It's all about the media and creating!

Google Hangout

Another day of intensive learning.  My first Google Hangout for the day was with presenter Anne Sinclair.  She discussed 'empowering children through create'.

One of the foundation goals of the Manaiakalani programme is to motivate our learners to engage with the curriculum,' it is a driver for engagement.

Our society is currently experiencing a lot of change - with the onset and pace of the Coronavirus disease.  Using Google hangout will enable us to communicate safely and effectively face to face through this online digital tool.  In my role as Learning Support Coordinator this enable me to communicate with whanau, and teachers.

Create - What is Create?  Create is a 'doing word'

Empowering through...

• Choice

• Developing skills

• Building capacity

• Scaffolding

The are ideas and activities that are novel, creative - 'playfully creative.'  All these experiences are highly metacognitive activities.

Live Streaming 

Presenter: Kent Somerville

Phew!  Kent presented how to live stream using U-Tube.  He talked about the three sides to U-Tube - consumer, create live stream and create a studio.

I will be doing a deep dive and rewinding my learning with live streaming.

Kent showed me how to create a playlist from U-tube.  This would be very valuable to have learning clips saved for quick access... e.g. mathematical concepts and strategies.  Within my role I could be sharing autism behaviours and strategies with colleagues.  

Google Drawing

Presenter: Aimee Williams

Google drawing can be use to develop students and teachers creativity with animations, drawings, mindmaps, formating and developing schoolwide reporting... the list was endless.  This digital tool can be used in all areas of role.  This would be a great tool to show a flow chart of my role and links with agencies, teachers, students and whanau.

Google Slides

Presenter: Maria Krausse

This presentation highlighted that Google slide was not just for the use of presentations.  Slides can be used to create learning experiences through animation.  Creating my own animation was at first daunting but by taking a risk I found it was a fun and rewarding learning experience.