DFI Day 9- External recognition

 Can't Imagine!!! Day 9 , The final day of the training and ecternal certification!  Time flies. I really enjoyed all the DFI sessions and gained a lot of digital skills where each session was interactive, interesting and fruitful. I believe DFI is an amazing platform for teachers to learn, refresh, create, share and stay connected. Dorothy's session helped me to gain more information about Manaiakalani and the programms they learn. I feel previleged to be a part of this amazing community. With DFI training, I perceive empowered.

Dorothy talked about different opportunities that are available to teachers and how we can empower others with the knowledge we have gained through these 9 weeks. To stay conncected we have been added to DFI alumni groups.

while doing google certification 1, there were some technical difficulties which were annoying. However those were resolved by the facilitators. I got my first Google badge and a certificate. I'm so thrilled. 

  

I am grateful to my facilitator Naomi and other facilitators for their efforts and guidance without which this wouldn't be possible.

DFI Day 8 Computational Thinking

 Day started with Karakia led by Vicki and then followed by connecting with each other in our bubble group. Everyone shared their week and the previous learning that they have used in the class and if they find anything difficult or if they need any help with something.

Connecting with Manaiakalani- Dorothy

Being Empowered and making our learners and whanau empowered, can help us thrive in this continuously changing world digitally. The word agency is changed with Empowerment because it was regarded as taking choices away from learners and whanau. Children from low socio economic income have known far more less words than higher socio economic income. Technology can absolutely strengthen and empower our learners and whanau. we can change circumtances to empower young people through education. We can develop oral language and enable them to learn. Equity, choice and power  EDOS is available to whanau and they can get inernet at home  free of charge. Manaiakalani want to empower the eductors so that they can empower learners.  

 Future of Tech- Amie

Technology is changing every second. Our future job , communities and societies will be totally different than what we have today.  We have to think and empower ourselves to what future technology could bring to us. At the same time, we have to think how can we empower our learners for future jobs.

Intro to computational thinking- Vicki

 I totally agree that DFI program has really empowered me and gave me the confidence to use specific digital technologies to teach and assess my learners. Digital technology curriculum  involves computational language and the fundamentals. Progress outcome includes breaking down non-computerise task, using algorithm,sequencing, identifying errors and rectifying those errors. This session was really helpful for me as I intend  to teach DT next year.

We looked at different DT outcomes on TKI. I know some of the programms that kids used. However, there were many new DT which I haven't heard of. I tried some of coding programmes during exploring time. I tried scratch pad and Minecraft. It was fun and at some point frustrating when I couldn't achieve what I wanted to achieve. Long way to go!!!!!

Create and share

 DFI Day 7 Devices Agenda

Ubiquitous learning is accissible to anyone at anytime. Learning can happen when we are out of class. learners can have high quality learning despite teachers not being in the class. Visible teaching will allow rewindable learning for students. It provides new opportunity for learning which wasn't available previously. There are many tools available for teachers to use to create rewindable content. However, teachers should keep in mind that learners are able to find the content easily.

 Cybersmart:

Cybersmart learning as a whole school is very vital as learnrers will be hearning the common language through out their schooling. By being cybersmart, learners can become internet smart, internet brave, internet kind, internt alert, internet strong. Being cyber smart includes smart learners, smart footprints, smart relationship, smart teachers, smart parents, smart money  and many more. Empowered learners are confident, connected and are life long learners.

Hapara Hot tips:

 I found this very helpful as I use Hapara for all my classes. I didn't explore the progress tab earlier. I think this is very helpful for me to see how students are doing, who have submitted and who haven't started it. I learnt how can I comment on student's work from workspace. 

Manaiakalani Journey and life as a chromebook user :

Partnership, Participation and protection were fundamental thought of Manaiakalani to provide device to each and every student.

I learnt so many different  short cuts. I feel this was  a great learning opportunity as sometimes learners uses it in the class and I don't know how that happened and what I can do.

Screencastify:

We can create rewindable learning experience by capturing screen recording . There are many different tools available for different devices. Such as Screencastify, Quicktime and Screencast for chrome. We will be creating a screencast video today in our create session.

