Edited by Keith Redman

Topics covered in this edition include:

• First Digi Kids Snapshot now available on the ANSN website
• Snapshot of Working with Refugees now on the website
• John Bladen Scholarship
• Digi Kids training in Adelaide
• Digi Kids Melbourne West Hub – second phase of training
• 2-day Digi Kids workshop in Perth, 7 and 8 July
• Bee Bot Workshop coming up in Queensland
• Dimensions of Learning (DoL) workshop
• Interactive Whiteboard (IWB) Hub starts in WA
• Habits of Mind (HoM) Hub
• Deb Vietri joins ANSN to work on IWBs with Kate Cooper and Andrea Federico
• Reminders of ANSN activities
  

ANSN offers teachers an opportunity to make study tours to schools using innovative thinking and new ideas. A scholarship of $1000 is available to help you to meet teachers making schools better for students and teachers.

Giving teachers opportunities to visit, watch and talk with others in diverse and similar locations is an amazingly powerful tool for professional learning because of the directness of the experience.

A series of Snapshots is being developed around the experience and practice of teachers in the Digi Kids program. The first in the series looks at Lynda Page’s work on Integrating Technology in the Early Years Classroom.  A teacher for more than 20 years, Lynda works at Coolum Beach State School, in Queensland. She has been a keen participant in the Digi Kids program, which is co-ordinated by Hanan Harrison. In developing the Snapshot, she worked with Keith Redman, Editor of E-News and this Snapshot series.

Edited by Keith Redman

Topics covered in this edition include:

• Cognitive Coaching℠ – A series of professional learning days
• Big Picture teacher coaching – an example of recent work
• Curriculum Design Hub: planning meeting
• Victorian Interactive Whiteboard (IWB) Hubs – progress report
• An introduction to Protocols
• Setting the Stage – 2-day workshop
• National Planning Meeting for the Connecting Lives and Learning (CLL) Project
• Special events with Art Costa in November
• Some interesting professional reading
• An external conference of interest
• Reminders of ANSN activities
  

By Leith Hogan

I am working with the teachers at Yule Brook College in my role as a Teacher coach for Big Picture, focusing upon Literacy. I have the particular purpose of helping them identify student literacy, the literacy demands of tasks they give students to do, and to find ways of deepening student learning and improving their literacy.

We would like to invite you to participate in the Australian National Schools Network 2008, 2 day Setting The Stage Workshop opportunity at

Alexander Park Tennis Club
Clyde Road, Menora, Perth, WA 6050
Ph: 08-9370-4252 Fax: 08-9370-4259
on Wednesday 11 June and Thursday 12 June.

This learning opportunity focuses on teacher practice through the lens of learning design and is specific to teacher pedagogy.

Edited by Keith Redman

Topics covered in this edition include:

• Introducing a new ANSN Networker in Queensland
• Interactive Whiteboard (IWB) Hub: WA Workshop
• Habits of Mind Hub: Ongoing discussions and program changes
• Dimensions of Learning (DoL) Hub – Darwin
• Dimensions of Learning – some background reading
• Digi Kids – Some principles and the Melbourne South Hub sessions
• Some interesting professional reading
• External events, conferences, seminars and forums etc
• Reminders of ANSN activities
  

Do you share the following goals?

• investigate IWB technology as a tool for improving student learning outcomes through classroom structures.
• improve your technological knowledge and support in using IWB’s
• set up an online space where resources can be stored and shared
• increase your network of colleagues who can provide IWB support

The ANSN invites Teachers to an Interactive Whiteboard Hub, where we will explore these goals in 6 evening workshops (two per Term). This Hub will cater for users of all IWB boards and software.

Edited by Keith Redman

Topics covered in this edition include:

• Habits of Mind Hub – on-line discussion
• Habits of Mind in Indonesian?
• ANSN Board meets via teleconference
• Upcoming Digi Kids Hub workshops in Adelaide
• Upcoming Dimensions of Learning (DoL) workshops: Two-day introductory workshop in Adelaide
• DoL, Brisbane
• DoL website
• Bee Bots: New one-day “Play Make and Take” workshops
• Update on RPiN/CLL
• Some interesting professional readings
• Deadline for the next E-News
• Reminders of ANSN activities
  

Winner of the “2006 Education Resources Award” primary ICT category.

1 day hands-on workshop where participants:

• Play and explore Bee Bots
• Make resources for future learning experiences that integrate Bee Bots with their curriculum
• Take back to school collective ideas and strategies for implementing Bee Bots as well as their very own Bee Bot (1 per participant) valued at rrp $88