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Working with link teachers – Art, Geography, Maths, History, MFL so far. Need to see other link teachers in week after half-term.  Use Fronter projects below to keep up-to-date.  Ready to blog about what you’re doing.

Thank you to Matthew, Jack and Luke for talking with Mr Hamer from King James School.
Invitation to National Digital Leaders conference on 2nd July in Reading – Video Competition – see below:
Draw for Dalby Forest Concert tickets – 2 tickets for Shona and 2 for Ollie – decide on Plan B or Will Young.

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1. Signing in – 26 of you signed up, with another not able to make it but seeing me to let me know.
2. BIG Thank you to Will and Matthew (Y9 DLs for teaching you how to use Prezi).
3. I explained about
> Digital Leaders (DLs) is about opportunities for you…
> DLs is about *doing* which is why we’re starting with a Prezi competition -see below
> Y9 DLs use their blog, their Fronter room ICT Y09 Digital Leaders and Edmodo to work together and show the wider world what they are doing…

Thank you to everybody including Mr Lech, and good luck with the Prezi Competition.

Mr S

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Congratulations to Dls who took Year 8 assembly
– an excellent performance from all 8 of you – haribos given out.

Lovely to see DLs starting to work with link teachers – Art, Geography and Maths so far.  Next Wednesday will be more.
Letters for photo permission and Fulford Teachmeet given out.  We will be leaving for Fulford on 28th June straight after sports day.
Reminded people about their roles and responsibilities – Mr S will revise the Fronter front page for managing our projects.
Rosie and Toria will manage DLs publishing DL articles on the DL’s blog.  Well done for getting Matthews and Will’s articles on the blog already.
We’ll be able to add photos in future.  All articles will be moderated.
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Welcome to student teachers come to meet Digital Leaders.
This meeting was all about joining up DLs with their chosen subjects.
Thank you for choosing and agreeing the following:

Roles and Responsibilities:    
Blog Editors – Rosie / Toria
Edmodo Editors – Jess / Lauren
Software editors – Luke / Jack

Ar (Art) – Daisy / Jordan
Bs (Business Studies) – Isaac / Matthew
Dr (Drama) – Daisy / Jordan
Dt (Product Design) – Jem / Jack / Luke
En (English) – Jess / Toria
Ft (Food Technology) – Lauren / Hannah
Go (Geography) – Rosie / Shona
Hs (Health and Social Care BTEC) – Jess / Shona
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Serious talk about Commitment and Responsibility.  There is a lot happening in the next couple of months.  Our professional Reputations are on the line.
Everyone still up for Student Meet at Fulford? …yes.  Everyone want to network on Edmodo …yes. Nationally? …yes.
Then we need to make sure we all contribute…
Congratulations to Will and Matthew on winning Edmodo competition and £5 Amazon vouchers.  “What can Digital Leaders do for you (LLS Teachers)?” – please could Rosie/Toria post these onto the Blog – see Will/Matthew to do so…
Alice won from Bedale – video to be posted soon.
Thanks to All DLs who have so far done / going to do
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DLs come up with links as good if not better than the teacher – eg.
Will introduced the lesson linking it back to V.I.S.T.A.
Ollie – “Flash is like Paint.net – it uses layers”
They very quickly realised the usefulness of chunking up the lesson into smaller bits eg.  getting the students to open Flash and the tutorial on Fronter BEFORE the detailed walkthrough of making the cricket ball spin…
Their student-speak is better than the teacher…
They have more energy(!) Show great confidence…
They still find that some students finish quickly and others more slowly… look for extension tasks…

Everyone on Edmodo – reminded about the competition for Sunday.
Decided on dates and leaders for Flash teaching – see below.  Thanks to Isaac and Jem for training most DLs yesterday.
Need to work out what LLS DLs can do for subject teachers – see Tasks below.
Really proud of the progress you have made – big effort needed in the next few weeks

Tasks for this week – VERY IMPORTANT
– Check email every Friday lunchtime or Friday after school~
IMPORTANT – Have an edmodo discussion (Someone will need to start it off…) for “What can Digital Leaders do for you (LLS Teachers)?”
– Complete your team choice of subjects in the subjects forum on Fronter
– Send Mr Sharples your ideas for Edmodo for the edmodo Competition (by Sunday) £5 tokens for prizes
– Plan for Flash teaching – see list below – and ALL RESOURCES are in Year folder 9_5 Flash Animation – I suggest you concentrate on the cricket ball tutorial.
– (presenters from last week to update their diaries)
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Maltesers and a round of applause given to Ali,
Hannah,  Jordan, Daisy, Matthew and Will for outstanding presentation to SLT on Weds.
Lots of interest in you working with subject teachers this term.
Matthew set up our new group on Edmodo called “Secondary Digital Leaders”.  I emailed Mr Barnes at Bedale School and Bedale DLs are now on the group as well.

To Do this week:
– Check email every Friday lunchtime or Friday after school
– Join edmodo www.edmodo.com if not done so already and add code ***** to join “Secondary Digital Leaders”.  Do NOT tell this code to anyone else. Add your own picture.
– enter the competition below
– presenters to update their diaries
– turn up next weds lunchtime for Flash Training from Isaac and Jem
– you could enter the national DL Design a logo competiton at www.digitalleadernetwork.co.uk/?p=420

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6 Lady Lumley’s DLs took on the daunting task of explaining about what they have been doing, and more importantly, could do, in the future.

Comment from Year 13s “We couldn’t have done that at their age (Year 9s) – Their presentation was better than ours.  How good will they be when they are our age??” – kind of sums up the impact that Digital leaders can have really…

Their prezi here.

Why Digital Leaders? (Ali and Hannah)
Brainstorm: Need to convince SLT you’re important…can make a difference – leadership AND ICTs (Internet/software and devices) / small teams working together / own learning and with others / spreading ideas / agents for change
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What have LLS DLs done so far? (Jordan and Daisy)
Brainstorm – be brief – Explain benefits of what you’ve done – use photos from folder on fronter / show DLs fronter page and DL’s blog
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What could LLS DLs do in the future? (Matthew and Will)
Brainstorm – Combination of leadership AND ICTs (Internet/software and devices)
1.  Work in LLS / work in small teams with teachers? teach the teachers that there are ICT ways of doing things / trial new ways of doing things / Autology / Twitter / using Fronter
2. Network with other DLs in other schools using Blog / Edmodo (Matthew to explore) / email

You can browse our subject rooms on the  Lady Lumley’s School Fronter site:
Pls go to http://fronter.com/northyorks
UN =guestuser1 PW =lumleys123

Please respect any copyright and ask permission before downloading any materials.

All the materials shown in the talk are available with read access and using the link in the square brackets.
Log on as above and choose the drop down box to see all the subject rooms available.
Some links do not have a square brackets as they are restricted areas eg. We have blocked off the staffroom as we are now using it for discussions and staff information that is not appropriate for public access.   Sorry…

Timeline of development:

1. The eLP (eLearning Pilot) where we tried out rooms for the first time.
2. HoD meetings and then manual Department Rooms for each year starting with Y11 revison.
3. Progress since then with developing Department – kept minutes on a forum
4. All ICT rooms used with front pages / resources links / unit information. [all ICT rooms]
5. Mistake of trying to put every subject resource into one room.  Keep resources in each year room.
6. eLearning with Year 7 – before and after resources with Whole School Curriculum Days* [ICT 07]
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