RKRT W2Workday - Te Manu Tuhituhi

For the next part of our hui, we began to explore Te Manu Tuhituhi which is a Maori resource aimed specifically to teach writing. We looked at the layout of the books and Whetu, our RKRT team leader discussed how it is used:

The concept of Te Manu Tuhituhi is likened to a bird when they start off, they have no feathers and cannot fly, however, the skills that they learn for writing is likened to feathers, furthermore, the more skills that they acquire, the more feathers they will have.

Purpose of the kaupapa is given. It has samples for you to use, however, it is recommended to use the text available in the Maori resource room for now.

Each page has the language features of the genre.

Each genre comes with Blackline Masters which includes a cameo and a template for your tamariki to use.

It also has suggestions for reading activities, oral language activities, topic ideas, Learning intentions for writing and spelling.  What I really like about Te Manu Tuhituhi is the holistic view that it has on teaching all components of literacy.  Today was an introduction to the rauemi, and we will need another time set aside to really go in-depth with Te Manu Tuhituhi, I have decided for now to re-look at the Learning intentions for spelling and include these into my spelling programme for Pungakupu Maori as well as Pungakupu Pakeha.

He Kura Tuhituhi Manual

Ka Oho te Manu ki te ao Tuhituhi
Ka Rere te Manu ki te ao Tuhituhi

Session eight - Making our work flow

Today we met  Gerhard Vermeulen from Ako Hiko, Auckland. His keyword for the day was Empowerment and his aim for the first half of the day was to give us the tips and tricks for improving our workflow. I was really happy that he mentioned this as I have been looking for ways to work smarter online, not harder.

Some of the tips/apps that I found useful were:

• One tab - a chrome extension that takes all of the tabs that you have open and puts them all into one space. First of all, this frees up your memory on your laptop but you don't lose that quick access to the page you are looking at.

• Organising your Gmail account - while I know about some of these settings, this was a good reminder that it might be time to check the organisation in my Gmail. Oh, and today I decided to "star" my Principal and create a filter so that I don't miss those important emails that she sends me.

• Making the most of your google calendar - I used to use Google Calendar a lot with my planning, appointments, etc but this year I have gone back using my Diary just because I still prefer having things on paper. But I have added the KEN's calendar to mine so now I'll know when all our PLG's + Toolkits are coming up.

Where to next with my workflow?

• I plan to organise my folders in my Gmail and create filters.

• Have a tutu with one tab.

Beginning my digital fluency journey

This morning we began our digital fluency course with introductions at the beautiful Taipa Area School.  I am really looking forward to working with the Northland Cohort as we grow together in Gsuite and all the other amazing things that technology has to offer.  I am also looking forward to travelling back to my old Kura - Northland College every second week.

Check out my introduction on slide 16 and click on some of the images.  It takes you to my class site, this blog page and other things my class and I do

Here are the Label's that I will be using while I have this Professional Blog.