Wendy and I are involved in Connected Educator Month #CENZ14 and are in the process of collaboratively writing a digital bookLET. You can read about that here.
And to disrupt Wendy more so that Future Focussed Learning just becomes learning.
Wendy and I are involved in Connected Educator Month #CENZ14 and are in the process of collaboratively writing a digital bookLET. You can read about that here.
And to disrupt Wendy more so that Future Focussed Learning just becomes learning.
On Saturday 4 October 2.00- 3.00pm (UT + 13 hrs)
We had a special session for Connected Educators Month.
This year a collaborative calendar for October will connect thousands of educators who will be able to engage in free (and freely given) professional learning events, communities and resources.
For more information do visit the the Connected Educators Website www.http://connectededucator.org.nz/
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Presenters Name
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Topic
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Twitter
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Google +
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Sam Hocking
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SOLE – Self Organised Learning Environment
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Bridget Casse
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SOLO Taxonomy: Making Learning Visible in the Earliest Years.
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Reubina Irshad
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Mutukaroa Project
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Tim Kong
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The Future May or May not be Finnish
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Lewis Bostock
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Safe and effective use of social media in the classroom
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Kassey Downard
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What’s the big deal about Minecraft?
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Karen
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Share about Connected Educator Month
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Did you miss the TeachMeetNZ #NZGeo session on Crossing Boundaries .
Personally responsible citizens:
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Participatory citizens:
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Justice oriented citizens:
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•act responsibly
•obey rules and laws
•volunteer
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•take skilled and active role in groups that work for the common good
•know effective strategies for collaborative action
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•seek social justice, equity, human rights and moral rightness
•take skilled action for social change
•know effective strategies for changing existing practice
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Newmarket School
Curriculum connection:
Not Self But Service- Newmarket’s first Motto
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Newmarket School Curriculum connection: Student Leadership Programme at Newmarket School
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Newmarket School Curriculum connection:
Students taking on a glocalisation project to benefit our local environment.
EG:I would like to see here what we are doing to minimise traffic around our inner city school.
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Digital citizen example:
Educators volunteer to take part in an online project where they act in ways that will benefit others.
An example here would be the GlobalClassroom chats I have hosted and co-hosted on a variety of topics.
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Digital citizen example:
Educators take a skilled and active role in a group that hosts and or organises online projects for the benefit of others.
An example here would be the #EdChatNZ conference that has taken place recently
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Digital citizen example:
Educators experience a form of context collapse – and exercise “pedagogical activism” to understand whose voices are amplified – and whose voices are muted or not heard. They work to include in the conversation those whose are excluded by the process and or the technology that enables online projects – They ask what are the unforseen consequences of online projects – e.g. Postmans questions – who is advantaged – who disadvantaged and who remains unaffected by online projects – and then they work to find clumsy solutions to address this
eg: where are the Pasefika educators hiding online. I plan to host a TeachmeetNZ totally in Samoan as part of Samoan Language week in 2015.
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Digital citizen example:
Students taking part in the Skoodle Badge system (or equivalent) – or using SOLO rubrics for blog commenting – learning how to behave online for the common good
(A teacher has just created a badge system for her class.)
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Digital citizen example:
Students setting up a FaceBook group to support other students in their year group – course – church or social group
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Digital citizen example:
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Educators and students develop knowledge, skills, attitudes and behaviours about and for
· technology access,
· technical awareness,
· individual awareness
· social awareness
· cultural awareness
· global awareness for personally responsible citizen outcomes
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Educators and students develop knowledge, skills, attitudes and behaviours about and for
· technology access,
· technical awareness,
· individual awareness
· social awareness
· cultural awareness
· global awareness for personally responsible citizen outcomes
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Educators and students develop knowledge, skills, attitudes and behaviours about and for
· technology access,
· technical awareness,
· individual awareness
· social awareness
· cultural awareness
· global awareness for personally responsible citizen outcomes
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Type of citizenship
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technology access
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technical awareness
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individual awareness
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social awareness
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cultural awareness
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global awareness
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personally responsible citizen
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participatory citizen
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justice oriented citizen
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Technology Access: Tools for Collaboration. In order for collaboration to take place the educators that I work with must have access to Asynchronous Communications such as twitter, and google+ communities and via gmail because we are using a google product. Communication takes place asynchronously in that the participants do not generally communicate concurrently. However when we move to the live streamed event, we use synchronous tools such as google hangout and even twitter. Therefore communication takes place in real time. When the session is over we move back to asynchronous communications such as twitter, a blog reflection and commenting on each others blog and a wind back of the hangout via youtube. The educators that I work with develop their presentations using a communication conduit such as google presentation and the group wiki through which ideas flow between themselves and me on their presentation. I can see their slides develop as they are being built and can give feedback. The communication conduit happens too via the google + community and via twitter where we use the #TeachMeetNZ. I have added a facebook page too but at this stage I still find twitter the best place to pass messages through.
