The ramblings of a NetNZ eDean 2017

Term two..... Is often the time that the cracks start to show. Internal assessments are on the go and some students can get stuck for a whole variety of reasons. So this week I've contacted several eTeachers about students I've been feeling a little worried about. As a result I've: found out that one of my girls is too shy to speak on the hangout- she feels she's "dumb" compared to the other students and even worse she is too  embarrassed to put her work on the community or even share it with the teacher. I showed her how to share a document with only her teacher and assured her it was fine to share work before it became a final product. I contacted her teacher- who was also concerned- and he is going to have a chat to her individually to see what help she needs. I've asked her to give me feedback regularly over the next few weeks and to let me know if she needs to have help from one of our school teachers. I'm so pleased I checked on this be...

Where has the term gone?........ In the life of an eDean Term One is always crazy: There are enrolments to do- each one taking at least an hour of my time when you include talking to the students, consulting the deans, processing the enrolment and then setting up the student with their individual course needs. This year I did 45 enrolments and I've already had to change three of these. There are spreadsheets and rolls to organise and teachers to consult. All the students need help with their first couple of hangout lessons A lot of time is spent getting to know the students and helping them get started in their courses. This is so important, they are more likely to ask for help if they know you and realise you are expecting their questions.  There are many differing request from eTeachers to follow up on- including ordering text books and  supervising internals There are course mark books to set up and standards to check There are reports to write and process ...

netnz.org This week I have been: Following up on students who hadn't answered my three questions and fixing some issues for students who pointed them out- mostly things like formatting documents, bell times, time management Promoting the NetNZ survey Sorting out issues with the VC software on the PC Organising an assessment for L3 Eco Organising for a student to stay in her course even though she is going to Japan Meeting with the principal to update him on our Online students and the progress of our Deeper Support group- he is interested in looking at the resource from Guy Claxton we are using Spending time with several students who are worrying me- they showed me their course work, explained what they are having trouble with and we talked about some options Talked to an in school teacher about the stress levels of an online student who has to miss one class a week Sorting out the Online mark books with the person in our school who organises them Finishing the MOU...