their opinions on an argument. Link class blogs through gadgets so that each student can vote on each others' poll. To follow the topic of Change - animations of tadpoles changing to frogs.The World Goo Pixton continuation of creating a 'Change' cartoon. Re-establishment of student blogs for writing Re-establishment of classroom blogs for writing and topic. || Laura use an online persuasion map with her students so that they could easily follow the logic of their own arguments and improve their arguments. Laura, Sam and Todd are all using Pixton for their narratives and have started to integrate this through their big picture topic, for this term it is 'Change'. Todd has also re-established the student blogs for writing. He has worked with the students to remove any gadgets, pictures etc that may not be relevant for school. This has proven to be a valuable learning curve for both teacher and students - they are now much more focussed and Todd is beginning to see improvements in their writing. || Kim Kaaren Valu TeKura Robyn || Blogs SketchUp tutpup || The senior teachers have downloaded the instructions from the 3DVinci website so that the students can follow examples of creating designs and using the correct tools in Google SketchUp. Their designs are much improved now and the students are much more focussed with these guidelines. Te Kura and Valu are following Jennifer's idea of using TutPup with their junior students. They have signed their students on and are now able to monitor their students through the teacher login. || I also installed Boardmaker for her. Despite the technical issues we covered a lot of ground in the day. I helped Julia to create interactive resources that she now has access to. We created an interactive register for her students to use each day. We created a Noah interactive Notebook to accompany a song that the students like to sing. I showed Julia how to make resources such as a snakes and ladders game, complete with Flash Dice, so that the students can use the board interactively. Once the latest version was installed I took Julia through the various tools and resources at her disposal. We looked at tools such as the flipper blocks, the spotlight tool, how to record actions and how to animate elements on a page as well as assign a sound to elements. We looked at [|http://toondoo.com] as a resource that could be used by both teachers and students to create interactive books that can be used on the IWB. I also shared the following resource that has just been released in the UK [|http://www.tpet.co.uk/#/home] and suggested that [|http://youtube.com] might be used to help cue students to do certain activities for example the following video: [] It was a great day and I look forward to seeing the resources Julia will now make and use with her students. || Thomas has indicated that the amount of RAM being used by Windows 7 on Julia’s laptop may be a cause of the huge memory usage (62%) standing still. The remedy may be to re-build the machine back to Windows XP. If this is the case the software installed today, will have to be re-installed again… Julia will be creating resources using both Photostory3 and the recording function of Smart Notebook software to demonstrate how ICTs are being used to enhance and support learning at the May Road unit. She is going to publish these resources, and examples to the http://3kings.wikispaces.com site as well as the [] site. || Teachers spent the day using skills that they have learnt over the last 2 and a half years to link their googledocs milestone explanations to their wiki repository to show evidence for the milestone. They used the Table of Contents widget to ensure that the links are specific to the evidence that they are wanting to show. They used the Headings feature for this. Teachers used Scribd to embed unit plans. || Minutes are on the wiki FT Day page. The evidence supplied by the Focus Teachers is much improved since the last milestone. We have worked very hard to co-construct the milestone and work together to assist each other with relevant data. || Therese - Photostory - autumn change poems and leaves students ahve drawn Jackie - Photostory and managing ICT with Yr 0/1 Anna (for Susan)- blogs Todd - Blogs. || Morphing for 'Change' Photostory - Autumn 'Change' in the tress. Managing ICT with yr 0/1s || The teachers are now coming to the PD with organised plans and questions for the facilitator. This is a huge improvement from the beginning of the contract. They are wanting follow-ups from previous PD and are relating their eLearning directly with their planning. Jackie is now understanding that she doesn't have to have all the students particularly ESOL yr 0/1 students on the computers at the same time, doing the same thing, She has been advised to work with them like in a reading group situation - very small groups. Anna (reliever) and Todd have decided to revisit the blogs for writing and clean-up anything on the blogs that does not relate to school. This has proved to be a valuable learning experience for the students because they have to make decisions about appropriate material for the audience. || We identified the images that Ann wanted to use to trigger choices and what ‘reward’ would occur when that choice has been made. In her class Ann has touch screens that enable students to make these choices. We searched the internet for ‘Animated gifs’ and for sound effects WAV’ because we wanted sound with our moving images. I showed Ann how t create new pages in PowerPoint, how to add images and re-size them. I then showed her how to create hyperlinks that allow students to make choices. We imported sounds to the animated gifs and have automated their playing. The final product has been saved and shared to the cluster wiki: https://3kings.wikispaces.com/Carlson+Journey#Resources After morning tea I worked with Kieron. He wanted help producing DVDs from his collection of videos taken in his class. This proved to be a troublesome exercise as the lack of interoperability of the technology has made the task exceptionally difficult. The modern JVC camcorder is not recognized by Movie Maker and Movie Maker in turn does not produce DVDs. The camera can be recognized by Movie Maker if some investment is made, see the forward action points. I would also suggest that to produce DVDs that can be played on DVD players at home, then another program should be purchased. See Forward action panel. Finally I showed Kieron the Creative VADO and let him use it, perhaps this kind of more instant technology could be used in school to capture student attainment and therefore reduce the post production times for staff? [] I also showed Kieron the following site for cheap technology prices in NZ [|http://pricespy.co.nz] I showed Kieron how to split tracks, add titles and how to import videos from other sources other than a camera in Movie Maker. =Cause & Effect PD= In the afternoon I worked with Rose. She wanted to continue with her cause and effect PowerPoint that she worked with Ange on last year. We sorted out how to make objects move on a path slow enough for the students to see and we also made the scale of the object moving change as it moved. In addtion we added sounds to the moving object. We discussed ways in which these kinds of animations could be used to tell stories for the students. I showed Rose how to find free audio files on the internet and download them. I also showed her how to use Paint.exe to edit photographs. || For Movie Maker to recognize your JVC camera and for files to be directly imported to it you need to use the IEEE 1394 cable (Fire Wire) This port is on the camera but not on your computers. You will need to purchase the following to do this: https://id305.securedata.net/pcjoy.com/merchantmanager/images/FW-IEEE-1394A-64-6FT.jpg in addtion you will need to purchase a fire wire card for you computer http://techpaul.