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Google Draw Comes To Life

There are always great tools with Google Suite which stands out as favourite tools to use. For our students one of those has always been Google Slides, but is that because it requires a lot less words to fill the space. After talking with students, it is just that, “because we don’t have to write so much.” How have we come to a time where no words have a language of their own? Why has this become more of a space to share our learning with photos. Well, today we are learning to extend our knowledge of how to use Google Draw. 

Last week we continued to use Google Draw and show our knowledge of Matariki as a way to share this knowledge. We made landscapes where each of our students used flip horizontally and the other tools available to us to make colour contrasts and incorporate foreground and background with our shapes.

Today, the skills and the understanding of what we can do with these tools is immense. I enjoy watching our students faces as they design and accomplish new art pieces which allow them to show evidence of their learning. So, focusing on what they have learned this term and also the highlights make it important for us to ensure we can visualise what we have learned and retain the knowledge.

Using google draw as a means to display what they have learned will harness the chance to use visual cues and emphasise that with other posts they may have had. Students are using google draw and insert to challenge themselves to make a display to review and showcase proud moments of Term 2. So for me, this is a time for reflection and focus back on what was learned at DFI.

Creative Tapa

Google Drawings

Creativity is part and parcel of what I would expect from our students. There are many skills which are more prevalent with the creative brain and using google drawing as part of this is certainly a handy tool for our students to express themselves.

With Google Drawings, our students are learning to use the tools to create google art in celebration of  Vaiaso o le Gagana Samoa. The theme for this week is ‘Mitamita i lau gagana, maua’a lou fa’asinomaga’  ‘Be proud of your language and grounded in your identity’.  Inspire those around us to be proud of who we are and where we come from by being creative when using art to share who we are.

What can we do to inspire each other to be proud of our language and to be grounded in our identities? Firstly, allow students to normalise their languages and embrace other languages and cultures to fill their ‘kete of knowledge’.  Ko te nuinga o te wā, kei te mahi e mātou i roto i te reo pākeha, ā, kua mahi e mātou i roto i te ao Māori. He pai ki a rātou, ngā ākonga, i te mahi o Tānga Kūkara. Kei a rātou ngā pūkenga hei whai matauranga i tēnei taupānga. Mauri Ora ki a koutou.