Engaging Diverse Akonga

After having many discussions around creating a presentation of engaging reluctant akonga I have come up with  a series of modifications to my presentation to enable me to engage more with the staff.

• I do not want to be the expert model and give them a bunch of apps and then leave. So I have looked at using another facilitator's idea of disability simulators which I renamed Diversity Simulators so not to get teachers thinking about the extreme students. 
• This simulation gets teachers hopefully thinking about the barriers that a lot of children have to learning.
• I have tried to put a positive message with changing the title from Reluctant Akonga to Diverse Akonga
• I have used padlets , a shared doc and google form to get staff involved in discussion and have created and shared links to the presentation, research and resources for allowing follow up down the track as well as linking all this to the schools VLN page
• I test ran the presentation at my old school and got some positive feedback to continue to develop the session.

Bring on the session next Thursday!

UDL in the staff room - engagement beyond lollies?

My challenge today is to create a staff meeting on Engaging Reluctant Akonga using the UDL Principles and try to create a more interactive presentation that connects with weary teachers at the end of a day.

This is my process for the day.

UDL in the staff room - engagement beyond lollies?

http://www.vln.school.nz/discussion/view/809458

In the previous post I spoke about my own disengagement in PD. Why was I disengaged?
Purpose of PD / How could I use it?
Delivery of content
Connection back to the learners
reflection / revisiting and a chance to chat with others to build my practise.

I am going to model the staff meeting around the Golden Circle Why/How/What.

To quote a famous not your average - Forrest Gump " I'm not a smart man but I do know what love is"  so I am going to take pieces / ideas that I love from different people to create my presentation.

Html for the VLN page I created around this presentation. Feel free to use just add your own doc, form and padlet.

<p><iframe style="padding: 0; margin: 0; border: none;" src="http://padlet.com/embed/wikqeuqoby" frameborder="0" width="100%" height="480px"></iframe></p>

<div style="border-top: 2px solid #a7d23a; padding: 8px; margin: 0; font-size: 12px; text-align: right;"><a href="http://padlet.com">Created with Padlet<img src="http://padlet.com/favicon.ico" border="0" alt="image" style="margin: 0 0 0 10px; padding: 0; border: none; width: 16px; height: 16px;" /></a></div>

<h4><a href="http://padlet.com/wall/wikqeuqoby" target="_blank">http://padlet.com/wall/wikqeuqoby</a></h4>

<p><img src="https://chart.googleapis.com/chart?cht=qr&amp;chs=128x128&amp;chl=http%3A%2F%2Fpadlet.com%2Fwall%2Fwikqeuqoby" border="0" alt="image" width="128" height="128" /></p>

<table style="background-color: #99ff66; width: 100%;" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="3">

<tbody>

<tr>

<td style="text-align: center;"><iframe src="YOUR OWN GOOGLE DOC URL" frameborder="0" width="700" height="900"></iframe></td>

</tr>

</tbody>

</table>

<p>http://www.tubechop.com/watch/1527279&nbsp;</p>

<p><iframe src="YOUR OWN GOOGLE FORM URL" frameborder="0" width="760" height="500"></iframe></p>

<p>http://udltechtoolkit.wikispaces.com/</p>

<p>Links to Resources</p>

<p><a href="http://udltechtoolkit.wikispaces.com/Multimedia+and+digital+storytelling">Digital Storytelling and Multimedia</a></p>

<p><a href="http://udltechtoolkit.wikispaces.com/Free+text+to+speech">Text to Speech</a>&nbsp;- great for kids to reread work or present to the class&nbsp;</p>

<p><a href="http://talktyper.com/">Speech to Text</a>&nbsp;- great for poor spellers. For use on a laptop / PC</p>

<p>Tellagami</p>

<table style="background-color: #00ff00; width: 100%;" border="1" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="3">

<tbody>

<tr>

<td><img src="https://si0.twimg.com/profile_images/378800000083557406/0d28c791289ac730bc63a143bfaae3eb.png" border="0" alt="image" width="75" height="75" /></td>

<td>

<table border="1" cellspacing="0">

<tbody>

<tr>

<td>

<p><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />&nbsp;<span>&nbsp;</span><strong>Tellagami&nbsp;</strong><br /><br /><span>Construct an avatar, upload a background or use one of theirs. Record your voice or type text. Export to Camera Roll or get the embed code.</span></p>

<p><span><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/nz/app/tellagami/id572737805?mt=8" target="_blank">https://itunes.apple.com/nz/app/tellagami/id572737805?mt=8</a><br /><br /><span>iPod Touch, iPhone, iPad</span>&nbsp;</span></p>

</td>

</tr>

</tbody>

</table>

</td>

</tr>

</tbody>

</table>

<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLZdmypkSaI">Speak Selection on the iPad</a>&nbsp;- Allanah King goes through a tutorial on Speak Selection<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/initialipadsetup/home">Allanah King's Initial iPad Setup Site</a>- Allanah has spent a great deal of money on apps. Only the best apps make it onto this site. Well worth a look.</p>

Google Presentation of Engaging Diverse Akonga