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/firewire-card.jpg stores like http://dse.co.nz can provide these for you, but search for them in http://pricespy.co.nz to get the best prices. There is no software to install with these cards, they just plug in. You can also get PCI MCA variants for laptops if you wish. I would also suggest that you consider purchasing software such as the following to enable you to produce DVDs that can be played at home: http://www.edsoft.co.nz/shop/product_info.php?products_id=13994&osCsid=91ee170793b6de06b181c81db2fcc3d5 || Once we had done our internet searching I then showed her how to create a slide show and how to insert images into individual slides. After this we then animated the images in order that the animation would keep the students interest as the slide show scrolled through the slides. I showed Chipo how to create motion paths and finally how to add sound to the individual elements so that they all worked at the same time. I went to May Road School to work with Julia. We continued to create resources for her students, tailored specifically to their needs and IEP goals. We edited Julias frogs resources, we animated bubbles so that they would make a popping sound when clicked on and also animated insects to add more action to the page. This resource we then shared onto the cluster wiki: https://3kings.wikispaces.com/Sunnydene+Journey#Community--Resources: I also created a maze Notebook resource for one of her students to help him engage with the Smart Board. We took the idea one step further and created another resource that has been published to the cluster wiki: https://3kings.wikispaces.com/Sunnydene+Journey#Community--Resources: This time we made a resource similar to the notebook resource but made in Scratch [|http://scratch.mit.org] I have installed this programme on both Julias computer and her class computer and have shown her how to operate the program. I also spent time showing Juilia how to download .WAV files from the Internet and then using [] I showed her how to then edit these files and also how to convert them to .mp3 format for programmes such as Scratch. I also showed her some of the support tutorials that I have created [] or [] Finally I showed Julia how to log onto the cluster wiki, she had an account but was not sure what to do next. || There seems to be an issue with Julia’s SmartBoard, moving elements on an Notebook page vertically wants to move the entire page and not the object. If the object is first moved horizontally then moving in any direction is fine. In addition there seems to be an issue with saving work in Notebook, it is not as it should be and individual pages are saved as folders. This fault leads to many iterations of the same file being saved in different locations, causing confusion. This will need to be looked into. Julia to take photographs of the students using the resources that we have been creating and then upload them to the cluster wiki and put them on the Sunnydene journey page. || We looked at Power Point as an alternative and decided that this might be a better bet for Andrew. I showed him how to insert images and then make insert hyperlinks to other slides and have content play automatically. As we discussed his needs and ideas it became clear that a tool like photostory3 might also be of use and I have installed that program and have left a copy in the teachers drive too. Andrew is now able to create talking books and embed the resultant video into a PowerPoint page in addition he is able to make music play automatically when a graphic is clicked on in a slide. Finally I suggested that maybe music and video be combined and suggested that Firebox be used in conjunction with a media downloader add on to grab video from http://youtube.com These videos can then be embedded directly, once converted into the appropriate format, into a PowerPoint slide. In the middle block I worked with Istvan. He wanted to know about PowerPoint as a presentation too. I showed him how to insert blank slides, insert text and images onto a slide and then how to animate each element in turn. I also showed him how to crop images and to insert hyperlinks. We spent a lot of time trying to work out if it was possible for the Sunbeam Music Maker hardware could be linked to the audio visualiser element of Windows Media player. We are not sure if the results we obtained (nothing) are the result of a faulty microphone or jack point in the computer and this will need further investigation. We also downloaded http://winamp.com the open source media player to see if this would help us, but with the above fault it is hard to see where the issue lies and this will need more investigation. In the afternoon I worked with Murray. We ran through the advanced features of the ribbon in Word 2007. I showed Murray how to change the default dictionary. How to insert and edit graphics and shapes. How to rotate elements, group and un group elements. We tried to format documents written in Office 2003 but had tremendous difficulty in obtaining a result. I also showed Murray some keyboard shortcuts: Select all Ctrl+A; Undo Ctrl+Z; Cut Ctrl+X || I have created some audacity tutorials which might be of use to you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbCjJAMYaAE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSV1hXFz-w4 I have also created a photostory tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rF7tD8_OqpU The following links are tutorials I have created to help you use Power Point: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYhUr4NoDbI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtvP3PPjx9E Test audio visualiser features with a microphone to see if line in inputs can generate the patters we were after with Sunbeam Music Maker. || Back at Sunnydene, I spent some time with Belinda who wanted help with functionality with Office and Outlook. I showed Belinda how to organize her inbox into subfolder and then create rules to sort mail as it arrives into her inbox. She will now have to continue to set up rules for different categories of mail over time. I also showed her how to convert documents, in this case Power Point documents into PDF, but the technique demonstrated can be applied to any document. Belinda also wanted help with creating forms from existing documents that can be used by staff but not edited. We where thwarted by the layout of the latest Office variant. We needed to activate the developer tab on the ribbon, but in the time available could not solve this. Once activated it will be a simple matter of inserting the appropriate form fields into the tables already created to obtain the outcome that Belinda desires. || Remember to get a male to male VGA cable for the May Road data projector. This site can provide these for you http://bit.ly/cg9ltQ You can also purchase universal data projector ceiling mounts from this organization: http://bit.ly/cg9ltQ Julia will upload the completed resources to the Sunnydene resources page of the 3kings wiki when she has completed them. || In the middle session I worked with Renu. She wanted to be able to link the Widget symbols in symwriter to Clicker. The website indicates that this is possible. However on further investigation it is clear that an addon “WLS metafiles” from Clicker needs to be purchased to enable the Widgit Symbols to be imported. Once this has been installed the WLS VI Symbols pack needs to be purchased from Widgit in order to get the symbols into Clicker. An initial estimate shows that this process might cost $250. I showed Renu how to work the unit’s video camera, however I could not show her how to edit and download the videos as Movie Maker does not support USB file transfers, only