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!

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!