Digital Fluency Intensive: Media Week 3

The session today focused on possibly my favourite part of Learn, Create and Share.  

Create. 

Dorothy started the session by looking into the Create kaupapa. The things that resonated with me was: 

• Creative skills help students become better problem solvers, communicators and collaborators. 
• Creativity focuses on the process of forming original ideas through exploration and discovery.  Kohl  2008

What increased my understanding was the idea that this was the "hook for the students"  and the idea of using Sisomo (Sight, sound and motion) to engage the students. I never thought of it like that before.  Sight, sound and motion to draw your audience and engage the students - it made total sense. 

I think it was also a reminder for me that creating a slide is not creativity - it is how you use that slide and what you do with it!  An example of that is this very impressive animation: http://wpstufuil.blogspot.com/2018/06/my-blog-profile-animation.html

After the session, we went through creating a Youtube playlist - this was handy when I have to do last minute dance sessions with kids! No more wasting time searching for appropriate songs. I also saved some Mindful exercises which will come in handy with the learners. 

On a side note, I watch Jeremy's and Dorothy's screen and have picked up on heaps. Dorothy = reading list and Jeremy's creating new Google docs by using .new shortcut. So good for my workflow - I love efficiency. 💕 Can you see the common theme of my blog posts? 

I also like the Deep Dives because it gets the brain going for ideas. I'm often left with - let's do that! That's a good idea. How can we use that in our school? We recently renovated our classrooms, and we are thinking of installing Green Screen via Green autex and Blue autex. Our learners will definitely love this, and we are grateful for the tips. 

The next session was about tools to create, and we had a go at creating. Here a few of my creations: 

Profile using Google Draw

You can check out my profile at the side.  I also created one for my school blog: nwslaxa.blogspot.co.nz.

Digital Portrait  using Google Draw

Digital Pepeha 

I didn't know the sound export tool on Screencastify. The potential of this tool is endless!

The feeling that surprised me during this session was how much I wanted to share my creation, as well as the feeling of accomplishment/achievement when I finished creating.