Kia ora tātou,
Week seven, the last week of November, and it appears summer
has gone into hiding. Just as we embrace
the ever-changing seasons, so we embrace the ever-changing learning
landscape. What is it that really stands
out in your year? What moment is etched
clearly in your memory? How do you share this and make sure there are more of
these moments?
Thank you for the feedback on last week’s guest post by
Justine Hughes. This will become a
feature of newsletters occasionally and you will be able to revisit guest blog
posts in the vln literacy online site.
What have you got planned for the last few weeks of learning?
How about sharing Kid President's 20 Things We Should
Say More Often then encouraging your
learners to make their own! Maybe even
make one yourself!
Survey
– please help us to help you!
One way you can help us to help you is by taking 5-10 minutes to
complete our Literacy
Online Survey. We
really value your feedback; in fact we NEED it, to improve your experience with
Literacy Online and the community forums.
New
Science Online resources
Check out the Science online site for new resources to support science education. The five science capabilities each link out to resources. I am
hyperlinking to the page for Gather and Interpret data, and each of the capabilities is
resourced for you to explore. How might
you explore these new resources? What
specific science literacy do our learners need?
Video
clips to inspire
As we approach the end of the year, I wonder how you could
use these two video clips to inspire, motivate and create some oral
language. How creative! What might your learners come up with?
If your learners get
hooked there is plenty more to check out on Danny MacAskill’s own video collection site.
What do you know about
Universal Design for learning?
I credit Universal
Design for Learning with affecting one of the greatest shifts in my thinking
this year. Universal Design for Learning
is about creating learning options that cater for everyone at the beginning.
You could join the Universal Design for Learning Group
in the vln or follow Chrissie Butler’s blog Passonable. A
recent post, Maximising the effective use o
technology in the UDL classroom, is a wonderful read. I want to make UDL a regular slot in my
updates and would love to hear your stories please.
Blog
posts to check out:
How Digital Writing Is Making Kids Smarter – “technology may be
doing more to increase literacy and encourage reading since the rise of the
novel.”
Langwitches blog for a wonderfully rich language learning resource.
How Visual Thinking Improves Writing
on the Mind/Shift How we will learn blog.
e-Learning Round-Up 27 November 2013 At this very busy
time of the year this is a great summary of recent e-learning gems for you to
check out!
Ngā mihi nui
Anne Kenneally
Literacy Online Facilitator
CORE Education
@LiteracyOnline2
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