Stacey's+Online+Portfolio

 media type="custom" key="6975755" align="center" This is my fourth year teaching at Greenpark School; over my four years I have taught new entrants/year 1 and for the last two years have been teaching year 2. I grew up in Thames, studied at Waikato University to gain my Bachelor of Teaching and started my first teaching job at a small rural school; Mangatawhiri school, with a roll of roughly 100 students. At this school was where I started to take up the role of ICT Lead Teacher. || || At Greenpark School we are also in the process of exploring E-portfolio's. This year myself along with Kylie (our Inquiry guru) and Warren have been to various conferences to see what other schools are doing in the way of E-portfolio's. Next term (term 4, 2010) Mark Treadwell will be coming to Greenpark to discuss our future in E-portfolio's and the Mahara programme which we will be using for them. media type="custom" key="6976471" media type="custom" key="6976563" ||  || Unfortunately my goal did not go quite as planned; because of the hall being in use for the school production we were only able to have four gymnastic sessions in total (rotating around 12 activities in 40 minutes). So instead of my plan in getting all of the children to film a friend doing a gymnastic activity, I have to choose a small number of children to roam around during our sessions and film small snippets of the children in action. This meant filming a number of children in one shot, rather than one child per shot as I had planned. Before our second session, we sat down as a class and looked at a movie (combined videos that were taken) of us doing gymnastics. We then talked with our buddies in deciding what our goal/focus would be for the session. Then made our way to gymnastics. We were fortunate enough to have senior students helping us at gymnastics, and they were able to demonstrate to use the correct way in which to do each gym activity. We continued through the next week with the same pattern or reflecting before, looking at footage and deciding whether we were performing up to the standard we should be for gymnastics. media type="custom" key="6976175" align="center"
 * ==**My Portfolio**== || [[image:girl-on-writing.gif width="167" height="214" align="center"]] || =Link to Greenpark School's KnowledgeNet []= ||
 * ==**About Me**== || My name is Stacey Fairweather and I am a classroom teacher/Lead Teacher of ICT (alongside Warren Young) at Greenpark School in Greerton, Tauranga. My husband Mike and I have both lived in Tauranga for three years and are loving it!
 * ==**My Role 2010**== || As a Lead Teacher of ICT at Greenpark School I am in charge of overseeing the years 1-3 teachers KnowledgeNet pages; ensuring they are using them to benefit their classroom programme and the students' learning, checking that the teachers are keeping their pages up to date and also in taking PD sessions on KnowledgeNet and various useful web tools for all teachers years 1-6.
 * ==**My Goal**== || My goal has been based on the fact that every classroom at Greenpark School now has a Flip camera. We are wanting to make the most out of their purchase, and in doing so have all of the children being able users of them.

media type="custom" key="6976333" media type="custom" key="7244307" align="center" ||< **What I would do differently next time** The Breakouts I attended were:
 * Definitely have more gym sessions (ensure that gym is going to take place at an appropriate time in the term.
 * Have all of the children using the flip.
 * Have students write down goals and display.
 * Watch more Youtube clips of professional gymnasts. ||
 * ==**KnowledgeNet Conference**== || Warren and I attended the KnowledgeNet Conference at Takapuna Grammar 17/18th September 2010.
 * 1) Discuss E-portfolio's directly with students from Bucklands Beach Intermediate ( Lenva Shearing).
 * 2) Online Learning Journals (Lucy Finlayson & Shirley Cope; Red Beach School).
 * 3) Literacy Alive through e-books (Lorraine Watchorn & Gail Cochrane, ReLLCo ICTPD Facilitator).
 * 4) Ideas for group e-portfolios (Jackie Jones, Takapuna Normal Int School).
 * 5) KnowledgeNET 2010- New features and the Roadmap (Dave Braddock, KnowedgeNet).
 * 6) Using KnowledgeNet in an Inquiry Classroom (Bek Galloway, Raroa Normal Intermediate). || What I thought about the breakout:
 * 7) This breakout was great. I learnt of a small number of useful tools to use alongside KnowledgeNet and it was great to see the e-portfolio from student's perspective. These children know a great deal about many different ICT related tools and programmes - it was amazing!
 * 8) Unfortunately this didn't show me anything I already didn't know.
 * 9) I learnt of a great variety of e-book websites. I never know there were so many! Click this link to see them all http://rellco.wikispaces.com/Books+Online
 * 10) Showed some good ideas for group e-portfolios. A food technology teacher took this breakout. She was very lucky to have a number of computers in her class all of the time, therefore allowing her the technology to be able to do this on a daily basis.
 * 11) Great to see that a new and easier to use version of KNet is coming out and a look at what is to come such as being able to easily embed video files etc!! The main man was very interested in what we had to say and our feedback.
 * 12) Unfortunately we had to leave half way through this breakout so we could catch our flight back to Tauranga, but it looked like their would be some great ideas for a year 5 class and up. ||