{"id":793,"date":"2010-01-28T21:05:34","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T21:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edte.ch\/blog\/?p=793"},"modified":"2019-04-22T13:22:49","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T03:22:49","slug":"ssat-primary-national-conference-connected-classrooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edte.ch\/blog\/ssat-primary-national-conference-connected-classrooms\/","title":{"rendered":"SSAT Primary National Conference &#8211; Connected Classrooms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today I attended the 4th <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssatrust.org.uk\/\">Specialist Schools and Academies Trust<\/a> Primary National Conference. I was&nbsp;invited to run some seminars for the delegates.&nbsp;Situated in one of the conference suites of the Emirates stadium, the&nbsp;home of Arsenal football club, the event accommodation was spacious&nbsp;and well equipped.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; \"><a title=\"SSAT Primary National Conference 2010 by tgbarrett, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kardon\/4312398742\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2769\/4312398742_90f5ca11a6.jpg\" alt=\"SSAT Primary National Conference 2010\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I ran my hour long session twice during the day, it was titled&nbsp;&#8220;<strong>Connected Classrooms<\/strong>&#8220;. I based my practical ideas on 4 different&nbsp;connections.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Student &#8211; Student <\/strong>(same class)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Students &#8211; Students<\/strong> (different classes, countries, cultures)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Teacher &#8211; Student &#8211; Learning <\/strong>(connecting with our curriculum)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Teacher &#8211; Teacher<\/strong> (using Twitter for CPD)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I tried to keep my presentation simple and coherent, with a clear&nbsp;message about the ways we can use technology to engage learners.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/docs.google.com\/present\/embed?id=dhn2vcv5_587fqj3wkps&amp;size=m\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"555\" height=\"451\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We used the Nintendo Wii and I spent some time playing Endless Ocean&nbsp;and talking about the ways we have used it in our recent topic. I&nbsp;highlighted classroom blogging as a simple means to establish&nbsp;meaningful connections with other classes around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Drawing upon my experiences of Twitter I spoke about why it is the&nbsp;most important CPD I have had. The most important connection we need&nbsp;to facilitate is between students in our own classes. I went into&nbsp;detail about how Voicethread can do this, the ways we have used it in&nbsp;a recent sequence of writing work and why it is one of my classroom&nbsp;cornerstones.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I think technology has the potential to both perpetuate traditional&nbsp;notions of classwork and to in fact smudge the definitions of what&nbsp;independent work means.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>If you were one of those attending the sessions, thankyou for joining&nbsp;me and please feel free to leave me a comment about your reactions. I really value your feedback.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I attended the 4th Specialist Schools and Academies Trust Primary National Conference. I was&nbsp;invited to run some seminars for the delegates.&nbsp;Situated in one of the conference suites of the Emirates stadium, the&nbsp;home of Arsenal football club, the event accommodation was spacious&nbsp;and well equipped. I ran my hour long session twice during the day, it&#x2026; <\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-container wp-block-button is-style-outline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/edte.ch\/blog\/ssat-primary-national-conference-connected-classrooms\/\" class=\"more-link wp-block-button__link has-small-font-size\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SSAT Primary National Conference &#8211; Connected Classrooms<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_convertkit_post_meta":{"form":"-1","landing_page":"0","tag":"0","restrict_content":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7,22,37,193,39],"tags":[272,271],"class_list":["post-793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-gamesbasedlearning","category-my-class","category-twitter","category-voicethread","category-wii","tag-conference","tag-ssat","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edte.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edte.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edte.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edte.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edte.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edte.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edte.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edte.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edte.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}