Mayfield Kindergarten Home Videos

Lots of wonder project teams have been dabbling with movie making and digital capture using photostory 3..... It's ben great to see learning documented in a different way that resonates with children as well as connects with families. Here's some NZ research done by Mayfield Kindergarten specifically around getting involvement of families in the learning........a great way to get multiple perspectives into learning documentation.... here's the link to a user friendly thumbnail version of this 3 year project from the ece educate site... http://www.educate.ece.govt.nz/learning/spotlight/MayfieldHomeMovies/WhatWeDid.aspx?p=2

Developing community through ICT | EDtalks

Developing community through ICT | EDtalks

This is another efellow working in Kindergartens. The team from Botany Downs Kg were Centre of Innovation some time back and here one of their number talks about recent ICT work. Their focus is using ICT to build community. An interesting point she makes that some of us will resonate with is approacing the ICT community as an older person ..... but is confident that we are all learners here!
click on the link above for this clip.

Petone Kindergarten is live and on line.... !

Greetings teams... It was great to hear your perspectives on our hui where lots of teams shared their thoughts, anecdotes or journeys.  Here's a link to a Kindergarten blog in our association where the team are exploring the use of a blog to communicate learning programmes and to engage the participants.  It's all new and support would be appreciated.....

http://petonekindergarten.blogspot.co.nz/

Using ICT to communicate.... blogging.

Getting started- digital microscopes and blogging...

This clip really resonates for me- having been part of the project Tania talks about in this clip and also needing an interpreter at uLearn Conferences in the beginning! I haven't blogged in a Kindergarten as this team did( and still does even when the teaching team has changed ) but the rest could have been a snippet from the team I was in at the time re: magnification and learning outcomes. Their blog has been going for many years now- take a peek... http://manaiakindergarten.blogspot.co.nz/

Connecting with families

I've been chatting with a team of teachers today about ways to make group planning visible and accessible- often a topic of discussion these days in Kindergarten circles! Below I've posted a video from the Ministry of Education's website from the ECEICTPL project around using the technology to connect with families... hmmm food for thought

Connecting with the learning community....