27/05/2021

Kia ora Koutou

Day 4 of Digital Fluency Intensive

MANAIAKALANI -PEDAGOGY   SHARE 

Tohatoha

The main message I took from today was that it is our job as educators to help children develop digital citizenship. To be safe, and become thoughtful, positive, helpful connected communicators. 

• We all like to share.
• We share in different ways and modes.
•  Children share to learn - new learning occurs because they shared or someone else shared.
• Sharing online provides an authentic audience.
• Young people are often hooked in by knowing their is an authentic audience.

This slide helped demonstrates the greater audience technology has created.

Before Youtube 2005 sharing was constrained by Time, Place, People - you needed to be there in real time.  

Google Learning today

Google Forms: I can see applications for my own teaching and planning, gathering student voice.    

Google My Map: Combining a google form and My Map was such a cool activity. This will be my homework this week to create something for the class to do.

Google Sheets:  This was the highlight for me today. Learning how to create a life assessment sheet and turning that assessment into a chart. Best tips- freezing titles, adding sum, block filing, colour coding, adding chart.

CLOSING COMMENT: Today was a good day's learning. My strategy was to take on a manageable amount of new learning in each session and be able to use that learning to create within the time frame allotted. I achieved this in all sessions - despite my efforts being very basic I am pleased with this outcome.

 20/05/2021

Day 3 of Digital Fluency Intensive

Day three was a much better pace - or maybe I am learning to move more quickly from tab to tab/ task to task, or better able to take out of each session some key points and leave the rest to re-visit another day. 

MANAIAKALANI -PEDAGOGY   CREATE 

Create lies in the centre of Learn-Create-Share. I took two key messages from Dorothy's talk. One relating to children's learning and one about teacher efficiency. 

CHILDREN 

• Children love to create.
• Our body needs to be doing when creating. If the hands are involved the head gets going. Stuart Middleton. 
• Creative skills help children become better problem solvers, communicators and collaborators.
• Technology helps helps children become creators of content, not merely consumers.

TEACHER

• Rewindable learning gives more time to create- greater efficiency with the mundane tasks of teaching. 

YOUTUBE

I managed to create a playlist for gymnastic warmups.  

GOOGLE DRAW

Enjoyed this session and will definitely explore google draw more. I was able to create About Me for the side bar of my blog but not able to place it. 

GOOGLE SLIDES

Below is a slide that I created by finding a background picture. Added 2 different audios to the slide - one reading and music in the background. 

I enjoyed today and feel chuffed that I was able to learn and create three useful activities. It was fun!

13/05/2021

Day 2 of Digital Fluency Intensive

Today was a rollercoaster ride.

                                           Manaiakalani Pedagogy

I really enjoyed Dorothy's talk on AKO-LEARN. 

Recognising effective teachers who are implementing effective practice is paramount for effective learning to take place for all our learners. I have definitely been concerned that with the huge increase of the use of technology in our classes, we could throw the baby out with the bath water. I also saw devices as just another tool for learning. 

This example of the delivery of The Treaty of Waitangi has created a positive mindset shift for me.                                       

Recognise:         I use these resources effectively to help my student learn.

Amplify:            I use some of these type resources effectively in my teaching.

Turbocharge:     These resources sound exciting and novel.

                           Do they encourage deep thinking?

                           Where do you get to know where these resources are? 

                           What do I need to do to make these resources part of my teaching?

USEFUL SKILLS I LEARNED TODAY

   

Google Meet: How to set up a google meet - with much help and patience from Phil

                        Presenting on my screen

                        Presenting, speaking, recording - retrieving and embedding video

                        Moving from one tab to another while presenting

Google Keep:    Sounded cool but I couldn't keep up so will need to go back and re-look at                             the learning.

Gmail:     I managed to insert a signature and logo - Yes!

                Short cuts g+i =inbox g+s= sent g+d= drafts  g+s=starred

                Explored the icons at the bottom of the new message sheet.

                Created folders

Calender:     I will definitely spent more time trying to work with a calendar. 

Taming Tabs: Most amazing finds of the day - 

                        How to pin tabs and know that you can move them around.

THE ROLLERCOASTER DIP

Wow this was a big day.

The task at the end of the day was almost too big. With the support of Andrea and Phil I was able to create a google meet and record myself talking about a blog. Every part of this task was new learning - it made me remember what it's like to be the slow kid in the class and how terrifying it is to make yourself that vulnerable.  Little steps.

To finish on a high note, it was great to get to know a little bit about our small bubble colleagues. 

               

DFI Week 1

Day One of Digital Fluency Intensive

Over all a good start.

MY UNDERSTANDING OF MANAIAKALANI KAUPAPA AND PEDAGOGY

The Manaiakalani Story: 

• The Hawaian name for the constellation of stars that the Maori followed on their journey back and forth from Hawaiiki.
• Learn/ Create/ Share
• Equity- this image says it all!
• The need to learn how to use 21 century tools to live and work in the 21 century. 

LEARNING THAT WILL IMPROVE MY PROFESSIONAL CONFIDENCE, CAPABILITY AND WORKFLOW EFFICIENCY.

Google Chrome

• Bookmark- grab picture of padlock and drag down

Google Groups 

• I will use this to set up a netball coaches emailing group. Yes.

Google Drive

• Having a tidy filing system will be much more efficient for me. Worth the time spent. 
• Things to consider: Name, Permissions, Order
• Beginning a folder for every year
• * in front to put the folder up the front. 
• Shift Z - add it to a folder
• Coloured folders !!!!
• Making a Sandpit folder for creating things in - this is a good idea for myself and students - these can then be moved when used.  

Google Docs

I really enjoyed this session because up until now I have mainly used Word documents and got frustrated trying to use-Docs. I really liked that you could work in the one space and complete a variety of tasks. I did not get very far creating a document but will persevere over this week. New Learning:

• Creating a table and then making the lines the same colour as the background is excellent for presenting professional looking documents. 
• Colourpick eye dropper made this even more efficient.
• Explore really useful for research, images, word development. 
• Remove a background was frustrating but once I found my way around it - fun for presentation.
• Table of contents
• Headings 

NEW LEARNING USEFUL WITH MY LEARNERS

The growth in my technology literacy and confidence (no matter how small)  will definitely help my learners. Any and all of the points above will, be help my students become more effective learners. Specifically:  

• Presentation skills
• The importance of creating good Filing systems 
• Research skills (Having a scavenger hunt is a great way for deeper learning and practicing tech skills
• Voice typing

LEARNING THAT WILL IMPROVE MY PERSONAL CONFIDENCE, CAPABILITY  AND WORKFLOW EFFICIENCY.

And here I have a dilemma. Work consumes many hours of our lives. Out of work time I love being outside in the garden, beach, forest, farm, visiting friends and family, and just chilling with my husband or a good book (not necessarily in that order).  Despite enjoying using 21 century tools, to upskill myself with this technology I will have to practice, practice, practice which will eat into this precious personal time.  

However, I have enjoyed today, learned many new skills from both the large group sessions and the small group bubbles (this made it easier to ask questions at our own level), I appreciated the support from Phil and am inspired to practice, practice, practice. I can't wait to share at least one new skill with my class tomorrow.