1. Whitford EARLY
LEARNING
CENTRE
Centre visit - 28th February 2011
A huge thank you to Kathryn and centre to have everyone return this site to access any handouts
the teachers of Whitford their feedback to me via email! or information you require, when
Preschool for the great visit this your need to.
A summary of findings will be
morning.
published on your centre wiki
I briefly met with Head
and in this centre visit report.
Teachers again to discuss their
All of the notes and resources
centre's progress with the
accumulated over the year will
Blogging Mission.
be posted online at http://
Congratulations to the whitfordearlylearningcentre.wikis
Faintails team for being the only
paces.com. Please make use of
Next Visit to Whitford Focus on:
16th March 2011 @ Basics of Mac
8am Learning stories
Saving Files
Working with Storing Files
Preschool teachers

2. BLOGGING MISSION FEEDBACK
Thank
you
to
those
teachers
who
emailed
me
with
their
feedback
about
their
Blogging
Mission.
The
Fantails
win
the
award
for
the
most
effecient
team
with
lots
of
fantastic
feedback
(see
below).
*The botany downs kindergarten 1. I like the mixture
captures children’s learning superbly of media used in some of the
*Great links to culture. blogsites. For example there Tips for Whitford:
Culture is an important factor in our teaching is a good balance between
career and I was quite impressed with their learning stories, videos, and
* Check current Cybersafety Policy
links to culture. photo slideshows.
* Use the
*I quite like a mixture of videos and learning 2. Some sites have special
* Ensure that there parents have the
stories. passwords and logins that
opportunity to give informed
*I believe if the learning stories are short has to be set up through the
consent for their children's images
and detailed then that would definitely centre in order to view the
to be used.
attract the parents. Parents normally don’t blog. The privacy of this
* Have you thought about asking
have a lot of time to read big stories. appeals as not just anyone
children for their permission for
can see it. I do like carefully
their images?
selected posts made public
Surprising use of creativity photos * What about students who visit the
however the e-portfolios are
videos and technology centre on practicum, what
kept private-just like normal
Obvious that the bloggers are passionate about permissions do they get?
profile books on paper.
their chosen subject. * What do you currently know about
3. I like how notices,
Appear to be amazingly truthful! ICT outside of the centre?
invitations, and newsletters
can also be viewed on the * Have you dedicated a portion of
site. However I find it is your team meeting to Cybersafety
better when there is a and ICT conversations?
Blogging is useful for parents, families to * How have you organised ICT
separate link to them and
keep in touch and share children learning Audits, Backing up information,
not just in the middle of
journeys together, would be interested to here Time and Teacher release?
where all the learning stories
if through blogging it has strengthen
are. * Passwords on Computers, have
relationships and the value of documeenting and these been established?
has it encouraged Whanau contributions? Some
say they not sure about anyone being able to
Some of the blogs had
access photos of children, however as a teacher
regular entries e.g weekly,
I really enjoyed the wonderful opportuntity of
fortnightly, and it became
visiting their blogs and gaining new ideas.
like a diary.
Good for travellers to be
I like the welcoming statement on Manaia
familiar with countries Contact Naketa
Kindergarten and about why they blog and
before visiting them by
encourage posting of comments.
blogging, googling, Tel: +64 21 594 825
I like the combination of media, but not too
twittering, flickr, tumblt, DDI: (09) 973 5695 ext 839
wordy.
facebook. iChat: naketa@mac.com
I like the links to other blogging friends around
The use of photos was great Skype: naketaferguson
the world.
but I enjoyed being able to
see videos as I went
through the different sites.