It began with the Manaiakalani story which is a powerful reminder of why we work to provide our students with a digital learning environment in which they can "Learn, Create, Share". Dorothy's presentation on the Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy showed us that so much has been achieved over a short space of time and as we look at the philosophy behind the story we can see that communities and teachers have worked together to make ideas come to fruition.
When using Goggle documents we were reminded to label, organise, date and file work properly. This applies as much to our private planning and organisation as to getting children to do this. Taking time at the beginning of the year to teach these skills to the whole class as part of the Kawa of Care is a good suggestion.
Learning how to use new tools in Goggle documents such as a table of contents and headings will be useful in planning and presentations. The method of making the headings linked to a document creates a searchable table of contents. In the break out time we were able to work in smaller groups and revisit this going at our pace and asking any questions which arose. This gave you confidence when we put the learning to use immediately to create a poster and having help to guide you through the steps if you needed it was very useful.
During a discussion on voice text I could immediately see possibilities to use in my Year 1 class for both reading and writing activities on their iPads. Khismira and I discussed possible ways that we could use this for getting the children to publish their writing by having the story "typed" as they read it. It would also make them aware of punctuation as they need to say "full stop". They could then take a photo of their picture if they had already done one in their book or draw a picture to match their work and then save it to their Drive to be put on their blog at a later time. In the reading EE's that we use, there is a section that the children need to write words from the text. The children who find difficulty writing often find this tiresome as it requires them to transfer words from the text but the idea of using voice text and checking if is correct might overcome this. The use of a clear voice and the idea of recording might help some children actually finish their work.
Hi Susan, I am so pleased you have the opportunity to be part of the DFI this round. IT is great that you and Khismira are attending together and able to bounce ideas of each other and plan together. With Trish eager to try things too I can see your team humming along even faster!
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