Whiteboard EE:

Screencastify video-Share

https://watch.screencastify.com/v/nlLRhKgIlFQAIof7xiNw

DFI Day 6 - Enabling Access- sites

 Morning started with Karakia and then we went to our bubble to discuss what's working and what's not and what help we need with the sites.

Connecting with Manaiakalani- Dorathy

Rangitamaro- Idea of being connected was the main focus. How Manaiakalani cluster started to grow with many school joining in. We have a shared language that we have in common help us to build and be able to upskill to achieve common objective of create, learn and share. Manaiakalani helps educators in many ways to support the journey.  

Connecting with teachers and learners is very important: Tuhi Mai and Tuhi Atu and secondary connect is great opportunity for teachers and learners to connec and sharet with others and enrich teaching and learning.

Learning using Google sites- Vicki

Create and share:

We looked at other people sites and discussed visual appeal and user experience and positives and negatives. I haven't made any sites yet. It is an insighful day for me. I learnt how to create site and a button. I started making my own site. We had a look at others site too. It's still in initial stage.

My site

DFI Day 5 Collaborate sites

 Today's day started with Karakia and then followed by grouping into digital bubble. We shared what worked well and what didn't and what we want to learn. 

Connecting with Manaiakalani- Dorothy

Dorathy shared about Kaupapa which is making teaching and learning visible. It is important to apply the learning visible to our students. Teaching material should be visible to learners, whanau, teachers and collegues. Making learning visible helps learners to use many different resources to understand the topic and whanau can help them to learn too.  Intentional use of technology can be a game changer and we can take it to another level. Google site is one of the tool to design learning visible. The idea behind it is  no surprises. Making learning accessible, available and visible takes the element of surprise away.

 

Hapara Hot Tips- Vicki

We looked at Hapara Highlights. 

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Multi Modal- Vicki

The way we communicate with each other has changed drastically.  Engagemeent pesonalised learning and  empowering isimportant to learners success . If studnents are not engaged and are not hooked, then we won't be able to  achieve the goal. While creating a  learning site, it is  vital  to think how can we engage our students with visual appeal, personalised learning,  different ways of representing content learning on the site. 

Exploring the sites

In our bubble we looked at different Multi Modal sites. I am very impressed with the sites and got some great ideas how people organise their sites. 

Creating and sharing a Multi Modal  site:

My Site

 DFI- Day 4- Dealing with Data

Day started with Karakia by Vicki. We were put in the bubble to share how was the week and have we used anything and how it went. Naomi  taught how to get embed codes from Google doc, slides, forms and where to put it in the blog. 

Connecting with Manaiakalani -Dorothy Burt

Dorothy continue with pedagogy create, share and learn. Today's focus was Tohatoha(share). Sharing is not something new but it was there since ages. However, the way we share things have changed. Digital world and the features like  speed and emplification changed dramatically since 2005. Social media is a powerful tool to either post, comment or giving feedback. I totally agree that using social media has really caught attention of students interms of engagement. Sharing with purpose and having the authentic audiance is very important.

the pilot teachers were given choices to use different platform such as fliker, facebook and other platforms. the conclusion was to use blogger is more effective. Sharing is part of connceting with people.

Chalk and Talk with Naomi

Naomi went through the features of Google form. I use google form but not quite often. I need to explore more and learn to use the settings as per my requirement. I created a google form. Due to internet issues, I couldn't do much. However, here is the link to my google form.

Hapara top tips with Jacob

Hapara sharing tab is useful for further visibility and insight into student's drive. Student can arrange the work into right folders.

Google My Map with Phil

 I have never used My Maps. This is something new for me to explore. I learned measuring distances and area. I explored some functions and need more time to practice it.

Google Sheets with Vicki

I am a beginner level user of Google sheets. I learned a lot in this session. I didn't know about freezing row and column. I used to go forth and back to check if I'm looking at the right data for particular student. This is a life saver!! I still need to use more functions to manipulate data according to my objective. During explore sessions, I tried some functions. I found filter function a bit tricky and need more practice.

