Online Toolkits

 Over this past week in lockdown, I have been making the most of online toolkits. I attended three sessions including Taming Testing with Jeremy, Te Reo Māori for the classroom with Makaore, and WeVideo with Cheryl. It was a great way to end my working day and I can see all three toolkits helping me a lot, especially with the situation we are currently in.

Taming Testing 

During this session, we learned how to use google forms to create a test. I was following along with Jeremy while he was explaining so that I could physically do it myself. I also made a copy of Jeremy's spelling test that he created then added soundbites to each question so that students could do the test at home. It will be great to see what other forms of assessment I could create with Google Forms.

Te Reo Māori for the Classroom

I found this session helpful as I could personally see how helpful using Mote will be to teaching Te Reo. I am already starting to use Te Reo more in my classroom as I attend after-school sessions, but this Toolkit showed me how Mote is great for helping with pronunciation. Students could be also using it when they are creating tasks or presentations with Te Reo Māori in it. 

WeVideo

Before this session, I knew a little bit about WeVideo but it was great to be able to touch up on a few extra tips and tricks. This will be extremely helpful as we move into Alert Level 2 and my students will be able to use WeVideo to create assembly videos etc. I had also mentioned in a previous post that I would like my students to use this form of media more. So it will be interesting to see where this goes!

Thanks to Jeremy, Makaore, and Cheryl for hosting these Toolkits.