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November
Hi Everyone. I've spent a couple of great days with Teressa and Pauline. We have been creating Voicethreads and Google Docs galore so watch out! You have a couple of converts that will be waving broomsticks along with me on Friday. Looking forward to the workshop. Bring your laptops and some cute photos or videos of your students. We may want to make them movie stars! cheers, Heather

October
19th Hi All In answer to Ailsa's (Canadian wilderness? tell us more!) request about using wikis and voicethread, I've been working with the U123 cluster in PN recently and they would love to collaborate with you guys over moderation and - well anything really. media type="custom" key="7234093"

Here's their voicethread with samples of children's writing from across the cluster. They'd love to learn about moderation so you could really help by using the progressions and standards to make comments on their VT.

Carolyn and I are cooking up a cluster meeting for late november - contact her for more about this.

Thanks in advance. Heather

15th Hi Everyone Hope that you are enjoying a smooth start for the term - I am trying to withdraw from the Canadian wilderness and become focussed on the term that is going to be a rushed blurr it would seem. Have dates been chosen for meetings this term. Need to put them into the diary quite soon.

Also how are people going with formatting a student report template for the end of the year? I would be keen to see any samples available - not to copy but to enable reflection on what is possible. I work best when it is not a blank page in frotn of me. Have viewed the MoE website.

I also need another lesson on wikis and using voice thread. That might have to be next year but would it be a good topic for part of a SCPLG meeting either later this year or at the beginning of next year or is it just me that needs it. Or perhaps I just need to slot in some time to experiment and play - which probably wont be this term.

regards Ailsa

Hi Everyone It was great to see so many there at the 2nd Sole Chargers meeting on Moderation of Reading and Written Language. It's a little clearer to me but I wish that all the talk around NS would be resolved. Many thanks Fiona. To those who weren't able to make it the MOE are publishing on the NS website before the end of the year illustrated examples of leveled expectations, so keep an eye out for them. Do we have time next term for another get together perhaps meeting outside ED House, visiting other bigger schools- Virtual or not???? For those who didn't know, Ngaire and Leone at ED House will be made redundant in Nov. and are looking for job offers. So it is anyone's guess as to what will be happening to Ed. House in the future. To those who wanted a colour copy of the Reading Standards- I found it on my secretary's computer so must have given her a B& W hard copy, possibly fronm the conference. I'm not too sure how to upload it onto the wiki, will check with Tanya tomorrow. Cheers Carolyn

September
Clever trick Ailsa. chocolate fish for inventiveness Now, do you want to get rid of the national standards page and just use the discussion tab? I suspect that a page for NS could be quite useful this year for some reason ...

Thanks for those of you who have contributed to the discussions to date. It's great to see people 'talking' online in such an early phase of the community. I was talking the MoE on Friday (well showing off actually) and they were very impressed by the way the clusters are working together and sharing their knowledge now. I made a point of showing them the discussion that you've been having around using Voicethread. They were also really excited to see that you are beginning to moderate online, so you'd better keep that part of it up or i'll look like a fraud :) Fingers crossed for fine weather this week as i'm over on monday and tuesday. Jen, it's up to you to order a stunning dump of snow please. Cheers, Heather

August
Heather, you might be able to fix up my mess on the wiki - somehow I created two National Standards entries - was trying to start a new discussion thread - seem to have created a new page type heading as well as a discussion! Beginners incompetence. Can you fix the mess. I tried but without sucess. Ailsa

23rd

Some tips for newbies
You're going well, keep it up Heather
 * Add to the top of the page. It saves you having to scroll down to see if there is anything new going on.
 * There are some good discussions beginning to happen in the tabs. If it is just a general quick comment, it probably should go on this page. The tabs should really be used for things you want to thrash out amongst yourselves.
 * If you want to start a discussion thread, use **this page's tab**. Each page contains a separate tab button and separate discussions, and it gets hard to notice where these are being held.

12th Hi everyone - great day yesterday seeing you all and the potential of this wiki - looking forward from hearing you all. regards Ailsa

23rd Hi- Just checking that the system works. Interesting meeting on Friday 20th regarding Nat Stds. Vivienne