January+2008

**RELLCO Teacher Only Day 29th January 2008**

 * Thank you to**

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 * [|Lynmore School] - for hosting this inaugural meeting of our Professional Learning Community
 * Joss - for the superb sustenance provided for our bodies!
 * [|Umajin] - Russell and Allison for sharing your story and agreeing to walk beside us as we journey ahead.
 * [|Interface Magazine] - for spreading the word, and supporting the use of information and communication technology by teachers.

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On January 29th, 60 teachers joined together at Lynmore School to get to know one another as they launch their **Rotorua East Lakes Learning Community (RELLCO)**.
Banded together by like-minded Principals and a shared vision for learning, the staff of Lynmore, Owhata, Rotokawa and Lake Rotoma Schools are enthusiastic about embracing the world of their 21st century learners.

> Over the next three years and funded through the Ministry of Education's ICTPD programme, the RELLCO cluster looks forward to building a learning community similar to that described by Peter Senge in his book //The Fifth Disc//ipline in which "people continually expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire, where new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured, where collective aspiration is set free, and where people are continually learning how to learn together"

The cluster vision to develop and sustain an effective e-learning community, maximising the potential for the 21st Century learner is underpinned by the belief that ICTs help in achieving the understanding, use and transfer of knowledge required in the 21st Century.

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Sharing is a key for the cluster, developing relationships, understandings and practice. Members were given a brief overview of the impact of ICTs on society and therefore education, a look at some of the tools, and the opportunity to personalise the cluster direction.

The session was followed with an impromptu hands-on workshop. Staff, with their appetites whetted, stayed behind and were ably assisted by Russell and Allison in a hands-on workshop exploring the creativity of Umajin. Day 1 of the new cluster and we're off to a great start!





Links: > LEARNZ http://www.learnz.org.nz/index.php > LEARNZ Tutorial: [[[|http://www.breezeserver.co.nz/p17984799/**|**http://www.breezeserver.co.nz/p17984799/]**]] > Unsung Heroes Talk: http://www.epals.com/tools/forum/forum.e?bo=52 > The Way We Are: http://www.epals.com/projects/thewayweare/ > Book Chats - New Zealand Site: http://english.unitecnology.ac.nz/bookchat/ > Book Raps - NSW: http://www.schools.nsw.edu.au/raps/current_plannedraps.htm > Book Raps- OZ Teacher Net: http://www.oz-teachernet.edu.au/projects/br/ > Cinderella Project: http://www.epals.com/projects/cinderella/ > Travel Buddies: http://www.oz-teachernet.edu.au/projects/tb/ > Geo Mystery Project: http://www.hawaii.edu/hga/GEOMystery/geomys.html > Movie Sites: You Tube: [|www.youtube.com] > Movie Sites - Teacher Tube: [|www.teachertube.com] > Slide Share: [|www.slideshare.net] > Action Learning: Check Out Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_learning > Model Shown Shared Below: