This document outlines goals and strategies for an exploration of effective e-learning pedagogy. It discusses motivating staff through ICT integration, sharing understanding of quality teaching with technology, and setting goals for the upcoming school term and beyond. Specific strategies are provided around electronic communication, maintaining an online class presence, facilitating cyber safety learning, using online resources to support te reo Māori, extending personal professional learning, leading learning through ICT, enhancing planning through collaboration, ensuring purposeful technology use, activating beyond-classroom connections, facilitating student-led use of ICT, responding to student interests with technology, understanding learning in a bicultural context, and using online tools to support data management.

1. Exploring E-Learning: 1st October
Aims:
• Review our e-competencies and set goals.
• Explore : What is effective e-learning pedagogy?
Successful if…
• motivated by ICT, gained practical ideas for integration, set
goals for term 4 and beyond.
• shared understanding about what quality teaching with ICT
looks like.

2. Manage electronic communication effectively to
strengthen learning relationships.
Check and respond to electronic communications at least twice per weekday including
first thing in the morning.
Flagging, filing, attachments, setting up groups…

3. Establish and maintain a meaningful web presence that
reflects your class learning programme.
Set-up and make regular posts (minimum of 2 per term) to a class blog, wiki or learning cave.
This online presence will provide opportunities for students to revisit learning, access further
learning and involve whanau and other learning partners.

4. Facilitate a student centred approach to on-going,
authentic teaching and learning about cyber safety.
Teachers familiarizing themselves with the resources available in the education section of
netsafe and integrate selected resources into classroom learning.

5. Use online resources to further integrate Maori tikanga into
learning and teaching programmes.
Teachers familiarising themselves with the He Reo Tupu website and use this to support
their teaching of Te Reo especially the Reomations section.

6. Extend your personal professional learning by participating in
relevant online environments.
Familiarizing yourself with the Enabling E-Learning website. and community discussions of
interest within the Virtual Learning Network. Joining an online professional learning group
and/or subscribing to at least one online newsletter or RSS feed…

7. Lead an aspect of learning through the use of ICT.
Sharing learning with a colleague this may include participating in a staff ‘Smack-Down ' at staff and
syndicate meetings. Listserv.

8. Enhance planning for learning by using ICT to share ideas,
collaborate and co-construct.
Share ideas with colleagues by contributing to our syndicate wikis and shared google docs

9. Apply your understanding of effective pedagogy including
classroom management to ensure purposeful and
challenging use of ICT within learning.
Create a snapshot of learning using the teaching as inquiry framework to share how the decisions
you made have impacted student learning.
Discuss your use of ICT and its impact as part of ‘teaching as inquiry’ appraisal discussions.
Discuss, give examples of how the effective pedagogy statement in the Tauriko School curriculum
document relates to the use of ICT in your teaching practice.

10. Activate learning opportunities aimed at students making
meaningful connections beyond the classroom.
Raise your awareness of the online opportunities/possibilities available for educators. Explore at
least one online e-opportunity in 2012 – e-pals, online project, skype, collaborative project, blogs…

11. Activate opportunities for students to share, learn and lead using
ICT’s.
Facilitation of a culture and systems that allow students to:
• be ICT experts within and beyond their classroom
• learn by doing
• share their learning locally and globally
• develop a breadth and depth of knowledge and understanding on how technology can be used to
support their learning.

12. Activate learning opportunities for students to create using a
variety of media.
Facilitate learning experiences that involve students sharing their learning through the
planning and creation of a range of multi-modal presentations including movies,
animations, show -me and slideshows.

13. Use ICT as a hook to respond to individuals’ passions,
interests and needs.
Responding and activating student interests through the use of carefully selected
websites, tools, programmes and media (cameras, videos).

14. Use online resources to extend our understanding of learning
in a bicultural context..
Increase your knowledge of key resources that can support teachers to reflect the
value base and beliefs of Maori students in their teaching and learning programmes.

15. Use the school SMS and other online tools to support data
collection, management, analysis and to inform learning and
teaching.
Access etap independently, successfully generate required class lists and pupil details.
Enter data and use information to formulate student reports and update individual
profiles.