Naketa Ikihele has encouraged teams to look at and share their personal and teaching journeys using multimedia. Sharing histories and journeys as a team builds solid foundations and provides opportunities to recognise the huge experience and richness that each team member brings. Naketa challenges us to honour our own journeys and to share in the journeys of others.
Fakaalofa lahi atu. My name is Naketa Ikihele. I'm talking about digital storytelling for team building. And what we have done in the past is I've encouraged teams to look at their journeys. And we share our journey into the space that we're in. So where have you been? What brought you into teaching? What provoked you to be a teacher and what is it that you enjoy about teaching? And we mindmap that out so that we are sharing our histories and our journeys together as a team.
And the next step to that is looking at using digital storytelling as a way to bring multimedia in, so audio, video, things like images from when you were born right up until you were a teacher. And our journeys really, when we share them as a team, it really builds solid foundations. And it gives us opportunity to look in the huge experience and richness that we bring to the team.
And so as part of what I've been doing for the last five years is encouraging teams to create digital stories about who they are and we call them ko wai au. Ko wai au means 'who am I' and one of the quotes I often use is "in order to know where you're going you need to know where you've come from". Sharing that as a team is really valuable.
One of the benefits of doing digital storytelling and looking at our past and our journeys into teaching is to look at the notion of identity, language, and culture. One particular team I worked with was a very multicultural staff and it was at that point where people realised "wow I didn't realise what she'd come from and the struggle that she'd faced". And it doesn't always have to be a struggle but the culture of different teachers, we don't really get time to sit down and think about that. And digital storytelling is a way that you as a creator can choose what to share with your team members and open up your heart and your mind and it really does form those strong relationships in your team.
So probably my challenge to you teachers out there is to start with honouring your own journeys. Have a little team building session where you mindmap how you came into teaching, what excites you about teaching, what you enjoy about teaching. And in the hard days and those days where you're feeling this is all too much, the paperwork has got too much, remember the excitement you see in children and go back to that. And share them with the team, new members, get them to do their journeys. And when you are sharing them digitally, the music and the images provoke so much emotion and that emotion will get you through the hardest times.
Naketa Ikihele has encouraged teams to look at and share their personal and teaching journeys using multimedia. Sharing histories and journeys as a team builds solid foundations and provides opportunities to recognise the huge experience and richness that each team member brings. Naketa challenges us to honour our own journeys and to share in the journeys of others.
Fakaalofa lahi atu. My name is Naketa Ikihele. I'm talking about digital storytelling for team building. And what we have done in the past is I've encouraged teams to look at their journeys. And we share our journey into the space that we're in. So where have you been? What brought you into teaching? What provoked you to be a teacher and what is it that you enjoy about teaching? And we mindmap that out so that we are sharing our histories and our journeys together as a team.
And the next step to that is looking at using digital storytelling as a way to bring multimedia in, so audio, video, things like images from when you were born right up until you were a teacher. And our journeys really, when we share them as a team, it really builds solid foundations. And it gives us opportunity to look in the huge experience and richness that we bring to the team.
And so as part of what I've been doing for the last five years is encouraging teams to create digital stories about who they are and we call them ko wai au. Ko wai au means 'who am I' and one of the quotes I often use is "in order to know where you're going you need to know where you've come from". Sharing that as a team is really valuable.
One of the benefits of doing digital storytelling and looking at our past and our journeys into teaching is to look at the notion of identity, language, and culture. One particular team I worked with was a very multicultural staff and it was at that point where people realised "wow I didn't realise what she'd come from and the struggle that she'd faced". And it doesn't always have to be a struggle but the culture of different teachers, we don't really get time to sit down and think about that. And digital storytelling is a way that you as a creator can choose what to share with your team members and open up your heart and your mind and it really does form those strong relationships in your team.
So probably my challenge to you teachers out there is to start with honouring your own journeys. Have a little team building session where you mindmap how you came into teaching, what excites you about teaching, what you enjoy about teaching. And in the hard days and those days where you're feeling this is all too much, the paperwork has got too much, remember the excitement you see in children and go back to that. And share them with the team, new members, get them to do their journeys. And when you are sharing them digitally, the music and the images provoke so much emotion and that emotion will get you through the hardest times.
Naketa Ikihele has encouraged teams to look at and share their personal and teaching journeys using multimedia. Sharing histories and journeys as a team builds solid foundations and provides opportunities to recognise the huge experience and richness that each team member brings. Naketa challenges us to honour our own journeys and to share in the journeys of others.
Fakaalofa lahi atu. My name is Naketa Ikihele. I'm talking about digital storytelling for team building. And what we have done in the past is I've encouraged teams to look at their journeys. And we share our journey into the space that we're in. So where have you been? What brought you into teaching? What provoked you to be a teacher and what is it that you enjoy about teaching? And we mindmap that out so that we are sharing our histories and our journeys together as a team.
And the next step to that is looking at using digital storytelling as a way to bring multimedia in, so audio, video, things like images from when you were born right up until you were a teacher. And our journeys really, when we share them as a team, it really builds solid foundations. And it gives us opportunity to look in the huge experience and richness that we bring to the team.
And so as part of what I've been doing for the last five years is encouraging teams to create digital stories about who they are and we call them ko wai au. Ko wai au means 'who am I' and one of the quotes I often use is "in order to know where you're going you need to know where you've come from". Sharing that as a team is really valuable.
One of the benefits of doing digital storytelling and looking at our past and our journeys into teaching is to look at the notion of identity, language, and culture. One particular team I worked with was a very multicultural staff and it was at that point where people realised "wow I didn't realise what she'd come from and the struggle that she'd faced". And it doesn't always have to be a struggle but the culture of different teachers, we don't really get time to sit down and think about that. And digital storytelling is a way that you as a creator can choose what to share with your team members and open up your heart and your mind and it really does form those strong relationships in your team.
So probably my challenge to you teachers out there is to start with honouring your own journeys. Have a little team building session where you mindmap how you came into teaching, what excites you about teaching, what you enjoy about teaching. And in the hard days and those days where you're feeling this is all too much, the paperwork has got too much, remember the excitement you see in children and go back to that. And share them with the team, new members, get them to do their journeys. And when you are sharing them digitally, the music and the images provoke so much emotion and that emotion will get you through the hardest times.
Laetitia de Vries from Wanaka Primary School tells us about her newsboard programme. Letitia had noticed that her students needed support with oral language development, so she instigated a video programme to allow students to see and hear themselves, and therefore self assess and make improvements.
Marilyn Small discusses how the introduction of ultrafast broadband has enabled her students to produce quality television programming and reach a wider audience.
Jason Ohler is a professor emeritus in educational technology. He was a keynote speaker at ULearn2012. Jason argues that we need to acknowledge that we now expect students to write media, and this means that art and design have become the 'fourth R', an essential literacy.
