New Year Resolutions???
However, dropping in here before Learning@School Conference in Rotorua next week, I see that I have been very neglectful of my blog as 2007 progressed. I really must make more effort to post this year as there are so many great things going on around the country, and much to reflect upon – which is a large percentage of the value of a blog really.
I begin this year with 22 clusters – 6 around the Waikato region where I live, and the remainder from Christchurch to Invercargill in the South. I have four new clusters this year – in Ashburton, Dunedin, Gore and Invercargill. I will be heading down to see most of these clusters following our conference next week. In talking with project directors about plans for a launch and focusing the programme, it is interesting again to hear the same debate raging about what the ICT PD contracts are all about. Many of the new schools come in thinking they are going to spend all their time learning how to use computers in their classrooms – boy what a rollercoaster ride awaits them as they discover how much wider and more exciting the journey really is. At the other end of the scale, February is close off time for the exiting clusters, and it is great to read about how classroom practice has transformed for many. Somewhere in the interim years the discovery generally gets made that it isn’t about doing the same old with a new range of technologies, but rather about looking with fresh eyes at learning in the 21st century (somewhere we have been for 8 years + now) and the new skills, attitudes and ways of working that our emergent leaders will need to pave their way successfully. And hey – it links so well with a new curriculum (surprise! surprise! :->>) I look forward to sharing some of these revelations with you as the excitement begins again.
And on the home front, a busy time with my dad’s estate to wind up as his house sells in the next few weeks and needs to be vacated, our own rental property also on the market at last after weeks of redecorating and sorting, and our first grand-daughter due to arrive in June. No time for resolutions – let’s just let it roll :->>
Ahh Jill ….have been waiting for this … I wondered what would catalyse you to resucitate the blog?
October to February is a long time awol …
Is great to have you popping up in my bloglines account again …have been looking without success in the L@S programme for the Home Group Meeting for the (E)-Las Tikway Stir ict_pd Cluster … am relying on you for direction here
Hi there Artichoke. Was that direction or support you were relying on me for :->> Good to see that you are continuing to hold up your end.
Home group meetings are on Thursday at an ungodly hour.
See you round in the next few days.