Be in the right place at the right time online.

We have been learning about being on the right websites at the right time when we are at school.

These are our infographics about where we should be when using our devices.

We created these by using Google Drawing.

We are proud of our infographic posters because they help us to might the right decisions and they look good.

Something we found quite challenging was how to lay it out.

 

Our tips about creating a poster using Google Drawing are: Make sure you use .png images which have clear backgrounds.

Kawa of Care Comics

We have been learning about how to care for our devices.

These are our comics about how to look after our chromebooks.

We created these by using our chromebooks, Google Draw and Google Slides. We pasted our drawings into a shared Slide deck.

We are proud of our comics because we made them, they are funny and they helped us to know the rules.

Something that was quite challenging was finding the right images for our drawings.

Our tips about caring for your devices are:

1. Keep food and drink away from your device
2. Keep it on a flat surface and away from edges
3. Shut the lid gently
4. Make sure your keyboard has nothing on it when you shut it
5. Put it on charge when you aren't using it
6. Walk with it
7. Carry using a bear hug hold
8. Keep it off the ground or where people are walking all the time
9. Be gentle with keyboard
10. Only carry one at a time

Check out our slide deck here:

Welcome to our Classroom Blog!

Nau mai, Haere mai! Welcome to our classroom blog. Here you will be able to see what the tamariki are up to in our classroom, what work they have been completing and thoughts from myself.

With our journey into the kaupapa of Manaiakalani, we are receiving in class support and professional learning from Fiona Waugh who will be coming into class every week and teaching the tamariki and myself about everything to do with devices and the Manaiakalani way. 

Our first week we went over our Kawa of Care for our devices. Pleased to announce we are the REIGNING TARANAKI SCHOOL CHAMPIONS for knowing how to handle our chromebooks!!!!  

Fiona helping us get familiar with our devices

Super excited kids!

We then had a go at creating our own introductions. It was super fun and the kids got more familiar with Google Drawings. They were set instructions that made them look at fonts, sizes, colours, how to insert a photo so it stayed shaped etc. The ones keen to share then cast them up on our big screen TV for everyone to see. Here's what we achieved:

Here is the full assignment and instructions they had to follow. 

We have camp this week so will miss our next session but the tamariki can't wait to pick it up next time.