Getting Creative

Creativity is not necessarily my strong suit. I love a good model in this space. However creativity is good for the soul and a key element of the Manaiakalani pedagogdy. In Dorothy's words 'as well as creating motivation and engagement cognitive and social engagement emerge..' I hope I have not misquoted you Dorothy. 

The key to this will be ensuring I add a least one new digital tool each term. Creating with digital tools is challenging for me as I feel I don't always have the problem solving tools when something isn't working. Being a Mac user I will need to be practising on a chromebook to get the user experience.  At least then I will know the fish hooks. 

When I think about it I am more comfortable with the physical create.. but in this case alot is ending up on the walls and not on the student blogs. I will need to task myself with ensing the i-pads are at the ready so this type of create can be recorded and is accessible to students to post. 

The starting place for me will be with short text responses. It seems more manageable in the short term. A tighter approach would be need for my least able. I can then be 'looser' with groups that work co-operatively and are task focussed. 

Using a site allows for a range of literary elements related to one text to be given to learning without it seeming overwhelming. I don't do many longer text with my learners but perhaps this could be an option for text term given that the fourth term can be disjointed,  and this would give learners an opportunity to work collaboratively.

The new curriculum is focused on recommending reading to others, thereby building reading communities. I enjoyed the task creating a one take film. But as always aimed for perfection! Here is my effort on selling 'Verdi', sorry for going overtime... I got a bit engrossed in what I was doing. The real laugh was I did hit record properly and had to do it again! I tried it this time in google meet. Hopefully this is a more accessible way for students. I think I will get them to film each other. A quick critique would give me an opportunity to discuss what not to do!

This leads nicely inot collaboration. There are many benefits of collaborative tasks and it is a way to overcome barriers that may be foet by less confident students  by assigning roles that suit their personality. To make it more manageable and accountable proabably smaller groups are better idea (pairs) To allow for co-operation but less distraction.

I have used Canva in the past but am looking forward to seeing how I can better use this tool. I don't feel. i have got the best out of it in the past. To offer choice anything rcreated here could be a physical or digital copy. I liked the idea of a blank template shared on the site for creating an info graphic.

Well lots of homework so I had better get my thinking cap on.