Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf
1. Principals and Technology infusion
Presentation @ St. James SD Feb 22, 2012
Rob Fisher,
Principal
École Riverside School
Thompson, Mb.
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to post ?’s they are looking for answers to
email all participants and ask to post to this wall
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while I’m talking to you for the next 15 minutes jot down any ?’s/thoughts that come to mind
here
and maybe I can talk about a couple of them in our discussion or you could as a group
discuss them after I leave today
4. What can principals do to foster Literacy with ICT
(digital learning) in their schools?
[or what do I think I’m currently doing that might be of some use for
you to consider?]
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Guiding ? for today’s presentation
5. “Of course” - Scott McLeod
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I’d like to begin with this poster I recently saw online by Scott McLeod
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if thats not what we are about at our school, what do we talk about?
“Of course” - Scott McLeod
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constant conversations about infusion, teaching, and learning among ourselves and with
students
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some things were doing at École Riverside School
whether its
18. Inquiry
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and if we think of Inquiry as gather and make sense (consumption)
Gather and make senses (critical thinking)
19. Inquiry
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and produce and show understanding (creation)
and produce and show understanding (creative thinking)
20. “The highest goal in life is to inquire and create”
– Noam Chomsky
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I found this quote from a recent youtube video “The purpose of Education”
23. Relationships
Technical skills
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So today I’d like to talk to you about things I think I am doing to create an environment
that allows great teaching to happen.
I think "it's all about the intersection/interplay of/between relationships and
technical skills"
(with a bit more emphasis on the relationship part)
I’ll do this by briefly discussing a few projects we are involved in or have done in our
school
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I’d like to tell you a story about teddybear travels -- a story of relationships and technical
skills
http://teddybeartravels2011.posterous.com/
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This story starts with Mme. Erin (seen here on the left) a fantastic grade 2 teacher in our
school ,
In fact probably a master teacher,
who would describe herself as “not very good with computers”
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and this is Lois Fisher from Flin Flon. explain the concept discussion @ byte with Lois
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http://teddybeartravels2011.posterous.com/
note the comment section
describe how Lois and Erin used the posterous in their classrooms
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then Erin thought she’d need an iphone (after using our ipods with the initital project)
and did yet another project with the butterflies that she grew every year with her students,
but this time created a class posterous and put student created videos of the butterfly
project online @
at mmeerin.posterous.com
talk about my recent discussion with Erin and about using posterous for electronic portfolios
32. Relationships
Technical skills
What I think I’m doing
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finding people in my PL network that are willing to do projects with teachers in our school
building upon exisiting relationships
fostering risk taking , doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assist/suggest
helping master teachers see ways to infuse technology with their students
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen?
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie with an iphone
relationships : Lois, me and Erin
33. one infusion project with each and
every teacher in our school over
the next 2 years
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As part of my professional growth plan as principal with my support
34. Kindergarten
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an example of the first project after I mentioned the one infusion project each over the next 2 years
40. Wolves without Borders
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http://wolveswithoutborders.posterous.com/
And another story about relationships and technical skill
explain the backstory
Spirit way committee (community) and Thompson as the wolf capital of the world
connection with Babbit and Mexico
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collaboratively planning a community survey with their student groups in Babbit
45. Relationships
Technical skills
What I think I’m doing
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Community school partnerships (with Volker - spirit way)
introducing new technologies to Mme. Gagne, Kelly Engman, Tara (wolf.org) and Francisco in Mexico
again building upon exisiting relationships
fostering risk taking , doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen?
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods, ipads and posterous, skype, class wikis, posterous
relationships : Volker, Tara, Micheline, Kelly
46. Voices without Borders
International school twinning initiative project
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Voiceswithoutborders.wikispaces.com
I’d like to tell you a story about our international school twinning inititative - another
story of relationships and technical skills
summary of applying, being selected, the summer preparation by Kristin and CIDA, and then
whats happening now
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Jamaica youtube “Snowclothes”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxEyJ1WrY4s&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active
some of our students creations
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=X_ubIEvOAPo&context=C3f2f47eADOEgsToPDskI5TIqTH5es0Gko8VH4oVDF&safety_mode=
true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active
currently working on how to explain what toboggining is like (they are going to explain
cricket to us)
50. Relationships
Technical skills
What I think I’m doing
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wondering how I can get this to happen
grant and proposal writing
project leadership
building upon exisiting relationships ie. Val at Mb Education ( I was explaining the wolves without borders project to her and she suggested we
consider applying for this)
asking Kristin to consider the project during its inception and to spend part of her summer planning in Ottawa and Jamaica
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods,ipads, and posterous and how to make movies. Editing on imovie desktop and on ipads
garageband to create music, wiki development
doing a 1/2 day inservice with Kristin re imovie editing
relationships: Me, Val, Kristin, Kristin and the international project team
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yesinmybackyard2011.posterous.com
Yes in my backyard is a story about how we received a Mb Citizenship grant of $1000 and
created the idea of make a difference mondays in march.
during Sag last year Sophie, Sara, and I brainstormed about what we could do around an
active citizenship project with our grade 5 and 8’s and this was the result
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students talking on CBC radio promoting our project idea
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asking for food donations every monday in march 7:30-8:30 am then delivering to the
homeless shelter
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voice recorder on ipod with make a difference mondays homeless shelter fundraiser
asking people “what do you think about what we’re doing here?”
