Media

Today we went over how it is important to allow the children and family to see the planning as this allows access to their learning. Kent explained how some of the parents at his school had not had good experiences at school. By allowing the adults to see their children's learning in their own time this meant they were more comfortable and keen to check out the learning.

The interesting thing about You Tube today was that you could embed your own playlist so that the children only look at those videos. This could be very helpful to help children stay focused during research. I included one on the maths workshop for some videos on fractions which will be good as the children do like watching videos and so this way they are learning and staying focused.

Today we saw how the teachers are sharing their planning at Pt England School and that they use slides for their planning. The bonus for this is that when it comes to writing reflections on their lessons this can be not seen by others as they write it in the comment section and only those who the slide has been shared to can see these. This is something I was concerned about but by doing it this way it works. It gets me thinking if I should do more planning in slides, or not.

We had another look at Google Drawings and how it is a great tool for children and teachers to be creating on. I made a word bank drawing in which the children can edit and put in some interesting describing words. I needed a bit of assistance ensuring that only a few selected children can type on it there are a few options to do this.  Drawings is great for creating and I plan to use it more for the create side of my activities.