Get Ready for Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori! 

Kōanga/Spring brings the sunshine, warmth, putiputi (flowers), and is a fab time to let your creative buds grow and blossom!

This newsletter has tons of resources to get the brain-sparks flying in your kura during Mahuru Māori, and especially Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori (Week 8 - Sep 12-18).

Enjoy! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Vivian, Mati, Geoff, Maikara, Zoe, Kawana, Krishna, Zhe, Chris, & Maggie 
Team EDU @ OMGTech!

Reo Māori Resources

Get ready for Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori with these rauemi rawe (awesome resources):

  • Record Your Reo - our first Aotearoa-centric Scratch card! This activity helps ākonga research, record, and play kupu (words) in Scratch.
  • Ka taea e au - iPad tech skills bingo for your ākonga! Created by Paula Jamieson & Layla Rask.
  • Te Mana o te Reo Timeline - shows a number of significant milestones of the Māori language over the last 250 years.
  • Waka Tāonga - learn about waka and design and animate your own in Scratch through our Ākonga Wharenui platform. It is FREE to register!!!
  • Bilingual classroom signs - we’ve made some awesome signs of tech kupu (words) that you can print out for your classroom.
  • Taringa Podcast - with over 250 episodes, this podcast is perfect for growing your own reo and understanding of Te Ao Māori.
  • More Reo resources for you and your class

Bits & Bytes

Learning from E-Waste

You can turn old phones into awesome learning experiences for your class!

This blog post from our awesome facilitator, Geoff, explains how. 😎📱

10 Free Design Tools

  • SocialSizes.io - get the right size images with social sizes
  • Smart Mockups - create stunning product mockups easily and online
  • Gradihunt - create auto-generated gradient backgrounds
  • Gimp - a free and open-source image editor
  • Colorbook - choose colour combinations
  • Wordmark - help you choose the best font
  • Coverr - get free quality stock video footage
  • Undraw - free illustrated drawings for your presentations or website
  • Iconfinder - find awesome icons to add spark to your designs
  • CloudConvert - an online file converter that supports nearly all formats

Source: Tessa Davis (Original Tweet)

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