Create and Share 

I created a google sheet from a blog post of a  student named Finau from Pt England school. I looked at   her archive data and entered into google sheet and used function 'chart' , downloaded as png and added as below.

 DFI-Day 3- Media

Today's session started with Karakia by Phil and then we were put into our bubble to connect with the group and looking at what WWW session. Naomi helped me on how can I  convert picture into document.

Connecting with Mananikalani with Vicky

Today's session was led by Vicky and the main focus was 'Create', Hanga - Its all about HOOK! We need to nurture creativity but we have to think how can we do it.  Giving students more opportunity to explore the nature provides opportunity to nurture. She went through different school and students creations and the learning oppotunity we as a teacher can provide. It's important for us to be creative and learn and explore new things. We need to think what our creative pursuit and keep on working on it. Watching the clip of  a school creativity, I started wondering how can I make my FNC class more creative and how can I make my classroom space more enjoyable where students want to stay and learn more.

Vicky went through research. Successful teachers used case studies which helped students to think and learn. Focus to be given to creativity rather than finishing content. It is proved that students learn more when they explore and create and will have huge shift in their learning.

Chalk and Talk- You tube

The session was led by Amie. She went through how to create your own you tube channel, playlist and  share it through google drive or google sites.. I created my channel and created a playlist. It was fun  playing around You tube. However, I need to still explore on creating playlist and how to share it with students. 

Hapara Hot Tips

We looked at Dashboard and what things can we do init.

Media Deep Dive- Kerry

I learned different apps with which we can use to make videos and share it with the class and how we can use to to enhance students creativity. Green screen is another tool we can use to make videos. However, there are few things that we need to consider when using green screen. Podcast is another option students can explore. I have neither made any video nor I've asked my students to make one. I think I was hesitant to use it as I wasn't making one. However, after today's session, I would like to start making some videos with different tools I learned today and would like to encourage students to make and share what we learned in the class.

Google drawing -Hinewa

I have never used Google drawing before. This was an awesome session where we looked at all different functions such as how to add pictures and how to  use crop function, change background colour, how to download as pdf and how to upload it on blog. I enjoyed learning google drawing and i would want to explore and use it in teaching  next week

 

Google Slides -Naomi

The session was led by Naomi. I could say I am at intermediate level in using Google Slides. However, after the session, I realised there are too many features that I haven't used it. when I looked at kids work, I was amazed and felt that I am at begginers level and not at an Intermediate level!! So much to learn and explore!!

Levelling up with Vicki 

I learnt how to create a playlist, collaborate it with someone, add and remove function.

Income and Taxation 

Create Google slide interactive poster with Fiona 

FNC Poster Using Google Slides

DFI Day 2 Agenda- Workflow

The Agenda for today's DFI session was how to manage workflow. The session was around some tips to manage day to day workflow easily.

Session started with Karakia and some tips for Hapara dashboard. I use workspace so it was easy  then we were sent in our bubble to discuss what went well last week and what we are struggling with. 

Connecting with Manaikalani

Dorathy Burt led the session and she shared the pedagogy of 'learn' 'create' and 'share'. When we talk about 'learn', we need to  recognise and be confident in teaching practice,  Amplify and Turbocharge. Recognise Effective practice includes.

The session left me thinking to  how can I recognise what I can bring from my experiences, how can I find resources online, and how can I turbocharge learning through digital platforms.

Google meet- Chalk and Talk

 The session was led by Vicky. She went through different functions of Google meet. I have used zoom before and I have joined many google meets. From the session, I could say both are pretty similar. However, I haven't used share screen/present before on google meet or Zoom. Today, I learnt to switch between tabs when we use present function on Google meet. 

Google Keep

The session was led by Naomi. I have never used Google Keep before. This was a very new and interesting to learn. I learnt so many things that I need to explore. I learnt:

• How to add chrome extention from keep.google.com
• It can be very useful to make notes, reminders  and you can use the keep from your phone as well.
• You can take pictures of any text and add in keep and it can create a doc 
• You can add link to google doc and and access it .

I will try to start using  Google keep  nesxt week. However, I need to explore it first.

