Learn, create and SHARE

This morning after our cohort reflected - what worked in our classroom and what hasn't worked - Dave Winters went through the Share aspect of the Manaiakalani learn, create, share pedagogy, more specifically blogging and how this has made a positive impact on the students learning.  One thing Dave mentioned was encouraging people to be a good audience, to visit another blog and leaving them a comment instead of waiting for them to come to yours.  Last year and the year before, I signed my class up for the Tuhi atu, Tuhi mai programme and fully recommend this to anyone in a digital 1:1 classroom.

I have only just started working with my students blogging and their individual blogs now, and I have been taking the slow approach to help set a solid foundation around how to write a quality reflective blog.  My fellow colleague Whaea Verbina showed me something that has been working really well in her classroom, students write their blog post in a google doc, where it is checked by the teacher before being posted on their individual blog.




I really like this for 2 reasons:

• I am able to see all of their posts in one place, &
• The students who are not confident with writing a blog post can see the other's example to help them write theirs.

For the rest of the term, I am going to make an effort to encourage my students to blog.
Whaea Toni and I spoke during our break about creating some rewindable learning resources for our tamariki, simple "how-to" videos.  At our next staff meeting, we are going to ask our senior teachers if their students are up for the challenge.

My next steps for the following week are:

• Teach my students how to be a good audience with blogger.
• Give more opportunity for the students to post to their individual blog.
• Ask our senior students to create rewindable learning videos for blogging.
• Keep working on google forms and voice typing