Session run by Angeline at the Kahi Ako AP DP hui Thursday 5th September.
Mana potential gives a universal language without assumption.
It does not require the 'back story' until the person is ready and/or willing to share it.
At the core of everyday is the skill set that sits inside of you that you bring.
Papatunanuku always gives us our strength, these are the supports and strategies you identify for yourself to support you.
The only questions which needs to be asked is "is there anything I can do for you right now?"
I felt a lot of professionalism, knowledge and mana from Angeline.
I believe that this would be a programme which would resonate with our students and could be something worth investigating further.
Need to look at how much time and impact it would have.
Understanding the korero around the colours also is powerful in itself.
Thursday, 5 September 2019
Monday, 22 July 2019
Christine Ruby-Davis PD TOD
Creating High Expectation Classrooms
Manaiakalani TOD - Teacher Bias, Goal Setting and Class Climate.
BIAS:
Some teacher are more influenced or swayed by bias than others.
Both the way the teacher sets the classroom up and the classroom climate created are impacted by teacher bias.
Research shows that ability grouping can have a strain on student learning. Hattie's research shows ability grouping as a 0.1 effect size (<0.4 is basically a waste of time according to Hattie).
PISA 2017 - 2 main findings that have the most impact on student achievement and motivation;
- degree to which students were taught in mixed ability groupings
- the opportunity to learn that they received.
Stereotyping turns into bias when we assume that everyone in a particular group fits the stereotype without any allowance for variance within the group.
Consequences for students of teacher bias around ethnicity:
- received less opportunities to learn
- put in the lower ability groups: within class and between class.
Explicit vs Implicit Expectations (and bias)
**On average in e-asTTle kids improve around 30 points over a year.
Mixed ability grouping supports:
Rangatiratanga - providing a platform for students to become more self managing
Nga whakapiringatanga - teacher providing positively and well managed classroom
Ako
Positive Class Climate promotes:
Whanaunagatanga - strong relationships
Kotahitanga - classroom as a community
Manaakitanga - supported students
Goal Setting:
Rangatiratanga - students taking responsibility for learning
Wananga - joint goal setting and monitoring / encouragement
Mana motuhake - teacher care about the students reading the goal
GOAL SETTING:
Non contingent rewards (unexpected ones) are much more likely to support intrinsic motivation than contingent rewards. (you must do this and this before you get ____).
e.g. instead of "you must tidy up if you want free time" / change this to "great tidying up, you did that so well that we can have some free time".
Benefits of intrinsic motivation:
- persistence
- creativity
- conceptual understanding
- optimal functioning and well being
CLASSROOM CLIMATE
Manaiakalani TOD - Teacher Bias, Goal Setting and Class Climate.
BIAS:
Some teacher are more influenced or swayed by bias than others.
Both the way the teacher sets the classroom up and the classroom climate created are impacted by teacher bias.
Research shows that ability grouping can have a strain on student learning. Hattie's research shows ability grouping as a 0.1 effect size (<0.4 is basically a waste of time according to Hattie).
PISA 2017 - 2 main findings that have the most impact on student achievement and motivation;
- degree to which students were taught in mixed ability groupings
- the opportunity to learn that they received.
Stereotyping turns into bias when we assume that everyone in a particular group fits the stereotype without any allowance for variance within the group.
Consequences for students of teacher bias around ethnicity:
- received less opportunities to learn
- put in the lower ability groups: within class and between class.
Explicit vs Implicit Expectations (and bias)
**On average in e-asTTle kids improve around 30 points over a year.
Mixed ability grouping supports:
Rangatiratanga - providing a platform for students to become more self managing
Nga whakapiringatanga - teacher providing positively and well managed classroom
Ako
Positive Class Climate promotes:
Whanaunagatanga - strong relationships
Kotahitanga - classroom as a community
Manaakitanga - supported students
Goal Setting:
Rangatiratanga - students taking responsibility for learning
Wananga - joint goal setting and monitoring / encouragement
Mana motuhake - teacher care about the students reading the goal
GOAL SETTING:
Non contingent rewards (unexpected ones) are much more likely to support intrinsic motivation than contingent rewards. (you must do this and this before you get ____).
e.g. instead of "you must tidy up if you want free time" / change this to "great tidying up, you did that so well that we can have some free time".
