Reflection

Reflecting on WNPS Ultranet Curriculum Day August 9

What did you learn today? What could you use in your classroom? What questions do you now have? Leave comments and questions here

Hi Bonnie Your presentation and workshop today was great. You were able to walk us through it all in such a way that it made sense and we were able to do it. Your notes are great to use when we are working at home and need to try and remember what we have to do. Thanks Giovanna

Hi Bonnie, I can see this being useful for keeping parents informed about what are some of the things happening in their children's classrooms. I know that the Grade 1's have these and I was wondering what time committment does the team make to it each week? Eg, once set up, is it perhaps 15 minutes a day / week? more / less? And after the initial excitement of having created this, how often are students accessing the site? Thanks for stepping through the process with us today, I think it will make some aspects of the Ultranet easier for us to use. Patrick

It was awesome. I learnt lots. Thanks so much Bonnie. You made things easy to follow and do!! Maureen

Thanks for the feedback Gio, Patrick and Maureen! Patrick - in regards to having a blog - We have had numerous comments from parents about how they enjoy the blog, in particular those parents that can't get to school very often, they enjoy keeping up to date with what is happening at school. Initially it does take a little bit of time setting it up. It really depends on how much you want to put on it! I put our weekly maths focus on the blog with some suggested activities - this takes a little time because sometimes I spend time searching for good activities! I don't post things on there everyday - just when something interesting happens or if the students want to share something! Creating a new post only takes 5-10 mins. I think the benefits of the blog make it all worthwhile! My students access the blog weekly - they play the maths revision activities, post comments with words for our word study focus etc. I think if you don't keep encouraging students to use it then yes the interest may be lost. Bonnie :)

Hi Bonnie,

I really enjoyed what you prepared for the day, during the times when i was having group discussion i think some of the biggest impact came from the great videos you used they really got people thinking. Plus it was awesome when Trent had his Oprah AHA moment and realized how he could use a wiki to save him a huge work load i hope that his wiki works for him.

cheers andrew

Thanks Andrew - that was probably my most stand out moment of the day, when Trent realised the potential of a wiki! Hopefully he can get the other PE teachers on board!! Bonnie :)

Hi Bonnie, I've joined now. Thanks for the day. It is a somewhat overwhelming I think little steps is the way to go...although after watching the video, which was really thought provoking (I found it using Google and showed it/send it to my family) if we take little steps we might be overtaken by the bigger steps!! Thanks for your hard work! Ali :)