ULearn
An intensive three days at Sky City in Auckland. It was great to be joined by 6 teachers from Fairfield Primary and 2 from Insoll.
“The ULearn07 programme is structured around Ten Key Questions focusing on the themes of ‘learning’ and ‘leading’.
These questions allowed attendees to focus on 1 idea or to cover as many as you could.
The key messages for me were about connecting with our kids and engaging them in their learning and the power of Web 2.0. For those of you who are haven’t ventured there yet, web 2.0 offers an ever increasing range of new technologies that are free and allow our students to interact with anyone, anywhere, anytime.
The opening keynote was Ewan McIntosh. Ewan McIntosh is an educational technologist and teacher of French and German. He is based in Edinburgh and leads student and teacher workshops in the UK and Europe. Ewan engaged the audience with his sense of humour and many examples of kids using web 2.0. It was a taster to his workshop in week 1. View Ewan’s keynote here.
Another highlight was a breakout with Tony Ryan followed by his keynote. In his breakout Tony, talked about helping our kids to succeed in our world before they can interact in web 2.0. He had plenty of strategies to get us to interact with others in the breakout and kept us enthused and motivated, plus we got to meet lots of new people. His message in the keynote was ‘making a difference.’ What difference will our attendance at the conference make in our schools and clusters. It will be interesting to meet with those that attended and gain their thoughts and insights.
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uLearn was amazing and Tony Ryan is always an inspiration. He always has something to say that grounds teaching for me. It all makes sense. Basically, we are all here to make a difference and that is what makes us teachers. Nice to have new voice to follow in the blogosphere. I’ll be coming back