As the dust clears from our first couple of busy weeks, I've started thinking about engaging students with technology and their own personal interests. I've established some new sections on this website to cater for and inform everyone about some new initiatives in the iCentre. Very soon we will be starting a Monday Makerspace group. This session will be facilitated by our Tech Ninjas and allow students to follow their interest in programming, coding and game design using a variety of different tools and apps. More news on this over the next few weeks. Tech Ninjas. This group of elite tech warriors will soon be assisting us at school in all things technology. They are a fantastic group of boys who have offered their time to run the Ninja Bar in the iCentre at lunch, recess and before school to assist students. They will also be keeping an eye out for tech issues around the school and helping to set up technology spaces when they are required. SSCL Geek Girls. This page is dedicated to girls in the school who are interested in technology. We may later in the year start a meet up where we can get creative with technology and work on projects that are based on our interests that might include website design and other media creation. More information on that soon. In the meantime girls interested in learning more about programming - there are a series of workshops run by Sydney University starting soon, more information can be found here http://web.it.usyd.edu.au/~gpn/ have a look at our Technology pages for more information on all of these initiatives.
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This week in the newly named iCentre has been hugely busy. Our new seating arrangements have been well received. The new configuration has a lounge/cafe atmosphere and during any given lesson or at lunchtime there are plenty of places for students to gather and work, play and learn. Signs and publicity about the change will begin appearing over coming weeks. The iCentre name better reflects the changing face of a traditional library to a more technology enabled, collaborative work environment and will be a place to foster 21st century skills such as - creativity - collaboration - connection and critical thinking. The spaces within the iCentre have had some name changes too - all beginning with the letter 'C'. We already had the 'Cave' and the 'Connected Classroom'. Our largest space - the main body of the library will now be known as the Collaborative Zone. Our two small seminar rooms are now Learning Cubes - Cube1 and Cube2. The gathering space around the Smartboard will be renamed the 'Campfire' and is a perfect place to kick off a learning session in the iCentre. The 'Awesome Box' was installed on Friday. This is an alternative place to return books. If a student thinks a books has been a fabulous read and wants to recommend it to other students, they should place it in this box instead. We can then publicise it as a peer recommendation. Awesome books will be showcased on this website as well as around the Library in special picture frames (an IKEA find!). On IKEA - its been the go to place to jazz up some spaces in the iCentre. The 'Cave' had a partial makeover this week- several lime green shag rugs and some colourful coffee tables, which can be placed in a variety of configurations to work with their laptops or tablets, have really enlivened the space - Friday afternoon's Yr 8 Science lesson gave the 'Cave' a big thumbs up as a learning environment. We are looking forward to this space used for iPad collaborative sessions as it is equipped with Apple TV and a large monitor. The final addition to the Cave is a huge Decal Tree to go on the wall - hopefully stimulating creative thought! Check out our Gallery for great photos of our students really making best use of their updated environment. |
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