Gerhard introduced us to hapara. I have been using this for a number of years and had self taught myself. A couple of things I had missed during my self teaching.
- I can drag and drop the students into an order that suits me meaning I can put my target students together or at the top - very useful
- I can track blog posts in hapara and see what comments have been made on individual blogs
I liked Gerhard's idea of giving them 10 minutes before morning tea on a Friday to make sure everything in the unshared tab in hapara is filed correctly. Once filed individuals can go to early morning tea.
An interesting thought from this session was around the use of highlights and to continue to be respectful to students. Just because we can put highlights up on the class tv and instruct students to be in the right place, doesn't mean we should do this.
I learnt quite a few shortcuts for the Chromebook which will be useful. In particular:
- ctrl B to get off full screen.
- ctrl O to restore zoom
- ctrl shift t to open closed tabs
- ctrl backspace to delete the last word
- lock screen - search l
We had a look at explain everything. The app on the class ipad is not up to date and probably not worth using. There is an online one that the students could use. Although there are a limited number of projects that can be created. I had a play and created a very simple Explain Everything project to see if it worked. Here it is here.
and this is the link to the site whiteboard.explaineverything.com
Wow Sue your Blog posts are very well formatted. I enjoyed learning the short cuts on the chrome books too.
ReplyDeleteGood on you Sue. It's so nice to have time to play with these new apps and see where they will fit into our learning. Hapara is certainly very powerful and well done on teaching yourself how to use it. There are so many shortcuts available to us, so by putting those that have meaning to you on your blog, means you will be able to find them.
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