IWB support group

There is already activity over on the “Bear & Chook” books rap blog site. This book rap, based on two picture books, “Bear & Chook”, and the newly-released “Bear & Chook by the sea”, is aimed at students in Early Stage 1 (Kinder) and Stage 1 (Years 1 & 2). It officially commences Term 4 [...]

The start of a new school term at Penrith PS, and the long-awaited interactive whiteboard (IWB) has arrived!

Welcome Penrith PS to the 21st century!
In a new message from Michelle Du Ross-Smith, the next meeting for the PSP Regional Initiative IWB Middle Years is on Monday 15th June at 4pm at the Gallery, Mt Druitt Office. [...]

This looks interesting/unmissable:
“The K-12 Online Conference invites participation from educators around the world interested in innovative ways Web 2.0 tools and technologies can be used to improve learning.
“This FREE conference is run by volunteers and open to everyone. The 2008 conference theme is Amplifying Possibilities. This year’s conference begins with a pre-conference keynote the week [...]

Hi everyone,
The next network IWB meeting will be held on Wednesday, 15th October 2008, at 3.45pm – 5pm.
The meeting will be at The Gallery, Mt Druitt District Office, unless any network schools have an interactive whiteboard and would like to invite the network.
Please email or phone Michelle Du Ross-Smith, Relieving PSP Consultant, to confirm you [...]

I’ve received a question about the current rap, the Beijing Olympic Games and Book Week 2008 rap, which is going to incorporate a wiki activity.
To join the actual rap, go to http://www.schools.nsw.edu.au/raps/beijingolympics/index.htm and follow the prompts. The rap blog itself, where you enter your class responses, is over at http://rapblog3.edublogs.org/
There’s still time to join, do [...]

The most difficult aspect of most presentations? What bits do I leave out?
My “Early Years Conference” co-presenter, Cath Keane, had prepared eleven of our PowerPoint pages, I’d added my own hyperlinks to the twelfth and last slide, and we only had 50 minutes or so to fill anyway. We also had plenty of time before [...]

Tomorrow I’m speaking at Day 2 of the 2008 Early Years Conference: Learning, Growing, Achieving, presented by NSW DET. Day 1 was held today, but my talk session – co-presented with current Scan editor, Cath Keane, isn’t until tomorrow.
Cath has put together a PowerPoint presentation about our recent ventures into the world of Web 2.0 [...]

The NSW DET rap, Identity: Sharing Our Stories for Stages 3 and 4 is underway, the second such rap to be presented in a blog format (hosted by the School Libraries and Information Literacy Unit via Edublogs) rather than the traditional email and listserv arrangement.
It’s not too late to sign up a class group. Even [...]

Just a reminder to everyone in IWB2 about the date we set aside for our Professional Learning afternoon for our IWB project. Michele has organised some teachers from last year’s group to come and show us what they have been doing. The Principal from Dawson PS, Belinda Davies, will talk about the journey so far [...]

Sometimes you just can’t be in several places at the same time! (Even when uploading posts; it should have still been 21st May when I posted this!)

For our very successful Simultaneous Reading of the picture book Arthur, the teachers had voted to do the readings in three sections and three locations, but I wasn’t able [...]