The Manaiakalani Cluster Website
Learning how to write a positive comment
Learn: Identify opportunities to focus learners on how to respond positively to what has been shared on the blog.
Some preparation required for the following activities in response to your learners.
Begin with a shared conversation - on the class big screen and/or with their device learners can demonstrate the following:
navigate to their class blog
locate the recent comments gadget
locate any new comments on a blog
locate the comments link and recognise how many comments a post has.
identify who wrote the comment
locate the link to their Tuhi Mai Tuhi Atu team blogs
locate and read a published comment on their device
locate the individual blog feed on the class blog and can connect as above.
This is a useful warm up activity at the beginning of a lesson while learners are retrieving devices and getting set up e.g.
"When you are online check the class blog to see if we have any new comments."
2. Plan for opportunities to connect your learners with positive vocabulary in meaningful contexts. Select in response to your learners' context.
Create: Build a blog comment for a blog post from your Tuhi mai tuhi atu Team.
Chromebook
Learners make a copy of the Google Draw and use the fridge magnets to build a positive comment in response to a post from your Tuhi Mai Tuhi Atu Team.
Encourage learners to reference the word banks/printable cards if helpful.
Model with your learners on your big screen.
iPad
Copy the slide, pursonalise and share on your class site.
Recommendations for how you might use this slide are in the slide notes.
Select blog posts, that resonate with your learners to respond to.
Model with your learners on your big screen.
Step It Up:
Learners record themselves reading their comments.
Upload recording as a video file to Google Drive
Share: Class and or individual blogs
Chromebooks:
Share a screenshot of the fridge with the comment built from magnets.
Include a recommendation for writing a positive comment with your screenshot
Co construct this as a blog post on the class blog to model and if learners do not have individual blogs
iPads:
Upload one of the EE slides as an image to Google Drive to share on individual or class blogs
Step It Up:
Share recording on the class/individual blogs.