Term 2 - Week 3 - ODD

Week 3 15 Mei - 19 Mei (ODD) Late Start PD - Mon 15 - Please make sure you have signed up for your late start - rooming and link to form is below. Book week - Mon 15 - Fri 18 Author: Miranda Carter - Tues 16 (afternoon) CGHS Cross Country (p3 &4) - Tues 16 Parent Teacher Interviews - Tues 16 and 18. School finishes at end of P4 Winter Sports start - Wed 17 Book Day Mufti Day - Thurs 18 Eton Senior Maths Competition - Thurs 18 Stage Challenge - Fri 19 Squash (Canterbury Champs) - Sun 21	Week 4 22 Mei - 26 Mei (EVEN) Bullying Free NZ week - Mon 22 - Fri 26 Art Exhibition Y's 9, 10, 11. On Display in the Art Block - Tue 23 - Thurs 25. All welcome to come and view. CGHS Cross Country Reserve Day (P 3&4) -Tues 23 Attitude Presentations (in the Gym -TBC) - Wed 24 Period 1 -Year 9 Period 2 - Year 10 Period 3 - Year 11 Open Day - Thurs 25 Thank you morning Tea - Friday 26
Assembly Nil	Assembly Attitude seminars - see above.
Meeting  Tues 16th: NIL (Parent Teacher Interviews)	Meeting  Tues 16th: Learning and Teaching

Professional Learning and Development

Our next late start for staff Professional Learning and Development is on Monday 15 May. The same format as the first late start will happen, with school starting with period 2 on the day.
Go to the Google Form to choose your option for the morning. If you are not going to be available on Monday morning, you must let BLS know.

The options to choose from are:

1. The New Professional standards and Appraisal: This is for staff who are appraisers. We will look at the new draft Professional standards and code of ethics. This is also a chance to discuss what different Faculties and appraisers use to determine 'what is evidence' during appraisal discussions, to help achieve greater consistency across the school. (Room 218)

2. Personalized learning with Devices: An introduction to individualized learning activities using 1:1 devices (personalization) which encourages deep learning. We will look at concepts as well as activities so that you leave with some strategies to add to your pedagogical "tool kit". (Room - T119)

3. Pastoral Systems at CGHS - the next steps. Creating the journey of what is needed for a successful, well rounded CGHS student. This session gives staff a chance to discuss what specific skills students should focus on at each year level so they have the necessary skills for the world beyond school. (Room - 219)

4. Use of Te Reo and what it is like to be a Maori or Pasifika learner at CGHS. This session is a repeat of the popular first session. (Te Rongopai)


5. Using OneNote: This session will be great for staff who have many of their resources available electronically. Learn how to make them usable in the OneNote platform which enables lesson planning to be more dynamic and flexible. (Room 213)

6. Breaking down the curriculum: We have an outside provider who will talk about the decisions and outcomes of creating an authentic cross curricular experience for students. Very timely as we start to think about possible changes to our curriculum moving forward. (Room 217)

Information for Staff

1. Open Day - Thursday 25th May - Info for new staff

Year 13s and Year 9s will be used for guides around the school on this day. Therefore you may not have them for your lesson.
The library is being used for the half hour parent talks by Pauline (DTP).
Please make sure that you have rooms tidy and welcome parents and students as they visit your classes throughout the day.
If you are a new staff member, feel free to join a tour with a group of parents - this is highly recommended by a new staff member from last year.

We will also be introducing a feedback form for parents and a bit of competition for the best Learning Area - watch this space for the criteria. As a thank you for both parent-teacher interviews and Open Day - two big weeks, there will be a morning tea shout on Friday 26.

2. Reminder: Please make sure you are getting to class (including form time) on time. It is also expected that staff are at briefing on Tuesday and Thursday, we all have times when things can unexpectedly cause delays, but this is a great chance to have all staff meet on a regular basis.

3. ETV and EVA (Enhanced Video Annotation)

Here at school we subscribe to eTV at a cost of about $2 a student. eTV is accessed via Onstream by choosing it from the dropdown menu under STUDENTS or STAFF.

Logging in will be automatic soon (as it will be a part of our single sign on package) but for now you should proceed past the caution page and log in with username and password.

eTV provides us with programmes recorded off-air from domestic and international television channels and Internet channels. It is an ad free and “copyright safe” area for students and staff to go and find content easily.  All content available in eTV is copyright cleared for legal use under Creative Commons and/or Screenrights Licences. Videos are available to be viewed directly online, by Embedding Codes, or by Downloading.

They used to offer a service called Zaption which enabled teachers to add interactive content to these videos. That stopped last year and eTV now offer a new service called EVA’, or Enhanced Video Annotation service, and it gives all eTV users a set of annotation tools that make it easy to turn any video into an interactive video.

EVA operates at 2 levels – basic and advanced. Advanced or Pro version would cost the school an extra $2.00 per student. EVA tools are also available to students to use to create video based projects.

Interactive videos are perfect when you have a video clip that you want to enrich with interactive elements, add information and gain immediate responses for surveys or training. It works by you logging in to eTV and clicking on the section of EVA you want to access.

The how to use section provides easy to access information about all features and even includes tutorials.

Once you have made an interactive video with EVA you can give as many viewers as you want access to any EVA through a simple link sent by email or an embed code.

So…

What we have now for FREE is called: EVA Free and consists of features you can add which students just look at, they do not respond to them in any way These features are: Labels, Text, Tables, Links and Images that the viewer can see on the screen during video playback. They can help further understanding of aspects of the video you are showing students.

What we could have for an extra $2 is the Subscription - Pro Users and not only be able to use interactive features but also gain access to the data created from them (learning analytics).

There are 8 fully interactive quizzes and puzzles you can insert for viewers to answer at any selected time in the video. Choose from Multiple Choice, Single Choice, Fill-in the Blanks, Drag and Drop Words, Text Entry and Drag Text activities. The responses would be available to the creator of the EVA along with data and analytics for further analysis and assessment. You can choose to receive that interaction data from named or unidentified individuals.

Next week:

Etv VS. ClickView – a look at the Pros and Cons with the idea that we discuss where to from here

4. And finally something to make you smile at the end of the week.....