Designing with Tinkercad

Liam and Kobe are Year 9 studenst at Greymouth High, part of our Toki Pounamu cluster on the West Coast.  During term 4 Liam and Kobe have been learning about Robotics.  On their individual blogs Liam and Kobe have written quality blogposts sharing what they have been doing as part of their Robotics learning.  Liam and Kobe explain the learning that they needed to do, the processes they went through and reflections on their learning.  Both Liam and Kobe have used Screencastify to share their Tikercad projects where they has created a Mars Lander as part of their learning process.    Great blogposts to unpack Learn, Create, Share as part of the Digital Technologies|Hangaru Matihiko curriculum.   You can also see by watching their Screencastify videos the various curriculum links that Tinkercad crosses over.  Some incredible maths learning happening as well as problem solving, design and innovative thinking and persistence.

The Power of Student Voice - Sharing Important Messages

The Year 5/6 learners at Papakura Central School have been working in small groups to put together their creative and powerful messages to stop verbal bullying.  They have collated what they have done in their groups and come up with a whole class collaboration.  Incredible messages and great team work Room 7 learners.   Head on over to their class blog and be inspired by their work.  A great blogpost to share with other learners and inspire them to share their important messages in powerful ways.

Link to Class Blog

Credit +Marissa Paniora, Jordan and the students of Room 7

Introducing Activity using Powtoon

Sally Chatfield is a Year 5/6 teacher at Kawakawa School.  Sally has been experimenting with using Powtoons to introduce activities for the day.  A great example of making learning accessible and rewindable for all.

Sally has used the power of the Google + Community to share her idea and encourage other teachers throughout the cluster to give it a go.

Sally's Learning Site
Sally's class Blog
Credit - + Sally Chatfield

Bush Survival - Using Kahoot to Create a DLO

Emily is a Year 8 student at Yaldhurst Model School.  As part of the William Pike Challenge, Emily had to spend a day learning how to survive in the woods.  Emily had to create a Digital Learning Object to share her learning.  In her blogpost Emily tells us about how she chose to present her learning through creating a Kahoot Quiz for other students in her class.  One problem Emily came across was when it came to sharing her Kahoot Quiz on her blog.  As Emily had signed up for Kahoot under her email/password it recognised that she was under 16.  Kahoots policy doesn't allow users under 16 to make their Kahoots public.  Good to remember if you are wanting to use Kahoot within your learning environment.  An idea maybe to set up an account under a room email address.   Emily was happy for me to use some screenshots of her Kahoot so you can read her questions and see if you are able to find the right answers.

Coding with Scratch Junior

Karen Belt and her year 3 learners at Pt England School have been exploring coding with the Scratch Jnr App on their iPads.  They used Scratch Jnr as a tool to share the stories they had written in a creative way.  The students drew the backgrounds and characters for their stories and set about coding their stories!  Check out their coding and their stories on their class blog.  You can also scroll through their individual blogs to see more of their coding creations.  Great examples of coding with our early learners in an authentic way.  A good post to share with junior teachers utilising iPads to support learning.

Credit - +Karen Belt 

Math Strategy Challenges

Teachers at Hay Park School have introduced math strategy challenges as part of their learning. The challenge for each student is to choose a math problem from a list and to create a multi-modal presentation about the best maths strategy that could be used to solve the problem.

Game on!

Gargee, Paris and Kanishka are Year 4 students in Setoga Class.  They have used their digital skills to create a game using Google Drawing.  You will see by checking out their game, they have also used their skills in Screencastify to explain the game and their strategy in a visual way.



You can also check out Jay's presentation that he delivered to his class and hear the feedback he was given throughout on his game.  This presentation has been shared on their class blog.

These are great examples of getting creative in math learning in designing high quality digital learning objects to share.

Credit - +Christina Fortes +Phil Margetts

Fai malaga - The Journey

Izac, Toma and Collin, Year 8 students in Room 3 at Pt England School, have created an incredible Digital Learning Object to share a very special part of their learning journey at Pt England School.  Fai malaga means to make a journey and in this animation/video clip, Izac, Toma and Collin talk us through the way their ancestors used the stars to navigate their waka.  We then get a glimpse of the 'stars' that have navigated them through their years at school.  A very powerful and Digital Learning Object that shows the creativity and innovation of our Manaiakalani learners.

