On a blustery Friday afternoon in the holidays most of Urumanuka's senior 'chromebook class' teachers met together to refresh what learning one to one on a chromebook was all about and to get the best routines in place before the start of the school year.
Here are some notes, tips and tricks. Credits to Kelsey Morgan who ran the session and designed collate and built much of the content and resources linked in the the Uru Manuka site below.
All this brilliant information can be found in much more detail here.
Uru Manuka
Key ideas from the day
Chromebook care:
Have a place to store your chromebooks:
What about chromebooks that the children bring to school as opposed to the ones that stay at school?
- tote trays
- specific shelf
- table area
- dish trays
Accessing chromebooks:
- lining up to collect their chromebook at the beginning or end of the day
- teacher hands out chromebooks
- line on the floor children wait behind the line until one child collects their chromebook
- teacher charges chromebooks
Kelsey's cheeky tip:
Click the square 'view' button ( square with arrow) at the top of an imbedded slide. In the new window pop into the address, backspace to the last '/' and then type in 'view' or 'edit'
If you put your email on your site a teacher may email you ... this can help for credibility.
Hapara: Things to remember
Use smart share to ensure are in the right folder.
Use Hapara to see all your kids blogs.
Keep track of who has recently posted. Keep track of who has recently been commented on and make sure that children have been commented on at least once during the week.
Kelsey's cheeky Tip for blogging:
Make sure the children (me too) click the 'notify me' button so they are aware when someone has commented. Bottom line- you need to reply and say thank you. Manners people!
If a child has done incredible work but no one has commented pop it onto google plus and it will get lots of comments.
My task list from this session:
- watch the Hapara workspace video and explore on my own
- record my site video
- make a new class blog and link to the site: make a roster so that the children blog once a week including myself
- link to the twitter feed on the site on the blog page
- teach the kids \ make a list of people they know who they want to comment on their blog, link in their emails, send the email link to one of their favourite people each week.
- make an each week blogging checklist to work through each Friday with the children.
