Friday 21 October 2016

Digital Immersion - Term 4

Today at the Manaiakalani Digital Immersion day we got to connect with other teachers in the Manaiakalani learning community. It was great to have the chance to share and learn about what other teachers have been learning, creating and sharing in their classrooms. A major focus of the day was multi modal learning and how we can create a variety of opportunities to meet the variety of learning needs of our students. I decided to create my mini-inquiry around Popcorn as this is an up and coming lesson for science in the next few weeks. Below you can see a screenshot of the almost finished slide I have created for our lesson (with some great help from Juanita) . I have included two texts (a PM reader at green level and an orange level Ready to Read book) which will link to a soundbite of the teacher reading the story so that students at a lower level can read by following along. I also found a video which shows that popcorn comes from the vegetable corn. The two EE activities are still yet to be created however one will include a poem with a series of related literacy activities and the other looks at students describing the popcorn by exploring the five senses. Below you can see a screenshot of how it currently looks!

Keep posted to find out how it goes!

6 comments:

  1. This is such a cool idea Steph! I love the idea of having soudbites - look forward to seeing what you've created when it is finished :) The colours are a great reflection of the lesson too!

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    1. Thank you Georgia! Will have a go at it in a few weeks when we are finished testing :)

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  2. Your children will love this! Thank you for showing how this can work in a new entrant context. Look forward to hearing how it goes.

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    1. Thank you Dorothy! I look forward to seeing how it goes too!

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  3. Wow Steph, I love the design of your page and your kids are going to love the practical element of this lesson. Very cool stuff, look forward to seeing how it all works out!

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    1. Thanks Heath! Will let you know how it goes :)

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