WiFI1394 connections. The solution is to either provide Renu with a copy of the software that came with the camera, purchase a more modern video editing software suite or purchase a WiFi1394 firewire cable for the camera and the appropriate PCIcard for the computer. I showed Renu the Creative VADO as an alternative video capture tool. She then showed me her interactive maths tool that she has created in Clicker. This again has been uploaded to the cluster wiki: https://3kings.wikispaces.com/Carlson+Journey#Resources In the afternoon session I worked with Cherry. She wanted to know how to use Photostory and we have devised a resource that enables students to identify objects related to their current topic of study, in this case aquatic animals. Using their voice devices students will identify the image on the appropriate Photostory slide and the students’ responses will be recorded. I also showed Cherry http://vocaroo.com and http://fotobabble.com as alternative tools. || I would recommend that the resources created by Cathleen and Renu today be shared on the clickspecialed-nz site. The following links indicate the resources that Renu would need in order to edit her videos on the computer she currently has. http://pricespy.co.nz/product.php?p=500942 http://www.einfo.co.nz/shop/product_info.php?products_id=11373&ref=pricespy http://edsoft.co.nz/shop/product_info.php?products_id=13993 || Working with yr 7/8 Marvin ||  ||   || In the morning session I worked with Georgina. She wanted to create a fully independent free choice resource for her senior students to use at recreation times. She wanted to make a DJ station where students could choose and play the music they wanted from the artists they chose. We used Powerpoint to create this music player. We used the insert sound option and altered the image to enable quick identification for the students. We had to use a program to convert the wma audio files to WAV in order that the files would play in Power Point. A version of this resource has been uploaded to the cluster wiki: https://3kings.wikispaces.com/Carlson+Journey#Resources--Free%20choice%20and%20independence Once we ironed out the wrinkles of this resource, we started to make a similar resource, but one that would play videos for the students, again of their choosing. We had to convert videos from AVI to WMV and did this in Movie Maker. Georgina will now expand on the file repetoire both audio and video for the students to use. In the middle block I worked with Chrissy. She wanted assistance with Word 2007 and the dreaded ribbon! I showed her how to set up the default font and line spacing, how to create and edit tables and how to insert and edit images in the latest variant of Word. In the afternoon I worked with Suchi. I showed her the resources that I had created for Julia at Sunnydene. We downloaded the Scratch http://scratch.mit.edu/ files and I installed a copy of the program for Suchi. I showed her the basics of the program and she wants to use it in terms 3 and 4 to help build directional vocabulary for her students. She wants to use it in conjunction with her Smartboard. I installed Firefox http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/upgrade.html and the one click You Tube downloader https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?q=1+click+you+tube+downloader&cat=all&lver=any&atype=0&sort=&pid=1&pp=20&lup=&advanced= for Suchi, so that she can play videos from You Tube offline. I showed Suchi how to download the files and then access them offline. I also showed Suchi how she could use the ‘capture video’ in Windows Movie Maker to capture live action from the webcam built into her laptop so that she can capture evidence of student attainment, without resorting to a video camera. I also showed her how a second audio track can be added to clips so that she can add some kind of diagnostic voice over to her footage if she chose. Finally we created a PowerPoint Slide that represents a timeline of achievement for individual students and each stage will link to a slide of evidence collected by Suchi in the form of images, audio and video. || Georgina to take photos of the students using the resources that she has created and post these images to the cluster wiki. I think that the IEP template created in Word 2003 and now playing up in Word 2007 will have to have form fields inserted into it and the hard spaces removed. The current file is read only and could not be edited by me. The original creator is likely to be the one who can do this. If this is not possible, then the document may well have to be re-created. For Firefox to work on You Tube Suchi needs to have the Firefox Flash update installed, we tried to do this but were denied access, this will need to be sorted by an administrator. DK to produce Scratch resources: Toy tidy up resource, maze resource and directional resource. Suchi, Jay and David to meet next week at Sunnydene to organize term 3 dates and to write proposal for Ulearn presentation and submit it before July 4 revised deadline. || We reviewed the great progress and individualized resources that have been designed and implemented by staff at both Carlson and Sunnydene in the last term. We then looked at our focus for evidence gathering in the run up the to the final milestone of the cluster. In addition we started to look at creating a sustainable momentum for all of the initiatives developed over the last three years, once the contract has ended. We discussed how video footage collected could be re-utilised as staff training videos in the future. We also talked about creating a wiki for parents to use, in order that they can discuss and connect with each other as a support mechanism as their children progress through either school. In the afternoon DK created the Scratch resources for Suchi and have now uploaded them to the resources part of the Carlson page on the wiki. || Suchi and Jay to reserve accommodation and register for the conference. As we get closer to conference time accommodation will be hard to find. Flights can not be booked until we know if the application has been successful. DK to work with both Jay and Suchi late in T3 to help them with their presentation. DK to create and distribute the Scratch resources as requested by Suchi from last week. Set up parental support wiki early in T3 and get a core group of parents involved and trained up. || Using Story Creator 2 - students explore the genre of Myths and Legends and can quote a definition. They then created their own Myths and Legends using the site. ||  ||   || • Edie.Speak(Normal, “Vol=32767\\Spd=96\\Pit=54\\Hello my name is Edie. What are your names?