Credit - +Andrea Tele'a

Creating Digital Learning Objects - Measurement and Volume

Jessie and Abby are students in Ruma Rua at Kaniere School, part of the Toki Ponamu cluster on the West Coast.  They have been learning about measurement and volume and have created a digital learning object to share their learning with others on their class blog.  This is a great example of sharing math learning in a creative way and would be good to share with both teachers and learners new to a 1-1 learning environment.  This example can support thinking and inspire others as they explore how to be creative in making digital learning objects.

Credit - +Jenny Barrow 

Let's go on Tour - Visible Teaching

In this blogpost, Karen Ferguson, a Design and Visual Communication teacher at Tamaki College, takes you on a tour of her class learning site.  A great example to share with Secondary School teachers for inspiration and to build their understanding around the why, how and what of a Visible Teaching Site.  This would also be useful for parents/whānau to develop their knowledge of utilising their child's class learning site as a window into their learning and assessments.

Learning about Direction and Angles through Coding

Room 7 students at Pt England School have been lucky enough to trial Sphero to support their math learning.  They have been learning about directions and angles through coding using an iPad app called 'Lightning Lab.'  Check out the video they have created and shared on their class blog that shows Sphero and their learning in action.  Love the mathematical conversations between students throughout video. A great way to get creative and collaborative with math learning.

Credit - Hannah West, Kent Sommerville

Making Teaching and Learning Visible - An online CV

Clarelle Davis is a beginning teacher at Pt England School.  During 2016 Clarelle has been part of the Manaiakalani Digital Teacher Academy.  As part of finishing the year in the MDTA each participant had the challenge of creating a CV page to share their learning.  Clarelle has created a Google Site to make her year totally visible and accessible to others.  Clarelle has used a very multi-modal approach to share her learning and on her Google Site you can listen to videos of Clarelle introducing herself and sharing her reflections of the year.  You can follow links to both her class blog and her inquiry blog as well as check out the Google Sites she has built to support learning throughout the year.   This 'CV' is a brilliant example to share with all teachers, beginning and experienced, to provide inspiration as they move into a 1-1 digital learning environment and/or continue their journey through the pedagogy of Learn, Create, Share.

Preserving Meat - 'How to' by Park Estate School

Room 10 at Park Estate School have been learning about what life was like without electricity.  As part of their learning the decided that preserving meat must have been quite hard.  They had a go at making their own dried meat and tasting it.  They have shared their learning, their stories and even the recipe through Google Slides on their class blog.  A great way of presenting learning on the blog that shows the learn, create, share process of an inquiry.

Credit - +Alida Maritz 

Creating Companies @ Lake Brunner School

Over the past two terms, Ruma J at Lake Brunner School have been taking part in the online learning site - Banqer.co - 'Bringing financial education to life in your class.'   As part of this learning they created a class economy.  Each learners had to establish their own companies (individually or collaboratively) that offered a service to the class or school community to earn an income.  Their companies included a variety of services such as cleaning the windows, sweeping stones, headphone cord untangling, collecting sports bins from the playground, as their teacher Sarah said 'you name it, someone does it!'  Sarah went on to explain

Once companies were established we did some learning about the different forms of advertising and the purpose of advertising. We investigated further into logos to find out what made them effective and memorable, learning more about the power of colour etc,  then they created own using whatever tool they wished-digitally or by hand. If you click on each logo it will go to their individual blog where they explain their logo.

Check out their class blog to see the logos they created and and explanation of their logo.

