Friday, 6 November 2020

Manaiakalani Secondary Schools Connect Presentation

Manaiakalani provides opportunities for Secondary School teachers in our wider cluster to share the awesome things happening in our schools.  Our kaupapa was how to engage students through digital technologies in Social Sciences.   


My presentation talked about how we connected and collaborated with my students and their whanau during Covids level 3 and 4 or ‘lockdown’ as we loosely call it.  I tried to add rewindable clips to the presentation to help clarify some of what we got up to.  I was a bit nervous but once I got going, I think I was o.k.


The recording will be out soon.


Wednesday, 4 November 2020

The ease of using MIRO for planning in Senior Sos

My level 3's have been using MIRO as part of the assessment.  They need to collaborate on a campaign of Social Actions which meant planning and discussing how to run the campaign.  I asked a few students who were working on a MIRO what their thoughts were on the platform.  Here is the interview below (please turn it up as the sound isn’t great).





Intervention COL inquiry #7A: Using the SQ3R Model

 In our learning, we used the SQ3R model to help guide students through their reading.  I have taught the specific model before and today I ...