Benefits of intrinsic motivation:
- persistence
- creativity
- conceptual understanding
- optimal functioning and well being
CLASSROOM CLIMATE
Class rooms which focus on skills and goals as opposed to competition result in happier students.
Psychologists recommend discussing or identify the following as a type of 'treasure box' students can go to when feeling down.
- Brag Wall
- Special Person gallery
Thursday, 13 June 2019
My Family Story Animation
We have been learning about our families.
We have been learning the stories of our families.
We have been learning to tell stories though animations in Slides.
We have been learning to record using Screencastify.
We created this because we wanted to be able to share and save the special stories from our families.
Here is Cooper's family story.
Two things I think I did well are
Next time I would like to
Do you like what you see?
We have been learning the stories of our families.
We have been learning to tell stories though animations in Slides.
We have been learning to record using Screencastify.
We created this because we wanted to be able to share and save the special stories from our families.
Here is Cooper's family story.
Two things I think I did well are
Next time I would like to
Do you like what you see?
Tuesday, 28 May 2019
Create to Learn Staff Meeting
Staff Meeting held at Taipa Area School, Tuesday 28th May 2019.
Lead by Kerry Boyd-Preece
Learning happens when meaning is CREATED in the brain.
CREATE helps to engage students in the curriculum and with 21st learning technologies and to empower them to use their device to be creators of their own learning, not just consumers.
Give students something to do which demands thinking, learning then naturally results.
If students are actively involved in what they are creating (creating to learn) they will be utilising higher level thinking.
Learn Create Share is NOT linear. Students may Share to Learn or Create to Learn.
Using maths and giving students a problem then the materials to solve this themselves is a good example of using create to learn.
We had a go at creating our own short movies.
Lead by Kerry Boyd-Preece
Learning happens when meaning is CREATED in the brain.
CREATE helps to engage students in the curriculum and with 21st learning technologies and to empower them to use their device to be creators of their own learning, not just consumers.
Give students something to do which demands thinking, learning then naturally results.
If students are actively involved in what they are creating (creating to learn) they will be utilising higher level thinking.
Learn Create Share is NOT linear. Students may Share to Learn or Create to Learn.
Using maths and giving students a problem then the materials to solve this themselves is a good example of using create to learn.
We had a go at creating our own short movies.
Wednesday, 22 May 2019
DFI 9: Review
What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?
Ubiquitous Learning
Thank you to Venessa and Kerry for leading us through this DFI, an extremely worthwhile experience.
Ubiquitous Learning
- ANYWHERE
- ANYTIME
- ANY PACE
Summer Learning Journey is an opportunity for students to blog over summer and the data shows that these students don't get the 'summer slide'.
Ubiquitous learning allows students to continue their learning outside of the school day or if they are away or unwell.
The power of rewindable learning.
"If its worth teaching, it's worth capturing."
"If its worth learning, it's worth capturing."
What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?
Today the main portion of time aside from this morning on ubiquitous learning was spent sitting the Google for Educators Level 1 Exam.
So happy to say that I PASSED which has increased my confidence - yay!
Today the main portion of time aside from this morning on ubiquitous learning was spent sitting the Google for Educators Level 1 Exam.
So happy to say that I PASSED which has increased my confidence - yay!
Thank you to Venessa and Kerry for leading us through this DFI, an extremely worthwhile experience.
Wednesday, 15 May 2019
DFI 8: Computational Thinking
What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa today - specifically empowerment?
Being EMPOWERED - we want our young people to feel confident and EMPOWERED to drive their own learning.
Decile 1 students on average have heard 30, 000, 000 LESS words spoken at school entry compare to those entering decile 10 schools.
To have a voice everyone needs to be empowered to be confident to use the technology as we move forward into an even more digital world e.g automated checkout, online voting etc.
EMPOWERMENT = Student Agency.
Agency is having the power or capacity to act and make choices. (NZC 2007)
What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?
What did I learn that could be used with my learners?
What is the Digital Technologies Curriculum.
Computational Thinking is being able to give a set of instructions that a computer could follow so that they can become CREATORS of Digital Technology and not just users.
Coding is at the heart of Computational Thinking and the Digital Technologies Curriculum however this is not where is begins and ends.
Its about kids creating their own digital solutions to problems.
