ICT Cluster meeting Thursday 11 September St Josephs School Otahuhu

SteveVoisey

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEPinFBcBgU

The 3 carriage train - spend more time in the second carriage

-willingness and enthusiasm rather than directives

Google Apps - Google Classroom: https://classroom.google.com/welcome

Need strategic plan +school google account

How?

select teacher

create class

invite students

give them the code (ie: as with Edmodo)

sign in

stream/ students

put up videos

watch videos in own time - comment

Make announcements - youtube - add instruction -watch and add a comment.

Assignment -eg: volcano research -find info about rangitoto

due date comes up automatically.

My assignment - create

name and title goes up automatically

use research tool - annotates - cite

finish work

turn in when finished editing - cant change after turn in.

Teacher gets assignment notification

Grade /100 or whatever (numerical)

Post feedback comment - important

TTS will come into school to move the middle carriage - say once a term

Hapara + Google Classroom complement each other

Not a soup kitchen handout but a shared collective where all efforts contribute and are valued.

Twitter: @stevevoisie

Questions/ discussion -

#Youtube ads: turn on ad blocker (abp) on chrome or firefox

#N4L: n4l  has three levels of blocking -have one person on staff to alter as well.

#short urls - more convenient to type in

goo.gl

bit.ly

Meeting ended with a tour of new classroom block.