Acrostic Poem in Te Reo and English

My professional inquiry this year is how to better use Google apps (G-Suite) to engage and motive learners - which apps provide which functions and how these can spur student creativity within Learn Create Share. That is rather than 3rd party apps that might look like they have the bells and whistles but which can be difficult to use because the free components are few or they are removed, there are issues with having to have an account, signing in etc.
So here is a piece of teaching and learning that I co-constructed with the class teacher. In the first instance, I have only used the acrostic poem part because it was quite difficult for the students to do the animation well. The expectation was that students would do two slides - the acrostic poem in Te Reo and in English. They had been working in class on the types of words that could be used, particularly the Te Reo words. Then I worked with the students to encourage their creativity with their own animated poems. The DLO above is my model which I showed to the students. I also semi-created a second identical DLO in class while I was showing students how to manage the technical aspects of using animation.
I think that the first page giphy will be useful for later in the year when the students are a little more experienced with devices.
Here are some links to the blogs of students who posted their acrostic poems online:
Nathan
Tawhiri
Vera