Online+Conference

=Reporoa Valley Schools' Online Conference=

During Term 3 we will hold an online conference - our teachers sharing the practice, experiences and ideas. The Lead Team are in the process of planning and preparing for this conference.

=Adding Content= If you are ready to add content in the form of files, links, photos, images etc please use the following resources to help you. Certain types of files may need to be uploaded in certain ways that may not be mentioned in the videos below so go to the discussion tab above and describe the file that you would like to add so that I can ensure I personalise the learning required. [|Video tutorials on the basics of adding content courtesy of wikispaces]

Where do I add the content?
Until term three we will house the content on school pages - which will be edited into strands for term three. Click on your school link below and add your schools' content by editing the page. Broadlands Mihi Ngakuru
 * Horohoro
 * Lake Rerewhakaaitu
 * Reporoa
 * Waikite Valley

Below is our teams' thoughts about themes and powerful questions that will frame the conference. Lead Teachers please add your suggestions to the first column, move any suggestion you are excited about to the second column.

Themes and associated powerful questions
Powerful questions: In what way can I share? Is what I do really worth sharing. What will I get out of it? When I share will I get any feed back? Will I others help me improve on what I shared? || Life long learners take one step at a time to success and more challenges! What would one of your footprints of your ICT learning journey look like? How can you step others through their journey? ||
 * ~ Suggestion ||~ Very excited about this suggestion ||
 * Theme: **"We are life long learners - we care to share".**
 * Ideas worth sharing: Examples of the use of ICT which is integrated with the curriculum. Ideas that are simple and easy to get started with ICT. Examples of rich questions for learning topics. Examples of concepts that we think are important for our children - what is it powerful for our children to learn? How to generate rich questions. Examples of what was powerful learning for your children, and why. ||  ||
 * How can we connect the children in our cluster, through the use of ICT, in meaningful ways? || What are we already doing that would foster these connections e.g. podcasts, video, skype, email etc? ||
 * What criteria can we, in our cluster, agree on for quality contributions to the knowledge on the net? In other words, the information that our children present on the web should be quality work in terms of presentation and content. ||  ||
 * Video clip interviews with students and teachers about the value of ict and how they use ict in their everyday lives and how ict enhances their learning. || What are the students passionate about? What do they like best in terms of ICT? What do they use and which sites do they visit on the internet? How can we use this information as teachers to develop our "lifelong learners"? ||
 * Set up a "challenge" task for people to work on and download to the online conference. E.g. take a thinkers key like "the ridiculous" and produce a podcast, video clip, photostory, claymation, digital book etc to justify the statement. ||  ||
 * What will the future of assessment look like? How can we develop exciting, powerful opportunities for sharing the student's learning through e-portfolios? || The sky's the limit! If we used green hat thinking and the "ridiculous" key again we could create something very unique. ||