The focus was on the Create part of the Manaiakalani Pedagogy today. This is when you start thinking about all the DLO's your students can create.
Today we explored Google Drawings and Google Slides. What a lot of scope to use these for creating DLO's. My next step is to give the students in my class the time to explore and experiment with these tools. They are already using these but I know they don't know everything that they are capable of. I spent a portion of today thinking about how I need to cater for my learners to guide them so they are able to use these options for that 'wow factor'. I already have an alliteration writing activity planned for tomorrow, so as well as creating their example of the alliteration they will also use Google Drawings to present this in some way. They can then share this in their blog, the alliteration will be part of the learning and then they can comment on the new learning in Google Drawings.
I would also like to get my students to work collaboratively to have a go at writing and creating a Pick a Path story on Google Slides. I will just share some of the fantastic examples we have had shared with us today and then they can plan out their story in their collaborative groups. We will start in a very simple way, I am wondering about using a well-known fairy tale that they could adapt, e.g. Little Red Riding Hood, The Three Bears.
I have included my new About Me sidebar image which I created using Google Drawings. You can also see that I have added it to the side of my blog as a gadget - more new vocabulary learning.
Kia ora Michelle,
ReplyDeleteCreate is a really powerful motivator for students eh?! And for us as teachers. Great to read that you are already working out what your students can use to extend their understanding of how to use google slides and drawings to extend what they use them for. Check out Melanie Roberts's awesome Maui slide on her professional blog. It is a great example that you could use for your students.
Ngā mihi,
Sharon