Today I realised how powerful the new updates to Keynote are. I wanted the class to practise their Te Reo in a creative way, that included them recording themselves, some fun visuals and animation. It is easy to see how Keynote is becoming my "go-to" when I want the class to show their learning. Here is what we created....
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After coming back from the ADE Institute in Austin Texas I was so inspired by all the amazing updates to Keynote and Pages - I couldn't wait to bring back my learning to my kura and classroom. But I was equally as excited to explore ways to integrate Garage Band into my creative learning. The Everyone Can Create curriculum develop by Apple is an amazing resource which encourages educators to tap into children' creativity to deepen and extend their learning. This is something I am passionate about so be able to connect my thinking with this new resource has re-invigorated. So when I started this term, I felt determined to try and integrate this thinking into my program. One of our learning themes this term is exploring sound (perfect for Garage Band) as well as using Mindfulness to inspire our writing. So when we discovered the book "A Bottle of Happiness" I could instantly see the potential to integrate both.
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As part of our Matariki learner, we used the book The seven Kites of Matariki and our inspiration. Our literacy goal was to retell the story using puppet pals and iMove but this was a massive job for one child to do alone... so we started this task collaboratively. After reading and talking about the book, we created a story board and talked about each setting in the story. Our first task was to use Drawing Pad to create different setting and share them with everyone, that way the children only had to draw one picture the best they could. After creating the scenes, we used the same principals for the characters. Then I saved the images on our class blog for the children to access and then use to create their puppet pals. This was another collaborate task as each child to responsible for retelling one part of the story, then airdrop it to each other for the final stage, putting together in iMovie. Our Makerspace has been busy over the last month of two... so busy I haven't had a chance to update our blog! Our main focus was celebrating Matariki - our Māori New Year. We used the book The Seven kites of Matariki to ignite our creativity and begun designing our own kites so we could collaborate our ideas to create a class Matariki kite. It was an amazing project, with so much learning tied into it, we even begun a class weaving project using chicken wire and recycled material. |
Trudi FausettLearning in my space is now all about what the children can create with the new knowledge they have learnt. It’s about using all the tools available to showcase their understanding to a much wider audience. I find it so inspiring that I can connect children’s learning with their own unique creativity in so many more ways. Archives
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