Minutes+from+Meetings

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There will be three scheduled meetings this year. Please click on the attachments below to see the minutes taken at these meetings. For your immediate convenience, I have also summarised the main points of each meeting. The intention is to provide you with some practical advice on using e-tools. It is hoped that that we can share and **learn from each other's experiences**. =====

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PLG members were asked to summarise their e-learning experiences this year, indicate possible next steps for 2012, as well as commenting on how the PLG has been run. Here is a selection of the main points raised (in no particular order): =====

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1. Have a mini ‘learning walk’ within the PLG where PLG members can observe or showcase e-learning in their classrooms. Go beyond the actual meeting slot. =====

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2. Factor in time in the professional learning calendar for faculties to spend time looking at e-tools. This includes things like for example researching apps on an i-pad 2 that could be used to support learning. =====

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3. Visit other schools and see how e-learning is being used (especially in your faculty). Spend time visiting our feeder schools- especially Year 8s and talk with students to see what and how technologies are being used. =====

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4. Run PLGs in the computer suite so that members can demonstrate e-tools. (Our sessions this year run were focused more on generating professional discussions). =====

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5. Consider using the school moodle (which is planned to be set up in 2012) or a medium like facebook to post purposeful discussions on teaching and learning. It would run side by side still with group emails but staff would have the opportunity to embrace the blogging culture and try to __share ideas or links__ through an online community. =====

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6. We still continue to have philosophical discussions on the merit of using e-tools. We question __how__ ICT is used. Is it a presentation tool or is it (and should it be) student directed? If so- what, why and how? We also acknowledge the reality that most external assessments require students to write with pen and paper. =====

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7. Members also continue to point to the merit of using You tube to engage and enhance learning. Time should be spent researching materials for teaching and learning. Apparently, it is not just clips of giggling polar bears or accident prone skate boarders. There is some really valuable stuff on this site. =====


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