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Kate's Breakouts

__ More Bang for your Bucks __

This breakout was about getting more out of your cluster. This is where I got the idea for a cluster share at each school. They also suggested that in the third year to have student share sessions. Suggestions for a cluster newsletter Cluster to look at: http://tewhakatipurangahouictpdcluster.wikispaces.com/ Some tools

Zoho Creator or Survey Monkey - Online survey

__ Top 5 Applications for Teachers of Young Children __

Voice Thread - Key C's Relating to others by interacting and sharing ideas To join this send a link to the voice thread by email and get a Teacher Educator account.

Smilebox

Picasso 3

Wordle

Comic Life

This is where I got the site, Fun theory.com. This has some great ideas about making boring tasks fun. There is a unit that I will lik to from the Interface magazine for senior students using this site.

=**Mel's Breakouts**=

__Thinker's in the Classroom - Tony Ryan__
Presentation is to large to upload but if you would like it please email me. melanie@kaniere.schoolzone.net.nz

__Creating a Thinking Culture in your Classroom - Danny Bedingfield__
Overview of the HBDI

=**Caitlin Breakouts**=

__Using Solo Taxonomy to Assess the Key Competencies__

Excellent way to breakdown the key competencies into stages of development. Could be used as a whole class tool or for individual students. Check out the following link, these two women are very passionate about this tool. [|Hooked on Thinking]

Shanes Breakouts:
Hooked on thinking SOLO Explained. - What is Solo Taxonomy - [|Hooked on Thinking]

How to set up your own Television studio - ended up being an advertisement for a supplier.

Speech tools for the classroom - Ministry representative talking about different software available for Speech to text recognition (and Vice versa). Very interesting, but not so useful for under 12s due to voice stability and maturity.