Our projects

We have recently decided which projects we are going to do. We are doing 7 projects, some are doing and some are exploring. I will give you a name, short description and the leaders for each project. Here they are:

Explore creating an iTribe website

In this project, we are looking at getting an iTribe website. We have listed the differences between blogs and websites and have now decided that we do not need a website. We are sticking with the blog. By Jake, Sarah and George.

Explore posting forms on the website
The aim of this project is to save paper. We want to find a program to fill in various forms online. Mr. Barber has made a list of all the forms we have to fill in. (That is a lot!) By Mr. Barber and Stuart (our techy helper.)

Explore teacher-parent-pupil interaction

We have been looking at various programs like Edmodo and comparing them. We are also thinking of giving each pupil a school email account. We are enjoying seeing all the different ways you can do things. One interesting thing that we found out in the survey is that parents want to be able to communicate more by email with teachers but teachers are worried about having too much email to respond to. By Sarah, Katrina and Stuart.

Explore video comunication
Currently, we are looking at the difference between various different programs eg. skype, facetime and google hangouts. We are also exploring their uses and how we could use them to their full potential. We are really excited about the possible outcomes from this project. By George and
Katrina.

Improve H.J.S. website
This project could go on for years! We have narrowed it down to the urgent bits and pieces. One of
the main things that we are doing is trying to achieve updated content and some of it by the pupils. We have discovered that the teachers really struggle to upload things and that it takes up a lot of their
time. Therefore, we are pondering about replacing class pages with blogs. We have added some special code to our website and are tracking the most used pages. We would like to make this easier to navigate as well. By Sarah, Lily and Jake.

Use of technology in class
We want to make sure that we use everything that we have got. Recently, we have got Net Books. We are very pleased and they make a giant change from the slow laptops. In addition, we want to educate all the teachers in their uses. The pupils want to see the technology, the only way is for the teachers to use it. By Luke and Lily.

Cameras
In our survey, we discovered that the teachers would be really grateful if they could each have a camera. We have been investigating all the makes. George wants some cameras so that we can have a film studio. By Katrina.

This post was writen by Sarah.