\pau=10000\”) • Suchi also wanted to know how to change screen resolutions on the two machines that she works on to ensure consistency of resource size when she is working with children. I showed her how to download http://jingproject.com, but she does not have permissions to fully install this program as it asks for an authentication. • Finally we downloaded Wax2.0 a free Chromakey video editing program that will allow Suchi to create Chromakey videos for her students. We also had to download and install a Free wmv to avi converter in order that Wax2.0 can read the files. • At the Carlson base I worked with Priscilla. She wanted to know how to use Publiser. I showed her how to create text boxes, insert images, word art and tables. In addition I showed her how to ensure that text flowed from one column to another in Publisher. We also worked with Google. I showed her how to search properly using keywords and operators such as “”” and + to refine searches. Finally I showed her how to download and save images from the Internet. • In the afternoon I worked with Kieron. I showed him graphics creation tools such as http://inkscape.org and http://gimp.org The majority of the session was taken up with discussions around how to best use video to capture student attainment. I suggest that staff need to have good training in the use of video cameras, including how to upload video from the camera to the computer and then edit it. In order for this to be a seamless transition it will be necessary for the school to purchase the appropriate editing software, as Movie Maker does not enable downloads of video from a camera via USB cable. The only other solution is to purchase Fire Wire cards and cables for all computers, a more expensive option. || • Suchi to share her Marvin resources that she has created on the wiki and via the http://clickspecialednz.co.nz site. • DK to create Jing video resource for screen resolution to share on Wiki. • DK so create video for Carlson on how to upload videos to http://youtube.com and how to then ensure that the video is private. || • In the second session I worked with Andrew. Andrew wants to create a slide show that generates random images. These random images will be used to help students identify family members, without a pattern. We spent the entire session trying to locate VBA scripts that would help us to create this kind of slideshow. The fire alarm was a cold, wet and windy intrusion into this research! I found this site with a catalogue of code and education applications that might be of use: http://www.loyola.edu/edudept/PowerfulPowerPoint/index.html • In the afternoon I worked with Rose. In this session we re-visited the skills that Rose had learned during our last session. During this session we adapted these skills to produce a resource for use with students, we intend the resource to be able to observe and assess student interaction/reaction to the images and actions on each slide. || • I suggest that the resources that both Andrew and Rose are creating should be shared on the cluster wiki https://3kings.wikispaces.com/ and also on the http://www.clickspecialednz.com/ sites for other teachers to use and access. || • After morning tea I worked at Oranga satellite. I worked with Cathleen and she wanted to create an interactive resource for a student. We created a resource in PowerPoint. This resource has animations and sounds embedded into it, in which the student has to trigger the events before they will happen. We tested it with another student and their reaction was priceless ☺ They loved it. It would be my suggestion that this resource is also shared on the cluster wiki and on the clickspecialed site for others to use. • In the afternoon I worked with Suchi at Waikowhai. We started to block out the plans for her presentation with Jay at Ulearn. I have suggested that they use a Google Doc to collaborate on the plan and have suggested a model for the layout and content of the slides in the show. || • Suchi and Jay to source as much evidence as they can in video and photo formats for inclusion into their presentations. Would be good to see the PowerPoint and clicker 5 resources worked on and created earlier in the year being used by the students in photos. || • In the middle block I worked with Istvan. In this session we revisited PowerPoint and created a resource for his students to use in their next topic. I showed Istvan how to download images from the Internet (we were looking for images of bright yellow objects) and save them to a folder. Once this was done we created a powerpoint with black background and applied this to all slides, we needed a high contrast setting. I then showed Istvan how to insert images and animate them in each slide. Finally we then created an auto shape arrow and animated this on the first slide and copied it to all of the subsequent slides. Istvan then wanted to insert music to play automatically into each slide. • In the afternoon I worked with Cherry at Aoranga. She wanted to go over a few issues that she has had with Photostory since the last time that I worked with her. I showed her how to save the Photostory as a project file (which can be edited) and how to save the project as a story which plays as a video and can be shared. Cherry shared a wonderful moment abou how the use of Photostory has stimulated one of the children that she has used Photostory with. She recounted how one student who uses a speaking device to communicate was accurately identifying the images on screen with the words on his device (which had a pre-recording of the word) and this recording was made in photostory. When the story was replayed he then repeated the actions as he listened. A great piece of evidence of the impact that this e-learning tool has provided to this student. || • Please ensure that for all of the interventions created and discussed today, photos and video are taken of students using these resources as these images will form a central part of the evidence gathering process for the final milestone. || We looked at creating virtual tours in GoogleEarth, Blabberize and Marvin. Jay and Suchi had a look at Prezi to show a big picture view of a presentation. ||  || Susan and students - Marvin Marvin trip uploaded to YouTube and embedded in wiki. ||  || • For the remainder of the morning I worked with Jay and a parent to set up wikis for the school. We set up two wikis: http://parentsupportnetwork.wikispaces.com and http://nzschoolots.wikispaces.com I showed them how to add pages, insert text, change the look and feel of the site. In addition I showed how the discussion tabs work and set the appropriate permissions for the parents wiki for any parent to contribute to a discussion. I also informed everyone about the ability to be notified of any changes made to the wiki, but we ran out of time for me to demonstrate how to do this. • I worked briefly with Denise and showed her how to insert images into a clicker 5 grid from her computer. We also discussed the best grid for her to use to obtain the objectives identified in her IEP for a student. • Showed Jay http://www.freepdfconvert.com/ so that she can convert pdf files to word files. I also showed Jay the concatenate function within Excel to enable her to create a spreadsheet that creates usernames and passwords. We then used this worksheet to create users on her new wiki. For the remainder of the afternoon we discussed content for the upcoming Ulearn presentation. || • Decide whether the school wants any formal role or even if they want to be a member of the new parent wiki. I would suggest that Jay is a member of the wiki and keeps track of discussion threads to keep an eye on parent trends. || • In the afternoon I worked with Anne at Carlson. We spent the afternoon making a choice PowerPoint for one of her students. We have included sounds as an additional stimulus and prompt for her students. We uploaded this file to the wiki to share with others: https://3kings.wikispaces.com/Carlson+Journey#Resources--Free%20choice%20and%20independence it is the green choice PowerPoint. || • Cherry’s machine is running on XPsp1. This machine is not particularly secure as a result, I suggest that it is updated ASAP • The fact that Cherry’s machine is so out of date is now affecting her ability to effectively use the e-learning tools she wants to use. • The version of IE that Cherry is using is now unsupported by many websites, she needs to be upgraded to IE6 at least || 2010 || Sut @ St Therese || Laura's class - Myths and Legends - Storycreator2. Working with Todd re- converting sound files to .mp3 for insertion into Blabberize and CrazyTalk - Joke Speeches. Susan's class - Training the trainers Yrs 7 and 8 with using Marvin. Training the trainers - Year 6. || Example of Todd's class oral language work - [] ||  || • I next worked with Jini who wanted help to transfer video from the Sony DVD video recorder. After a lot of fiddling around we managed to get the