55. Relationships
Technical skills
What I think I’m doing
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Citizenship grant $1000 proposal writing
approached businesses with students to get support (Tim Hortons, Robins Donuts, and McDonalds)
developed a relationship with the director of the homeless shelter
right now doing a Young humanitarian awards nomination
keeping it sustainable ie. doing again this year
considering a Thompson community foundation grant this year
again fostering risk taking , doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen?
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous, and how to make a movie and edit, editing audio with audacity
relationships : Sophie, sara, grade 5 & 8 parents, homeless shelter participants, local business
56. Tech buddies
grade six & grade one
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I’d like to tell you a story about our tech buddies gr 1 & 6
explain the backstory of how this came to be with Kristin and Amy
distributed leadership-building capacity around you
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here is another creator example
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=3st7bAcdkIg&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active
grade 6’s helped with script, took video and edited under the direction of the grade 1
producers
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Technical skills
What I think I’m doing
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in this case telling others about our teachers and students great work
me helping when they hit a snag
ie. technical sonic pics not working, sol’n needed an update on ipads
I reach out to my PL network to ask for help when we don’t know
logistics: scheduling the lab as open timeslots so when they need an extended block of time to do a project it is available
fostering risk taking , doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assist/suggest
and as always having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen?
61. Tech talk Tuesdays
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distributed leadership-building capacity around you
explain what this is and how it has developed
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1H7CNTVkQfuFJ0KeKPq3XoM92FHXEkpbfi-
NZgeLhnUk/edit
we have begun to invite teachers from other schools in the district to participate with us
they have heard what we are doing and are asking to be involved
62. listen to what the nay-
sayers are saying
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(for change to happen) you need a compelling why - John Orech via Educon
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carts I provided each class (lcd projector & laptop with wireless Internet access)
“you can bring it in but I need help knowing what to do with it”
not actually nay-sayers but more like “convince me stills”
talk about Jeff recently with google earth and how we discovered google streetview built into
google earth
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Technical skills
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being supportive looking for opportunities to assist,
when it makes sense to the teacher
and when there is an identified compelling why!
65. school-wide
projects
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all students and staff in the school have an image
will be posted on walls soon and somehow shared in the online space
68. Grade 2 self portraits
- Sarah Balyk
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Sarah animoto of her students progress
animoto http://animoto.com/play/VybI3s0pZ3dn0wYPp4fpWw
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another schoolwide project
artist in the schools Brenda Gorlick -flash mob grades 1-3
b-roll with ipods by our grade 8’s
mention what happens when you have 180 students, 150 parents, and 20 high school
students trying to be spontaneous
70. Relationships
Technical skills
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creating a school culture of creativity?
collaboration?
doing the improbable?
71. BYOD
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We also are seeing our students bring their own devices,
for recording homework on ipods, iphones
using their own rather than the schools ipods
festival du voyageur trip 1/2 the kids using own devices to record the trip
72. Pan-Canadian ePub project, One Day in Canada/Un jour partout Canada
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grade 7 collaborative ebook project
darren can explain this in more detail
74. smartboard project
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just received
4 teachers who indicated in their professional growth plans an interest in using smartboards
with their students
(gr 5,6,7,8 french) middle years this year early years next year
provide teachers time to work together to plan and learn (subs)
MTS action plan cohort money for release time is being considered
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so I hope you get a feeling that in our school it’s not this at all,
and here are a couple of other ?’s to consider
“Of course” - Scott McLeod
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76. "When are we going to start asking
ourselves why we make it so hard to
be a great teacher?"
Chris Lehmann
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http://practicaltheory.org/serendipity/index.php?/archives/1329-Beyond-The-Great-
Teacher-Myth.html
“Beyond the great teacher myth” post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
77. "How do we create schools that
make it easier for all students
and teachers to shine?"
Chris Lehmann
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http://practicaltheory.org/serendipity/index.php?/archives/1329-Beyond-The-Great-
Teacher-Myth.html
“Beyond the great teacher myth” post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
78. Are our limitations self imposed?
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tell story of discussion at educon
oppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotion
how often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an idea?
rarely? if ever?
79. What if I had a relationship with X
that let me Y?
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82. “create more than you consume” By flickr user tyler.wainright
“eyeball” By flickr user marco ozark
“technology use” By flickr user mrsdkrebs
“Festival du voyageur” picture by James McDonald
“Letterland” sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
Credits “Teddybear travels” pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
“Fruits and vegetables” youtube video by Ireland
“Question mark” By flickr user Marco Bellucci
“Pieces of me” By flickr user Heliøs
“Pan Canadian epub project” image provided by dkuropatwa
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan, Sophie Ouelett, and Ashley Squires
Ms. Balyk’s art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk All other images by robcfisher
“Snowclothes” youtube video by Hannah Murdy, Madison
Wood, Cecelia Michelutti. Edit and video by Hanna
“Tour of Riverside School” youtube
Lothian
video by Hannah Murdy, Hanna
Lothian, and Cecelia Michelutti. Edit “Egypt tourism brochures” created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic
by Cecelia Michelutti and Owen Anderson
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