Dates
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Title
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Links
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30 Sept
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Minecraft Hangout
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Google Hangout
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1st Oct
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Launching CENZ
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Webinaire
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4th Oct
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TeachMeetNZ google Hangout
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Google Hangout
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9 Oct
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Present Ulearn with Wendy
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Presentation
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10 Oct
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Present Ulearn with Ginnie
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Presentation
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TBC
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Eduignite Citizenship
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Presentation
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20 Oct
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Complete my chapter on educator
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Blog Post
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28 Oct
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TeachMeetNZ /TMsydney
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Google Hangout
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31st Oct
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EdbookNZ
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Publish a book
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In addition set up systems to support our RTLB with the next roll out of iPads for their teaching and learning with students. Currently I am reading around minecraft as I believe we need to explore this programme further.
This post is a reflection of all the times I have taken part in Eduigite sessions.
I guess it is thanks to Veni Jamieson whose feedback to me after one of my led staff meetings was ‘Find out how not to blush so much when you present.’
I do, I get really red because I am not a public speaker and the nerves are just there.
So the first thing I did was research and some steps I read include, drink cold water before going into a session, locate the room and survey before you begin, make connections with your audience, and just get in front and do it. The more you present the better you will be.
The steps are simple enough except for ‘practice speaking out loud as often as you can to a room full of people’. Hence Eduignite. Where else could I find a better group of people to practice on than my own peers?
My first eduignite, I attended was Term 3 2012.
The second time I was unwell, but went along anyway and presented. I was really nervous as you can see and hear.
To present in 5 minutes, a lot of time is involved in preparation just for 5 minutes.
The format is 20 slides in 5 minutes. Each slide auto runs at 15 sec intervals.
You have to know your topic really well.
I rely on cue cards as I speak, because I just do. I have also used an ipad as cue cards and learnt to create PDFs that could be downloaded in advance using iBooks. That was before schools had easier access to wifi. Now I usually use them because it is just one less technology I am organising.
As each session progressed, I am not as nervous at the thought. I have now given 5x mini presentations and yes my confidence has certainly grown in this area. I do not feel as nervous as the earlier days and I am getting better. Every so often I get feedback that makes me pause and think. Like last presentation night when Emma Winder said Sonya you always share some great ideas. Because for me the real purpose is practicing with a room full of peers to overcome nerves. The bonus is I also get to listen to other stunning presentations and hear teachers sharing their stories.
I also like to see the videos of my own performance and the earlier ones I cringe at but learning can’t happen without a few lessons.
Last night, I did not blush. Where to next for me. The next eduignite is held at the National library in week 1-2 of Term 4. Andrew Cowie is orgainisng that one as part of Connected Educators Month #CENZ14 and I will present again because this year I set myself a goal of sharing a three part journey.
Part one: My personal tattoo, Part two: My digital tattoo, Part three: Citizenship. You can check out the slides on my slideshare account.
I have had Reubina Irshad come along to one session and Wendy Kofoed my principal attend another. Eduignite stipulates that the first time you attend, the second you either present or bring a mate. Having peers attending from school only added to the stress of presenting because again, presenting to people you know has both positives and negatives.
This time too I have set further goals, invite the rest of Newmarket Staff to join me in the third presentation of the three part series, get some more feedback from Veni to see if he thinks I have improved and EKK not use cue cards. There I have written it down.
This would be extra fabulous for me because I have been working with our Newmarket Staff on making connections with each other using social media. Eduignite would be a great way of connecting with other educators F2F outside of Newmarket School, use twitter during the session and maybe this might higlight too the importance of making their own learning visible.
The great thing about Eduignite is that the entertainment learning is free and there is always wine and food. The evenings are fun and you get to meet some great people.
So I do hope you all join me in Term 4 at the National Library.
