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Overview and VisionThe I-Connect ICTPD - Cluster is a collaboration between Karamu High School, William Colenso College and Sacred Heart College in Hawke's Bay, New Zealand.

The vision is that our Bay City schools will develop a vibrant, “switched on”, connected learning community to excite and motivate students and teachers as co-learners embracing our I-CONNECT philosophy. More details about the cluster can re read in the Cluster Overview.

=Mini Conference= On the 23rd June all three cluster schools gathered at Karamu High School for the I-Connect Mini Conference. Follow this link to see what happened and to link to conference uploads.

=Check this out...= I'm going to upload some interesting stuff i've just stumbled upon.

If you have never seen Sir Ken Robinson's incredible TED talk, or even if you have but not recently, then I recommend you do. "Schools Kill Creativity" media type="custom" key="6344945"

...and a recently released follow up...

"Bring on the Learning Revolution" media type="custom" key="6344949"

[|5 Reasons Why Educators Need To Embrace Internet Technologies]

[|Guns don't kill people, bullets do.] Recent discussion on the dangers of powerpoint.

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Twitter and/or facebook (or something similar) would be a good way to share this stuff. What do you think?

=What's Happening=

[|Learning@school conference]
//Illustrating excellence in the 21st century...//

From 23rd to 26th February lead teachers from the i-connect cluster attended the learning@school conference. Here is a collection of notes, thoughts and resources gathered from the conference. They have been collected into broad categories related to their focus and content.



Breakouts

 * Thinking in the classroom
 * ICT toolkit
 * Giving effective presentations
 * __Open Source__
 * Teaching and Learning

Keynote Speeches

 * Dr. Stuart Middleton
 * Alan November
 * Dr. Thomas R Hoerr

=**Learning Area Meetings**= Learning Teams Information. During term one there will be a series of Learning Area meetings/Workshops hosted by our schools.

=Karamu ICTPD - Term 2=


 * links
 * [|I-connect@Karamu blog]
 * open for discussion

=Karamu ICTPD - Term 3= Requests for training:
 * Prezi
 * Advanced photoshop
 * Vanilla photoshop
 * Python
 * How to take a good picture

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