The Media and It's Uses

Another packed session to pick my way through. We started with a focus on the "Create" part of the Manaikalani pedagogy. Kindergartens are all about the creating and somewhere along the learning journey it becomes less obvious in our teaching practice. This has really challenged my thinking about my own teaching practice. Where do I provide opportunities for purposeful, scaffolded and differentiated creative responses for my students to express what they have learned are learning? Hmmm! 😔

 

Drawing was an area that really opened my eyes to new functions that I hadn't explored before. My efforts and learning are reflected in the All About Me post on the left side of my blog. Feeling confident using this creative tool and will endeavour to use it more.  😃

The Youtube part of this session has been a 'game changer' for me. I have a couple of high needs students who have their own ipad (these guys not ready for a chromebook). I have put together some a slide show for each with you tube links for learning sites, listening to stories and you tube clips that reflect their interests. The issue I had with this is that the students once they clicked on the you tube clip could then access a variety of other similar clips. Using this tool AWESOME. Will be using this all the time now for my embedded you tube clips. 

Safe YouTube

Can now put in a voice recording to my slides so this will certainly help with the rewindable learning for my students. Picked up a neat trick from the group for children recording their own voices without picking up the voices and sounds of others.... speak inside a cube! Thanks guys.