A week on from being an exhibitor at the Learning@Schools conference in Rotorua, it's apparent that the impact of it is far more significant than imagined. We aimed to give schools an insight into what we offered. Instead, an additional buzz featured as well...Three significant angles have presented themselves, some more directly than others. In presenting a 'Go Global' angle, we've found ourselves invited to now also make a connection with Jennifer Corriero from TakingItGlobal in Canada and thanks goes to Derek Wenmoth for the referral. Learn-Now has a huge network of international connections through travel done, a continued life with previous teaching environments, situations and colleagues, and more recently with conference associates etc.
We had a hugely exciting connection with one new conference associate this year. Pauline McLeod, an ICT cluster facilitator within the Cambridge area, may well be one of our cybertrip teachers this year, to Turkey. It's a personal trip that's on it's way to include an active example of what ICT can entail, with students destined to be her virtual tourists. If all goes well, they could also be her travel consultants, health advisors and project managers. Pauline is known by many through the Sunflower Connection, with World Vision, regards her trip to Malawi. Her enthusiasm is stunning. Her vision is very 21st century education.
Her latest journey, can be found in the Good Teacher Magazine', NZ. 'Catching Them - Hook, Line and Sinker', takes the reader through what Pauline McLeod and co-researcher Louise Bonnar share as the four key areas essential for a successful journey online: Preparation, Baiting your catch, Reeling them in and Keeping them hooked online. It's an awesome read! Within this same publication, we're also very drawn to the work by Dr Garry Falloon. More on him in our next entry here.
No comments:
Post a Comment