Tuesday 9 February 2016

Blogs for 2016

Kia ora, 

Today is my first proper lesson with my Year 13 Bio class, and this year we've decided to set up blogs for the learning that happens during class time. 

I've given students some time to personalize their blogs, and then as a way to see what they remember from Year 11 write their first post. 

I am aware that blogging in the senior school will be a tricky path to navigate, balancing learning, creating and sharing towards internals and externals with the need for students to work individually while completing assessments and demonstrating their individual understanding. 

However, we are a collaborative and digital school, and giving Year 13's an opportunity to return to their Primary and Intermediate Manaiakalani roots where they share their understanding as it emerges and as they complete tasks to build knowledge will hopefully prove beneficial for them :) 

Here are the links for the Year 13's blogs! 

        Aki      Asinate     Bobbigrace     Cherub     Fiu     Lana    Rachael     Rita     Sela

I also took the opportunity to remind them about reliability of sources of information on the web, and perhaps to warn any potential readers that their post is purely what they can remember from 2 years ago, and may not be completely correct!

2 comments:

  1. Hi Miss Wells and Year 13, this is pretty impressive for a. first day back on the job after Summer and b. recall from two years ago. I enjoyed reading the posts from you all. Diabetes is a massive problem and I entered a Uni study group about it a couple of years ago. I appear to be one of the lucky ones who is showing no disposition, so I am the 'control' group! Here's hoping their prediction for me is correct!

    Mrs Burt
    Manaiakalani

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