Taipa Wednesday!!

What a blessing to finally admit that I feel more digitally empowered, and more positive about my digital abilities than 6 weeks ago.  To have one of your difficult teenage students tell you:  "mama Afrika, you are my hero" because you've posted a video of you doing the homework problem, and they could  relate and understand after listening to the video, pausing and trying it...YAY!

Wednesday 13 June:

Learning for the day:

School connected because we all belong together...schools are standing together with this common goal. Lots of opportunities to “belong” together and to share with each other because of this common goal. 22 000 plus learners...all with this common goal. Have a shared language and we all paddle in the same direction. Impact on learning, and we all know what it is that we focus on….why and how. The visible nature of learning keeps us connected. We are all talking about the same “things”...share about being cybersmart, support and connections!!

Focus for the term:

Term 1:  earn

Term 2:  create

Term 3: share

Term 4:  learn, create and share

Toolkit: Face to face opportunity, to “learn” from others. Engage with Manaiakalani Site. At a cluster level, connect with others. We will soon have a cluster Up North.


Sites: If you want to “take” something from another teacher’s site, it is nice to send an email when you want to “borrow” something ...It opens a conversation, and a network connection. Usually when it is there, you may use it, but it is polite to just communicate with the “owner” of the site.

Tweet and Blogs: Tweeting and blogging are ways to connect with each other and to share learning.

Quad connecting: 4 classes connect to each other to comments on blogs, and blogging on other school’s blogs. Build helpful and postive comments on the class blog or learners’ blogs.

Tweeter for educational tweets:  Ed chat...worthwhile looking at :  http://www.edchatnz.com/

Google Plus community:

Learning and sharing is supported by the community.

Talk and chalk part of the morning:

Learning about google sites.

All of this helps you to put it out there for your students , for sharing their learning with them.

Why: visible and accessible learning 24/7. They can get onto their learning at any time...even when they are


bored. Rewindable learning, they can go back and watch it again, or try it again or get better at it. Each learner must have their own device. Teacher dashboard. Visible to whanau. Visible planning. Have students put goals up there as well. Who are your learners? Ask them: What is going to hook you in?

What is it going to look like?

Remember the shop window!! It is what is in the window, that will draw you into the shop. Simple is best. Keep fonts consistents...no more than two fonts.

Otherwise students will get disengaged. No more than 3 clicks to get to what they need to click on for their learning.


Buttons:

High school teachers sites:

https://sites.google.com/a/manaiakalani.org/learning-site-secondary/

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1MyaI08-CQmECRAamd4oB3409si2ajXIF7nLHKSf3gJ4/edit#slide=id.g39f0f8b93c_0_268


I made a maths site for all my students not only year 9’s...how cool is this. I am so extremely excited and so blessed to have Kerry in my life teaching me such cool things;

https://sites.google.com/boic.school.nz/sumfun-mama-afrika/home