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Rakahuri Cluster Mini Conference 24 March 2010

2.30 - 3.30 Guest Speaker - Derek Wenmoth Derek is currently the Director of eLearning [|CORE Education Ltd], a not-for-profit educational research and development organization based in Christchurch, New Zealand. He has a broad background in education, with experience as a teacher and principal at the primary and secondary school level, and in teacher education. His experience in flexible and distance learning includes a role as manager of the eSection at [|The Correspondence School] in Wellington where he led the development of eLearning initiatives as a transition from traditional print-based delivery. He is currently vice president of the [|Distance Education Association of New Zealand.] He's also worked with the [|Ministry of Education] as a senior adviser in eLearning, helping formulate a national eLearning framework, and he currently spends some of his time on contract to the Ministry working on the implementation plan for this framework. He is a regular speaker at conferences and seminars, and maintains a blog as a place to keep track of and share ideas and thinking across a range of areas relating to the use of ICT in teaching and learning. He shares an intense interest in re-conceptualising education for the 21st Century, and in 2008he became one of the George Lucas Foundation’s “[|Global Six]” – awarded to educators who are recognised for reshaping the future of education.

Presentations Integrating Oral, Visual and Written Language using ICTs. Exploring Web 2.0 tools that support and integrate literacy in classroom programmes
 * 1. Read It! Write It! Say It! In your literacy programme (Swannanoa)**

This presentation aims to share a range of practical ideas and examples of how both teachers and students can make the most of their Activboard within their literacy programme. Using audio and video discover ways to hand over the 'power of the pen' to your students. Although more suited to interactive board users these ideas could be modified for use with other ICT.
 * 2. The Power of the Pen (St Josephs)**

Discover a treasure trove of online books available at your finger-tips for your classroom use. Extend visual and oral language practically. You will find out exactly where to explore for a further wealth of resources, picture books, audio books, myths & legends, poetry, and non-fiction resources, all freely available online to fit your programme.
 * 3. Literacy Alive through eBooks (Southbrook)**

Motivate students and improve literacy using traditional tales, thinking tools, digital mechanisms and online resources. This breakout will look at reading collections of Classic Traditional Tales online as well as creating your own Traditional Tales.
 * 4. Traditional** **Tales with a Digital Twist** **(Ashley)**

A grassroots presentation about the integration of ICT into your classroom writing programme. This breakout will look at planning, writing and publishing recounts with the help of Comic Life.
 * 5. Everyone's a Superhero! (Ashgrove)**

6. Merging ICT with the Literacy Progressions ( Rangiora Borough)

Room S7 ||< 5 Ashgrove 4 Ashley 2 Southbrook 1 St Josephs 4 RBS 16 ||< 5 Ashgrove 3 Ashley 2 Southbrook 1 St Josephs 4 RBS 15 ||< 5 Ashgrove 1 Ashley 5 Southbrook 2 St Josephs 4 RBS 17 || Room S6 ||< 5 Ashgrove 3 Southbrook 1 St Josephs 4 RBS 13 ||< 1 Swannanoa 4 Ashgrove 2 Southbrook 4 RBS 11 ||< 4 Ashgrove 1 Ashley 2 Southbrook 4 RBS 11 || Room S5 ||< 3 Swannanoa 5 Ashgrove 1 Ashley 1 St Josephs 4 RBS 14 ||< 1 Swannanoa 4 Ashgrove 3 Ashley 2 St Josephs 4 RBS 14 ||< 2 Swannanoa 5 Ashgrove 3 Ashley 1 St Josephs 4 RBS 15 || Room S4 ||< 3 Swannanoa 5 Ashgrove 2 Southbrook 1 St Josephs 3 RBS 14 ||< 1 Swannanoa 5 Ashgrove 6 Southbrook 1 St Josephs 4 RBS 17 ||< 1 Swannanoa 5 Ashgrove 4 Southbrook 1 St Josephs 4 RBS 15 || Room S3 ||< 2 Ashley 3 Southbrook 1 St Josephs 4 RBS
 * <  ||= Breakout 1 || Breakout 2 || Breakout 3 ||
 * < Read it! Write It! Say It!
 * < The Power of the Pen
 * < Literacy Alive through eBooks
 * < Traditional Tales with a Digital Twist
 * < Everyone's a Superhero!

10 ||< 3 Swannanoa 1 Ashley 2 Southbrook 1 St Josephs 3 RBS 10 ||< 1 Swannanoa 2 Ashley 1 Southbrook 1 St Josephs 4 RBS 9 || Room S2 ||< 4 Ashgrove 2 Ashley 2 Southbrook 1 St Josephs 4 RBS 13 ||< 5 Ashgrove 2 Ashley 1 St Josephs 4 RBS
 * < Merging ICT with the Literacy Progressions

12 ||< 2 Swannanoa 3 Ashgrove 2 Ashley 1 St Josephs 4 RBS 12 || Schools please upload numbers by Monday 15 March