ICT2LRN Media Criteria

Here are some downloads for the criteria that will be used when judging the entries for our media awards.  They are very useful for guiding your students through the process and, I think, are best used when broken down and co-constructed with your class.

If you have already completed some entries they are still useful to compare your media with.

These are mostly a direct  translation from the 'Made Awards' criteria and should enable you to enter your media in those awards, also.

Happy downloading!

BYOD Trials

Some of our cluster schools have started a BYOD trial in classrooms.  Myross Bush School has begun a trial in one of their senior classes and Winton School has an iPod touch trial in their maths classes.

Here's a link to the journey Myross Bush has started down.  They have some links to agreements and disclosure forms they have sourced and adapted as well as an interview with some students about how they are finding it.

Has you school started or thinking about starting something similar?  Do you have some thoughts, experiences or resources you could share?  Comment below or email Mark with your details - it would be great to keep working together as more of our schools make this move.

Media Awards Info

Stuart Hale PD session - Wednesday

Dropbox folder - links to all his resources and files.

His Delicious account - lots of bookmarks

Twiducate.com

Airprint - photocopier from mobile devices

Kevin Honeycutt - video on 21st Century Learning, trends, tools and tactics.

Principals and Leads with Stuart Hale

Notes from Stuart's session with Principals and Lead Teachers.

 - Future Investment?  Most important thing for schools to do is to upgrade your wireless network to one that's 'robust' and 'corporate' grade.
         - This will cost initially but save in the long run with students bringing their own devices (BYOD)

- Devices should go the whole day without ever having a cord plugged in - VGA, usb is old technology.  Most devices with have an hdmi attachment but better to connect wirelessly.

- Schools are purchasing wide screen tvs instead of projectors - putting them on your teacher stations, they never need a bulb replacement, shows in bright sunlight and has hdmi inputs.

- Cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com
     - Great site for everything you would ever need to use in schools

- School PD programmes. Recommendation for schools to be hesitant about spending PD on cloud based tools - they change all the time.

- Sharing exemplars of student media by using Madeawards.com and smart awards links.  Children learn by seeing expert examples.

- Teachers will not use professionally that they don't use personally.  Encouraging them to make home movies and learn that way.

    - Showcasing teacher made media, also creating a criteria in awards for movies about the process schools go through to create media.

"You feed the hungry and you do not water stones." - putting resources and PD where it's wanted and needed. 

- BYOD - schools that encourage parents to buy devices before they see the programme in action will be creating problems for themselves.  Show them how you will use them first!

- Using photography to capture student voice, taking pictures from another's perspective.  Also gives creative kids an outlet for their imagination without the burden of the dexterity of paint or drawing.  Children selling their playstation to buy cameras after a newspaper publishes their work.  Gives them a voice and 'mana'.

- Preparing your school for ipads. - resources available in this dropbox file.

    - campus infrastructure, test it out to manage multiple devices

    - how is your wireless network?

    - it's more important to ask the right question than to know the right answer. 21st Century skill where content is everywhere but you need the right question to access it.

    - getting rid of your proxies is crucial to accessing devices.  Proxies are like having barbed wire and broken bottles on your fences - it's against the NZ mindset.

    - having student use agreements that cover content and access issues.

    - BYOD school policies that cover storage, use, protection etc.

    - giving your community a vision of how they will be used

- using twitter to connect - can't encourage this enough. @stuartnz

- Furniture for our rooms.  We have kids that work best in a variety of ways; light, comfort.  Catering for difference.

- Pedagogical Models

    - have your discussed how the devices will be used?  1:1 classrooms work best on project based, independent learning.

- example of device management and school policy resources - Berkley Normal School

Cluster Staff Survey 2012

Information for Stuart Hale PD Days

Stuart Hale Workshops 10th May

Here is the registration form for booking the Thursday workshops with Stuart Hale - 10th May.  Please fill in one form per school.  Thanks.

Up Coming events

Here are some opportunities coming up that our cluster can be a part of!

1.  Educamp Dunners 2012

If you've never been to an 'educamp' before then you are missing out.  These events are a great example of the collegial nature of our profession - teachers sharing and connecting around a common interest and purpose.

The educamp in Dunedin next month will be an opportunity for you to steal some great ideas, find out what's new and trendy in classrooms at the moment and make some connections with teachers that could take you even further than the day itself.  Visit the wiki below, add yourself to the attendance form and organise yourself some transport.  If you would like to be involved in a car pool then email one of the management team at Myross Bush School and we can squeeze you in.

2.  ICT2LRN Media Awards

We hope your school is planning to submit some spectacular entries to our cluster awards competition!  The purpose of this event is to showcase the amazing ICT creations that we know are happening across our cluster.  It's also a great way to highlight the progression in teacher practice we know we have made over the three years our cluster has been collaborating.

More details (including entry details, criteria and online registration forms) will be forwarded to your schools in the coming weeks but we can confirm the following details to help your planning.  We will also be creating some posters to put up in your classrooms and staffroom bulletin boards.

*  These details are also subject to being finalised but stand as follows;

2012 ICT2LRN Digital Media Awards

When

• Entries in Subcluster 5pm, 14th September
• Subcluster finalists named 5pm, 26th September

(entries uploaded to a dropbox on the cluster blog - details to be finalised)

• ICT Cluster Media Awards night 5pm, 30st  October

Year Level Categories

• Yrs 0-3, 4-6, 7-8

Digital Categories
Static Image

• Create a powerful visual image using digital photography. Emphasis on careful composition, focus on a point of interest, close up or long shot.

Manipulated image

• Using a photo editor to create an artistic to the original.

TV Advertisement (Commercial)

• Persuasive message: eg Public safety message, environment eg. Road Safety, Clean Green etc

Story telling

• Produce an original story or a new interpretation of a known story.

Documentary

• Non-fiction presentation about a place, topic, person or event.

Music video

• Compose an original soundtrack and add some moves.

PLEASE NOTE: Judging will be based on the MADE AWARDS CRITERIA – see madeawards.com

Judging panel to be confirmed

Here's a link to the Made Awards Criteria.

Upcoming PD

It's a new year with quite a few PD opportunities coming close to our range! Here's one that is happening in our fine city. Should be a great way to learn AND connect with others wanting to develop their school and classroom practice!

If you come across other events or workshops that crop up in the future, let us know! Contact your Principal or ICT lead teacher and tell them to forward the details to me for our blog. Its a good place to collect and share all the details we'll need to help us achieve our cluster goals this year!

This event features DK, Core Education's Social Media Manager is speaking at a breakfast and then running workshops on the impact of Social Media in our Schools. Click on the link for more details. There are already a few of our cluster registered - get in quick. Places going fast!