Digital Fluency Intensive - Session Three

 Today's session focused on the element of the "Learn Create Share" model that I am most excited about to take on in my journey teaching primary - CREATE!

We started today's session with some reflections of last weeks session; how our workflow has changed, and how it has helped us. 

Links to emails for efficient organisation of calendar as well

Helps to keep things organised by topic.

Google Draw

Google Draw is such a useful tool for allowing kids to be creative in a number of ways. Creating infographics, as well as presenting information in a visually creative way. Using Google Drawing to help create buttons, and banners for Class sites to make navigating pages easier for students, as well as create visually interesting and engaging pages for students.

Check out the sweet ride I created using the Polyline, and curved lines tool, as well as a small infographic about me!

Hapara

Using Hapara is a way of making student’s learning visible for us, as long as things are filed in the right folders. Emphasise the importance of filing student’s work in the correct place.

Media

Media plays such an important role in modern learning environments; we have so many different ways to empower students to create and share their ideas with others; making sure they have the opportunity to share their learning through a variety of different mediums. 

Using their chromebooks is a ready made studio where students can record video, audio, and take still images. Green screen applications will give students the ability to create videos with different backgrounds and interesting effects.

Podcasting is another great tool to look at for reciprocal reading; potentially used post-RR sessions to reflect and share their collective ideas in a less structured way (allowing for more open conversations?)

Youtube

Youtube is a tool to be used with caution - kids are not to set up accounts, but I can use it to curate playlists of useful videos, music for kids or myself to work with, and saves you having to search through videos again to find useful ones, which can be a big time saver in the long run.

Slides

Slides are a tool I have become very familiar with in my teaching journey, a wonderful tool which allows for a huge variety in uses, for both presenting information, navigating learning, and for students to present their work in ways which is engaging and interesting. The pick-a-path session was particularly interesting as it opens a whole new world for creating narratives, and making quizzes for each other in interesting and new ways. I started with a quiz format as a trial, which you can check out below, but stay tuned to this blog to see how my adventures in creating narratives go!