DFI Session 4 SHARE

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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!

DFI Session 1

Digital Fluency Cohort 1 2019

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

1. I have learnt that the sharing component of ensuring a real, responsive and authentic audience is what makes a real difference to student achievement.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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!