Food for thoughts!

Since we are the pilot school for the registration module, can we conduct a few other trials. The school will be using this for CCA registration next year, and I'm thinking of getting a class/level to try this out.

I'm also getting the P4 level to use the Lead Portal for Item Analysis. Other than using the survey for this, is tehre another way to conduct our item analysis?

Updates on Term2Week6

P3
-E-mail parents whose son are not here last sat
-Assist parent to change/confirm class for P3 cyber power adv
-Print cert for P3 (class 4)
-Replacment class for p3 - 25April from 10am-12pm
Classes
-Assist with P1 e-mailing - P1.1 P1.2 P1.3 P1.4
-P2 Ms Words - P2.2 P2.3
-P1 Touch Typing - P1.9
-Dotcom Club - Design banner for DOTCOM club
Service Request
-Scan chinese e-book for mdm Lye
-Upload chinese worksheet
-Upload english papers
Others
-Look for Junior Daily boys (P5.4)
-Free Access - Blocked Face Book (cause there are games inside)
-Update website - P's letter, swimming result and ACS jacket
-Look for Mrs Ng to discess about the poem and the way she wants the class to be conducted
-Assist vp with the projector in the library

Updates of Week 6.

• Registration Module - testing
• MS Word lessons - P2.1 & P2.3
• SpongeBob Square Pants Typing lessons - P1.7 & P1.8
• Emailing Module - P1.8, P1.6, P1.9,
• MS Word in MT - Distribute the schedules to Steff. Check with Mrs Ng for the sample poem, Check with Normah for the composition
• Digital Art Photos - Printed and distibuted to P5.9 pupils
• P4 EP - Send emails . Conduct replacement lesson for the students who were absent for the lesson .
• Print the certs for P4 EP classes
• DOT Com Club - Adobe Illustator - Designing a message for 'Mother's day'
• Relief May Po's lesson, 25th April
• Send out the forms for the workshop, Video Production using Windows Movie Maker

Printing

Hmm.. is there a print management software that we could use? We will need to start collecting money for pupils to print so as to cover some of our operation cost. Esle, some people will start printing whatever they want.

They will do that in the library next year. So, might as well start sourcing for some print management software to do the job.

Students printing in colour

Curently students are allow to print
-school related work
-only black and white
-need a letter from their teacher in-charge if they need to print in colour

Below is a Memo form that was planned to use it this year but it is not used as the former ICT left.

I suggest that we stick to our current method. This is to prevent students from printing in colour whenever they like.

If we want to track the numbers of pages printed and who printed them then we use back the memo form.

Updates on Term2Week5

Junior Daily
-Train P5.3 Junior Daily boys

P1 SpongeBob Typing
P2 Microsoft Words
Free Access

P3 Cyber Power Adventure (Saturday Class)
-Make up lessons on 15April 11am-12pm and 18April 11:30am-12:30pm
-Print P3(class3) certificate
-Assign survey for Class 3

Dotcom Club P3P4
-Assign survey for E-Card and Online Photo Album

Admin Task
-Assist Principal with School brief cover page
-Assist parents request to change classes for cyber power advanture
-Convert 3 chinese book to e-book for mdm Lye
-Discess with mdm Ramiah on the NE schedule

Suggestion for the Elective Module Courses - held during June hols.

As mentioned yesterday, one of the upcoming issues that we have at hand is the Elective Module Course, held during the June Holidays for both the parents and students together.


We are to send out the letters by 21st April. I have few suggestions on working this out. But need your advise in regard to this issue.


Suggestion 1 : Do you think, sending the letter with the option form as an e-mail would be better?


We can ask the boys to drop the completed option form with the cheque in a drop in box at the reception. Since the seats for this workshop, are based on first come first serve it will help us to track as the seats are filled in.


Suggestion 2: The technical team in LEAD are done with creating the Registration Module in d LEAD portal. I have talked with Jasmond and have asked him to release it to our school by tomorrow(18th April). We can use it to regsiter the pupils for the workshop.


