Today I learnt about A⁴ of learning being ubiquitous. This means it is important for learning to be accessible Anywhere, Any time, at Any pace, and by Anyone. I liked the idea that if learning is important to teach, then it is important to capture so it can be revisited or watched at another time. We learnt about how the philosophy of Manaiakalani was developed through the 3 P’s of Te Tiriti o Waitangi = Partnership, Participation, and Protection.

Our create tasks today have helped build my confidence using google slides and Explain Everything, and some new learning for me was learning to use Google Vids. 

We explored the Manaiakalani Class OnAir site and found a lesson relevant to us. I found a reading lesson on the text ‘Staying Afloat’ that I am going to read with my class in a few weeks. 

Next we did a digital dig into using a chromebook. This was useful for me as I haven’t used one before and am not completely familiar using Apple devices and do not use them in my year 2-3 class.

We had time using a few functions of Explain Everything on our school ipad. This was helpful as I have used this only a handful of times last year in Uru Manuka lessons and this helped me feel confident to teach my students how to use it this term.

We then had time to get creative with cybersmart by breaking off into groups. I chose to create some slides to use in class for teaching my year 2’s how to use the Explain Everything app to create a new project and start using some of the basic functions. This was tricky trying to take screenshots on the ipad and then airdrop them to my laptop but now I am confident to do this and show my student how to share with me as well. See below for my slides so far!

Whaea Stephanie

Today we learnt about connecting with and being visible to our learners and their whānau by having learning accessible and easy to navigate on a class google site.

First, as a group, we checked out and gave feedback on some class sites from teachers at other Manaiakalani schools. I know I will certainly go back and check these out again in the future for some ideas to incorporate into my sites. Doing this helped me feel more confident in how to best lay out my class site, sparked some ideas for engaging pages, and helped me to know what is important to users of my sites.

This year I did not have a learning site set up for my class and today I was able to spend some time getting this started. I have made a class site including tabs for each learning area. I also created sites for my reading groups which are linked straight into my main learning site.

Setting up my site means my learners and whanau will now be able to easily access their learning that is rewindable and easy to find once I link it into our school page. 

Check out some screenshots of my cool new sites!

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Today I learnt lots of new things for dealing with data. It was a very enjoyable day as I love using spread sheets and analysing data. Todays learning also reminded me of many things I learnt a while ago but had forgotten and some faster ways of doing things I often use like using filters in google spreadsheets and resizing columns by highlighting them all and dragging.

I expanded further on my knowledge about the create stage of learning with Manaiakalani and how it is cyclical as well as how important it is for students to get to finish their tasks and to come back and discuss the feedback or or previous sharing later on in a unit or term.

I look forward to finding an interesting way to integrate using MyMaps with my year 2-3 learners and creating some quizzes that I can use as an assessment of background knowledge and prior understandings.

Here is a MyMap that I created with two layers. One shows our DFI cohorts best places to visit around the world. The second is most of the places that I visited on my honeymoon in 2017.

Here is some raw data of the blogs that Thalia at Wigram Primary school has done over from 2022-2025, some charts and a data analysis.

Today we learnt how the CREATE step of learning is such a powerful part of learn/create/share as students have to show their understanding in a way that gets them thinking and exploring their ideas to show in a creative way that makes sense to them.

We then explored some blogs from students who created slides, videos or other media to show their learning. This was interesting to see the many ways students could convey their ideas.

We learnt to use various functions in google drawings and google slides and made our own ‘about me’ for our blog page.

For our create task I chose to learn how to make a pick a path on google slides. I have never done this before and learning how to link between slides will certainly be a time saver when I am creating my own slides for the classroom.

Check out my pick a path slides below that, when finished I will be able to use with my class who are working on good playground ettiquette. I have started with some common playground scenarios where students can choose from two actions they might take.