Reflection - play- Judy-Anne

One of my big recognitions over the last few weeks has been the value of spending time practising new skills.

It has been a great reminder that if I need time to practise new things so do my kids.
If I need things taught very clearly so do my kids.

Where I really noticed this was google calendar. I had been very frustrated buy it in the past and refused to use it because my personal stuff was always coming up in the school stuff. It may have been an actual glitch and it may have been that it wasn't explained clearly enough about the tick boxes and how to have just one calendar showing or three! Maybe I was loading events in the wrong place. I will never know now but I feel much more confident with the calendar now that I have watched Rob and Steve's video, had a bit of a chat with Steve and had a play with it. I have set events on my personal calendar but also on the school one. Watch out people- no stopping me now!

We have been playing with the camera on our ipads, exploring at framing and lighting in particular. The children have practised deciding if they are good photos and deleting them if not. Portia also discovered the kaleidoscope function on photobooth so we played with that. then we challenged the rest of the school to guess what we had photographed. (cast to tv at assembly)
My next challenge is to find a better way to get photos from room 1 ipads to a folder to share easily. I ended up emailing to myself and then putting in a folder. Must be a better way. Maybe I need to set up the room 1 account on mine also then I will have them all and can save those I want to my drive- certainly don't want hem all!

TBCS - Craig - Reflection - Troubleshooting - February 18

What did I learn today?

• I still have lots to learn!
• Google tasks can make to do things accessible to calendar
• Google Keep can scan and type printed info and with labels it can help help to organise.
• Google keep is more personal while Blogger is the place if you want to share.
• How to formulate a reflection.

So what?

• The more tools I have, the more choice I have to accomplish a task and the more time it should save in the long run.
• This should make my students more excited about their learning.

Next steps:

• Practice google tasks, Keep, and calendar.
• Sort out how to save photos to google photo.
• Make sure room ipad is linked to student account. (room3@ tas...)
• See Geoff to sort out the offline problem extention.

• 2  Undertaking PLD and further professional reading.
• 2  Engaging with school-wide inquiry approaches as expected.
• 2  Ongoing active involvement in a school/community of schools or other professional learning communities (PLC).
• 2  Attending and contributing to PLD opportunities within and beyond my school.
• 3  Participation in professional development (PLD), both in school and through outside agencies. Working with colleagues to enact the new learning. 

PLD Touch Base - 7 Feb

Items discussed:

1. Using Google Slideshow (Craig) - how to capture student reflections
2. Setting up iPads to manage photos (Judy-Anne) - discussed the need to set up a class Google account so that photos
3. Health Consultation - Rob to get Steve example form to adapt and use
4. What makes a quality reflection - for conferencing a student
1. Is it better than last time?
2. How do you think you did?
3. What did you do well?
4. What are some areas you think you might need to improve in?
5. What is your goal for next time? What is the one thing you are going to improve on?
6. How can I help you?
5. What makes a quality professional reflection?
1. How well did it go?
2. How well did the kids learn? why?
3. How does it fit into what I already know/believe/do?
4. What would I do differently next time?
5. What might my/our next steps be...?
6. Dealing with 'to dos' - looked at tasks/reminders in Google Calendar, plus Google Keep as a great note taking/list making tool
7. Ways to manage learning support register - suggest Google Sheet.
8. Where to next: 20th Feb meeting is focussed on teacher inquiry, then Rob will be at the school 13-16 March.

Next steps:

1. Craig - 
2. Judy-Anne - 
3. Steve -