Gilberthorpe school

Gilberthorpe school

Saturday 21 May 2016

Hornby Cluster Toolkits

Hornby Cluster Toolkits

As part of our professional learning and development as a cluster, Mark Maddren who is our Manaiakalani Outreach Programme go to guy, organises teachers from within our cluster to run toolkits.  These sessions go for one hour and are to support our learning which impacts on and improves learning for our children.  

I have attended these in the past and have always admired those who share what they are doing.  As with all professional development, you come away with ideas you know will benefit your students and you as a teacher.

This term, Mark suggested that somebody could share some learning from the recent Google Summit.  I was a little reluctant as I thought what might be new and exciting learning for me, could be old news for other people.  

After some thought and discussion, I decided to look at it as a time for me to share some of the things I have been able to use and out in place since returning to school post summit.  Although this helped me to have a clear picture of what I was to be sharing, I was still worried that attendees might be bored and walk out thinking that was a waste of time.

After a couple of 'Where is my dongle?' moments, we were able to start with our group of teachers and Principal from Gilberthorpe, Templeton and Hornby Primary.  

The presentation included some tools to support learning, some to make our own online lives easier and some things just for fun.  
Have a look here to see what we covered:



The learning for me here, is that often we think we don't have anything worthy to share or we doubt ourselves about what we know and do.  I am still pondering on this as far as my own self belief etc goes, but I am glad to have had the opportunity to share things that I am passionate about and am motivated and excited about this journey.


9 comments:

  1. Lee it looks like you had a lot of great things and ideas to share. Thank you for representing our school at the tool kit. Sorry I was unable to attend but I would love for you to host a mini toolkit here at school and share all this knowledge you have. It is wonderful to see and hear the excitement you have for google apps and technology. Your motivation and interest for this topic definitely shows through the work that you do. Be proud and take pride in your achievements especially sharing at a network level.

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  2. Lee-anne, your toolkit was awesome. I thought you had a great mix of really useful in the class apps and extensions and also some that are simply good fun. I am using bitmoji far more often than I should be lol. It is great to see you getting yourself out there and sharing among the cluster. Next step google summit?? Keep up the great work and i look forward to seeing the senior school utilizing read/write in particular.

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  3. Lee-anne, your toolkit was awesome. I thought you had a great mix of really useful in the class apps and extensions and also some that are simply good fun. I am using bitmoji far more often than I should be lol. It is great to see you getting yourself out there and sharing among the cluster. Next step google summit?? Keep up the great work and i look forward to seeing the senior school utilizing read/write in particular.

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  4. Alison McAllan26 May 2016 at 18:30

    Well done Lee-anne! Awesome that you chose to share all your enthusiasm and knowledge with others!

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  5. Oh man! I wish I could have gone to your toolkit! I feel very lucky to be able to work with you in the senior hub! It's cool to see the cut and glue tool! Often I just move my screens around haha! I also want to know more about google feud, will have to chat to you about it this week. Google summit is definitely on my to do list! 2017 here we come! Thanks for sharing Lee!

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  6. One of my students was looking at a blog from another school in our cluster and read that they will be using Screencastify. Later that afternoon I went to our cluster Pasifika meetings and saw a teacher who said they have been using it in Math heaps and it's transformed things. They learned about it from the toolkit.
    This was great to hear because the sharing has been useful but it also validated the relationships that have been developed throughout the cluster and the power found in our online journey. This week our senior hub used MindMup in Reading which was I discovered through their blog.
    Things are all coming together. Thanks Hornby Primary.

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  7. Man reading this makes me realise how much more I have to learn about maximising the use of my computer. Also I must admit I got a little bit obsessed with google feud after looking at your presentation!

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  8. Man reading this makes me realise how much more I have to learn about maximising the use of my computer. Also I must admit I got a little bit obsessed with google feud after looking at your presentation!

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  9. Well done Lee-Anne, Love seeing what you are learning and sharing with your class. You are enthusiastic about it and your enthusiasm is showing in your students. Hannah is very confident in what she is doing and can definitely show me up using a computer now. I look forward to her showing me more and more, if only the end of the year was not so near.

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