The Manaiakalani Programme
School Leaders PLG
Term 1: 19th March 2020
The Manaiakalani Programme
response to
Social Distancing
To help schools and districts quickly plan their COVID-19 response plans, Hāpara is providing complete access to its tools at no charge through June 2020.
Advanced Google Hangouts Meet features means you’ll be able to put up to 250 people on a Hangouts Meet call
COVID-19 Response: Best Practices for Online Teaching Using Interactive Video Conferencing
A lot of information coming at us fast … are we prepared if our Prime Minister announces lockdown with short notice?
ubiquitous
when learning is accessible A4
being cybersmart empowers our learners to harness technology in smart and clever ways.
We use Google Sites to empower Visible learning for our
Digital Learning Environments
Affordances causing accelerated shift
Manaiakalani Research Presentation: Manaiakalani Hui: 26.08.16
- Rebecca Jesson, Aaron Wilson,
Five affordances of Learn Create Share in a digital learning environment...
Review current Learning Sites
Open your school’s website using Chrome’s Incognito window
Class Blog: Template Overview includes purpose of each gadget and elements of the blog to support cybersmart learning |
Goal: a consistent page layout across the school that:
Home Page:
Individual Learning Pages >>>>
Primary CB
Secondary CB
Primary iPad
Group buttons link to a slide deck that is published to the web rather than embedded.
Each group button opens the deck for the term. Previous terms are curated and linked below the current term.
See example: CoL AS teacher’s site
Group buttons link to a page for the current term. Current learning loads first with previous weeks below. Each term, pages are curated and Group buttons updated with links to the new term. See example: CoL AS teacher’s site
Horizontal navigation for Year Groups with sub pages for learning content, calendars, overviews, assessment.
See examples:
Teachers | All sites have the correct buttons/links present to guide whanau AND learners through to daily learning sites/pages Blog is up to date Sites state the year levels and teacher clearly |
Learners | Being Cybersmart - Smart Learners They know where to go without the teacher present Practise now BEFORE home happens, google drive offline etc |
Whānau | Using sites and blogs to ground conversations and modeling at whānau conferences Chromebook training Thoughts about a Trust funded support person What are schools doing to support whānau to connect with the Kawa of Care |
Google Meet
Limit the Links: What will work best for your learners.
Using the same event link on your learning site means it is easy for learners to locate the Meet link. Consider including details of specific Meets on your Timetable i.e. purpose, time
Secondary Teachers using Google Calendars Consider creating a calendar event and inviting students. The event will include a Meet link and you can add a description of the purpose for the Meet. This may be useful if you are managing multiple classes across different Learning Areas.
Feedback from Tamaki College - Meets are scheduled at the same time as individual classes are scheduled at school to avoid clashes.
Cybersmart Learning - Smart Learners - Smart Relationships
Identifying and practising the protocols of participating and contributing
Take time to practise at school with your learners prior to using outside of regular school hours.
Check learners are:
Protocols for consideration at individual School Level
School/Teacher
Guidance/requirements for teachers as to what is baseline expectations e.g.
Timing - when is best times to be hosting a hangout with your learners? Between 9-3pm, dressed as you would come to school, sitting at a table with wall behind, think …. What would you do in class f2f?
Are there expectations of time when teachers are available online. How and where are you are presenting yourself during the hangout?
How will this be communicated to whānau?
Student
See recommendations for practising at school first.
What is the expectation of location in the house, where are they sitting during the hangout.
How and when can learners contact their teacher asynchronously? i.e. email, comment on a doc.
Clothing, and body posture appropriate.
Notes from our korero today
The following recommended set up
Stop Press… Friday 27th March Hangouts Meet improvements for remote learning
https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2020/03/hangouts-meet-edu-updates.html
This is on fast release ie 2-3 weeks… however we will go with Manaiakalani Using Google Hangouts Meet protocols
Preparing your Learning Site
“….start with a video (create with screencastify or Quicktime & embedded on your site) While it’s tempting to pull a video off of YouTube, students are much more likely to engage with and learn from the video if you (the teacher) have created it. Students want to learn from their teachers; we have established trust and credibility, so we may as well use it.” EdTech Emma
Use one page, similar layout to usual… most recent learning at the top. Stick to what is familiar for your learners
Use the sections in Google sites to aid navigation. Alternate the section background, include a header e.g. Day of the Week
Set the page up in advance and hide navigation until needed
Display the times you plan to schedule any Hangouts with the link.
Google Form: Learners submit links to any files/blog posts they have shared for teacher feedback.
A temporary hub of information and tools to help teachers. Created by Google.
Cybersmart: Smart Relationships
Google Hangouts Meet:
Take time to practise at school with your learners prior to using outside of regular school hours.
Check learners are:
Connect with Hangout protocols: how to mute their microphone, what is behind them i.e. recommend a wall versus a window
Practise in small groups, set yourself up to succeed, try using commenting feature in doc to practise chat
Identify something familiar learners could contribute in the Hangout Meet i.e. share/read passage from a favourite book. Focus on the process initially. This is to empower learners to be confident with managing themselves in the Hangout i.e. using the mic, speaking
Begin the session by checking in with your learners, is there something familiar you already do in the mornings at school i.e. karakia , sharing circle, icebreaker.
Call on learners to unmute and or use the Hangout chat
Identify opportunities to present your screen and invite learners to take turns responding.
Practise ending a Hangout - remember teacher needs to remove each student. Say Haere ra one at a time.
Make it a challenge… survivor!
Hāpara Workspaces
Learners access the Workspace any place, any time mystudentdashboard.com
Teachers create contextual units of learning
Workspaces can be embedded into the Class Site.
Can be differentiated or personalised to cater for different levels and needs
Can be collaborative - teachers work together
Teachers easily locate learner docs sorted by Workspace
Teachers
Student Dashboard mystudentdashboard.com
Learners can add their own learning to the Workspace
Learners click to automatically copy work on the Workspace
Everything in context allows learners to easily follow the progress of the learning unit
Learners work at own differentiated or personalised level
Learners find everything in one place
Learners can work in groups or individually
Learners
Quick link for visibility to everything in learners’ Drives
Quick link for visibility to all learner blog posts
Quick link for visibility to all comments on learners’ blogs.