Thursday 20 March 2014

Glasser Reality Therapy

This is an explanation of the infinity cycle for behavioural modification along with some extra information with regards to basic needs, perception and behaviour choices.


Tuesday 4 March 2014

Bringing It Alive

Using the iMovie 'Pukeko Magic', the staff were set the challenge to create a movie on the iPad. Success criteria were set with a challenge for the quick learners.

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Integrating iPads into the classroom

This continued our journey into using iPads and this exercise aimed to working above the line (SAMR) and the staff worked on a project to define their philosophy about 'Teamwork'. Developed a rubric to encourage teams to self access.

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Mobile Devices

This was one of the first PD sessions our staff went through in preparation to work within a digital environment

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This examined the SAMR model with reference to work done by Dr. Ruben Puentedura, Ph.D

His blog is http://www.hippasus.com/rrpweblog

App Smashing - Using Puppet

Starting to use the creative apps on the iPad to create interesting presentations. This screencast uses Puppet (iPad app) to help explain how easy it is to create by app smashing.

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Book Creator on the iPad

My attempt to create an instructional screencast on the use of Book Creator using Explain Everything.

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Augmented Reality

Using colAR Mix on the iPad, my Year 2 class brought the pukeko alive.

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File Sharing and Collaboration