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?

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

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? 

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.

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!

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.

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!