Just been to my first Educamp in Auckland at Tamaki College. Thanks heaps to all the other

engaged, innovated, inspiring people that made the day great.

It is time for me to reflect on what happened and what I learned and try to condense the wonderful day into mere words and concepts.

Learning Spaces

My main discussions that stimulated my thinking were about using different learning spaces for Hapara Workspace and see how that can work. I have got high expectations as it is designed as a tool to achieve this outcome of a learning space.

students in the digital environment, the main ones that we talked about were the new Hapara Workspace and Google Sites. While I have not got a full understanding of Hapara Workspaces yet I have used Google sites for this. There were several teachers using Sites successfully in lots of different way to interact with students. The sorts of things I saw were sharing docs from drive,

calendars, videos, instructions.

I found that it worked when I did it but took a lot of maintenance that didn’t directly benefit the learning outcomes for my students. I am keen to have a really close look look at the

The second thing that caught my attention was Tanya talking about blogging. She talked about a platform called medium (and now here I am) that is designed on research about the best format for readers of an internet blog. I like the idea of a theme/layout that makes it easier for readers and is based on research. I think I will take a closer look at Worpress.com to try and make my blogs more accessible for people as well.