We had a chance to try out some of the technology. Meg and I used a combination of StopMotion, GreenScreen App and iMovie to create a simple movie where the focus was on us using the software so we can take this back to use with our classes. Here is the SHORT clip we created.
We even uploaded to Youtube!
Monika from the Waitangi Center told us about a free app called FLICK which allows files to be literally 'flicked' from one device to another e.g ipad to Chromebook. This will be AMAZING for timesaving and frustration in being able to share video files especially. I am looking forward to trying this out.
Wednesday, 8 May 2019
DFI 7: Dealing with Data
What did I learn that increased my understanding of being connected with Manaiakalani’s kaupapa and pedagogy?
When we are well connected we are all getting and giving the same messages.
What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?
In Google Sheets I really liked the tip about being able to 'freeze' a column or columns and then navigate across the rest of the columns. This is great and something I was not aware of.
What did I learn that could be used with my learners?
Google Maps - although I was not able to try this out as I did not have access to MyMaps I can see this being used by my class as we investigate our family histories this term. It would be cool to make one of these maps showing where all of our ancestors originally came from.
I am really enthusiastic about the ideas shared by Alicia Craig from Ohaewai School around using Google Forms. She shared ideas such as a from for gathering students number knowledge and creating reading responses on Google Forms to help them prepare for online testing situations and make them familiar with such applications. The thing that most inspired me was the BreakOut idea, I can see the kids being very engaged and motivated by this. I have begun today creating my own BreakOut for my students later in the Term linked to our Topic and Reading.
I learnt a lot more today about what is possible in forms and began creating a simple example of how a pick-a-path type story might work.
We also explored Google Sheets today.
As part of our learning around Google Sheets we created Charts which can be inserted into other Docs. These can either be "published" and embedded or saved as an image.
We then also completed a Blog Analysis Graph to show a students blogging history since they began.
What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?
I learnt how and why to clear my cache!
Wednesday, 1 May 2019
DFI Session 6: Enabling Access
What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa, pedagogy and enabling access/ visible learning?
Today was a great reminder about where docs and slides need to be filed in my Drive to ensure that people outside of school have access to what is visible on my site.
Lots of the docs would not show when sharing my site with others at DFI!
It was great to be able to have time to look at the sites of others and critique these before reflecting back upon my own site and making developments and changes to my site so that more of the Learning Intentions and Purpose for learning is shared throughout the learning areas.
Today was a great reminder about where docs and slides need to be filed in my Drive to ensure that people outside of school have access to what is visible on my site.
Lots of the docs would not show when sharing my site with others at DFI!
It was great to be able to have time to look at the sites of others and critique these before reflecting back upon my own site and making developments and changes to my site so that more of the Learning Intentions and Purpose for learning is shared throughout the learning areas.
Wednesday, 3 April 2019
DFI Session 5: Devices
What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?
Notes from the themes explored today include.......
Being Cybersmart: empowering our learners as CONNECTED and CONFIDENT decision makers.
Slide extracts from DFI Session 5 Full Cybersmart Presentation
Notes from the themes explored today include.......
Being Cybersmart: empowering our learners as CONNECTED and CONFIDENT decision makers.
Slide extracts from DFI Session 5 Full Cybersmart Presentation
What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?
What did I learn that could be used with my learners?
What did I learn that could be used with my learners?
HAPARA
More Key Tips:
Class Info gives you student emails etc. From here you can go to Open Class Folder to see eveyones Folders e.g Inquiry. These however don't have their names on them so you will see 24x Inquiry folders.
- You can also "Email the Class" from here.
- In the HIGHLIGHTS tab you can share links with individuals, groups or the whole class.
WORKSPACE
Works best when used for topics.
CHROMEBOOKS:
Teachers should use a student Chromebook for a period of time so they can experience what the learner can and can't do.
Digital Dig should be done at the beginning of each year to refresh and give opportunity to practise any new tips or shortcuts that have come out.
iPADS:
Set up ONE slide deck and folders for each area and then just duplicate the slides.
This session from Khismira gave me a lot of information to share back to my Junior colleagues.
In this afternoon CREATE session we were asked to Select ONE of the Cybersmart areas and create a movie talking through one of the lesson templates provided.