camera and computer talking to each other. We then investigate the Roxio MyDVD9 tool to enable Jini to actually edit videos and produce DVDs to send home to parents that can be played in a domestic DVD player. Next time we meet we will need to test with a DVD-R disc. • I worked with Jenna, we looked at how the forced order template in sentence in Clicker 5 could be used with her students. We created a resource and explored how this utility could be built up into a continuum of activites for the students that she had in mind. We also looked at PowerPoint as a tool to measure and teach cause and effect for students who need to learn that a mouse action/ paddle hit has an effect on screen. I showed Jenna how to animate images and use motion paths to create short animation scenarios. We also added sounds to make enhance the visual cues with audio. • In the final session I worked with Liz creating an Excel template for a school attendance register. We have established the parameters for the register and using the “countif” function in Excel it will be possible for us to create a tool that tracks how many days and of what type individual students have off from school. ||  || • I created an absences spread sheet for 2011 for Liz. It covers all students and all terms broken down by absence type for 2011. I have used formulas in Excel to calculate the different types of absence and keep a running total. • I worked with Chipo and we went through how to animate images in Power Point. We downloaded images from the internet, inserted them into slides and Chipo made a slide show where each image is animated in some way to keep children interested. • In the afternoon I worked with Jules. I installed Zoomit a zooming utility for her students. I also installed Photostory3 and XP image re-sizer. We worked on Audacity and I showed Jules how to edit tracks, amplify and fade out. I also showed her that it was possible to make multitrack recordings. We spent some time going over the potential of Photostory to be used as an assessment tool for her students. Finally I showed Jules the[| royalty free music] available for her at http://venisproductions.com • For the final part of the day I sat with Liz and we tweaked the absence register for 2011. We made a staff and student version of the spread sheet and I went through how to use it with Liz. || • Boardmaker missing .dll file needs to be installed • Julia needs to have Boardmaker, SmartBoard10 software and Clicker 5 installed onto her computer • Well done Jaye and Suchi. Your breakout session has been fully booked ☺ || Clusters shared an idea each. Sue shared the clickspecialednz.com website and promoted the Ulearn presentation on behalf of Sunnydene and Carlson Schools. Social media presentation by Willow Bank School was excellent - how they are using Twitter and Facebook to communicate with their school community - [] http://socialmediainschools.wikispaces.com/ Global communities presentation by Liz Stevenson - [] [] [] Tessa Gray shared the following: Nick Rate and Jo Wilson shared the administration information regarding milestone and variation writing - [|Variation writing] [] [|Exiting requirements] [] Greg Adams from Interface Magazine shared the benefits of teachers having copies of the magazine. ||  || • I worked at Dominion Road school after that and worked with Katial. I showed her how to use Clicker 5 to create forced sentences resources for her students. In addition I showed her how Power Point could be used to create interactive resources through the use of animation. I showed her how to animate images, search for and download images from the internet and put them into a Power Point slideshow. I also showed her how to download sounds and include them as part of the animation. Finally I showed her how PowerPoint can also be used to create choice opportunities for students. • I worked with Jill for a block. I showed her how to download and install XP image re-sizer and how to re-size images for inclusion in documents that have to be sent via e-mail. I then showed Jill how Power Point can be used to create choice opportunities for students • For the last part of the afternoon I worked with Daphne. I showed her how to set up http://skype.com and set up an account with her. We then tested her account and made video calls to each other. After that I showed Daphne how to use Photostory. I showed her how to import images, add and edit text, add audio to images and how to save and export the end product. Finally I showed Daphne how to use the picture motion option to enable a photo to be zoomed in on, enabling her to emphasise a particular element of a page or image. || • See you in Christchurch Jay and Suchi. Remember to pack your warm clothes, it was freezing there last year and now that so many of the buildings have holes in them, they might be a bit drafty! || I worked with Julia and Anne. I showed them how to use Boardmaker 6 and how to link buttons to other grids, add music and embed videos into buttons for students to be independent users of the resources they create. ||  || • In the middle block I worked with Jayne. We looked at how to screen capture frames from a video and include them into other documents. I also showed Jayne how to burn CDs of data from material stored on the server. Finally we moved her computer into a position that is far more ergonomically appropriate for working on. • In the afternoon worked in the front office with Georgina. She wanted to learn how to use Publisher. I showed her how to add text boxes, Word Art, auto shapes and insert images and clip art. I then showed her how to add drop shadows to elements, how to rotate elements. I also showed her how to layer objects and then group them into one object. I showed Georgina how to use text autoflow to flow text from one text box to another. ||  ||
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 * **Date** || **Event** || **Attendees** || **Objective** || **Outcome** ||
 * 05/02/10 || Facilitator Mtg || Jo Willmoth, Jude Hudson, Sue West || Planning for 2010 and dates for Focus Teacher and Management meetings || Dates distributed to Principals and Focus Teachers, milestone feedback discussed and plans for gathering better quality evidence developed. See this link for evidence gathering planning ideas. ||
 * 09/02/10 || Mtg with Brenda, Principal, St Therese || Brenda Mauger and Sue West || Goals for 2010 || Goals discussed and dates set for 2010. Outcomes for Learning at School Conference ||
 * 15/02/10 || Sue working with Kowhai Syndicate, Three Kings School || Sue West, Jane Stephenson, Jenny Quinn, Lesley Llewellin, Lorraine Kent, Maree Shaw, Nancy WolfgrammValu Poliko || Setting up classroom blogs and links with classes from other countries || Each class has their own blog, some continuing from last year, but much more focussed. ||
 * 16/02/10 || David @ Carlson || Suchi, Helen, Faye || Worked with Helen and Suchi and
 * 18/02/10 || Focus Teacher Day || Suchi Umpathy, Jay Bhana, Mel Cates, Maree Shaw, Jude Hudson, Laura Gearny, Sue West, Jo Willmoth || Milestone feedback analysis. Discussion about how we as a group and in our schools, can address the reporting and evidence gathering.
 * 19/02/10 || Sue 2 St Therese School || Jackie McGiven
 * 22/02/10 || David @ Carlson (Waikowhai Satellite Unit) || Suchi || We got through a lot this morning
 * 24/002/10 || Learning at School Conference || Sue West, Laura Gearny, Teresa Fouhy || Minister, Stuart Middleton (MIT) -
 * 25/02/10 || Learning@school conference || Sue West
 * 01/03/10 || Sue at Three Kings School || Working with Kauri Syndicate - years 5/6 - Class blogs || Marissa Webster
 * 05/03/10 || Sue at St Therese School || Working with Laura's class of year5/6. Pictures that represent your community from the Internet and put into AndreaMosaic.
