There are a couple of great PD opportunities coming up in the next few months. Run by Scott Barnham and his “think3” group they come highly recommended. I have attended a number of Scott’s courses over the years and have always found them greatly beneficial. He ran a great one on Apple Configurator last year.

These two courses will be run in Newcastle (which is also an added bonus) at Biddabah School at Warners Bay.

The first one is on Friday 15th May and is all about “Getting Started with Google Apps for Education”. All state and Catholic systemic schools in NSW have these activated and are a great way of working on shared iPads. The link is here http://www.think3.com.au/gettingstarted-gafe

The second one is one Friday 5th June on “iPads in Action: Apps and Activities for Creative Classrooms”.
http://www.think3.com.au/ipads-apps

Highly Recommended - so book early.

Hate the title - but generally gives people a general idea of what is happening.
I know it is short notice but next week ( Weds 25th March) I will be doing an iPad morning session at St Johns Lambton. This will be a "admin" session and fairly simple stuff - but if you think it might be useful and you have the time please come along. It will be fairly informal - so if you just want to come for a coffee - drop in. Everyone is welcome. The session will only be an hour running from 7:15 until 8:15. The aspects covered will be

• setting up your mail & calendar
  
• Classroom mirroring of IPads through Apple TV and AirServer
  
• Connecting to school server or other file storage (in other words - other computers)
  
• Running flash programs on the iPad
  
• A quick look at Google Apps for Education ( if time allows)
  

Anything else that people want to talk about , share or discuss.
If you have kids to drop off etc - they are welcome to use our library while we are going through our session.
Apologies for people who find the time awkward - but I am running these sessions for my own staff and thought I would open it to all - in case someone wishes to come. 

When:    Weds 25th March
Time:      7:15am (or when you can get there) - will finish by 8:15 (latest)
Where:  St John's Dickson St Lambton (in the Library)

Welcome back for 2015. I hope everybody is up and running for the new school year. There are a number of PD programs coming up - which I will keep you informed about.
I also hope to get our "face to face" sessions up and running again. At present I am running a few "breakfast" sessions for staff - if anyone is interested - contact me and I will let you know when.