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** Report Brian Hutching Linwood College  ** ** End of Year review  ** ** Initiatives so far this year  ** ** Programme goal - Students and staff continue to get more opportunities to use and engage with ICTs – link to KCs Managing Self and Using Language, symbols, and texts  ** ** 1. ** Last year Linwood College set up a Learning Management System (Moodle) on the school intranet. A number of Departments, most notably English and Maths have been using Moodle extensively as part of a blended teaching and learning process. The English Department has been using Moodle to augment face-to-face courses, especially at Year 13. This was particularly valuable for students towards the end of the year. One class has been doing co-operative essay writing using forums and wikis within Moodle. This is still in its infancy but as more resources and teaching content is uploaded the aim is to engage more students in online learning. The English Department continues to use Moodle as part of its Professional Development programme. The Department puts up regular postings and links on a forum which is used to generate discussion and ideas. ** // The following screen shot of the forum topics will give some idea of what the English Department is doing. // **  ** 2. ** ** The continuing establishment of a new website incorporating an LMS (Moodle) and a SMS(Musac) along with a parent portal. ** With the interest in establishing a viable LMS becoming more of a focus it was decided by the SLT at Linwood College that there should be better integration with the existing Website and Musac SMS. To that end negotiations with invited Website companies have been on-going during Term 1 and Term 2 and into Term 4 to see which company might be able to meet our teaching and learning needs around ICT. These negotiations continue but would not have been as fruitful if Linwood College had not been part of an ICT cluster. The eventual aim of this exercise is not only to enhance our school profile but to be able to use ICTs more comprehensively as teaching and learning tools. The following questions have been used to allow staff input into what our website/LMS/SMS should look like: **  Website Content   ** 1. Why? What? Who? and How? 2. Why are we writing the content? 3. What is the primary message? 4. Who are we writing for? 5. How do we want viewers/readers/visitors to respond? 6. KiwiSchools [] 7. [] 8. People jump around on the web 9. People skim read 10. People don’t like scroll too much 11. People look at text first on a page then images – opposite to newspapers 12. Mega – we supply content – who writes the content? 13. Include staff for what content should be on site?
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3. ** Opportunities for ICT Lead Teachers to continue providing guide-teacher roles and positions in the school. **   This has been on-going from last year. I timetable in teachers during the 2 periods I have been allocated as ICT lead teacher. I then work with teachers on a one-to-one basis.