Getting started with LEARNZ
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Now what? There is no fixed way to ‘do’ LEARNZ, but here are some initial ideas …
1. Get Inspired
- Watch the LEARNZ promotional video from LEARNZ on Vimeo, below
2. LEARN
- Play a recorded PLD webinar about a specific LEARNZ field trip
- Access the 3-minute video tutorial Setting up MyLEARNZ , below
- Use your personal login to access a previous virtual field trip
- Find out what a LEARNZ virtual field trip looks and feels like by logging in and stepping down through the left menu items of a field trip's web site
- Access the recorded webinar Using LEARNZ
- Follow LEARNZ on social media
- Browse and join the LEARNZ group on EdSpace
- Go to testimonials to read what teachers have said about their LEARNZ experience
- Contact us by emailing a question or by contacting a member of the LEARNZ team from our Contact page.
3. Choose a trip and enrol
- Select a field trip from the field trip chooser
- At MyLEARNZ create a class/class login then enrol your class in a trip
4. Prepare your students
- Access a field trip from the Field Trip Chooser
- Read the 3 e-newsletters sent 1 month, 2 weeks and 3 days before the trip
- Give the class login to students/parents/caregivers
- Visit the field trip web site - goes live one month before the trip
- Use the intro video, background pages and activities
- Get students to create their own questions
- Book a slot to ask questions during a web conference
- Book an ambassador to travel on the field trip
- Go to the Support section for help
5. Do the field trip
- Decide what you/students would like to do:
- View and answer questions from videos
- Put questions to experts during a live web conference
- Join the LEARNZ Zoom Room for live web conferences
- Read daily diaries
- View photos and other images such as panoramas
- Follow ambassador adventures
- Explore expert profiles and their career pathways
- Think of a way to bring the learning together (create a power point, a poster, a movie, a play)
6. Reflect
- Read the 2 e-newsletters sent 3 days and 1 month after the trip
- Review learning outcomes and actions
- Go on your own field trip or class visit
- Invite a visiting speaker to visit your class or school
- Complete the LEARNZ evaluation form at MyLEARNZ
- Think about and enrol in the next LEARNZ trip - go to the Field Trip Chooser
Once you’ve done one LEARNZ trip you will see how you can blend in other learning opportunities. There are endless ways to extend the LEARNZ field trip experience including going on another one …
