Wow! What a day!
Today I realised just how far and wide the Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy net can be cast. Create is an endless amount of teaching and learning where anything is possible and the 'journey' isn't a set path but all about discovery. That was my day today ... discovering!
I loved being able to create my own site. What was even better ... I can use this in the future with my own students. Better than that ... can't wait to share it with the staff at school who will then share it with our tamariki. The options are endless. I could see how I could spend days creating sites for all sorts of topics, for all different year levels. What a fabulous tool for school!! (Rhyming and I love it). To be fair, Tiriti wasn't my first choice. I did start a site based on speeches (that's what we are doing in school at the moment) but then decided I wanted to work on a site with our kaiako at school so will leave speeches for a later date.
For my first site I don't think I did too bad. Always room for improvement. I have made a list of all the sites I would like to create. Ladybirds, Nga atua, all things Dutch, crocheting, purple, bananas, slow loris, sunflowers, harakeke ... never enough time in the day.
Anyhoo, here is the link to my Tiriti site ...
https://sites.google.com/cobhamschool.nz/te-tiriti-o-waitangi/home
Create, create, create!!!
In a few weeks I am going to a 3 day conference in Palmerston North. I am expecting great things from this conference, as are my staff and board. So, because I am feeling quite confident in my ability to create a site that is useful, informative and just plain old fun to make, I will be feeding back via a site. This will serve as a great "hook" for both staff and board. It will get me practicing my newly-learned skill. I'd love to be able to use sites with our year 6 students. With it being their last year at school it would be great to see them put together a site "A Cobham Moment in time ... ". Baby steps though ... hook in my wonderful kaiako ... then hook in our tamariki.
Anyhoo, here is the link to my Tiriti site ...
https://sites.google.com/cobhamschool.nz/te-tiriti-o-waitangi/home
Create, create, create!!!
In a few weeks I am going to a 3 day conference in Palmerston North. I am expecting great things from this conference, as are my staff and board. So, because I am feeling quite confident in my ability to create a site that is useful, informative and just plain old fun to make, I will be feeding back via a site. This will serve as a great "hook" for both staff and board. It will get me practicing my newly-learned skill. I'd love to be able to use sites with our year 6 students. With it being their last year at school it would be great to see them put together a site "A Cobham Moment in time ... ". Baby steps though ... hook in my wonderful kaiako ... then hook in our tamariki.
