Thursday, February 21, 2019

Technology Department Blogging PD Session

Today, the Technology department staff were lucky to have a presentation from Carol Heka, our food technology teacher. She was explaining how she includes blogging into her planning for her lessons for juniors and intermediates. Her blog post about it is here.
This is part of our department goals this year.

This is the template that was provided today as a starting point. We want to structure what the juniors and intermediate students blog about instead of just putting their work on their blogs with no explanation or analysis.



I took the starting point template and added extra things that I thought would be good for the Graphics lessons.
Link here


The plan now is that we try these out with our students and feedback in our next blogging catch-up session in the department in a couple of weeks time.

10 comments:

  1. Great idea Carol and nicely augmented Karen. I'm going to have a go at a few SOLO templates for English - starting with personal response.

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    1. Thanks Vaughan. Carol gave us a great starting point to develop for our own subject areas in Technology.

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  2. HI Karen, Nice to see how you have linked this into SOLO.

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    1. Thanks Kiri. It was Carol that linked to SOLO on her original template. I just put the pretty pictures in :D

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  3. Thanks for sharing this. The SOLO rubric supports the learners and the addition of Reflect aligns it with Manaiakalani kaupapa at the same time.

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    1. Thanks Dorothy. I am planning on a printed off poster for the classroom wall of this.

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  4. Awesome Karen and Carol, thanks for sharing. I can also see the potential here to support quality commenting in response ie focusing and guiding peer assessment.

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    1. That’s a good idea Fiona. I could do a twin poster. Support for posting and support for commenting, all based around SOLO levels.

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  5. Wow this is so cool Karen and it makes me happy knowing that this template has come in handy. Thank you for coming along to the first of many blog PD.

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    1. Thanks Carol. I tired the template today with my intermediate class. I will link up their blog posts on another feedback blog.

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