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There was great excitment as we entered this year with the chance of being part of the ICT cluster. By the end of May all Calton Hill Staff had logged into the ICT cluster official website and looked forward to learning new ideas. During each term Noel Matthews and myself attending the workshops run by Sarah and Richard. This helped to increase our knowledge on programmes available to use on the computer, ideas on what to do with children and computers, and web tools. The staff also attended various workshops to learn new ideas. Towards the end of term 2 we had set up our own wikispace and looked at whole school goals, classroom goals and individual goals for ITC. These were recorded on the wikispace. Term 3 I tutored the staff on the use of the wikispaces and protopages. Each staff member set up a protopage for each child in their classroom. In Sept I made my first power point and presented this to a groups of teachers about wikispaces. I introduced my classroom and homework centre to the wikispace. Term 4 saw the whole school attempt to do an inquiry based learning unit. I set up questions on protopage for students to answer from home. This was fairly successful. Each student from room 6 and 7 have had a chance to go into their protopage and try and put a widget on it. Later in the term I will be introducing Google sketch up that I learnt whilst attending a two day workshop for children. Overall it has been a busy year with lots of new information, ideas and things to try.