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.