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=Bio = I have been teaching for 12 years and have a passion for teaching literacy, e-learning and thinking skills. In London I worked in the heart of the East End as a lead literacy teacher, using teaching as inquiry to develop visual literacy to support learning and boys’ engagement in reading and writing. I played an active part in the school wide teacher inquiry into assessment for learning. For the past 5 years in NZ I have worked as a lead e-learning teacher and have led school wide PLD in inquiry/thinking skills, integrating SOLO Taxonomy into classroom practice.

=**eFellowship** = I have been awarded an eFellowship with Core Education in 2013. During my eFellowship I will be enquiring into 'flipping' my classroomteaching through e-learning and developing innovative classroom learning spaces. I intend to: define the ‘flipped classroom’ for teachers, students and parent, enquire into how the classroom learning environment affects learning, develop learning through social media to enable home learning, e nquire into how ‘flipped’ learning supports school learning, enable students to teach others through social media, make connections with other teachers who are ‘flipping’ their classrooms, identify ways to include students without home internet access, student voice - how the ‘flipped classroom’ works for them, and enquire how the ‘flipped classroom’ impacts upon assessment for learning through SOLO.

=Learning Spaces = I have transformed my classroom learning space from a traditional classroom to a 'coffeehouse' - minus the coffee! Students choose whether to sit, stand, lay down when they work. We have beanbags, a sofa, group tables, 'office' spaces, open spaces providing opportunities for large groups to come together for presentations, places for team collaboration and social learning, quiet spaces for individuals to read, reflect and relax.

=Digital Storytelling = Collaboratively I was part of the team that developed and ran the Whakatu Cluster Kids Can Film Festival and the follow-on sustainable Flick-It-On Movie Project which we now run annually. I presented both film projects at Learning @ Schools 2012 and at @ULearn 2012. I have also been selected to present at ICOT 2013 on movie making /digital storytelling within my own classroom programme where students use film to develop their communication, collaboration and creativity skills.

=My e-Learning approach = My e-learning approach is to develop lifelong learners who are confident, connected and actively involved through social media, movie making and digital storytelling. I currently lead PLD in movie making within my school. At the Kids Can Film Festival I worked with groups of students on the ‘Documentary Team’ documenting the projects through social media and creating a documentary to share at the Festival’s Premiere. Alongside co-organising Flick-It-On! my classes take part in making the collaborative movies with local schools.

=Web 2.0 tools & blogging = <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">My classes actively use Web 2.0 tools and embed them into our class blog to share their learning and demonstrate their creativity. We use social media not only to share our learning and creativity but also to develop home school partnerships, student engagement and digital citizenship. At Upper Moutere School I lead school wide PLD around the use of social media.

=<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Digital Citizenship = <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">During the Whakatu ICT PD Cluster I facilitated lead-teacher PLD around blogging, and facilitated a digital citizenship lead teacher session, which led to a local school inviting me to present to their staff on blogging sustainably. This also led to working on AUPs aligned to school visions in collaboration with students, teachers, whanau and the wider community - creating a ‘living, breathing document’ with community ownership.

=<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">SOLO Taxonomy = <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">I worked with Pam Hook as part of the activ@Eden ICT PD Cluster, and led PLD across the school in the integration of SOLO Taxonomy into classroom programmes. In my own classroom I am continually developing the use of SOLO in collaboration with my students. I currently lead Upper Moutere School in implementing HOT SOLO maps and SOLO Taxonomy/Rubrics developing assessment for learning. I also facilitate the alignment of SOLO with our school learning process (inquiry) and our school vision: to be confident, active, creative, literate and numerate thinkers.

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