I have done q few Screencastify now for my students to talk them through lessons and as I have said in a previous post I want to make the most of the Blog kaupapa from Manaiakalani for the benifit of my learners, especially in writing. Therefore I have created a quick Screencastify of the Cybersmart lessons that I could sue with my students to help set this up in the first couple of weeks of Term 2.
I also learnt another trick, which was using the draw tool to highlight what you are talking about on the Screencastify.
This session from Khismira gave me a lot of information to share back to my Junior colleagues.
In this afternoon CREATE session we were asked to Select ONE of the Cybersmart areas and create a movie talking through one of the lesson templates provided.
I have done q few Screencastify now for my students to talk them through lessons and as I have said in a previous post I want to make the most of the Blog kaupapa from Manaiakalani for the benifit of my learners, especially in writing. Therefore I have created a quick Screencastify of the Cybersmart lessons that I could sue with my students to help set this up in the first couple of weeks of Term 2.
I also learnt another trick, which was using the draw tool to highlight what you are talking about on the Screencastify.
TIP: To insert a Screencastify into Blogger.
Open Screencastify you want to embed. Open in a new window. Click 3 dots and choose embed item. Then use this code to embed as HTML in your Blogger.
What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?
Nothing specific this week, however as I continue to get faster and more confident this reflects in my planning and prep time and its also getting easier which impacts on my personal life too!
Reflecting on Blog Posts
During our Staff Meeting last night with Donna something that stuck with me is that I do not yet know enough about the format that the students Blog Posts should take to ensure the most is made of them so that the learning is the greatest and the acceleration observed through Manaiakalani research can be made.
I need to look at good examples of the sections required and make time to specifically teach this to the students at the beginning of Term 2. I will look at Venessa's students blogs initially.
TITLE
WALT
LEARNING THAT OCCURRED (written and an image or work sample if possible DLO)
REFLECTION (this can be about the learning or the posting - any part of the full learning cycle that occurred).
ADD LABELS
ACTIVELY COMMENT ON OTHER PEOPLE'S BLOGS (Using the Manaiakalani Process).
Venessa shared these with me which will be very helpful. Thanks Venessa!
Implementing Multi Modal Sites
Following our last DFI session I was reflecting on our Digital Pepeha work and created a Multi-Modal whakawhanaungatanga site for the students to access to be able to Learn about Pepeha and talking about Whanahu as well as creating and embedding Screencastify for each step of creating their digital pepeha within Google Slides. I have found that this site has been an excellent tool for the students. It has allowed those who were away to catch up and also those who have greater skills to zoom ahead at their own pace. I also see the benefit of creating this as a new site as opposed to a page within my current learning site as I am then able to attach this to other places in the future without having to re-create it.
Wednesday, 27 March 2019
DFI Session 4 SHARE
What did I learn that increased my understanding of Share within the Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?
This however is not only and ending. Often in the process of SHARING new learning begins. If people engage in what you have shared they will often provide though feedforward and feedback a spark for a new challenge or line of learning.
Multimodal = having different opportunities for students to engage with the leaning around one topic of theme. Eg read the book / listen to the story online / watch it as a video.
It was also great to find out more about Google Keep and the many ways in which this can be used to simplify things. I look forward to sorting out my array of 'sticky notes' that currently cover my desktop!
What did I learn that could be used with my learners?
The creation of multimodal sites is something that I would like to use next term.
Here is the one I created today on Gardening
https://sites.google.com/mangonui.school.nz/gardening/home
Creating and embedding playlists from Youtube into my site. This was further developed from last week.
What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?
The use of keep notes and how this can work together with Docs and Calendar will also help my personal life as it will help with reducing doubling up and searching for things.
The important of AUTHENTIC AUDIENCE and how this can give so much more purpose to the learning.
With a digital audience people are they because they are choosing to listen to you or view your work.
Sharing creates a real reason for students to actually finish their work as it is going to be published online as opposed to just being shut inside a book.
Multitextual: using a variety of different text written for different purposes or audiences and being able to make meaning from these.
How can I use digital technology to reach all my learners in the way that will work best for them.
Same content displayed or received in different ways.
What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional? It was worthwhile having a go at creating a multimodal site and thinking about all the bits and pieces that can be put into such a tool to support learners across a range of levels and abilities.
It was also great to find out more about Google Keep and the many ways in which this can be used to simplify things. I look forward to sorting out my array of 'sticky notes' that currently cover my desktop!
What did I learn that could be used with my learners?
