Digital Fluency Intensive - Media

That was my takeaway from our sessions all about:

We started with a deep dive about live streaming by Kent Sommerville from Point England School. It was interesting hearing the way they have included live streaming into key school events like sports games and cross country. What a creative way to help more of their school community to access these events. 

Next Dothery talk about how all kids are born CREATE and how traditional school knocks it out of them. We talked about Ken Robinson and his excellent TED talks. 

"Creativity focuses on the process of forming original ideas through exploration and discovery. In children, creativity develops from their experiences with the process, rather than concern for the finished product. Creativity is not to be confused with talent, skill, or intelligence. Creativity is not about doing something better than others, it is about thinking, exploring, discovering, and imagining" Kohl, 2008 

“Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.”  John Dewey

How do we plan for 'create' in our daily teaching?

Next, we had some chalk and talked about Youtube and making a playlist. Check that your videos are set to unlisted.


The rest of the day was looking at Google Slides and Google Drawing. I enjoyed playing around with these tools I know so well.

A button for my blog using Google Draw

Self-portrait using Google Draw

And finally, my visual pepeha made using Google Slides.

Check that you use WHITE SPACE well! That your animations enhance the content and don't take away from your message! Think about adding in extra slides instead of the animation (stops mistakes when sharing) and remember to use your arrows when presenting.