 * 08/03/10 || Laura and Teresa || Presentation to other cluster schools as a result of the L@S Conference.
 * 09/03/10 || Sue @ Three Kings || Establishment of class blogs. Explore blogs on the Interface Magazine website - www.nz-interface.co.nz look at why we would use a class blog. Look at new BES - making connections with the community/parents/whanau Use of blogs for literacy.
 * 10/03/10 || David @ Sunnydene || Worked with Nick on editing
 * 11/03/10 || Management Meeting || Project Implementation
 * 17 March 2010 || Facilitator day at Oranga Satellite unit || Cathleen, Renu - David Kinane facilitator || I worked with Cathleen on Clicker 5 grids. We edited the appearance of cells by changing the colour of the border and making the colour more obvious users. We also changed the grid choice options to enable row choices. On one students grid we customized the grid to include images of family members and re-organised the cells to make the navigation structure more manageable. I also installed Cam Studio [] onto Cathleen’s computer and created a several tutorials to be used as a training resource for others to learn the editing tips that we did earlier.
 * 17/03/10 || Facilitator Meeting || Jude Hudson and Sue West || Data gathering processes for all schools. || Sent to all Focus Teachers and Principals ||
 * 18/03/10 || Sue @ St Therese || Sam & Laura
 * 24 March 2020 || David at Sunnydene || Lynda Gale and Daphne Ilton || I worked with Daphne in the first block on her video taking and editing skills. We took some video and uploded it to Movie Maker. Once in movie maker I showed Daphne how to:
 * 1) Split video tracks into clips
 * 2) Order clips on the storyboard
 * 3) Switch between timeline and storyboard view
 * 4) Trim clips
 * 5) Add transitions between clips
 * 6) Add titles to start and end of movies and on to clips.
 * 7) We then published the results
 * 25/03/10 || Sue @ St Therese || Sam Tapane and Year 7/8 students || Following instructions, conversational English - using Pixton.
 * [[image:3kings/Tom's_Pixton_ST.jpg align="center"]] ||
 * ||  || Todd Reid || Continuation of last week - crazy talk ||   ||
 * ||  || Jackie McGive || Continuation of last week - eggs ||   ||
 * ||  || Susan ||   ||   ||
 * ||  || Laura ||   ||   ||
 * 31 March 2010 || Carlson Base || Georgina, Faye and Helen || I worked with Georgina to work on creating a solution to enable her older students to select their own music and music videos during lunchtime. We used the pads in Clicker5 and set up a word grid to play embedded sounds, which had already been done, but we wanted to do the same with video. Video would not play in the grids and kept crashing Clicker 5.
 * 21 April 2010 || Sunnydene base and Mays Road School || Julia, Elizabeth and David || In the morning session I worked with Julia. Her laptop needed Clicker 5 installed and the Smartboard software. Once installed I showed Julia how to use both programmes. Unfortunately we could not get her laptop to talk to the data projector, so we could not use the board. However, I did model some board techniques for her to use when using the board with children.
 * 30/03/10 || FT Day || All FTs || minutes on the FT wiki page || minutes on the FT Wiki page. ||
 * 31/03/10 || Finance Mtg || Sue and Jo || Sue explained the differences in coding that needs to be adjusted in the budget.Sue suggested that Jo meet with Tessa to check the finances. || A follow-up meeting was held with Jo and Tessa to discuss the coding. ||
 * 23/04/10 || Sue @ Three Kings School || Mtg with Jo
 * 30/04/10 || Sue @ St Therese || Laura
 * 30/04/10 || Sue @ St Therese || Laura
 * 07/05/10 || Sue@3kings || Maree
 * 12/05/2010 || David at Sunnydene (May Road unit) || Julia || I worked all day with Julia at the May Road unit. For some reason an incomplete install of the SmartBoard 10.6 and a complete install of the Smartboard 9.5 Notebook software was on her machine. This meant that neither were functioning properly. I had to uninstall both, and run the Smart Clean up utility and then install the complete package of Smart 10.6 onto her machine. It is now installed and tested, complete with the latest Smartboard drivers update and is working fine.
 * 13/05/10 || Focus Teacher Day at Three Kings || Sue West, Jay Bhana, Laura Gearny, Maree Shaw, Melanie Cates, Suchi Umpathy || Teachers learnt how to use Jing for presentations, student assessment and for professional development in their own schools.
 * 14/05/10 || Sue @ St Therese || Laura - morphing for change
 * 19/05/2010 || David at Carlson Base || Worked with Ann, Kieron and Rose || In the morning block I worked with Ann. She wanted to make a resource that would enable students to make choices. She showed me some proprietary programmes that she has access too, but wanted to make her own specifically targeting two students in her class. I decided that PowerPoint would provided the structure that she was looking for.
 * 26 May || Face to face day at Sunnydene base and at May Road || Worked with Chipo and Julia || I worked with Chipo at Sunnydene base for the first session of the day. She wanted to create a resource similar to the one created last week for Carlson teachers using Power Point https://3kings.wikispaces.com/Carlson+Journey#Resources I showed Chipo the resource and how it works. She wanted to create something relevant to the children she is working with. I showed her how to search Google for images and audio files and how to download them to a folder on the computer.
 * 02/06/2010 || David working at Carlson Base || Worked with Andrew, Istvan and Murray || In the first session I worked with Andrew. He wanted to create a resource that would enable students to play music of their choice. We looked at ChooseItMaker 2 and found navigating to the music files difficult as and the file formats that the program could use was not immediately apparent. To convert music files from one format to another we installed http://audacity.sourceforge.net I have left a copy of this program on in the teachers drive.
