Our Acceptable Use of Technologies Agreement

Digital Citizenship runs through everything we do. We continuously come back to our Technology Agreement and break down what each part means. Our use of technology principles is to enhance learning, not substitute. It sits inside a whole child, fully balanced curriculum with Positive Education/ Wellbeing at the core.

NetSafe defines a Digital Citizen as someone who:

• is a confident and capable user of ICT
• uses technologies to participate in educational, cultural, and economic activities
• uses and develops critical thinking skills in cyberspace
• is literate in the language, symbols, and texts of digital technologies
• is aware of ICT challenges and can manage them effectively
• uses ICT to relate to others in positive, meaningful ways
• demonstrates honesty and integrity and ethical behaviour in their use of ICT
• respects the concepts of privacy and freedom of speech in a digital world
• contributes and actively promotes the values of digital citizenship.

Positive Health: These students are looking after themselves by looking after their bodies (their backs) while they work together online. We limit the amount of screen time and spend lots of time moving around. 

Positive Relationships: These students are working collaboratively to create. 

Positive Purpose: Our students have been working hard to develop systems to keep the technology safe and charged.

Minecraft Eco-House Competition Winner... Alex G!

Some of our students entered a Minecraft Competition run by Interface. All of our entries were awesome and thank you to the ICT student council for organising this at Worser Bay School. 

And the winner of the Primary (Year 1-6) is... Alex G!  

See: Minecraft Marvels on Interface

This is a movie of the winning Eco House: 

My house is a hay bail house and it's also a small house.

This is my house I have solar panels, wheat farm, windmill, clay floors and a vege garden.

It is a hay bail house because it insulates my house the hay has come from ground.

I have designed this house so the windows are facing the sun meaning I dont need my lights on all the time and the house stays warm. (solar gain)

I have clay floors because it is a natural material and if there was a sunny day and a cold night it would make the house warmer because it sucks in the heat and then it pushes the heat into the house.

The rain comes off the roof and then it gets caught and then it gets used for water in the house.

The house is orientated towards the sun and it uses the energy to heat the house.

My solar panels are on the roof and they use the energy of the sun to charge the panels and this gives me power to use my lights and to heat my water.

I also have a fire to heat my home and to also help heat my water and use sticks and wood from my tree plantation.

My wheat and vege garden help produce food to eat and to feed to my animals so I can get more of them.

My windmill will also generate power for my house.

I have used timber on my house from my tree plantation.

I have a stone wall that will keep the heat in.  

I have glass walls so that the heat from the sun comes in to heat the house.

Windy Wellington Film

Zach, Thomas and Lucas were on the movie team for our Arts Celebration. They did a wonderful job putting this movie together. On the night they provided popcorn for the movie screenings.

Digital Technologies Crew

All of our senior students are involved in the student council. These guys have chosen to be part of the Digital Technologies Crew. They want to help younger students, become experts, talk to other schools and set up a roster for looking after our devices. Great taking action!

ICT Afternoon Group

In the ICT afternoon group, we have been exploring different apps on the iPad. Today we used imovie, imovie trailer and pic collage to display our collaborative group work.

Our disaster posters: As a group, we had to think of a disaster and how we would escape from that place. We had to think about objects that we might need.

This is what we came up with...