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By: Victoria Fair

Victoria Fair — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 08:34:10 +0000

Thanks for the tutpup link Suzie I spoke to Rachel about this at the Easnet Cluster EXPO and she mentioned it as a possible alternative to Mathletics which we have in Years 3-6 at SPS but don’t have in the Juniors. I have just been and joined up and think I’ll be able to let my top group have a go initially and hopefully later this Term or maybe next Term might be able to get another group on but the easiest level addition is basic facts within 10 and I really need within 5! Still very neat to be able to play people in other countries and might help me plead my case when I ask the BOT for Mathletics to be extended to Juniors next year! Thanks, VF

By: Kevin Mackay

Kevin Mackay — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 20:21:16 +0000

Hi Suzie,
Picked up you site as a link from Tessa’s newsletter. Good to see you are still using your idele time wisely. Time moves on and keeping up the ICT focus is a challenge once the cluster contract ends. I am sad to say that several of my colleagues have “moved on” and left ICT behind. “Done that”.
Not so at Greytown. ICT an increasing focus. All 70 Year 7/8 now have a laptop 1:1 24/7. The increase in engagement in learning has been amazing. Want to solve discipline issues in the Year 7/8 classroom then introduce 1:1. The corresponding increase in learning has also been amazing particularly with the children of lesser ability. It has been a bumpy ride at times but fun. Unfortunately the other 40 laptops are now not keeping up with the demand from the rest of the teachers.
Cheers

Kevin

By: Chrissie Butler

Chrissie Butler — Thu, 21 May 2009 07:33:34 +0000

Hi Suzie. Cheers for taking the time to give an overview from the otherside of the fence. As the ICT facilitator it has been and continues to be an incredible journey.
Just to clarify a couple of things, as teachers working alongside children and young people with a vision impairment in both the home and in mainstream and specialised settings, our media gathering (which is becoming part of many teachers’ day2day) is really focussed on close observation of what a child or young person is actually doing in a learning space and then in partnership with both the family and the wider team working together to pin point what will be the next learning step and how can we support it. Any diagnosis is really a medic’s bag, although many of us often work closely with colleagues in health to determine the usuable/functional vision of a student.
The spin-offs from this media gathering is that we are growing the most incredible practice library of footage from all across the country. Not only do we hope to have an “live and evolving” currriculum document mapping development across the key competencies with media, but hopefully as teachers get bolder and braver, we will also catch footage of the teachers themselves working alongside the students. This latter “catch” will in turn archive some of the great practice across the sector and act as a rich resource for professional development and inservice training for many years.
So cheers Suzie for your enthusiasm and willingness to ponder on my random questions over the last 12 months.