TAI_2012

Teaching As Inquiry Focus for Term 3/4 2012 Blogging Initiative

//St Albans Catholic, St Mary's and St Anne's.//

//The purpose of this initiative is to provide students with a wider audience for their blogs. It also provides an opportunity to strengthen relationships between our cluster schools. Each week every class will be required to visit their buddy class blogs, read the latest entry and leave a comment. Comments will be co-constructed with teacher support. This will assist the students to develop their own ability to interact and post comments in an online context.//

** Teaching as Inquiry Planning ** ** St Albans Catholic School, T3, 2012 ** In completing this ‘Teaching as Inquiry’ cycle, teachers aim to meet the Ministry of Education ICT cluster goals of increasing the capability of:
 * students to become successful digital citizens;
 * teachers to integrate e-learning effectively into their practice creating an innovative and exciting learning environment for all students.
 * Step 1: Goal setting – Focus for Inquiry **
 * Continue to utilise the iPads and class blogs to communicate, celebrate and reflect on learning.
 * Communicate within a group of schools to view and interact using our class blogs.
 * Develop a sense of online community and authentic audience.

**Step 2: Strategies** **Step 3: Gather Evidence and Reflection** Consider that next step will be for children to comment on shared work within their own class.
 * Teachers from the three Catholic schools of St Mary’s, St Albans Catholic and St Anne’s to initiate a class link through class blogs.
 * Teachers to model appropriate online commenting.
 * Students, as a class, to comment online – this will include feedback, questioning and responding to questions.
 * //What happened as a result of my teaching actions? (What are the student outcomes?)//
 * //What are my next steps for teaching and learning?//


 * Buddy Classes: **

Joanne @http://sac12012.blogspot.com ||< Room 1 Maria http://stmaryschch1.blogspot.co.nz/ ||< Room 1 Cathy http://stannes101.blogspot.co.nz/ || Sanne @http://sac22012.blogspot.com ||< Room 2 Murray http://stmaryschch2.blogspot.co.nz/ ||< Room 2 Marian http://stannes102.blogspot.co.nz/ || Catherine @http://sac32012.blogspot.com ||< Room 3 Nicola http://stmaryschch3.blogspot.co.nz/ ||< Room 3 Pam http://stannes103.blogspot.co.nz/ || Kath @http://sac42012.blogspot.com ||< Room 4 Arlene http://stmaryschch4.blogspot.co.nz/ ||< Room 4 Ryan http://stannes104.blogspot.co.nz/ || Jo / Fran @http://sacr5.blogspot.co.nz ||<  ||< Room 5 Grace http://stannes105.blogspot.co.nz/ || Kathleen http://stmaryschch5.blogspot.co.nz/ ||< Room 6 (Yr 7/8) Judi http://stannes106.blogspot.co.nz/ ||
 * ~ St Albans Catholic ||~ St Mary's ||~ St Anne's ||
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 * < Room 5
 * <  ||< Room 5 (Yr 7/8)