SCD/scdpd march 2010

Programme Plan: March 2010
Date: March 22 – 25

Venue: Canterbury University Campus - College of Education (Dovedale Ave) Otakaro (Avon) Building: starting on Otakaro Room 233 on Monday morning

Preparation:


 * Everyone should bring their laptop
 * All teachers will need to be prepared to share an area of interest or expertise.
 * Documentation to bring for enrolment into postgraduate certificate: Your original Academic transcript (undergraduate degree) if you have one, passport photo page or birth certificate, marriage certificate if your name has changed since gaining your degree
 * Pen and paper if the technology fails us!
 * Plus a sense of humour!

Day One Monday

Arrive 09:00 for 09:30 Otakaro Room 233


 * 9:30 Orientation TS DS VS [intro: Articulate the vision, get set up on network housekeeping - co construct elements of the 4 days [modelling best practice] Group activity
 * 10 - 10:30 Professor Niki Davis - course work, building teaching, reading and evaluating
 * 10:30 - 11 TS VS DS Introduce yourself and housekeeping plus network setup activity
 * 11 - 11:20 morning tea
 * 11:20 - 12:30 TS Group reflection: what needs to change with the system? what needs to change in my own school? what needs to change with my own practice?
 * 12:30 - 1:30 Lunch
 * 1:30 -3:30 DS Tool set : work on mahara add reflection and/or course work
 * Afternoon break 3:15 - 3:30 at your leisure
 * 3:30 -4:30ish VS 7x9: 7 min presentations by each of the participants in an informal style - on any thing they wish to share - broad theme of how they encourage collaboration in their students - all have to pre-prepare names out of a hat

Day Two Tuesday Otakaro Room 243 (can also use Otakaro Room 222)


 * 9 - 9:30 VS Forum regroup/feedback/confirm process
 * 9:30 - 11 VS TS DS Tool set session one: We split into groups and learn to use an web based tool. Facilitated by one person who has some experience with that tool. Suggested tools Barcamp style - Beginners Moodle, Advanced Moodle, Google Apps, eXe, Wikieducator, collaborative web 2.0 tools, other web 2.0 tools by suggestion
 * 11 - 11:20 morning tea
 * 11:20 - 12:30 own work
 * 12:30 - 1:30 Lunch
 * 1:30 - 3:30 VS DS TS Tool set session two
 * Afternoon break 3:15 - 3:30 at your leisure
 * 3.10 - 3.30 feedback and concerns
 * 3:30 -4:30ish TS 7x9

Day Three Wednesday Otakaro Room 205


 * 9-10 Speaker: Wayne Mackintosh followed by group discussion on collaboration(Vicki picks up Wayne from Airport) 
 * 10 – 11 DS Portfolio and planning process – Sharing of project objectives, individual planning around objectives
 * 11 - 11:20 morning tea
 * 11:20 - 12:30 Tool set / planning
 * 12:30 - 1:30 Lunch
 * 1.30 -2.30 TS Tool set / planning- continued
 * 2.30-3.30 Niki Davis on Learn, and course work
 * Afternoon break 3:15 - 3:30 at your leisure
 * 3.30 -4:30ish DS 7x9

Day Four Thursday

Otakaro Room 205


 * now - morning tea - What to do next - when you are in your school - support mechanisms 7*9 finish Niki - UC stuff
 * 11:00-11:20 morning tea
 * 11:20 -11:30 Admin/paperwork (after morning )tea
 * 11:30 - 12:30Derek Wenmoth (confirmed by skype) / Toolset
 * 12:30 - 1:30 Lunch
 * 1:30 - 3:00 Toolset
 * 3:00 - 3:15 Plenary
 * 3:15 afternoon tea and depart

Evaluation - end of four days have in an ePortfolio, the artefact of your 7x7 - formed a group and created a shared view, and a plan about how to assist each other in the development of the project within your schools and across the cluster.