Finally, just a shout out for Torbay school who hosted the last session. They are selling cook books as a fund raiser. I loved the way Johanna Chambers kept reminding us and she did all she could to support her school in their fundraiser. Oh and I caught the tail end of their children’s Trash to Fash sharing. It was absolutely brilliant.
Torbay School Cookbook. Developed by students. Awesome Christmas gifts @vanschaijik pic.twitter.com/oYxLoTmWLC
— Johanna Chambers (@ChambersJohanna) September 11, 2014
First week back at school this term and I was still finishing off TeachMeetNZ Anniversary session.
On the 3rd of May we hosted our anniversary session.
However the real date that TeachMeetNZ began was on the 4th of May 2013.
We had a full house.
@MissDtheTeacher @stephen_tpk@gingamusings @kaiako_nz @gmacmanus @chasingalyx
Our invited guest was Arjana abfromzwho got up at 4.00am in her timezone to join us. She was invited as a mentor and guest and in true Arjana style she had a turn at presenting.
Time Keeper was Kathy @kathyscott25 and she was also back up host. Kathy was one educator who had been with me from the start learning how to use the tools. She tinkles the bell to keep us on time.
For this session we trialled Question and answer in hangout and worked at bringing in more participants.
Marnel 1MvdS was my monitor for this new tool. The challenge she had was being able to see it from within a hangout. My fault, I was training the presenters but did not realise how difficult it was to see the questions from within a hangout. At the end of the session, Marnel created a storifi of the twitter feed.
We trended again on twitter.
Monika @BeLchick1 watched the twitter feed and broadcasted on twitter as presenters spoke
We broke the 100 live time views mark on the day and 15 people watched the session right through.
Our first session took 25 minutes to broadcast and this one took just over an hour.
I have learnt a lot about my self from hearing the way I speak and direct teachers. Some of my learning include not to be so direct, giving positive, clear feedback and acknowledging the other educators who gather around me to ensure that the sessions run smoothly. These include broadcasting and helping with training. There have been 38 teacher presenters on the sessions and you can go and rewind their sessions here. The highlight for me is the reflective blogging that happens after the sessions. This is when the real learning happens for teachers as I think about how we can continue to get sidetracked with the product. I also learnt that with the Festival of Education GHO session I myself am unable to screen share. I love the way that the recording was live almost immediately after the session.
Where to next? I would love to run a session with staff to share their inquiry. I am keen to have a try at running a virtual mini conference. Maybe call in past presenters to run their own sessions but all within a single hour period. Begin with one session where everyone can tune in and then push people out to various groups and pages on the wiki. It would be great to have questions and answers too from a virtual audience.
Finally I am ready to run a discussion as is being planned because I can now operate the Q & A section on a hangout.
Hey amazing NZ tweeps, need you to GH in with presentations for #eduigniterotovegas on Thursday. Who can help? @BeLchick1 @vanschaijik
— Annemarie Hyde (@mrs_hyde) April 5, 2014
Recently the above message came to me via twitter from Annemarie Hyde.
Of course I responded with a yes and here is my Eduigniterotovegas presentation. I shared about TeachMeetNZ and about the amazing connections I have made with New Zealand educators. I shared about the site being a collaborative product and how proud I am to have nearly 30 mini presentations available for anyone to come, view and share. It was great to have Marnel Van der Spuy as master of ceremony at the Eduignite and to see her in this leadership role all the way in Rotorua via Google Hangout. Because I was presenting I needed to have practise sessions and was grateful to @cossie29 and to who spent time with me in a Hangout so that I could practise my part of activating shared screen and showing my own presentation. I did miss having @kathyscott25 with her rattle snake to remind me of time.
To be honest I am always hosting a Google Hangout Session but I have never really presented. I have been hosting TeachMeetNZ sessions for nearly a year now and the sessions allow New Zealand educators to talk to each other. The sessions are like being in a conference yet more like when you meet over coffee with your educator friends. That kind of sharing of practice is a fabulous way for New Zealand educators to use technology to talk together.
TeachMeetNZ shifts the focus of conferences because now we do not have the restrictions of time, space or paying to attend a conference. The exciting part of TeachMeetNZ is the ability of a teacher presenting to other teachers. Yet the experience is not just for the teachers who attend or who tune into a session but also for the teachers who presenting. I did not realise the value of this until I myself presented at Eduigniterotovegas via Google Hangout.
Steve Hargadon’s video provided me with lots of inspiration for this post.
So do you have any interesting travel memories?