The creation of multimodal sites is something that I would like to use next term.
Here is the one I created today on Gardening
https://sites.google.com/mangonui.school.nz/gardening/home
Creating and embedding playlists from Youtube into my site. This was further developed from last week.
What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?
The use of keep notes and how this can work together with Docs and Calendar will also help my personal life as it will help with reducing doubling up and searching for things.
Wednesday, 20 March 2019
DFI Session 3
Today at DFI there was a whole lot of new learning to be had!
What did I learn that increased my understanding of Create within the Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?
The following points resonated with me within the LEARN (about Create) session.
You cannot create until your have first LEARNT and have something in your kete that you want to share with others.
Create = allowing our young people to be creative human beings as part of the learning process by using the affordances of technology to do things that they could not do without it and would not have been able to do in the past.
What did I learn that increased my understanding of Create within the Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?
The following points resonated with me within the LEARN (about Create) session.
You cannot create until your have first LEARNT and have something in your kete that you want to share with others.
Create = allowing our young people to be creative human beings as part of the learning process by using the affordances of technology to do things that they could not do without it and would not have been able to do in the past.
It is NOT simply creating a piece of writing on a doc or slide (which just replaces writing in a book).
It's choosing the BEST way of doing things, if pen and paper is the best way to do this then still do this!
Learning about the tools and tips today will enable me to be more confident and competent in using them and exploring these tools with the students in my class to allow them to respond to their learning in creative ways.
I continue to learn little time saving tips which will help me with my workflow such as that I can copy and paste straight from the snipping tool and I don't have up save and then upload.
The tip about how links can be added to specific parts of images or photos without the need for a text link was great.
One thing we learnt how to do was create animations in Google Slides, here is my one.
Through animations I also tried out a digital Pepeha and worked on one which is our school pepeha and then also a single side about my own family with animation.
Pepeha is something we will be working on in the last few weeks of this term and I will definitely share and try out a digital version with my students.
I still need to learn about Youtube. How to create different channels and embed so that students only have access to the videos that I select for them and cannot access wider youtube.
What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?
The more we talk about it the more I feel that it would be worthwhile to explore having different 'people' set up on my computer so that I have a 'work' persona and a 'home' persona rather than having it all on one.
It's choosing the BEST way of doing things, if pen and paper is the best way to do this then still do this!
What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?
I continue to learn little time saving tips which will help me with my workflow such as that I can copy and paste straight from the snipping tool and I don't have up save and then upload.
The tip about how links can be added to specific parts of images or photos without the need for a text link was great.
What did I learn that could be used with my learners?
There were multiple things that I tried today which I would like to try out with my learners, this will however take time!One thing we learnt how to do was create animations in Google Slides, here is my one.
Through animations I also tried out a digital Pepeha and worked on one which is our school pepeha and then also a single side about my own family with animation.
Pepeha is something we will be working on in the last few weeks of this term and I will definitely share and try out a digital version with my students.
I still need to learn about Youtube. How to create different channels and embed so that students only have access to the videos that I select for them and cannot access wider youtube.
What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?
The more we talk about it the more I feel that it would be worthwhile to explore having different 'people' set up on my computer so that I have a 'work' persona and a 'home' persona rather than having it all on one.
Adding Photos to Blogs from Drive
This week when Blogging with my students I found there were a lot of complicated steps involved for students to insert photos into their blogs related to their posts which we had taken on the ipad and put into a shared folder.
When sharing this challenge with my DFI Cohort team Kent, our visitor from Point England helped out!
I needed to makes sure that the folder the photos were in had share settings of "Public - on the web"
Once this was done and a link to this folder embedded on out class site, students can insert photos using the "by URL" tab and copying and pasting the "shareable link".
Thanks for help everyone!
My challenge to my self will now to be create a screen-castify of this process so that students can revisit this learning to help them insert photos from our experiences and learning when blogging.
When sharing this challenge with my DFI Cohort team Kent, our visitor from Point England helped out!
I needed to makes sure that the folder the photos were in had share settings of "Public - on the web"
Once this was done and a link to this folder embedded on out class site, students can insert photos using the "by URL" tab and copying and pasting the "shareable link".
Thanks for help everyone!
My challenge to my self will now to be create a screen-castify of this process so that students can revisit this learning to help them insert photos from our experiences and learning when blogging.