Flipping Water Bottles - Turning a Craze into Learning

Hunter and Gus are two students from Rimu Class at Yaldhurst Model School who are certainly skilled in flipping water bottles!  Full credit to their teacher +Ruth Blair, who has taken this latest craze and turned into a learning opportunity.  Ruth has encouraged Hunter and Gus to share their learning in a creative way.  The boys have taken on this challenge and produced an incredible video sharing their expertise.  This has been shared on their class blog and has been receiving great comments from learners across New Zealand.  A great example of Learn, Create, Share and the multiple ways learners can share their expertise.  Imagine the learning and team work that happened for Gus and Hunter throughout this process.   Make sure you leave them a comment on their class blog.

Credit - Ruth Blair, Gus and Hunter

RESPECT - A rap by Waikowhai Primary School

For the Year 5 and 6 students in Room 7 at Waikowhai Primary, respect is an important part of learning.  They have been thinking about what it takes to have respect for themselves as well as others.  You will see on their class blog the process they have gone through to develop their understanding around RESPECT.  They have shared their learning in a very creative way!  I am sure this will make everyone sit up and listen.  Check out the video that they have created of them performing their RESPECT rap.  This is a great example of presenting learning in different ways and shows the opportunities the students have had with 'respect' to our pedagogy of Learn, Create, Share.

http://wpsross.blogspot.co.nz/2016/09/r-e-s-p-e-c-t.html

Credit - Steve Ross

Learning Te Reo Māori Creatively

Year 5 and 6 Students at Tautoro School, part of the Kaikohekohe Cluster, have been exploring using the green screening app to enhance their learning of Te Reo Māori.  There recent learning has focused around knowing the Te Reo Māori words for - you, he, she and I.  They have been using verbs as part of their sentence structure.  They have put together a video to share their learning.  A great way of showing their knowledge and sharing in a different way.  Check out the video on their class blog.  They have certainly showed that learning Te Reo Māori is fun!

Multi Modal Sites

The Google Drawing below links to a variety of Multi Modal Sites created by innovative teachers within the Manaiakalani cluster of schools.  These sites can be used to inspire teachers and/or can simply be used by teachers as a resource.  The Current Events site, created by Manaiakalani Digital Teacher Academy teachers, is freely available for colleagues to use. Most pages have the HTML for the page attached at the bottom of the page. 

We have offered this so that our colleagues would have a quick way of accessing our content and repurposing for their own teaching.  Help yourself!  If you would like to acknowledge using our material, send a Tweet to @clusternz or comment on our Manaiakalani Google+ Community.

'How to' post on your blog - Student Voice

Mele is a Year 6 student at Wesley Primary School, part of the Ako Hiko cluster, in Auckland.  Mele has utilised Screencastify to create a step by step tutorial on how to post to your blog.  In this example, Mele is embedding a Google Drawing onto her blog.  Mele also shares her expertise on changing HTML to get the Google Drawing the right size on the blog.  This would be a great example to share with learners/teachers new to blogging as well as those needing support with rewindable learning around the process of embedding Google Drawings.  

Head over to Mele's blog to give her a positive, thoughtful, comment on her blogpost.

Using QR Codes to Share our Learning

Room 1 and 2, a collaborative learning group of Year 3 and 4 students at Ohaeawai School,  have been learning about bees and creating Digital Learning Objects to share their learning on their individual blogs.  They have also created posters to share on their classroom walls.  They have created QR codes linking to their individual blogs and have added these to their classroom display posters.  This allows easy access for people visiting their classroom to their individual blogs.  A great idea to use in the classroom!  Head over to their class blog to read more about it and scan some of their QR codes.  The one is the picture below is scannable too.

There are many QR Code Creators and Readers available in the apps store.  This one is a scanner and generator in one.

Credit - +Alicia Craig, +Carmen Clarke

Create to Learn through film

Ruma Rima are a year 3 and 4 class at Paroa School, part of the Toki Pounamu Cluster on the West Coast.  As part of their Term 3 'Film it' focus they have collaborated on two videos.  Both videos were written and edited by the Ruma Rima learners.  In the first video clip they have shared some powerful messages through the media of film and it certainly hooks learners in.  The second video clip is very imaginative and they have used some great film making techniques such as green screening.  These video clips could be great conversation starters as well as inspirational for other learners engaged with film making.

Check out their videos on their class blog.