Kathy

Day 1 Pluses - I found the 2 tools that we used were motivating and interesting. I would like to learn more about the 16 Habits of Mind. This would be good for open endend problem solving. Love the del.icio.us page. Minuses - Things are slowly becoming clear but..... Interesting - I have heard of blogs and u tube in the media but never known what they were.... Lots still to learn.

Day 2 What a full on day! Have my head around the 3 types of questions. I think! Essential, Unit and Content. Have added to the template planner but need to twig it more. Will be so good to make our planners more open ended.

Day 3 I thought that creating the visual ranking tool was very practical. It was good to trial other groups' ranking tool to get their ideas. It was especially helpful to have people from other sub-schools trial out ranking tool as it showed up the flaws and highlighted areas for improvement. Better use of ICT to engage students. PD such as this. Time to play with resources, software & new tools. Group brainstorming. Less reliance on what we have done in the past & being open to change also having time to think about and implement the changes. Can you please show me TeacherTube? Can you please have a look at what we have done in the way of activities - we used the old proforma because we weren't sure if we were on the right track. We have not put it into our template as yet.
 * What was the most practical activity?**
 * How do you think we can improve our planning to include 'richer' learning tasks?**
 * How can I assist you before the next Intel session? What is still unclear?**