 * 09 June 2001 || David working at May Road and Sunnydene || Worked with Julia at May Road and with Belinda at Sunnydene || I worked with Julia in the morning and we reviewed where she had got since we had last met. She is creating resources for Matariki and for a cultural event that the students are all going to participate in. Julia was wanting to use the animation element of the Smart Notebook software to do this, whilst this is a possibility I could see that Julia had ambitions beyond the capabilities of the software and encouraged her to use PowerPoint instead. I showed her how to animate objects along a path and this better suited her requirements. I also showed her how to search for specific images on the internet, then edit these images to suit our needs. We used an online tool http://aviary.com to edit the images we had downloaded. Once edited the new images were then downloaded once again and inserted into the PowerPoint. In addtion I showed Julia how to use Google Street Veiw in http://maps.google.com to grab images of specific buildings May Road School in this case. We then used the Fn+PrnScrn function to grab the image from the screen and edit it further in Paint.exe We tested the half completed work with one of Julia’s students and the results of this test can bee seen at: https://3kings.wikispaces.com/Sunnydene+Journey#Community--Resources: It is clear that the tool as designed and when used in conjunction with the Smart Board engaged the one students and encouraged lots of additional language, experimentation and provided clear evidence of cause and effect through interaction. It was a great success. Well done Julia ☺
 * 16 June 2010 || Oranga Satellite unit || Renu, Cathleen, Cherry all working with David || In the first session I worked with Cathleen and we created a Powerpoint resource. The activity was designed to encourage and monitor interactions by a student and also to assess eye tracking through the use of animation on each slide. We used the same statement on each slide and changed the images. We have now published this resource to the wiki site and can be viewed here: https://3kings.wikispaces.com/Carlson+Journey#Resources
 * 18/05/10 || Sue & Jude || Milestone Writing ||  ||   ||
 * 21/05/10 || Sue @ 3 Kings ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 26/05/10 || Sue@ 3 Kings ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 28/05/10 || Sue@ St Therese ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 18/06/10 || Sue@ St Therese || Working with yr 7/8 designing production thank you posters.
 * 23/06/10 || Sue || Planning for Focus Teacher Day ||  ||   ||
 * 23 June 2010 || Facilitation day with David at Carlson base and Waikowhai satellite || Georgina, Chrissy, Suchi || For the morning I was at Carlson base and in the afternoon I was at Waikowhai satellite class.
 * 24/06/10 || Focus Teacher Day || Focus Teacher Day || Go over our last milestone report and review our progress so far and for planning for the next term. GoogleDocs PD, collaborative documents, creating forms etc. || Minutes on the meetings page. ||
 * 30 June 2010 || Facilitation day || Suchi, Jay and David || We spent the first part of the morning preparing the online application to present at Ulearn10 in Christchurch. Funding for the conference is dependent upon the successful outcome of this application.
 * 23 July || Sue at St Therese || Room 4 - Myths and Legends -
 * 23 July || Sue at St Therese || Room 4 - Myths and Legends -
 * 24 July || FT Day || Focus Teacher Day @ 3Kings || Notes on FT Day page ||  ||
 * 28 July || David at Waikowhai and Carlson base || Suchi, Priscilla and Kieron || • In the first session I worked with Suchi at the Waikowhai satellite unit. In this time Suchi wanted to find out how to insert pauses in the actions an speech of the Marvin characters, in order to give her students time to react. The pause function can be found in the advanced speech section and the code that follows is an example of how to create a 10 second pause:
 * 4 August 2010 || David working at Carlson base || David, Istvan, Andrew and Rose || • In the first session I worked with Istvan. We worked primarily with Publisher and Word. I showed Istvan how to create documents in Publisher for staff to use as assessment tools monitoring student progress through the routes to learning template. I also showed Istvan some of the keyboard shortcuts that he could use to ease his use of the computer. CTRL+ a; CTRL+ s; CTRL+ v; CTRL+ h; CTRL+ v for example. In Word I showed Istvan how to edit tables, format them etc We also then looked at page layout tools such as the various tabs and how to use them. Finally I helped Istvan to set up mail signatures in Outlook.
 * 11 August 2010 || Carlson and Sunnydene SMTs, Cathleen and Suchi || David working at Sunnydene base, Oranga Satellite and Waikowhai Satellite || • In the first session I worked with the SMTs from both Carlson and Sunnydene. We worked through http://docs.google.com I showed the SMT how to collaborate on the same document at the same time. We looked at documents, spreadsheet, presentation and forms. I demonstrated how to add comments, how to create and share documents and how to upload Office documents to Google Docs and then edit them. Finally I demonstrated how a Google Doc could be downloaded back to an office document. In addition we looked at XP image resizer utility to manage uploaded file sizes on the Internet http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx We also looked at http://rocketdock.com/ to add a little Mac bling to a PC.
 * 18 August 2010 || David working at Carlson Base and Aoranga School || Jayne, Isvan and Cherry || • In the morning session I worked with Jayne. She is new to Carlson so I spent some time bringing her up to speed with the aims and aspirations of the ICT PD cluster. I also shared with her the powerpoint that I created with Cath at Oranga last week as it is just the kind of interactive intervention she would want to use with her students. Jayne also commented that as she had come from a Mac school previously she wanted to edit her photos in a manner similar to iPhoto. I showed her http://mugtug.com which fulfills this role. I also showed her how to use MS Photo printing wizard to organize her photos in preparation for printing. We also looked at http://jingproject.com as a tool that could be utilized to create simple and short tutorials for staff to remind themselves of simple tasks on the computer. Finally Jayne wanted me to show her how I had set up the web cam on the laptop to enable Suchi to record student intensive interaction sessions, unfortunately the technology let us down.
 * 19/08/10 || Sue @ FT Day || Suchi, Jay, Jude, Maree, Sue and Mel. Apologies from Laura. || Focus Teacher Day - New milestone template available on GoogleDocs. Teachers checked that they had access. We went over the linking again to the wikispaces re- showing examples of work. We discussed and tried the Table of Contents links to specific examples and how to make these tiny for the GoogleDocs milestone template. Schools now have colour coded input on the document so that Sue and Jude can easily identify the schools data.
 * 20/08/10 || Sue@ St Therese || Todd, Laura and Susan || Todd and students - CrazyTalk for dinosaurs Laura and students StoryCreator 2 - Myths and Legends.
