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Thursday, 16 August 2018

DFI 16.08.18

What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?

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Authentic audience - raise achievement outcomes

Motivation - self - x because I have to

People choose to look/listen - need to be able to engage your audience

Blogger format used to share
Motivation - need to finish in order to share
Share in order to get feedback to improve work
Share once a day/subject to blog - high turnover - lots of sharing
Simon Scott - Blog
Teachers sharing - Looking and seeing what other teachers are doing
Need to build your audience
Can use blog data in maths

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?

How to: Live Stream

Crosscountry etc - Interschool sports!

Can also use Laptop Webcam - e.g. child reading to whānau - rules, guidelines around this - not live until sure about content etc.

Drone - kids can code and develop a flight path

Families can view if they can’t be there

YouTube
Creating playlists - find what you want first and use += button
Under name - creator studio - live streaming - camera/events - private then turn live when ready
Video Manager - playlist - edit - (can drag and order, add to another playlist), share, embed link, copy - go to blog HTML and paste - compose
<br>will give line space on my blog
CTRL shift N - incognito - paste link in  - get to see what the children will see
Kids put everything first to their drive - movies etc. - more access/control




What did I learn that could be used with my learners?  
Google Drawing - The tool for any task
Mind maps & Flow charts (https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1yWGnqPPpse24xfQSrWiwErubYIFtbLZg6oFE5nNflXM/edit?usp=sharing)
Collaborative example collections (https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1k6EfvpfIJUoV2yAWYY-AOqL0zqGcLFUlXg3fPZUAgqs/edit)
Word Banking (https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1lmJE1WcoXWNNV4HtpO71eJIm4G1pxeE5Qmi9c6tWpZk/edit)
Digital drawings (https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1GS8ljfNTCS7MnNWx7NwEaaLfJfOmFNz2Vv8f2zyD190/edit?usp=sharing)
Learning Menus (https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4MfP2V9ikkmbHQwdHNHYk9zTW8/view)
Comic Strips (https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1Vq3J3z6ZF2OWFK4-_8Kt-Mg6cRdao3PWNFvv8ZN0Zp4/edit)
Infographics (https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1xTUPJCqZPIHOE12m3qYReJ4SCcQnJylL5o8jvKGJI_0/edit)
Website Buttons (https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/19Y2vHQ_B7R2NZvNBsXFPdEFuVYAsjQQZfMRXwrSgPJs/edit?usp=sharing)
Storyboard
Visual Instructions (https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1sFF_hfH6Ge0I0wbRrAhEwElWv0zrJPT6hIEjmxd2hgw/edit)
Poster or Graphic (https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1SNibVqPTY_YzQz5e93vM_dyDU3Wq2w_9L7B5DHRI4l8/edit)
Editing and resizing  photos
Digital portraits (https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/12RaJ3at1LD6X1aMaJL-p3C-forakCsWX2S9qkBJxb-Y/edit?usp=sharing)


Pick a path story that can be created by children using slides



What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?
Putting links on to photos that will lead to information about the photo/person etc.

Thursday, 9 August 2018

DFI 09.08.18

What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?

  • Hook - doing
  • Developing skills of collaboration - x side by side on a doc etc.
  • Not necessarily using technology
  • Multiple senses
  • 6Cs 
What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?

  • Google Forms
  • Taking a photo with my computer - use draw, insert image, camera - file  and download as a JPEG so can be inserted
  • Now can have answers in quizzes - Settings - Quiz - add answers
  • Form for knowledge (basic facts) what they’d like to learn next
  • Spreadsheets
  • Autofill - corner and drag (monday, month, s/thing with # added
  • Cell  - text wrapping - when you have lots of text
  • List in a cell -  ALT enter
  • Names two in a cell  - data - split text 2 columns


  • Second set of data is added by edit chart - increase data range (DATA)
  • My Maps
  • Location - Add photos, information, icons
  • story/article map
  • Attractions of our area
  • Holidays
  • Add a layer - import
What did I learn that could be used with my learners?  

  • Use Google Form for getting learners to share their next learning steps
  • Spreadsheets can be used to teach rounding of decimal numbers
  • Get chn to graph their own learning data - books read etc. minutes reading at home - I can see that  this could be a powerful tool for motivating learners
  • My maps - great for tracking location in a story or article or as a tool for telling a story
  • Children who are away on holiday can share their experience in a variety of ways - movies, maps, pictures and using hangouts
What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?

Thursday, 2 August 2018

DFI 02.08.18


What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?

  • Manaiakalani does not dictate the learning that happens in individual schools - this is and always has been the a choice made by the school and community
  • Two tracks - infrastructure and teaching/learning - changing how we teach and learn - needs to have a positive/accelerated outcome - has to make a difference
  • Good practise remains good practise
  • Recognise effective practise in the digital environment
  • Amplify effective practise- share with each other (using digital technology)
  • Turbocharge use technology to add, reading - locate something to enhance what they have just read.

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?

  • That I can enhance the learning and learning experience by including things like Google Earth for looking at places that come up in lessons i.e. Thailand Cave Rescue
  • Can use my phone to voice record and share so that children can rewind learning
  • Extension - Toby - puts sites together if you want a number of tabs to open

What did I learn that could be used with my learners?
  • Child help child - screen record
  • Hangouts - Up to 50 - Mute when you are not talking - Headphone in a room with other people - Can be done on calendar - Share a doc and both work on it - Screencastify to record what’s happening on screen
What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?

Digital Fluency Intensive (DFI) 26.07.18



  • What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?
I learnt how important it is for me to have a good understanding of the technology that the children use. I need to check what skills they have (particularly at the beginning of the year).Technology is used to help the children engage with the curriculum and to raise achievement.
  • What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?
Can check on individuals by checking revision history and tool activity dashboard

  • What did I learn that could be used with my learners?  
Using Ctrl F for finding key information
Using Ctrl Shift V to paste (especially good for PDFs)
Voice to Text - how important this is for a number of my learners
Google Keep can be used to make copies of stories/article from SJ to be used with Reader/Write tools.
  • What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?
Google Keep - Shopping list!