Google Meet

Room 5 had a Google Meet every morning during lockdown. As we were still in the process of getting 1:1 devices for my year 4 class, it was tricky to get everyone up and running. This day we managed to get 21 out of 28 students on-line together. We used the Meet to share our experiences, check in on the previous days learning and discuss the current learning tasks. Everyone got a chance to speak and we were able to share artwork (and new babies) over the Meet. There was some good contextual learning about lighting, sound, and framing that came up as we got better about meeting online.

VR in the classroom

Robyn and I have been lucky enough to have been invited to work with Yvonne from Auckland University's bio engineering department on some Virtual Reality research.


Robyn and Yvonne have developed the content around our current study and have created amazing VR tasks for the students. We used 2 different formats - Google Cardboard and iPads to deliver the content. Yvonne and her team collected all sorts of data from the sessions including heart rates, balance and before and after content knowledge. It has been fantastic to be involved and I look forward to seeing the results!
A really excellent opportunity lies ahead for our students 'creating to learn' using.

Creativity Empowers Learning

During our Manaiakalani staff meeting this term we were reminded of all the wonderful creative things we do to engage our students with their learning, and the way our digital tools can help us.

Here are some of the gifs I made...