The Registration Module, helps to make the registration to the pupils on a first come first serve basis. After the deadline, we can put up the names of the pupils who have enrolled for the workshop in LEAD portal or school website.Alternatively, we can give the form teachers the names of the pupils from their class who have enrolled for the workshop. We can seek their help to collect the cheque or cash.


What do you think?

Meanwhile, we can spend the weekend, trying out to use the Registration Module and playing with. We are the pilot schools to use the Registration Module ;)

Updates T2, Wk2 - T2 Wk5

Aplogise for the delay in updating the blog:)

EP Programmes

Cyberwellness Lessons - Completed : Wk 2 & Wk3. The pupils are trying to follow the skills taught and they are consious to follow it.

P5 Digital Art - Completed for P5.6, P5.7 & P5.9 Classes. P5.8, has one more lesson this Friday, 18/4.

P4 I am the excellent boss - Ongoing : The Class 3 is ongoing. The attendance % is better, after a reminder email sent to the absentees. The Class 4, will be having their Lesson 3 & Leson 4, this saturday (19/4). While Class 3, will be having their Lesson 5 this saturday (19/4)

Replacement Lesson for P4 EP : Conduct Replacement lesson for
** Yoshino, Class 3, Lesson 3 on 7th April
** Ryan Teo, Class 3, Lesson 3 on 11th April
** Ethan Tan, Class3, Lesson 3 & Lesson4 on 16th April

P2 Cyber Word Attack - Completed for P2.7 - P2.9 pupils. Ongoing for P2.1 - P2.3 pupils.

P1 SpongeBob SquarePants Tying - Ongoing : The pupils of P1.7 - P1.9, have started their EP lesson typing.

P1 - E-mailing Module - Ongoing : Have conducted a training for the P1 teachers, to conduct the lesson on E-mailing with their pupils. The topic on E-mailing is integrated with the English lesson. The lesson Plan and outline were created for the teachers. The teachers have given their schedule. Qizhen and I will be assiting the teachers. The E-mailing module will be starting from Week 5.

DOT COM Club - Podcasting, Ongoing : The pupils vounteered to create the DOT COM Club notice board to display their work. The empty space beside the notice boards has been convereted to a display area to showcase the DOT COM Club pupils work.

Each team of the P5& P6 Dot com Club have created a logo for them and they have given themselves a name. The logos of the team are placed in the display area too.

Admin Task

1. Burnt the P5 pupils Digital Art work into a CD. Have passed a copy of it to Arlette and Jeffery for marking, so that the scores can be added to the pupils SA1 exams for Art.
2. Check & reply the parents E-mail regarding the P4 EP lessons.
3. Do the recording for the Podcasting lesson with the pupils.
4. Download the photos for Sports day
5. Assign the survey for P2 pupils to complete 'Post Course' Survey - P2.7 & P2.8,
6. Assist in answering the calls regarding the PSLE Briefing slides
7. Print certs for P2 EP pupils & P5 EP pupils
8. Loan V.Cam to Marieanne (SNO). Set up the V.Cam. Download the Video and burn it to a CD.
9. E-mail the P5 teachers, the class portrait created by their class pupils - P5.6, P5.7 & P5.9
10. Check with Diana & Janet in regard to swap in their EP lesson on Thursdays.
11. Call and reply the parents in regard to LEAD portal issues.
12. Print the cover page for Mrs Koh
13. Raise the change request for deleting the names of the teachers who have left school
14. Get the lab2 prepared for CL Listening comprehension
15. Assist Mrs Siti Mohamed with online chatting with her student in US using skype on 11th April for International Friendship Day.

Updates on Term2Week4

Junior Daily
- Put up Odyssey of the Mind (OM) slides

P1 SpongeBob Typing
- started this week
- Pupils are able to insert/remove CD by themselves
- Switched class with P1.7 to 3pm-4pm

P2 Microsoft Words
- New class this week
- Switched class with P2.2 to 12pm-1pm

P3 Cyber Power Adventure (Saturday Class)
- Class4 (10.15am-12.15pm) is canceled due to power shutdown
- Class4's lesson 3 and 4 will be done together as the pupils complete their work very fast
- One of my training manager will relief my class on 12/4/08 as I have to attend training in LEAD.

