July 2008 Due to attend Adobe Educational Leaders global conference in San Francisco.

June 2008 Presented two workshops at Waimarino ICTPD cluster mini-conference in Tauranga. One on Embedding ICT into classroom practice, the other on podcasting.

June 2008 Attended Adobe Educational Leadership Meet-up in Sydney, Australia- learning more about the role of an AEL. Received Adobe Creative Master Suite3 and a Wacom Intuos 3 tablet to use and becpme more familiar with- part of the Adobe family.

March 2008 Presented two workshops on blogging at Blenheim ICTPD cluster mini-conference.

February 2008 Offered Adobe Educational Leadership role

January 2008 Accepted position of ICT Facilitator for Discover IT Tasman ICTPD cluster.

December2007-March 2008 Participated as an ‘expert voice’ in Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach and Will Richardson’s Personal Learning Network professional development opportunity with a cohort of American educators.

February 2007 Accepted as an Adobe Educational Leader- an incredible opportunity to make connections with educators from around the globe and become more knowledgeable about a widely used range of software options.

February 2008Lead a group of nine teachers to Learning at School ICT conference in Rotorua. Able to participate in a variety of workshops to better assist me in my new role.

February 2008 Took a year’s leave from Appleby School to act as ICT Facilitator for Discover IT Tasman ICTPD Cluster based at Motueka High School.

3-5 October 2007 Participation and contribution to ULearn 2007 - presented two workshops- one on adding Bling to your Blog and the other on Connecting globally with podcasting.

16 September 2007 Participated in an Elluminate workshop with Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach at the Shanghai Learning 2.0 Conference. Session focussed on how to create a classroom learning ecology where teachers and students learn from each other and content experts from around the world.

14 September 2007 led a podcasting workshop at Brightwater School with our local Waimea South ICTPD cluster.

13 September 2007 Lead a workshop session with Waimea South ICT Cluster on adding features to blogs using a blog www.bling4yrblog.blogspot.com created especially for the purpose.

3 September 2007 Attended a live workshop on podcasting with Joe Dale presenting at PodcampUK in Birmingham UK via video link.

21 August 2007 Added a cluster map to this blog- received 700+ hits in twenty days from all over the globe showing just how incredible on-line networking is.

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August 2007 Part of the blind peer-review team for the K12 Online worldwide Conference. The blind peer-review team was a world-wide collaboration of Web2.0 educators to select presentations from nominations for the conference.

July 15 2007 Called on to lead one branch of a cross-continental event where educators in NZ, Australia and USA linked via Skype to talk about their practice and how they use Web2.o technologies.

5 June 2007 Our Skype conversation with America’s Cup athlete, Rob Waddell, televised on TVNZ national news needing television crews to co-ordinate in Nelson and Valencia, Spain.

28 May- June 8 July 2007 participated in keynote presentation by Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach and presented a workshop at TimeOnline Conference via on-line Teacher Tube video ‘One Woman’s Wanderings with Web2.o‘

April 20 2007 Dr David Whitehead PD day- developing future focussed literate thinkers.

April 2 2007 with Jill Eggleton ‘Lighting the Literacy Fire‘ -education is not about filling the pail but of lighting the fire.

Jan-April 2007 Using Tapped In I acted as guest lecturer at College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, mentoring pre-service teachers learning to use 21st century learning and teaching tools.

28 March 2007 Learning how to use Access-It 8 the new version of Library Accessioning Software.

18 March 2007 Lead a workshop at the TUANZ Conference (Telecommunications Users Association of New Zealand). Workshop chronicled extra features you can use when blogging.

2 March 2007 Presented a workshop at Learning at School Conference in Rotorua on podcasting. I also managed to spend a short time with David Warlick- creator of Blogmeister Blogs and Web2.0 evangelist.