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Connecting Home and School
Beyond the classroom - Connecting school to the wider community with and about technologies.
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Connecting Home and School
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This is an Enabling e-Learning group to support schools to make learning connections beyond the classroom. We aim to support schools to empower and educate their families and whānau, with and about technologies. Anyone can join the group to participate.
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Brief description: Beyond the classroom - Connecting school to the wider community with and about technologies.
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Anne Kenneally replied on the discussion topic Using blogs and wikis to connect Beyond the Classroom.- Roxy Hickman replied on the discussion topic Using blogs and wikis to connect Beyond the Classroom.
- Lisa Ferris added a new discussion topic Parent discussion days
- Catriona Pene replied on the discussion topic Using blogs and wikis to connect Beyond the Classroom.
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Engaging Parents through Home School Partnerships
By Jane Armstrong 158 days agomanaiakalani.blogspot.co.nz - This blog post by Dorothy Burt shows how Point England work to engage their community through both digital and face to face opportunities.Schools are using social networking to involve parents
By Karen Melhuish Spencer 165 days agowww.21stcenturyfluency.com - This has been posted in the Committed Sardine blog; it is an EdWeek article by Nora Fleming that explores how US schools are: increasingly communicating with schools using multiple media, a "menu of offerings"; providing learning hubs to...They were born in another time
By Barbara Reid 286 days agogeorgecouros.ca - “I am a parent of two boys aged nine and six. One of the ongoing concerns within our family is technology and electronic devices. How do we safely allow technology to be a part of their, and our lives, and still let our children...10 Ways to ensure parents won't need to ask 'what did you do at school today?'
By Barbara Reid 286 days agogettingsmart.com - I think parents don’t like it, or, at the very least, get annoyed when they ask their children, “what did you do at school today?” and the answer is “nothing.” (I actually know this to be true, not from statistics or...
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Group: Connecting Home and School
Topic: Using blogs and wikis to connect Beyond the Classroom.
Started by Catriona Pene 25 Feb 2013 5:39pm (88 days ago) Replies (8) Last reply by Anne Kenneally 11 days agoWhen schools I am working in identify the Beyond the Classroom dimension, in the eLPF, as one they need to focus on, the question keeps coming up around how we can engage parents and the wider community in the children's learning. One of my...Group: Connecting Home and School
Topic: Parent discussion days
Started by Lisa Ferris 30 Mar 2013 11:34am (55 days ago)Hi all. I'm wondering what strategies you used (good, bad and disasterous) for sharing students learning with devices in the classroom with parents/whanau? - small groups, class visits etc... I will be planning some parent sessions for next...Group: Connecting Home and School
Topic: Homework and authentic learning
Started by Tessa Gray 07 Sep 2012 1:07pm (259 days ago) Replies (7) Last reply by Katarina Moore 101 days agoI've often heard parents complain about the onerous task of 'doing homework' - like it was a task designed for them, rather than their kids. Does 'new ways of designing curriculum', mean we should be thinking about 'new ways to assign homework...Group: Connecting Home and School
Topic: Connect with our communities with - and about - ICTs
Started by Tessa Gray 03 Sep 2012 10:23am (263 days ago) Replies (42) Last reply by Tessa Gray 112 days agoHow does your school talk with and involve its community of families and whānau? There will, no doubt, be a range of ways that you inform, discuss and share the learning in your school, from newsletters to parents' evenings. To what extent are...
Engaging Parents through Home School Partnerships
By Jane Armstrong 158 days agomanaiakalani.blogspot.co.nz - This blog post by Dorothy Burt shows how Point England work to engage their community through both digital and face to face opportunities.Schools are using social networking to involve parents
By Karen Melhuish Spencer 165 days agowww.21stcenturyfluency.com - This has been posted in the Committed Sardine blog; it is an EdWeek article by Nora Fleming that explores how US schools are: increasingly communicating with schools using multiple media, a "menu of offerings"; providing learning hubs to...They were born in another time
By Barbara Reid 286 days agogeorgecouros.ca - “I am a parent of two boys aged nine and six. One of the ongoing concerns within our family is technology and electronic devices. How do we safely allow technology to be a part of their, and our lives, and still let our children...10 Ways to ensure parents won't need to ask 'what did you do at school today?'
By Barbara Reid 286 days agogettingsmart.com - I think parents don’t like it, or, at the very least, get annoyed when they ask their children, “what did you do at school today?” and the answer is “nothing.” (I actually know this to be true, not from statistics or...Parents and Educators should work together to teach digital citizenship
By Barbara Reid 286 days ago Comments (1)www.commonsensemedia.org - We’re all overwhelmed with how to prepare our kids to be citizens of a future world we can’t even imagine yet. Some advocates say the most important thing adults today can do for the next generation is to work in partnership with other...How to set up a Twitter account to receive texts to ordinary phones
By Allanah King 377 days agodocs.google.com - I made this as a 'how to' for an ucoming parent night around social media. Mahana School wants parents to set up a Twitter account so that they can receive free text message updates via Twitter. A great idea for a small school. We tested it...Home School Partnerships Google Site from Link Learning Cluster
By Allanah King 378 days agosites.google.com - We are trying to pull some threads together around Home School Partnership- so here is wht I have got so far.Room 4 @ Upper Moutere School: Voicemail From Alan (Talia's Dad)
By Allanah King 379 days agor4umo2012.blogspot.co.nz - Emma Watt's blog post- collected parental input via Speak Pipe widget on your blog. A great way to get parents involved. I wrote a post on how to do it on the...