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. [...]

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 [...]

Issue #1 (April) 2008 of the AGQTP NSW newsletter has its focus on Interactive whiteboards: connected for learning, and contains several great articles on NSW schools: 
* “Working mathematically with interactive whiteboards” at Illawarra Grammar School, Figtree (p 2)
* ”Not just all play” with Belmore South Public School and innovative ways to teach writing, especially narratives (p 3)
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Welcome to our brand new blog at Edublogs. I’m your host, Ian McLean, teacher-librarian at Penrith Public School (NSW, Australia), representing the schools in our recently-formed professional learning group, known simply as “IWB2″ – until we think of a better name.
The purpose of this blog is to have a space where teachers, teacher-librarians and PSP [...]