Category: Storypark
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Tips for getting the most out of Storypark
There are a whole range of ways you can get the most out of Storypark! The following are a list of tips and suggestions to help you and your team get the most out of Storypark. Each tip links to a help centre resource, and these can be shared with your team all at once or one-by-one over time. Share resources...
Mat Time chats at the 53rd Annual ECNZ Conference 2016
Did you attend the 2016 Te Rito Maioha conference this year? Missed some talks that you really wanted to see? Well we’ve got that for you! Watch this highlights reel of some of the fabulous speakers who presented. And while you’re there, you really should subscribe to the Storypark YouTube channel for early learning inspiration. We share regular videos to...
Storypark is the platform of choice for IB schools
This blog post was written by Matt Dolmont who is the IB PYP Technology Coach at ISPP The International School of Phnom Penh (ISPP) is a non-profit IB World School based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. It hosts learners of over 50 different nationalities from Early Years (pre-kindergarten) to Diploma (Grade 12). Increasingly, families turned to the teacher’s school blog to get weekly...
Using the right avenue to engage with vulnerable families
Around three years ago, in an early learning centre, a child was placed under a protection order to attend five days a week because the child’s mum was unable to adequately support his learning and development. This is a scenario that plays out across Australia more than we would like. Many of you reading will be familiar with this type...
Changing the presentation of your stories
You have spent the time and effort to create an amazing story, capturing a child’s learning moments and shared your insights on how that child’s emergent interests can best be supported. Now you want that story to pop out. Storypark allows you to select from an array of formatting options so that you can quickly and easily set it apart....
Children moving between services
One of the great things about Storypark is that it can follow the child. That means that when a child comes to you from another learning service, or maybe returns to your service after a time away, you can have access to the learning that was captured before they came to your service. So you will be able to understand...
Spell check
You have just created a detailed learning story for one of the children at your learning service. You have captured the child’s learning in that moment, intentionally recognised the learning that has occurred, and expounded on how this learning/interest can be extended or more complexity added. You click publish to send it off to the parent… and that’s when you...
Changing rooms
Moving from one room to another can be a very important transition for a child. With Storypark, the aim is to make that transition as simple as possible. Rooms in Storypark are just a way of sorting through the full list of children you have at your centre. That makes it simpler for when teachers are creating stories and selecting...
Families with multiple children at a centre
It is always great when a child’s brother or sister starts at your centre. So we want to make sure that it is as simple as possible to share that with the parents. That means you can invite them with the same email address for each child, in the same straightforward way as you do for any child. First of...
Making family admins
Storypark only allows one parent to be invited for each child, so that there is less chance of the wrong parent being invited for a child. That does mean though that when one parent has been invited, they need to invite the other parent as family. However, there is a way they can give them the same visibility of community...