Simon Scott's blog - professional reading

After reading Simon's Blog Post reflect about what strategy or new approach you could take in your classroom/hub/studio.

http://alearnersjourney81.blogspot.com/2016/06/blogging-has-it-made-difference.html

The most important part of this process has been teaching the children how to comment on other children posts.  They follow the 3 steps of write something positive, thoughtful and helpful.

Completely agree with this statement. Moving past the "shallow" comments to promote indepth thinking and learning has been key.

By following this template it has stopped children from giving shallow feedback like 'Good work',  'Awesome, well done!'.  Their comments now are full of advice or questions that promote further learning or initiate a learning conversation.  But the biggest impact to the students learning has been the improvement of punctuation in their writing.  This has been transformational!  Through the combination of the  3 steps to writing a comment and having an authentic audience the children's punctuation has improved out of sight. 

What is the new strategy?

The goal here is to "cause" learning. The next step will be to encourage whanau/school/families/peers to regularly get on and blog.

What are you thinking about trialing in your learning space?

The expectation of regular blogging. Reflect on them and allow for time to blog. The aim is 8 posts per week. 3 of your own and 5 on other's learning.

What new learning, resources or support could your Manaiakalani Outreach Facilitator provide?

Evidence and professional readings around this would be helpful when encouraging whanau to comment. It is easy to focus on surface features rather than really promoting the deeper level features of what the learning is actually showing.

Sizing google docs to embed on a blog

https://sites.google.com/view/how-to-with-new-sites/embeds/embedding-google-docs

This very cool link will help me to fit boxes into my blog.  The challenge will be to 

make it work for me! 

Another way around this tricky little concept is to use the snipping tool 

1. Search "snipping tool" down the bottom in search function

2. Select the area

3. Save the clip as a png

4. Upload via a picture

5. Resize to fit!!

6.  Yehaa!!!

OR.

Use the above link and pop in the magic number of 700

Hapara

Really enjoying my role working alongside the team from Manaiakalani who have provided wonderful models and examples to set up our school wide Hapara system.  I have the pleasure of being the "techno" girl in the school as we are small and everyone is sharing the load.  I quietly really enjoy it, but do need to keep on top of the work load.
PTC1 - Commitment to the teaching profession
I will maintain public trust and confidence in the teaching profession by:

I believe that Hapara will help keep our students and teachers safe with best practice around their digital footprint.  The contracts will be seamless within this system and I appreciate the focus around learning.