 * 25 August 2010 || David working at Sunnydene || Jay, Nick and Denise || • In the first session I worked with Nick. He was interested in creating photo montages. I showed him http://photovisi.com which is a great tool for creating montages of images into pre-made templates. We quickly established that this was not quite what Nick wanted to achieve. He wanted to edit photos. I showed him the suite of tools at http://aviary.com we used the phoenix tool to edit images on different layers. For some reason one of the tools ‘froze’ on us and our creative work came to a halt. I then downloaded http://gimp.org an open source image editing programme similar in scale and scope to Photoshop, but free. Nick will now spend some time working out how to create the kind of manipulated images that he want to create scenarios with for his students.
 * 1 September 2010 || David working at Oranga Satellite and Carlson Base - facilitation support || Cherry and Anne || • I worked with Cherry for the entire morning. We went over the how to save Photostory3 files again. This is not a particularly well defined process in Photostory. We looked at Publisher and I showed Cherry how to use the various tools to layout work exactly as she wishes. I showed her how to use the text autoflow function to flow text from one column to the next, how to place images in a text box so that text flows around it. I showed Cherry how to add borders to images and how to create her own custom borders. We then looked at http://mugtug.com an online photo editing tool. Unfortunately we could not look at this site in her version of IE6 as it is not supported by this site. I installed Firefox for Cherry so that she can browse to the more modern sites that her IE will not let her. I showed Cherry how to upload, edit and then save images back to her computer using http://mugtug.com I wanted to show Cherry how to use http://jingproject.com but because her machine is still running on XPsp1 she was unable to install this program. We looked at http://meegenius.com an repository of online books that can be read to students. I also showed Cherry the following site: http://room3c2010.wikispaces.com which has a huge range of literacy and numeracy games for new entrants organized on it. We looked at http://bears.co.nz but unfortunately it looks as though this software will only run on Windows98 computers or older, I doubt that it will run on XP. Finally we changed the password setting for Cherry’s account at http://literacynz.pbworks.com
 * 3 September
 * 8 September || David at Sunnydene working with staff || Individual sessions with staff: Jay, Suchi, Jini, Jenna and Liz || • In the first session of the day I worked with Jay and Suchi on their presentation for Ulearn. We talked about timing and perhaps considering amalgamating slides with one image on into a slide with multiple images on. With so much to say and share and so little time, we do not want the successes of the e-learning interventions to be omitted due to time pressures. I also found a tool for Jay to evaluate: http://pdftoword.com the tool offers a 14 day free trial for the desktop tool or an online free service. To purchase the tool costs US$99.00
 * 15 September 2010 || David at Sunnydene || Anne, Liz, Chipo, Jules || • In the first session I worked with Anne. We were to work with Boardmaker. The machine we were working at has a copy of the new version on it, but a missing .dll file prevented us from opening it.
 * 16 Sept 2010 || Sue @ AHG Meeting || Sue attended the Auckland Homegroup Meeting at Elm Park School on behalf of the 3 Kings ICTPD Cluster. || Very informative day -
 * Digital citizenship and cyber citizenship module
 * Digital citizenship and copyright moduleThese are for teachers to participate.
 * 22 September 2010 || David at Sunnydene, Dominion Road and Waikowhai || David worked with Suchi, Jay, Daphne, Jill and Katial. || • In the first session I met with Suchi and Jay and we discussed and reviewed their presentation for Ulearn. They are putting the final touches to this document and will meet up again and do a dummy run through in the first part of the holidays.
 * 13 October 2010 || David at Sunnydene Base || Worked with Belinda Rowe, Chipo, Julia, Anne || Worked with Belinda, helped her with her Iris Notes pen. Sorted out the issues with transfering the notes from the pen to her computer. I worked with Chipo and showed her how to use Clicker5. I showed her how to create forced order sentences for her students. We created four word sentences. I showed Chipo how to add text and how to add images to the the word order to support her students.
 * 20 October 2010 || David at Waikowhai unit and Carlson Base || Worked with Suchi, Jayne and Georgina || • In the morning session I worked with Suchi. We looked at Scratch again as a follow up session after Ulearn. I showed Suchi how to create her own backgrounds and import them into Scratch. We then spent a long time programming a multilevel maze game for her students. The project is not complete, but the bones of the activity are in place and Suchi will continue with this in the coming days and weeks. In the final part of the session we reviewed Suchi’s contribution to the final Milestone and investigated how to upload AVI videos to a wiki site to share video information with parents on a private wiki she has established.
 * 27 October 2010 || David working at Sunnydene base || Nimreeta, Mel, Belinda, Julia || • I worked all day with the Belinda, Julia, Mel and Nimeeta. We were looking at how to integrate interactive whiteboards into classroom pedagogy. We started off working with the Smartboard and the Smart Notebook software then downloaded the 2touch software and installed it onto Mel’s computer. We went through all of the tool bar options and I showed all of them how resources could be used for assessment purposes. I showed everyone http://vocaroo.com and how it can be used to capture student voice. I showed Belinda how to embed resources such as http://youtube.com videos and http://vocaroo.com audio tracks into a new post on the Sunnydene blog. Next we looked at and installed http://jiongproject.com as a screen capture tool again to be used as an assessment vehicle for student attainment and teacher annotation for evidence. I also indicated that tools such as http://dipity.com could be used as progression over time. My blog http://dakinane.com/blog/resources has loads of free tools for downloading and my http://delicious.com/dakinane site also has lots of links to websites that might also be of use for staff. Mel and Nimeeta made resources for their students using the 2touch software before lunch. They had plenty of ‘board time’ and Mel’s confidence grew. We even evaluated some of the free resources available from the 2touch site and could quickly see that the resources lacked the critical interactive element for students. In the afternoon we looked at Boardmaker and Clicker5 and investigated how these tools could be incorporated into an interactive white board learning programme. ||  ||
 * 3 November 2010 || David Milestone work || Jay and Suchi || David spent the day reading through the collected evidence on the wiki fom both Sunnydene and Calrsons schools. Spoke with Jay and Suchi to ensure that they were happy with what they had to do and gave them guidance about what kinds of evidence the would need to include, especially around sustainability and community involvement beyond the end of the contract. ||  ||
 * 10 November 2010 || David Milestone work || Jay and Suchi || I read the contributions from both Jay and Suchi on the shared Google Doc and followed the links to the evidence supplied by them. I made comments in the text for them to use to amend their content. I also followed this up with e-mails and telephone conversations with both Jay and Suchi. ||  ||