Collaborative Reasoning

Here is the PHS staff collaborative reasoning around the Mellinarks texts. It is very interesting to listen to as individuals state their case with their reasons and listen to the opinions and reasons of others. One of the teachers changed her mind about which figures are Mellinarks and others didn't. This conversation was between six people, I'm thinking how would it go with 26? That may be difficult, so smaller groups could be a better way to approach this kind of activity.

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Using Google My Maps

I had a really great time with three classes showing teachers and students how to place a pin on a shared map and then writing smart information and posting good images. This was done in the context of smart digital footprint.

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Kootuitui unconference 2018

The Kootuitui leaders and I organised this year's unconference. It was very good to work together as a team to get the elements together - workshops, kahoot, prizes, organisation. We also had some outside presenters which was good, although we need to remember to tell them that we work in Google not Microsoft.
I did a short workshop on 7 Top Tips for Google Drive, which was a practice run for ULearn, as I have submitted a workshop on 10 Top Tips for Google Drive and have yet to hear whether it's been selected.

Here is also a photo of a few of my attendees after my session.

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Staff meeting term 2 2018

The term 2 staff meeting has been focussed on the subject of 'create'. I asked each Kootuitui school leader if they would like to meet with me before the meeting to go through the content and adjust for the school's specific needs. I really like to have the opportunity to use 'ako' as I don't want to be the person who is always 'delivering' the content. I have asked leaders whether they would like to co-facilitate but that has not been taken up - yet.
This staff meeting is not all about digital, but has major elements of create which are focused on using hands, eyes, paper, pens, scissors, glue etc. It is good to be embracing create outside of digital. This was proven worthwhile when one school had a powercut on the day of the staff meeting and we couldn't use devices.

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Ko Au

During term 1 I have been teaching digital footprint in classes. Part of this was to ask students to write an introduction about themselves for their blog. This would be a smart piece of writing in that they wouldn't use any information that should not be shared online.
I started this with my year 3-4 classes in two schools and then decided to use it with the year 5-6 classes in some schools. When I thought about Kereru Park, I considered that many students there could speak Te Reo quite well and might prefer to write this in Māori. I mentioned it to Jason and he gave me the phrases on slide 2. Then, I went to class and asked the teacher, Whaea Horiana to help me with the correct phrases in Te Reo for slides 1 and 3 and this is the result.

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