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Does digital documentation replace face-to-face conversations between parents and educators?
Does digital documentation replace face-to-face conversations between parents and educators? The answer may surprise you! New research completed out of the University of Toronto on the use of a digital documentation technology (called Storypark) has dispelled the common misconception that the use of this technology will result in less face-to-face interactions between educators and parents. Dr. M.E. Picher, the author...
Want a Consistent Approach to Your Planning? Would a Template Help?
Want a consistent approach to your planning? Would a template help? Planning templates provide consistency and continuity, supporting all of your team to use the same format when collecting information and evidence. We have 12 pre-populated templates for you to use, which you can adapt to suit the way you work, using the language your community and educators are familiar...
Creative And Valuable Ways To Use The Storypark Conversations Feature
Creative and valuable ways to use the Storypark conversations feature Looking for creative and valuable ways to use the conversations feature on Storypark? We have some simple ideas to help you get the most out of this fantastic tool that will support you to communicate, connect and share with others in your learning community. A quick and easy way to...
5 Tips To Get The Most Out Of The Reporting Feature
5 Tips To Get The Most Out Of The Reporting Feature Have you ever wanted to know more about the reports feature but haven’t had a chance to explore its capabilities? We’ve put together 5 handy tips for getting the most out of Storypark’s reports feature. Monitor learning trends and activity at your learning service If you want to better...
Welcoming New Families to Your Service
Welcoming New Families to Your Learning Service Choosing an early childhood service is a significant decision for most parents of young children. Having strategies to make new families feel welcome and included is so important. Here are some tried and tested suggestions to help a new child and their family feel a sense of belonging in your learning service: Keep in...
Improving Engagement With Parents
Storypark’s purpose is to help every child fulfil their unique potential, by connecting and empowering the community around them. A key part of how we seek to achieve this is by sharing each child’s learning with their family and seeking feedback to extend each child’s unique interests. One of the most requested features from both educators and families has been...
Technology is a gamechanger at Central Michigan learning lab
Mount Pleasant in Central Michigan is home to one of the state’s largest universities. Central Michigan University, with 20,000 students, almost double the population of the city and is known as a “college town”. From its beginnings as a teacher’s college, the university now offers programs ranging from health and science, engineering, business and communications, and technology. The student and...
Stronger together
Stronger together: The power of digital documentation when working with families who speak other languages With increasing numbers of people emigrating from their home countries to far off lands, educators all across the world are now working with diverse communities of children and families. This diversity is something that we celebrate, as we seek to learn more about and incorporate...
Communicating the Benefits of Art Therapy
Veronica Bestall has a vision. A vision to create more awareness of the benefits Art Therapy provides for understanding emotions, being fully self-expressed, processing grief and trauma and developing healthy social skills. Storypark is helping her do this. Veronica shared with us how she is using Storypark to support children with ASD and anxiety who attend art therapy sessions at...
End of year transitions
It’s beginning to look a lot like… well, that time of the year when you seem to have even less time in the day than you do the rest of the year. Things always seem to be that much more hectic as the “silly” season looms closer. As we head towards the end of the year, there is a mountain...