After a three week holiday that wasn't really a holiday, it was terrific to finally complete day 1 of distance learning. I was completely shocked to have so many eager, smiling faces waiting to see teachers and friends on their home screen this morning. Parents settled in enthusiastically to learning alongside their child, many enjoying the support they could give. Lots were eager to share their learning with their friends online.
What I've learnt from the past three weeks:
Sometimes we store away PD and then it becomes very relevant in a circumstance we were not expecting.
I have been tutuing away with my class site for a while now. I have only used it very basically in class and certainly wasn't using it in the way I was expected to. Now, I have a fully fledged class site that is the main pit stop for parents and students during distance learning. I am pretty glad I had other examples to copy off.
Problem solving is an important skill in a fast changing world.
It's like I totally had to change the way five year olds were going to access learning. I am still not 100% on how they will share it with me. But I had to really think about how my audience would think and then make something usable for them. I was keen for parent support and made that my focus.
When you have a clear goal you can learn very quickly.
I was adamant I wanted to make little videos to make it easy for parents and students to understand. So I sifted through a couple of options before being e-mailed screen castify links. I watched excellent tutorials and have been able to get some basic videos up in a short time.
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