The days highlights for me:
- Meeting a new colleague from the Canterbury region and discovering EduCampChch is happening very soon!
- Gawker - classroom timelapse, great way to assess on-taskness, cliques, 'attractive' areas of the classroom
- Teach cybersmart instead of cybersafe
- Learning about Daily 5 and CAFE, some concepts worth adopting, in particular stamina and developing learning stamina + indepence aspects and children self-managing literacy times
- Sharing about inter-city ebuddies via skype and using writing as the vehicle (learning intentions and giving feedback), and later having a discussion with someone who admired the idea and referred to it as a long-distance super-classroom
- Talking about and seeing a flexible learning spaces within a classroom (I just love the concept of flexible learning spaces!)
- Touring classrooms and absorbing effective classroom practice - reflected by the actual classroom space and displays
- Catching up with a fellow colleague (now e-colleague), and planning our next steps for our e-buddy (skyping) classes
My do-able next steps:
- De-clutter the classroom and remove my desk space
- Create visual for "iPICK good fit books"
- Pitch some cost effective ideas and fundraising ideas to colleagues to up the digital learning opportunities and integration of e-learning
- "Gawk" into the classroom
My future dreams:
- Replace most of the childrens desks with tables and provide tote-tray type storage areas
