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Greetings everyone and a welcome back to the second decade in this millennium. Just think - the WWW part of the internet has been around for 20 years. For today’s kids it is last century stuff. This year I hope to be able to work alongside many teachers in developing and using the digital environment to support and maximise learning opportunities for this century’s learners. There will be a number of PD opportunities (see below) designed to both introduce and extend this and some of my planned inschool support is targeting this area. Elearning Professional Development 2010 Developing and using class blogs – Allanah King Thursday 11 March 9.00 – 3.00 at REAP House – lunch provided. You can check Allanah out on @http://allanahk.edublogs.org/about-me/ and @http://allanahk.edublogs.org/professional-development/ as well as her class blog @http://moturoa.blogspot.com/ Registrations are open now for this full day workshop. Masterton schools have preference and can attend at no cost. Others will be enrolled on a first in first served basis at a cost of $60 plus GST. An email booking a space is all that is required. Those who have already registered will receive email confirmation after Feb 12th. For your diaries ( I am happy to take registrations in advance for these days) May 7 Suzie Gould – Web 2.0 is where it’s at. June 29 Stuart Hale – Photography in the classroom. July 1 Stuart Hale – TBA There will be 2 further opportunities in Term 3. One is likely to explore ePortfolios. Using YouTube videos in class. YouTube has a great range of useful classroom materials, at times hidden amongst less useful and at times distracting content A couple of options have emerged @http://quietube.com/ and @http://www.silentube.com/ These two are examples of what are called bookmarklets. When you visit the site you will find a small book mark that you drag up into your bookmark bar (the one along the top of your browser window). Once you have opened the You Tube video you have selected (probably out of your book mark folders or Delicious) clicking on the bookmarklet hides all of the rest of the YouTube screen just leaving the video. @http://www.safeshare.tv/ This one takes the above a little further and could be very useful once it is perfects – it is currently in beta and doesn’t work everytime. You select your YouTube video, copy the URL and paste it into Safeshare which generates a new URL that, when clicked, only displays the video, once again without the extra YouTube information. Another bonus is that you can crop the video so that only the piece that you want to use with the kids plays. This one is worth keeping an eye on. More information can be found on this blog @http://www.yousaytoo.com/cropping-youtube-videos-to-create-activities/166579 What did you do at school today? Sometimes you come across something that looks as though it might be useful but you’re not sure. Memiary (@http://www.memiary.com/) is a bit like that. It could be like a microblog or a Twitter where key things covered during a school day are listed and stored so they can be reflected on. Learnz fieldtrips What better way to explore the online world than to join one of these projects. Check out the summary page ( @http://www.learnz.org.nz/field-trip-chooser.php) to see if any of them fit your programme. All in all 2010 is shaping up to be an interesting and busy year – we do live in exciting times Please disseminate information from this email to any staff (or even other schools) that you feel may find it useful. Regards Innes

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