Only a few weeks to go this term, but the community has been as busy as ever. Here’s a quick overview of what’s going on. And you can also keep up with Enabling e-Learning via Twitter and Facebook.

Karen M  |  Enabling e-Learning Community Co-Ordinator

Member of the week

Each week we'll profile someone who has made a valuable contribution to our e-Learning community. This week, it's....

• Annemarie Hyde: Annemarie is the deputy principal and e-learning leader at Mokoia intermediate, part of the Rotorua Lakes Cluster. Annemarie is an active and enthusiastic participant in our community.

Group of the Week

• Whakatu Schools: This is an e-Learning Cluster in Nelson. Their group is a great example of the way members of a cluster are sharing their reflections in a collaborative, public way so others can gain from their professional development.

e-Learning in the VLN Groups

Leadership

• The 30 Day Challenge: This monthly focus in the Enabling e-Learning: Leadership group is exploring ways to recruit staff with a focus on sustaining e-learning developments in school.

• e-Portfolios for staff and students: A Principal’s reflection from Liz Fitzsimons.

• Leading teaching & learning in a digital environment (First Time Principals’ programme). Is anybody interested in talking with John Locke about the types of ideas or activities that would encourage new principals to engage enthusiastically with this issue?

• Acceptable Use documents for Netsafe: NetSafe would like to look at what schools are currently using as Use Agreements for students and staff, and are asking schools to send documents to them. 

Bring your own device

• BYOD –What do you want to achieve?: The thread continues as schools explore what student-owned devices may mean for learning and management.

• BYOD – Links and readings: Derek Wenmoth has started a list of resources.

   

Professional Learning

• Enabling e-Learning webinars: Find the recordings here of sessions you may have missed.

• EduCamp Invercargill: Jo Fothergill, one of the EduCamp stalwarts, posts her thoughts.

• Are you using the VLN to reflect on your learning? Annemarie Hyde explores the way the VLN Groups space can be used for your own professional portfolio/inquiry.

• How Sacred Heart uses e-learning spotlights for PD: Shared by John Phelps.

Enabling e-Learning Events

• ENROL NOW! What is Digital Citizenship? (23 November): An introductory online workshop from Enabling e-Learning that unpacks this important concept, led by Tessa Gray.

• Online workshop exploring Teaching as Inquiry? Check out the VPL-D online workshop

Other events

• Edu Ignite, 24 November, Auckland. 5 minute talks by inspiring educators. Register here. http://emergingleaders.school.nz/. Contact Mark Osborne for more information.

• Learning@School Conference - Energise Enlighten, Extend and Empower: (26-27 January 2012): Register now. The Enabling e-Learning team will be at this exciting conference and want to meet with you there. The conference focuses on developing leadership capability, fostering creativity in thought and action, raising achievement for all learners and building school, whānau and community partnerships. Join Enabling e-Learning online and at our workshop sessions, where we will share with you the exciting developments in e-learning.

Teaching and Learning  |  Digital Citizenship

• What should be in your e-learning kete? This November challenge from the Enabling e-Learning: Teaching groups is building a shared doc that describes teachers' e-learning competencies. Add an idea or resource.

• What does it take to be a 21^st-Century teacher?: Tessa Gray’s blog post is attracting comments. Have your say.

• Digital Citizenship ideas: Lynn Ross shares activities and links for unpacking digital citizenship.

• Encouraging secondary teachers to embrace anytime, anywhere learning: Explore this lively discussion.

• Let's bring classrooms into the 21^st century: Patrick Marentette shares Rupert Murdoch’s keynote address to the Foundation for Excellence in Education Summit.

• What is the future of assessment?:  Mike Wilson explores how the model of assessment will change now with technology becoming such powerful influence in both our social and working lives.

• Protecting identity online: Isaac Day blogs about his clusters’ work on cybersafety with John Parsons.

Technologies

• Top 100 Tools for Learning 2011: Karen Melhuish shares this annual compilation from Jane Hart.

• NEN Trial: Outcomes beyond academic: Student motivation, engagement and cognition: Patrick Marentette shares the third report in the NEN Trial Evaluation Report Series.

• How to manage ultra-fast broadband: A discussion exploring the technical issues that schools are facing with the broadband roll-out.

• How important is it that students have access to the same device?: Take this poll from Barbara Reid.

• New York schools enter the iZone: An interesting article about what is happening with New York City schools.

iPad/iTouch technology

• Apps for children with very special needs: Allanah King shares this post from her blog.

• Working on iPad fluency with lower elementary students: An interesting resource from Sylvia Tolasino.

• Selwyn Ridge iPad Learning Blog: Matthew Thomas shares his blog, exploring the use of iPad apps at school.

• App Sharing: More ideas from the group on apps for your devices, including Splashtop Whiteboard. 

• Sharing files from iPads - videos from Camera Roll: Your questions answered.

• AirPlay Mirroring for iPad2: How to manage and control this technology.

Beyond the Classroom

• Developing the home-school relationship using digital technologies: A downloadable resource from FutureLab.

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