Maui's Barb a blog by Sara Plunkett.

I must swim to the ocean floor to discover the depth of my practice. Just like Tane climbed the steps to the heavens to gain the three baskets of knowledge, I must delve deeper into my practice, and descend five levels of reflection. (Finlay, 2008). Okains Bay 2017 1 - Rapid reflection - On rapid reflection I previously mentioned that my communities of practice were the MindLab community at my school, and my visual arts cluster group. For me they seemed to fit with the three criteria for Communities of Practice in that they both had 'joint enterprise, mutual engagement and shared repertoire' (Wenger, 2000). Our MindLab community was delivering some PD with the staff. This was voluntary, we had picked up on an issue and decided we could address it if we worked together the three areas we had were: Domain: Interested in our school use of digital technologies and the impacts on students. Community: We had begun to work together voluntarily as a spin off from studyin...

Kia ora, A seaweed circle protecting the nest of an oyster catcher (torea-pango) at Okains Bay Jan 2017. Well the beginning of the last paper for Mindlab has arrived. I have been reading about reflective practices and communities of learning. I started this blog right at the beginning of the Mindlab journey and have made a few posts along the way. After getting lost in all the course work and assignments along with balancing school and home I have realised that the Mindlab has helped me to discover something quite special. We have developed a Mindlab Community of Learning at our school.  For the first 16 weeks we had to travel from Oamaru to Dunedin every Thursday night. We found that the best thing about this was the car ride. Here we could discuss the weeks readings, share our ideas and on the way back develop plans for change in our school. When it got hard we were able to offer support to each other. This week we are helping to run some PD with our staff on integrat...