Friday, September 17, 2021

THE EIGHTH DAY

I enjoyed Vicki's presentation on Empowerment and found myself making connections between the area in Auckland she was discussing and the community I live in. The greatest joy comes from Empowering students to...be confident in themselves and their own ability.

Jacob's presentation about how technology will continue to develop and where it could go was interesting and could be a great discussion to have with the kids in my class. I'm sure I could create some cool activities relating to this topic using the skills I've acquired during this training.

I enjoyed the coding exploration time and completing the Minecraft puzzles, gave me a little bit of an insight into what some of my students enjoy doing as I've heard them talking about it and haven't really had a clue. 

I found the coding activity for Scratch incredibly challenging, it is really not my thing but I did manage to follow the instructions and create something pretty cool. Just goes to show that you don't have to be super into computers to be able to do this stuff. 

Click the screen below to start the shape and press spacebar to erase it. 


Friday, September 10, 2021

THE SEVENTH DAY

Today I had a little play with the Explain Everything Whiteboard website. I found it a little tricky but think it could have some great uses in the classroom.

I liked looking at the examples of how other teachers had utilised it. I'd like to have a go with it on an iPad as I think it would be a bit easier and more fun to use that way. 


Friday, September 3, 2021

THE SIXTH DAY

Today I started to make my classroom site. I enjoyed the creative aspect to it but found some parts very challenging. I got a bit frustrated at times trying to make my images clear and format my pages so they look similar but we got there in the end!! Woo!!

Click the link to view what I've got so far, it's still has a long way to go!



THE EIGHTH DAY

I enjoyed Vicki's presentation on Empowerment and found myself making connections between the area in Auckland she was discussing and th...