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** Welcome to the Hume Region Netbook Project Wiki Principal's page ** **Teachers **, your page is here ..... ** Techs, ** your page is here

DOCS to support the project are here on the Key Documents page  Netbooks were successfully deployed in all 7 schools, and each term 'Elluminate' online conferences are held for Hume netbook teachers and principals. Classroom Visits and interviews with stakeholders have been conducted by Hume ultranet coaches. Support from students, teachers, principals and parents indicate that this project will be an outstanding success. 
 * Project Overview: Seven schools are participating in the Hume Netbook Project: **Acer Aspire netbooks in the hands of students 24/7.

Students will pay $1/week and own the netbook after 3 years. How the payment(s) from parents is arranged is up to Principals. Some will go for 3 x $52 payments (Feb2009/Nov2009/Oct2010) the __preferred option__ is that there is one class with every child using a netbook and taking it home at night
 * **COST:**
 * These are not intended to be a 'class set' retained by the school, **

considering a** **'lease only' to the grade 6 students and retain them in the school for more than just one year, and offering a 'lease/buy' option to the grade 5ers the following year.**
 * however in schools with Grade 5/6 classes some principals are

From a Grade 6 student point of view ... it may be unfair to ask for the netbook to be handed back at the end of the year ... if this is the case it must be made **very clear** that the option of purchase is not being offered. || ** SUPPORT : ** [|www.elluminate.com] .... then go to the Support page.
 * NETBOOK MEETINGS** ... Using Elluminate ... to set up Elluminate visit

For teachers involved in the project support has been provided by the 5 Hume Region eLearning coaches. 7 Hume Principals and all netbook teachers were invited to attend PL days provided by DEECD to support the larger trial of 10,000 netbooks deployed to Grade 5 students in 3 regions. || Principal:Kathy Petzke email Teacher: Brendan Hogan Technician:John Kent eCoach: Krystie Alleaume Initial Focus/Application: The Media || ** Baranduda PS ** - (02) 6020 8531 Principal: Jodie Grimmond email Teacher: Angela Gray Technician:John Kent eCoach:Krystie Alleaume Initial Focus/Application: Medieval Castles || Principal:Keith Gray email Teacher: Nancy Harcourt Technician:Bob Crozier eCoach: Gail Stanley Initial Focus/Application: || **Wandong PS** - (03) 5787 1232 Principal:Rhonda Cole email Teacher:Jaclyn Adams Tanya Dean Technician: David Granzow eCoach: Libby Delbridge Initial Focus/Application: Natural Disasters, digilearn and some web 2.0 tools || Principal:Anne Douglas email Teacher: De Henry Technician:David Granzow eCoach: Libby Delbridge Initial Focus/Application: || **Benalla PS** - (03) 5762 2676 Principal:Heather Leary email Teacher: Alison Schneider, Sam Hazel Technician: Justin Garlick eCoach: Priscilla Tanner & Brendan O'Brien 21st Century Classroom transformation || Principal:Steve Fernando email Teacher:Ruth Van Der Westhuysen, (Der) Technician: David Granzow eCoach:Libby Delbridge Initial Focus/Application: ||  ||
 * ** Yackandandah PS ** - (02) 6027 1431
 * **Wanganui Park SC** - (03) 5820 9900
 * **Broadford PS** - (03) 5784 1221
 * Initial Focus/Application:**
 * ** Beveridge PS ** - (03) 9745 2264

**The Principal is the key person in this project:**

There is evidence that the leading agent for and of change is the school principal. If he/she does not deem ICT to be an integral aspect of the learning and teaching framework than by default teachers will not be encouraged to explore new technologies.The conference proceedings by Serhan, D. (2005) provide an effective reflection from the principals' perspective.
 * Impact of Leadership**

//Conclusion and Recommendations for Future Research//

//‘The purpose of this study was to investigate the willingness of school principals to advocate and support the use of technology in their schools. Results of this study revealed that principals had positive attitudes toward the use of technology in teaching. Results also showed that not only were the principals willing to support the use of technology in their schools but that they were also willing to improve their knowledge, abilities and skills to facilitate the integration of the technology into the curriculum. Moreover, the results showed that the principals had learned from the workshop and that the workshop had motivated them to use new technologies in their schools.//

//**When school principals feel comfortable using the technology and realize its possible applications in education then they can help facilitate its incorporation into the curriculum**. A positive attitude starting from the school leadership can spread to the teaching faculty in the school and hence to the classroom and the students. Training workshops help raise school principals' awareness and build their confidence in their abilities to use technology and therefore facilitate its adoption as a complementing part in the curriculum.’ (pp. 2808-2812)//

Other sources also highlight the importance of **the role of the Principal**. Anderson (2005) describes Principal participation and leadership with technology as being **(is) more important than either funding or infrastructure**. Walsh (2002) discusses the critical importance of leadership to bring about the effective integration of information and communications technology. The use of the word effective is important here; we should not be satisfied just with integration of ICTs into the classroom and the curriculum but strive for and work towards __**effective**__ integration.

Serhan, D. (2005). School Principals ' Attitudes Towards the Use of <span style="-moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; background: #ffffcc 0% 50%;">Technology. In C. Crawford et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of Society for Information <span style="-moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; background: #ffffcc 0% 50%;">Technology and Teacher Education International Conference 2005 (pp. 2808-2812). Chesapeake, VA: AACE. http://www.editlib.org/INDEX.CFM?fuseaction=Reader.ViewAbstract&paper_id=19535

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Anderson, R. E., Dexter, Sara 2005, 'School Technology Leadership: An Empirical Investigation of Prevalence and Effect', //Educational Administration Quarterly,// vol. 41, no. 1, pp. 49-82

.Walsh, K. (2002), 'ICT's about learning: school leadership and the effective integration of information and communications technology', National College for School Leadership, http://www.ncsl.org.uk/media/766/91/icts-about-learning2.pdf (accessed 2 June 2008)