Free Access
- Most popular websites are the drugs games site from MOE
- http://www.cnb.gov.sg/kidpower/
- http://www.cnb.gov.sg/kidpower/PDEGame/

Dotcom Club P3P4
- Starting on microsoft publisher next week

Where is everyone?

Hi, seems like it's quite "empty" for the past few weeks. Well, do continue to update your weekly activities here.

To make things easier, all of you don't need to type in paragraphs. All I need is a brief on what was done. You can put in point form.

However, I want to make it mandatory for a suggestion for improvement once a month in the posting. The purpose is for us to continue to improve. Once a person stops thinking of ways to improve, he/she will remain "stagnant" and the department/organisation will suffer.

Very often, people say, "but that's what we have been doing!" Do not get caught in this sentence. In today's world, this is no longer true. If we continue to do things as what we have done, there will be no improvement. As the school motto goes, "The Best is Yet to Be", even if the way we do things is very good, there is another "best" coming.

So, start putting on your thinking cap!

Updates on March holiday + Term2Week1-3

*Pass few weeks its a very busy week for us as the Cyber Wellness is coming up*
Junior Daily
Term2Week3 is P5.3 IT captain's turn to update the Junior Daily. I gave them another training to refresh their memory. Sometimes the Junior Daily is not updated because the boys forgot or theres a power tripped after they have updated.
I Updated the riddle for term 2.

P1 SpongeBob Typing
Linda and I prepared the SpongeBob files during March holiday. The files are ready for all 3 classes starting in April 10th. We still have to talk to P1.8 form teacher to switch the lessons with us.
P2 Microsoft Words
Term2Week3 is the last lesson for the P2.7, P2.8 and P2.9. Printed the certificates for all 3 classes. They will learn Scanners and Printer for the last lesson.

P3 Cyber Power Adventure (Saturday Class)

I collected the student's work from class1&2 and saved it in my computer। I also picked the top 5 work।The attendances for Class3 & 4 were kind of bad but after we sent out the e-mail to inform the parents, the attendance is much better. Giving them individual project works very well. They manage to follow the lessons without any problem.
Miss Kuan came to sit in the class last week (29/3). She asked the boys to help her with some problems.
Class5 is very full now as there are 43 students. The reason being the boys cant come during saturday cause they have other activities in the school and cant come for class 7 cause they have to go oversea. There are only 40 computers in lab 2. I already told the parents that their son got to share the computers, they are ok with it. Theres one boy who will bring his own laptop cause the form teacher said that he is the "touch me not" kind of student and cannot share things with his friends.

Cyber Wellness
Linda and I prepared the lessons outline/lessons plan and worksheets. To have so many classes in a week is very tiring. Zheng Min said that she will arrange it such that its not so packed next term.
Some feedback from the lessons:
P1
They feel happy when they received an e-mail from their friends. Even the e-mail content is meaningless example blablablablablablabla.
Some thought Internet is free.
P2
The lesson seems effective as many of them send meaningless emails
P3&P4
Some of them admited that they insulted people online and find that it is ok to do it because they can change nick/e-mail anytime.
The better classes find the lesson abit boring as they already know insulting is wrong and they know how to behave.
P5&P6
They find the topic - copyright interesting as they have alot of questions.
Some of them link the subject to computer viruses.

Dotcom Club P3P4
They are currently learning about Online Photo Album. They took pictures using the school's camera last week. They are to upload those photos and some of their favourite pictures online onto the album. They can edit the photos and share it to their friends.

Free Access
They are not allowed to play games and watching videos. They can still play LEAD games as it is educational. Currently the most popular website they go is iSketch - similar to Pictionary http://www.isketch.net/

Updating Website
Annual Swimming Championships updated

Service Request
Burn Chinese SA1 listening Cds for Mdm Lye
Burn 42 Chiense lesson Dvds for Mdm Lye