Uru Manuka PLG for Manaiakalani

Uru Manuka PLG Friday week 4

Every term I am fortunate to attend a PLG for Manaiakalani with other lead teachers in the Uru Manuka cluster. This Session we spent looking at Five dysfunctions of a team (which is a book about leading others and how to work together), knowing our learners and the majority of the day was spent on Multi modal reading (what it looks like, how to achieve it and the impact it has on our learners when we get it right!).

I have copied the relevant slides about Multi Modal Reading as a way to use UDL from the presentation to show you the main pointers that I came away with from the day.

I came away from the session with a bit of a buzz. This way of teaching Reading creates a large opportunity for students to learn in other curriculum areas, by using reading strategies to unpack ideas in science, social students and even the arts. In a packed curriculum this makes a huge amount of sense to me. Also, it is a cool way to teach to students interests! It is time consuming to create (for sure), but when we have a bank to share from I can see how far we can get!

Ehara taku toa i te toa takitahi, engari he toa takitini ke.

My strength does not come from me alone but also from others. (Cooperation of many can bring best results).
It is important to note that text in this model is anything that conveys a message i.e. audio, video, visual, written form. Also that you need around 4-6 texts per subject.

Another good thing to look at when we are designing L.O.'s are the words in the foundation document for Learn, Create and Share.

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I am looking forward to our school session on this in week 6 - and can not wait to get stuck in to this for next year! 

Matific - Kelsey

Last week while I was off… I met with the Matific guru Inba to secure a free month on Matific for my math class.

The program is super easy to use, links to curriculum and from what I am seeing the students are in love with it! They are going on it at home and are motivated to get the top number of stars for each learning game they are playing.

This is what the students see when they log on:

I love the language of math missions and the layout is clear and easy to follow - students are not overwhelmed with what activity to chose or spend learning time deciding what to go on. They also collect monster cards when they have achieved a number of points - a sort of reward program within the game.

The episodes are colourful and interactive. The programing is easy and up to date digitally (knowing what I know from my UI/UX design partner). It has won a number of awards for visionary pedagogy and best practice. Also, you can send home reports to parents and assign homework and school work on awesome islands.

Here is an overview of the program:

The thing that I love most about it is that you can preview the episodes before assigning them to the students. This way you can see exactly what the students will be doing and therefore what they will learn or practise through the episode.

Here is a link so that you can have a free trial and play with the program.

https://www.matific.com/nz/en-nz/resources

Hornby Lead Teachers PLG

Friday 10th June

Hornby Lead Teachers PLG

Every term in week 6 I attend a PLG for Manaiakalani. This is such a great chance to talk with others in our cluster about what they are doing in their schools and how everything is going.

The first thing we did was watch a video about an adaptable mind. This was really inspirational - it made me think about the values we are teaching in our school and it also gave me some hope for our students future. It is nice to think that we will never be fully replaced by technology and human traits are becoming more and more important as we develop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=937iCwJd3fI

We talked about our online support person Tania Coutts and that all members of our school have access to her. I will show you how to get in contact if you would like, let me know. She is there to help support us with our tasks for students or if we have any questions.

I also signed up my class to Tuhi Mai Tuhi Atu which means write to me write to others. Hopefully this will help get our blog posts looked at and give us the chance to see what else is happening in our cluster and around new zealand with learning.

We then talked about the SAMR model and how this is useful for our students and the learn, create, share model. A good idea from this was to use it in inquiry as a bit of a model.

Mark then introduced to us to a couple of resources.

A very cool Current Events page made by teachers in the MDTA program. This is linked to year levels and provides a very cool learning task for students

https://sites.google.com/a/manaiakalani.org/currentevents/

And the Manaiakalani Google class on air - which is where you can go and watch teachers teaching in their class - modelling, warts and all (as Mark said). I am so keen to spend some time watching these and getting ideas!

https://sites.google.com/a/manaiakalani.org/manaiakalani---google-class-onair/

Then we worked on explaining SISOMO through DLTools.

Here are some ideas on tools to use and explore

• Picktochart
• Powtoon
• Screencastify
• Google Drawing
• Mind Mup
• Thing link
• Prezi
• Build with chrome - lego
• Voki

I did mine on mindmup

These were shared to the google plus community - Hornby cluster under learn, create, share.

We then watched a video from Dorothy around create! It is not just writing or making a doc. It is about things that weren't available before now. In her blog post she says “One of the foundation goals of Manaiakalani is to"motivate our learners  to engage with the curriculum" and a significant driver for engagement has been our intentional use of modern technologies to enable creativity to play a significant part in learning and teaching opportunities.”

Here is a link to her blog post and the video

http://manaiakalani.blogspot.co.nz/2015/01/create-learn-create-share-pedagogy.html

Digital Learning Objects (DLO)

AMAZING tools

PRESENTATION Google Slides Kahoot MyMaps Lucid press Canva Newspaper Clipping Generator TimeLine Hstry - Interactive Timelines Voki	VIDEO RECORD SnagIt Movenote Wevideo Screencastify Youtube Capture Stop Motion Animator Google Slides (animate) Stupeflix	MUSIC & AUDIO Incredibox (Music) Simple Audio Recorder (extension) saves audio as a wave file Soundtrap - freemium Voki - no sign in needed Online Voice Recorder - record and save to chromebook/drive	GRAPHIC ORGANISERS Bubbl.us (Brainstorm) Padlet ABCYa - Word Cloud Tagul - Word Cloud Trello ThingLink Piktochart Tag Cloud generator - Word Cloud Blendspace Flipsnack Bundlr Mindmup
DRAW Google Drawing Flaticon Gimp Pixlr InspirARTion Piskel Desmos (Graphing)	CREATIVE WRITING Booktrack Storyboard That Powtoon WriteAbout	COMPUTATIONAL THINKING Scratch Tynker Geogebra Thimble	3-D DESIGN Tinkercad Onshape - Secondary Scratch - 3D animation Cyberix 3D

If you want to know the background to Manaiakalani watch edtalk video by Pat Snedden. Well worth the hour long watch.

http://edtalks.org/video/transformational-journey-improve-student-achievement

Digi awards next term - should we be doing this… is there just too much on at the moment? Something interesting to think about and do… Do our students have enough tools to perform? Would it be good for them to be involved so that they can see what other schools are doing?

The topic this year is “Be The Change!” - it could be anything a photo or slide or video or more! So much learning! Can do it in groups!