Media and Connectivity

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This morning we had a classic example of how while technology is amazing and allows us to do things that we have never been able to do before, sometimes being in the room is still the ultimate in connectivity. Dorothy talked to us about how being connected as a learning community (particularly the inter school networks which have been created, as well as that with school and whānau) makes us stronger in terms of learning and sharing. This was illustrated perfectly to me last week when I went home after DFI and attended Marc Gibson's Toolkit about Flexible Learning Groups.


The ability of us all to contribute to common knowledge creates advantages for us as teaching professionals but more importantly, for our learners. Unfortunate technical issues, including a fire alarm at Point England School meant that Dorothy's contact with us this morning was limited, luckily Kent was able to pick up the presentation well!

I haven't really had a lot of experience with You Tube other than searching, watching and including clips in resources. So the learning we did today around creating playlists and how the power of live feeds and creating your own content was a large amount of new learning. I am inspired by how Point England are able to connect with an audience by creating live feeds which become part of their collection of resources that they can look back on. It would be fantastic for our school to be able to start using You Tube and filming things for both our community and for ourselves.


We worked on Google Draw and Google Slides and learned new ways to make use of these in the classroom such as doing Pick a Path stories on Slides. Below is my (unfinished) example. I'd like to do some more practice with creating drawings on Draw and utilising these with animations in slides.



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