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Plateau’s ICT Journey 2011

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Our ICT focii for 2011
 Ultranet
 Online class space
 E portfolios
 Our online presence in the school Library
 Effective use of IWBs
 Use ideas from the expo to enhance teaching and learning

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By the end of Term one we had uniform class pages set up by each
teacher in a session led by the LTs. These can be viewed by the public.
We created these using PowerPoint. They will be updated each year.

5. + All Plateau students have their own Uspace up and running. This is
where theire-portfolio sits.

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Active class pages
All teachers have been working on creating
active class pages on the Ultranet with relevant
links to online spaces/ activities which are being
used by their class.
-After school workshops by the LTs supported
staff in this.

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Once the students access their class
pages they know that they can click
on these different sub pages or
linked images for the set activities.

9. + Our online News Centre has they needpaper notices. All teachers
now use this for notices which
replaced
to share.

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E portfolios
Following a meeting with Kat
Story from Ultranet we set up 2
control classes to trial the use of
the e portfolios on our uSpace.
To do this we had to set a task
for the children to complete on
their portfolios.
They comment against the WALT
and WILF on the samples of
work they upload.

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The format of our e portfolios
allow for other students to
leave constructive peer
observations and comments.

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We have also set up our own teacher e portfolios where we can record and
gather evidence for the RTCs.

13. An Online Library space for our Students
+ Following a National Library Course on online library spaces in March, our Librarian and LTR
have set up an effective and active online space for students to access homework/ research
links and the library catalogue in and out of school. We now have a Library blog to promote
new books and library events.
Our aim was to make these active spaces. To give incentive we decided any students who
left comments on any blog posts should go into a draw at the end of each month. The traffic
on the blog has been increasing steadily ever since
http://plateaulibrary.blogspot.com/

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IWB PD
During the last two terms we have had 5 PD sessions on effective use of
our Promethean boards. Other schools in our area and cluster have
been attending these courses.
Active boards are now being used independently by students during
group rotations at maths and reading time.

15. What we took from the Expos
The sunlight tree. By Carlie-Ann
Photography

16. Adore – love
deeply
aA
Absorb –
Angry
soak up
Abrade –
scrape away
or wear down
Awesome – inspiring Acrid –
or overwhelming unpleasantly sharp Accomplice – a
wonder, respect or to the taste or person who has
dread smell helped another to
commit a crime
Our Dictionary of Wonderful Words
hyperlinking with Innes Kennard

17. On the Job- Using digital images and movies to inspire writing
Many classes have adopted this writing exercise first thing in the morning using their IWB to
display video and images to enhance writing.

18. The teachers at Plateau have had a busy year of many challenging
and exciting ICT new learnings and tasks.
Their increasing confidence and willingness to venture outside the
comfort zone has reflected in our students use, familiarity and
integration of ICT into everyday learning and activities.
Pauline Roberts
Brid O’Keeffe
November 2011