Welcome!

Hello Dalmain team!

I'm Joel Birch from Winthrop Australia.  I'm here every second Thursday (the even-numbered weeks of term) to help you work with technology for the learning that happens in your classrooms.  This blog is here to serve a couple of purposes - firstly, to document what we get up to with the people I work with face-to-face, and secondly so I can share other useful bits and pieces with you.  This way, everyone benefits.

This can take the shape of helping plan & execute some activities & projects with your kids handling tech, boosting your own skill in making & managing things with your computer & web spaces, setting up and running an online presence to build links outside your classroom, and ideally a mix of all three.

My focus isn't iPads, apps, Smartboards, or computers.  My focus is on teaching & learning.  I talk verbs first, and tools second.  Thinking about how you use tech in this way makes sure that whatever you end up doing in your classroom is enabled by technology, not centred around it.

So that we can hit the ground running on Thursday, we'll need to get some planning locked and loaded.  Below are a series of links to planning documents for the first batch of staff.  We can fill them out together over the course of the next few days.

Laura

Kaylie

Emma

Peter

Olivia

Suzanne