As a hands-on visual learner, the 'create' element of LCS is a very important part of the process for me.
Going through the Manaiakalani kaupapa each week is definitely helping me gain a better understanding of each element and how to implement it.
My next step is to try and make it visible in my class. This is to start developing student agency so learners can track their own stages of learning.
This week we covered:
Youtube - I currently use the playlist feature in class every morning. I like to have a playlist of all the songs the kids are/have learnt this year. My musically inclined learners will quietly sing away to the lyrics while they get on with their start of day activity, while the singers who are slightly more reluctant will tap their leg or bob their head to the beats they can hear.
Google Draw - I have started using this a lot more over the last year. I enjoy using it to make PNG labels for videos on iMovie.
Google slides - I will definitely be using slides a lot more on my class site. At the moment I create a new page for every new task, however Google sites can be a bit restricting at times. I can definitely see slides being a lot easier to manipulate and add to once shared on the Class site.
I thoroughly enjoyed the mini-workshop run by Vicki Archer on creating animations using Google slides. I could definitely see myself sitting on this for hours.
As I am in a 1:1 iPad class I would be interested to see how this would work on an iPad. I would need to give it a go and watch a few videos to learn some tricks on creating them on an iPad.
Here is a little something I made during the mini-workshop of a duck race, it was inspired from watching the Annual Rubber Duck Fundraiser Race in Luxembourg in 2018.
If you have used or heard of any creative ways for students to use google slides on iPads I would love to hear about it?
Kia ora Neelam. I agree that hours could be spent on these animations. When doing this task I discovered that I'm a bit of a perfectionist and I couldn't rest until I was happy with it. It made me realise how frustrating it must be when we ask our students to stop when they're in the middle of something. I'll ask a few people that spring to mind whether they've used Google Slides for animations on iPads.
ReplyDeleteKia ora Neelam,
ReplyDeleteWhat do you currently use on the iPads to create?
For animation on an iPad could you use Explain Everything? A new page for each illustration and it would be easier to do a voice over or add other sound?
I use slides in iPads class as the tool to help learners access and deliver the teaching programme and Explain Everything as the tool to show learning and creativity. I generally create these slides on my laptop and then add them to my site.
I love the idea of your playlists to settle your students into their day.
Nga mihi,
Mark
Kia Ora Mark,
DeleteSo far the tool we have used the most has been Google Docs.
Yes, last year Gerhard used Explain Everything for all our cyber smart sessions and I started getting a hang of it. However, I struggle to create projects, get them onto my laptop and then to push the project out onto the kid’s accounts using Hapara.
I have been trialling Google Slides to deliver my teaching program this week and so far so good.