Wednesday, 13 March 2019
DFI Day 2
What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy? The LEARN explanation this morning gave me a better understanding of this area and wha it means and looks like within Manaiakalani.
I am interested in reflecting on and having conversations around what this will look like in how school and how it we can show its specific alignment to our current school kaupapa.
What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?
I enjoyed hearing about the SAMR model and I want to reflect on the activities I use against this. I have a gut feeling about where I am and want to think about which areas I could begin to make changes so that I am moving up this model.
Organizing my tabs and bookmarks was FANTASTIC! This along with my email organisation and applying labels and setting up emails to move into these folders will save me a lot of time as I find myself frequently using the 'search' function within my email.
I enjoyed hearing about the SAMR model and I want to reflect on the activities I use against this. I have a gut feeling about where I am and want to think about which areas I could begin to make changes so that I am moving up this model.
Organizing my tabs and bookmarks was FANTASTIC! This along with my email organisation and applying labels and setting up emails to move into these folders will save me a lot of time as I find myself frequently using the 'search' function within my email.
What did I learn that could be used with my learners?
I would like to explore the concept of rewindable learning. I am excited about the Screencastify tool and how this can be used to allow students to review / rewind instructions of learning if they need to hear or see this again.
What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?
The organisation of the tabs and emails will not only affect work-life but also personal life as it will save me time in locating what I need.
Being able to add 'notes' or 'tasks' from my email or calendar instead of having multiple 'sticky notes' all over my desktop will also be refreshing!
I would like to explore the concept of rewindable learning. I am excited about the Screencastify tool and how this can be used to allow students to review / rewind instructions of learning if they need to hear or see this again.
What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?
The organisation of the tabs and emails will not only affect work-life but also personal life as it will save me time in locating what I need.
Being able to add 'notes' or 'tasks' from my email or calendar instead of having multiple 'sticky notes' all over my desktop will also be refreshing!
Tuesday, 12 March 2019
Using 'Docs' tools in the classroom
Following our DFI day 1 I had couple of tricks and tools that I wanted to try out within the classroom in a meaningful way.
As part of our class Inquiry I set up three Google Docs with readings on them to help us LEARN about our Inquiry problem.
Students were put into mixed ability groups and assigned a reading to complete before using the "comments" function to highlight aspects of the reading they thought were important or that could relate to our Inquiry.
Planning was shared and accessible on our class site.
As you can see I am also continuing to LOVE the snipping tool as a quick and easy way of capturing my screen!
As part of our class Inquiry I set up three Google Docs with readings on them to help us LEARN about our Inquiry problem.
Students were put into mixed ability groups and assigned a reading to complete before using the "comments" function to highlight aspects of the reading they thought were important or that could relate to our Inquiry.
Planning was shared and accessible on our class site.
Students then used the comment function to add their thoughts and highlight important parts.
Once this session was completed we also had a play with using the voice recording tool to record our ideas about what we had read (summarise) and say how we could use what we had read to apply to our own class inquiry problem.
As this was the first time using this tool, it was more of a 'play' than anything else but the kids loved it and I can see that it will be a useful tool in gathering individuals thoughts and ideas on topics where physically writing would take too long and put some students off from sharing all that they know.
As you can see I am also continuing to LOVE the snipping tool as a quick and easy way of capturing my screen!
Wednesday, 6 March 2019
DFI Session 1
Digital Fluency Cohort 1 2019
What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?
- I have learnt that the sharing component of ensuring a real, responsive and authentic audience is what makes a real difference to student achievement.
- What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?I learnt tips and tricks for personalising my folders with colours to help folder organisation. I also really enjoyed learning about how to use headings and outlines in longer documents and how you can link the students or colleagues in to a specific part of the document.
A third thing I enjoyed learning about was seeing how I can use Google Groups to track through email and replies instead of just using it as a group email system. - What did I learn that could be used with my learners? I would like to explore the use of headings and outlines in Writing for students to self asses or focus in on different aspects of different genre. I will use the voice recorder throughout Literacy and Inquiry to share ideas, record oral reading and publish written work to be published on student blogs.
- What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life? Hacks for photos, invites, SNIPPING TOOL!!!!!Here is the infographic / poster that I created today about how to make an infrographic / poster!
Wednesday, 20 February 2019
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