Gmail

The session was led by Phil. Most of the tips I was aware of. I don't have signature for my emails.

I learnt how to create on with help from Naomi. Hopefully, I will have one ready by weekend. Something new for me and need to explore were  shortcuts, google translate, dynamic email. 

Google Calender

Vicky led the session and showed us how can we organise our calender and create a google meet and attach a document from the drive. How can we invite people from there. I learnt how to create a breakout room from calender. I haven't used google calender the way I learnt today. I am lookin forward to using it sometime.

Taming your tabs

 I learnt how to make bookmark bar, how to organise the tabs with different tab tools. I learnt how to pin and unpinned the tabs. First thing I did was, there were many tabs that I did was I unmarked the tabs that were bookmarked earlier when I needed and which I don't need any more. Then I bookmarked DFI so that it's easy for me to access it anytime and I don't have to look for it.

Create and share

For my create and share, I sent a google meet to Greer and Annette. I chose a blog a student  from Kaingaroa School. She did a blog post on if she leaves country what things she would pack in her suitcase.

I presented her work to others via tab present and then I shared the blog post and shared the commnets she received from her principal and Dorothy Burt and some anonymous comments as well.

DFI Session 1: Core buisness

 Kia Ora, My name is Shital Juthani. I'm a Business studies teacher and Financial Capabilities teacher at Tamaki College. My school's focus is to enable all the teachers to be tech savy so that they can use technology with ease and to make teaching learning process much easy, disruptive and effective. Being a new teacher, I believe this is a greate opportunity offered to me to attend DFI course which will unable me to use technology in more effective way and much faster.

First DFI Session is Core Business. Session started with Karakia done by Vicki Archer, lead facilitator of DFI. She went through the agenda today and  all facilitators introduced themselves. Then we all were sent to break out room in our group and we had a chat in our digital bubble. We introduced each other. and Naomi introduced herself and she went through the agenda.

Maniakalani Session- Dorothy Burt

It was enchanting to know how Manaiakalani came into existence in November in 2006 and how they come up with the name.  Manaiakalani came into exsistance due to four pillars Equity, Achievement, hope, 21st century learning. she went through the goals of Manaiakalani. She shared how  2006-2010 initial years were. It started with literacy learning with create, learn and share. In 2010, students showed their whanau how they learned literacy digitally. In 2010, Manaikalani Education Trust was founded and Fusion networks came to set up the internet connection. They choose Google because it was the only collaborative. 2010-2013 was a pilot phase. In 2014, they revised the plan and created Hapara workspace. In 2011, Google sites landed and teaching made visible to students and parents.

Chalk and talk- Phil Margretts

Phil Margrettes introduced  Chrome Browser and showed few features of it. Then we were put into our bubble to practice setting up profile and profile picture. I was happy with my profile picture, so I didn't change it. However, I do know how to change the profile picture.

Deep Dive Google  Group - Vicki 

groups.google.com was a new thing for me. I was a member of many groups. However, I didn't know how to see how many groups I was a member of.  I came to know many features of google groups. I added a group as my favourite group. I learned how to work around google groups. I learned :

• How to create group, name the group, add members while creating group and in the middle aswell.
• You can add the members directly or send an invite
• privacy options
• How to favourite the group
• It's an easy way to share resources with particular group of people with a single click.

Drive -Naomi

Naomi went through google drive session and how to organise the drive. My drive was messy and I need to tidy. It looks amzing now after tidying it up some files. Still lot more tidying needed!

Google docs -Vicki

I learned about different features of Google doc. I didn't know that I could do so much more on google doc. I have  used basic features of Google doc so far. To be honest I was struggling to do the tasks given and I haven't finished it. I think I needed more time to explore and learn. I have kept unfinished task in my to do list next week when I have non contact.

 Creating with Google doc - Hinewa

Above picture is the document created using Google doc. I saved a document using my initial. Then, changed the colour of the page using page set up, insertated table, merged cells, inserted pictures from google with removed background.  After that, I applied the link to the topics and this is the final product! This was something new for me. I'm proud of my self and appreciate the help received from Naomi

After today's session I feel more confident using Google doc.