Creativity Empowers Learning

Staff meeting with Donna Yates our facilitator with Manaiakalani based around Creativity.

- Sharing of our digital technology learning based on creativity
- Lots of great creativity happening within PCS in the classrooms.
- Favourite for me tends to be iMovie as the students can use this to share our school values with ease.
- Next steps will be to try some animation using lego men or puppets to add to the range of digital platforms I am trialing with the students.

This is a real passion of mine.  Always allowing for creativity to expand thinking based around some good knowledge.  Students need to be empowered to take risks to be creative.  Creativity is fun for the students and the teachers and empowers LEARNING!!!

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/19bZWvWaFZ2j3S3Y2mpxIyEEuJDHyxXviOXh0sqa4g1Q/edit?ts=5b1de67d#slide=id.g365fddbe70_0_0




This image represents the entire Design, Create, Share with a focus on creativity.  It sums up each aspect of creativity!

Digital Toolbox

Had our first cluster Digital Toolbox session around Blogs/Sites last night.  Great to be in a group of supportive learners who are focused on pedagogy through the use of digital platforms.  We had the option of blogs or google sites.  My focus was Google Sites.  I am working on developing a digital curriculum for our teachers, students, whanau and community to be able to see what we are teaching in the NZ Curriculum and at Pompallier Catholic School.  The use of Google Sites is enabling transparency.  We have a commitment to providing authentic learning opportunities within the rich NZ Curriculum and this is a way forward.  This platform enables us to update the changes in the curriculum without double handling across multiple documents.  It is very much in a draft form at this stage, but the plan is to have each curriculum leader feed into this document.  I have much to learn about Google sites!!!!!