Ngā Matapakinga | Discussion

Morena, I am researching Real-time reporting and community connection to improve learning engagement and levels in our students, for our Auckland based primary school. I am really interested in looking at the different ways schools are approaching Real-time reporting and the successes they are having with it. We are a 1:1 device with all students on chromebooks. As a school we still have 1 'settling into the year report' and 2 '6 monthly written reports'.  The mid-year report has been simplified this year because of other ways we have been connecting with our school community. We also have student led conferences with parents twice a year, at which the students present a goal slideshow they work on progressively throughout the year. The slideshow includes goals students set in 5 different areas of the curriculum each term with reflections and links to work, it also includes assessment levels and links to assessment tasks, results and graphs, and finally examples of their favourite work. These slideshows are shared digitally with family and whanau and can be accessed at any time (if family have the links). This year we also started using the free version of Seesaw to link with our community and share work in real time. We created a list of 'items' to share each term. This is only used by teachers at this point, not students. All our students have personal learning blogs where they share work and activities on a weekly basis. Parents respond well to the slideshows, but don't really have a way of commenting on them, on a regular basis. At present we appear to have a wider community engagement through Seesaw than the student blogs. My questions are does anyone have any recommendations of other reports or documents I could read on the subject? Are other schools using Seesaw for schools to replace reports or with students to replace blogs? Thanks for the discussion thread it is very valuable. Nga mihi. 

I've just been doing some research lately for a Digital Technologies workshop on telling localised stories and have enjoyed creating my own story in Tour Builder by adding photos and videos. But I'm super impressed with  Google Earth 3D the updates are spectacular - check these videos out...the potential is huge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KtwMRedAbc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XcLcF-huCo

Imagine using this tool to tell stories about our ancestors in te reo Māori?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6pcznVAFWw

Where will your local stories take you? 

Hit the ground running

Welcoming space, but can't touch

How to slow down time

What we are looking at is what we should keep, leave and improve on after this shift in learning. How can we support each other not to fall straight back into the manic rush that is teacher life?

Over in another land of online conversation and contemplation, there's a growing pool of reflection and whakaaro around what we can takeaway from COVID-19 and keep, tweak, lose or improve going forward @ Covid-19 Lessons learned going forward. A big huge thank you to @markmaddren for sharing your blog connections as well.

Image source:  Covid Image by FrankundFrei from Pixabay

Very helpful things to remember/consider. Thanks :-)

@Tessagray. Talking to yourself in a compassionate way is actually really good for you.