Learning at Schools Staff Reflections

Blogging in junior classrooms

http://www.livebinders.com/play/play/290298

Lot's more videos and slideshows about blogging... click on the link above.

Cybersafety

Using Your Cybersmarts Online - Rachel Boyd

View more presentations from Rachel Boyd

As a staff we need to review our cybersafety policy, user agreements and get each class to develop their own set of rules for using the Internet etc.

The above slideshow has interesting information that we can use and adapt for vardon.

Teaching Commenting

Have a read and post a comment about what you think... Feel free to copy the link to your own blog and write a reflection.

Twitter

Kevin Honeycutt at #LATS12 spoke alot about teachers using twitter to build partnerships and collaborate across the globe. This is beneficial to our students .... they are the ones we are doing it for! Reasons; collaboration, ideas, debates... which must be all good to further our professional knowledge and therefore be beneficial to our students learning!!

Click on the link above to read more.

On board so far... we now have 5 staff at Vardon on twitter so if you haven't signed up yet take a leap forward and have a go!!

MNatusch is my twitter name.

Our Behaviour Management Plan

Use this template to design your own syndicate-wide class behaviour agreement.

Each teacher will be expected to Save a copy of their room’s behaviour agreement to your syndicate folder under a new folder titled:

Behaviour /Class Behaviour Agreements/ Template Jan 2012 (Syndicate Leaders please set up this folder)

1. Confirm a syndicate template -saved as Sen Synd Template Behaviour Agreement 2012 then
2. Each teacher will modify for their own class and save as for example Room 1 Jan 2012 Behaviour Agreement.

Blogging in the classroom

Click on these links to explore what other professionals are saying about blogging... We'd love to know your thoughts via a comment!

Online Interface magazine

We get a couple of hard copies of this magazine and I have been meaning to copy the relevant pages and pass on to you all.
This is the online version of the magazine so I recommend you visit regularly and share your findings... sharing and learning together!!!!

Swapping blogger user accounts

Our children (who are in a different class this year) will need to swap their last years blogger user details to this years log ins.
At present we are thinking of getting individual e-mails for each child in year 3/4 upwards but for the meantime let's swap to the child's current classes log in details.

We are only going to need to do this with Year 3's that were in room 1 last year and ALL Year 5's.
Not sure how to manage this yet... do I meet with each class of students who need this done during school time or get the ICT club to do this?

Here's what we need to do....
1. Log in to your dashboard with the current user name e.g. room7@vardon.school.nz and enter password (this means year 3's and 5's enter last years e-mail)
2. Go to permissions on the settings page and invite your preferred e-mail (current class email)to be an author.
3. Go to your current classes e-mail and respond as directed to the invitation e-mail.
4. Log in again to permissions on the current account and make the preferred e-mail an administrator.

Check out all admin features while logged in with the preferred e-mail. If all is well, you can remove the old one from the blog.

Do not delete that blogger account, however, as you will lose the images you have uploaded to your blog with that account.