Goal+2


 * 2. Principals to lead the integration of e-learning in their schools (strategic and operational)**.

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2.4 Principals give priority to purchasing aligned to learning intentions
====__**Evidence:**__ ==== ====__**[|2011 St Josephs Paeroa School Vision and Action Plan.doc]**__ ====

**__2.1__** __ICT sharing mornings__
====__Introduction of E-tap assessment programme__ ==== This programme allows teaching staff to record assessment information about a student in digital format and allows faster access to important data. All staff members had an introductory tutorial with the programme and have recorded some of the relevant assessment results. Data has been successfully entered by all staff. The principal uses e-mail to communicate with other schools. Minutes from our weekly staff meetings are now word processed and given to each staff member to file. Staff were given training by the school librarian in using the new computer programme AccessIt installed in the library this year. [|librarians_and_teachers_(6).jpg]  Each classroom in the school now has a data projector installed which is used daily within the learning environment. Students appear to be more engaged and excited about viewing information in this format and often use whiteboard markers to make it interactive.
 * ====Staff have begun meeting in a classroom at morning tea to discuss and share their thoughts, concerns, any interesting websites or pedagogy with each other. This is in the very early stages but we are hoping that by Term 3 it will become a regular sharing session.====
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This has been a result of our Religious Education programme now being available as a digital resource to teach the students rather than in book form. This has reduced the amount of photocopiable pages that were commonly used in the past, so learning tends to follow more of an inquiry approach to learning rather than copying down information and not doing anything with it. Students have to "think" and this is enhanced by discussions, collaborating, questioning, sorting information and experimenting by trial and error.

[[image:Cheynnes_work.jpg width="317" height="223" align="right" caption="Viewing photostory using data projector"]]
__New sound system in every classroom__ ====The new sound systems in each classroom are a huge success and are enjoyed by staff and students alike. We are now able to view videos from the Internet. This was especially useful for the senior class when presenting their daily newsboards as they often found a news item that had an accompanying video recording such as in the Japanese Earthquake and for students sharing photostories that they had created as part of their reading activity tasks.====