Our starting point for Tool Exploration! 

After the staff and students have left for the year I have a wonderful opportunity to get some things done! But I also know myself and know I work best when connected to others and when super busy. So I had this idea to set up a series of short, sharp collabs - that may grow to be more - over the final week of the school year with the goal of enriching what we do and how we go about it through some menanigful collaboration. 

These are some of the collabs that are in place already:

• CNC router traning and thinking with Morand 
• Peer Learning Network with The Peninsula School & Ivanhoe Grammar Directors of ICT and Innovation 
• Coding, App making and game making tool exploration extravaganza 
• Schoolbox Collab - how to engage users 
• Reflection on Signature Project round 1 
• CSER MOOC community task submission and reflection 
• Junior School library - Getting 'Appy 
• UX designer catchup, carbon fibre workshop  connected to Year 8 student projects
• Planning with teacher in USA for 2017 Hackathon via Skype 

Apologies for the shaky camera work, I have now learned not to record with my laptop on my lap! 

Our draft why is as follows;
We use Schoolbox as a live, evolving communication, learning and teaching support tool. We share consistent resources and information to support collaboration and understanding between all members of the Lauriston community.  

1. Set aside a regular time in the fortnight to work on it. This meant I had a regular set aside time and headspace to work on it. 
2. Avoid submitting things you have already developed - I enjoyed applying myself to a task that I may have already had developed resources for  but looking at it in new ways. And it meant that hour I had set aside could be used to work on it as well - developing resources and learning in the MOOC = winning. 
3. The videos are handy for explaining concepts for both peers and students. You can access the links for every video on Youtube. The one on the left is simple yet accessible for students and staff about which graph, when. 

Ted Talk by Anant Agarwal - Why massively open courses still matter