All in all a good conference - particularly (I'm sure) to the new teachers being introduced to the cluster. I've never seen so many Interactive Whiteboards in one place!
The keynote speaker from the US was Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach, who enlightened us further on the need to get the students to embrace the technology and who was a firm advocate on Blogs, Wiki's and several hundred other forms of "Social Networking"... :)
I noted in particular, that more than a few fellow attendees seemed quite overwhelmed by the influx of sites to see, use and research - so the words from Sheryl about "do one at a time" (because who are we doing this for?) became ever more poignant.
Don't rush in lock, stock and barrel - I would suggest the first thing if you are unsure of which step to take first would be to create your own blog - make it private and have a play! (I'm waiting for Pa Nick to jump in here and advertise his site from last year)...
I'll add more soon.....
(Paerangi does it again - all 3 schools managed to win a prize in the lucky draws! - haha!)
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Thanks to those who have suggested links so far - take time to have a looksie and make use of them!
Ooh! Another thing, you may have noticed that the "new post" link has disappeared - so if you want to add a new post to the blog, go to http://www2.blogspot.com/home and log in (you need to look for the "dashboard" link at the top of the page...
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Yes, a fantastic conference - thank you TUANZ! Sheryl was certainly an inspiration to us all. But - for those of us present - now what? I can't wait to see the outcomes of what we all produce as a result of what we learnt today.
It was certainly exciting seeing three out of three Maori Boarding Schools winning prize draws today - way to go team!!!
Gentle reminder to everyone to check out Terri's blog challenge.
Wow! That is great news, congratulations.
Yeah I totally agree with the "Interactive boards".
But I had to have a little chuckle to myself because it was a really small conference compared to the Rotorua conference, however it was pretty much the same, you know information, information, information ... and more information.
I was all information out .....
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