Welcome to my blog. The purpose of this blog is to keep you
informed of the Eastern Hutt School Learning Journey…and it is an exciting one!
Our eLearning Vision is:
To engage and empower all eLearners (teachers, students and
parents), preparing them to be digitally literate, innovative and confident
users of digital communication and creative tools, and active members of the
global eCommunity!
As recently appointed Principal, it is an absolute privilege
to be leading our school community; children, teachers and parents as we embark
on our new strategic direction. We want to fully utilise the power of the
technology available to us, to enhance the teaching and learning opportunities
for our children. Our children live, work and play with technology and participate
in online environments daily, for them this is ‘just the way it is’. We need to
use the technology to engage, motivate and empower our learners as they learn
to create, collaborate, communicate and connect with other learners whether
that be within our own EHS community or globally as in G4’s connection with
schools in England and Scotland – read their blog.
We began the year with professional development as teachers
became familiar with some newly acquired technology and the online blog
community. For some, this was easy, for others, a ‘techy buddy’ was quickly
identified! It was a day where as adult learners, we were creating,
collaborating, communicating and connecting with others.
This will already have been the case for your children and I
hope you are appreciating the sharing and celebrating of their learning on
their class blogs as they establish their Class Learning Community for 2012. This
will be one environment for teaching and guiding our children about ‘digital
citizenship’ and the responsibility that is part of this.
We will be exploring as many opportunities as possible to
use technology and media to drive our achievement targets in writing and to
generally guide our professional teaching inquiry: How can we engage, motivate
and provide the learning environment that develops highly effective
communicators?
I hope you are excited by and enjoy the opportunities for
learning ahead of us. Check out your child’s class blog and see what they have
been up to!
