My role during lockdown is to support teachers develop an online programme that is streamlined but meets the needs of our junior learners as they do not have devices that they take home. To make a decision on how online learning will look in the junior school there were a few factors to consider:
* Current expertise and capability of learners
* Access to a device
* Ability of Teachers using GSuite
* Communication with whanau
* Possible home circumstances of learners
* Learners ability to access email
We decided to keep it simple and streamlined with somewhat similar throughout the junior school. The aim of this is to encourage the junior students to visit other class sites and attempt their activities as well. A decision was made to use quicktime and screen castify. This would be used to:
* Record a message to students explaining how online teaching would work
* Teacher recording a story/ poem and maybe a Maths activity.
Having so many new teachers that are new to using G Suite, I have attempted to make step by step instructions for them to follow. With no microphone, step by step instructions were done using google docs. I hope to update this using screen castify when I have a new laptop. One major positive is definitely that Teachers are receiving a crash course on using GSuite tools. I also made step by step instructions on how to upload to site, publishing sites, blogging, and slide decks.
I have asked all teachers to familiarise themselves with Google fundamentals even if they don't actually take the test but only work through the modules.
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