TEACHER MEET, TUHI MAI TUHI ATU

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Today I joined the teacher meet with other teachers that are taking part in Tuhi Mai Tuhi Atu, this is a program  put in place to connect students with other students in different schools that are within Manaia Kalani. In today's session we discussed how to maintain blogging through distance learning. We had two teachers share how they are maintaining this, one was with year 3 and the other new entrants. Both have really thought about their whanau and how they will be able to best communicate with them to ensure that the learners are still able to share regardless of what devices are available.

A few tips I have learned from this meet are 

- Scheduling blog posts to keep on top of them. 
- Students are able to share to blog using email; this needs to be set up. 
- Scheduled posts allow for your blog to be active and will push readers onto learners blogs. 
- Get parents involved in activities. 
-  Provide different ways for parents to communicate with you; text, email etc.

One thing I really enjoyed was the sharing of the two classes blogs. I liked the idea of using google forms to allow students to ask questions. During DFI we had discussed this as a way for students to hand in work, I believe that also using it for student questions will be beneficial and easy to keep track of. By continuing blogging students are able to stay connected with their friends, teacher and wider world. I am excited to get this going leading into term 2 and to have students continuing with sharing their mahi.