Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Cluster Share Afternoon

What a great afternoon we had at the cluster share afternoon. It was fantastic to see the progress each school has made in the past 2 years! It awesome that every school presented in a different way -it kept things interesting and everyone focused! Rochelle and I presented a keynote with exemplars of all the ICT learning that has been going on throughout the year, across the school.

I really enjoyed seeing our journey as a cluster since the beginning of last year, I felt very proud to a part of the change that has been taking place across all the schools and in particular being a part of the changes at CBS.

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

ULearn 2009

My trusty sidekick Rochelle and I have just completed presenting our breakout session called "Animate and Innovate Our Young Learners!" to an audience of about 20 at ULearn in Christchurch. It was fantastic, everyone was very enthusiastic about using 'I can animate' and 'Imovie' and could see the value of using this tool in their classrooms. We showed some examples of drawing animations (which was a digital recount of our class trip to MOTAT.) We also showed an example of using the image capture animation which is the series of photos (frames) that conveys movement through a series of tiny movements.

Everybody had a go at creating both types of animations, including exporting and importing into IMovie to finish off the editing process. We were quite pushed for time as we wanted to show and let everyone have a go at both types of animating.

It was fantastic and we got lots of great feedback!