The Weekly Stretch
The requirement to address the learning needs of students at Tamaki College is a key motivational strategy and developing a literacy site is an essential part of professional practice at Tamaki College. Ensuring all teachers have access to the various elements of literacy enhancement is a process which needs visibility.
The Teacher Council's draft of Professional Standards for the Teaching Profession offered an excellent way to practise our embedding skills as we created links to each set of criteria. Thank you again to Dorothy and James for their patience as we negotiated the tricky field of HTML sizing and resizing.
Along with a little help from Lenva, Youtube tutorials and a workshop on Avatars there is now a nascent literacy site for Tamaki College titled Literacy Blend. There is just a hint of the caffeine which seems to fuel the staff on a two-hourly basis.
The next task will involve making the site a little more dynamic with a few bells and whistles while linking it to electronic resources such as Quizzlit, Rewordify and Newsela.
Kia ora Marc,
ReplyDeleteA cracking reflection and you can see you've got the 'bit between your teeth' with this. I cannot wait to keep in touch and watch The Literacy Blend grow into a strong resource. Remember to use online tutorials when stuck- someone on the internet will know the answer, it's just a case of knowing how to ask the question.
Thanks for sharing this and good luck with the ongoing building.
James