Thursday, 14 March 2019

Manaiakalani Online Tool-kits Term 1, 2019.

Each term we have the opportunity to do online tool kits for PD. This term for the Manaiakalani online tool kits I chose to do the Fun With GIF tool kit, presented by Herman Fourie.
I learned how to create GIF using slides and tall-tweets. I thought the session was very informative, and simple to do. It would appeal to students of all ages and abilities. It is a great way to engage students in digital learning, especially through Learn Create Share.
I plan to pass on this new skill to other teachers in a workshop at school. I will also be implementing it within my classes for students.

Below is the GIF I created, which only took a few minutes to make.



I also chose to do the Google Goodies toolkit presented by Dorothy Burt.
This toolkit taught us about all the recent and upcoming updates and announcements from Google. One of the things which interested me the most was the upcoming changes to New Sites. Especially the ability to have a variety of fonts, themes, colours, and creating templates. 
I really enjoyed both tool kits, and look forward to the next sessions, and possibly presenting a session myself.