DFI final session 21 August 2019

Today's agenda Wednesday 21 August 2019 - Final DFI revision

Today's agenda Revision

Dorothy talk on Ubiquitous Learning

Idea for learning to potentially take place 24/7 complete open access.

Learning anytime, anywhere, at any pace.

Suggests we ask principal for a TO day to pursue our own rewindeable learning.

Sharing work between classrooms - some students find another perspective easier to follow.  When we share we make this possible for their learning.

Digital learning - power to transform learning and turbo charge learning - theory when we are not there the digital environment allows much more consistent and powerful learning through e.g. our site.

Students being able to make the choice about when they learn outside of school.

Plan to change the summer drop off and outside of school time productivity- summer learning journey is one way to empower students not to drop in learning over the summer.

Blogging writers were doing most surface features correctly over the summer without explicit teaching over that time.

Technology is not just a tool but a way to allow students to access new things in new ways.

Today was frustrating as my test login came too late to sit the test so now I still need to do it on the weekend.

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

Digital opens up opportunities for our young people that were not there before. Rewindable learning is crucial for student success. The importance of things being visible for students and whanau.

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

It has been a journey of understanding sites, being able to edit and update slides and get them onto my site. When I started DFI I found putting things into my site very time consuming and was still using email as a quicker method in Hapara to get students quick access to things. Now instead of email I either use the site or share a document in Hapara so it is saved into the right folder. We have done a lot of work on saving work in the correct place for teacher accessibility and this is running a lot smoother with practice.


What did I learn that could be used with my learners?  

I hope to inspire some of my students to utilise the opportunity of the summer learning journey. We have been working on getting them able to make regular independant posts to get them ready to continue their learning over the summer.


What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?

Making some good connections on the course was very helpful. It is good to talk things through with people.

DFI session 8 14 August 2019

DFI session 8 Wednesday 14 August 2019

DFI session 8 agenda

Most people have been working on scratch and others have also used squawk squad VR to have a try at it.

Connected links to share really well. You can't make a strong connection with someone if they don't share a little of themselves. The default is visible - you cannot connect with others if the connections are not available.

You need connection and buy in to have genuine sharing.

Cluster websites allow for connectedness. Twitter is also being used for staff - never for students. Allows for a huge audience to help kids connect globally. Posts list in order so you see the last post first.

We can't leave it to chance to teach our kids to be digital citizens - Dorothy.

Tuhi Mai Tuhi Atu allows students to do this with another school - allows students to connect in a kind manner.

This is a resource to help

Positive/thoughtful/helpful comments!

New hapara feature - shuts screens to black for 15 minutes - pause button in highlights - if student not included they must be in a non-school email or incognito.

We looked at Google maps, sheets and forms.
We had to place locations from a sheet onto a map.


Google sheets
Thick grey lines can be moved to lock things into place.

Designed to support work with numbers.

Text wrapping can sort keeping the text in one place.

We made a Google sheet about student blog posts and then created the graph below in google sheets.



Reflective questions

What did I learn that increased my understanding of connectedness within the Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?
Connectedness requires all parties to share and be committed to mutual engagement. True sharing requires commitment and buy in from both parties. Visibility is the primary requirement for effective connectedness. It is exciting to be teaching in a time when this global opportunity for connection is available to us and our students.

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?
I had not attempted to use a google forms before today. I am really excited to use this to check my students understandings of topics as we progress. I made a filmmaking form today to check students have retained all the concepts that Harley has been teaching them.It will be fascinating to see how their answers go. It will be great to integrate photos of their learning to remind them of what we have done. Today I had three photos from the unit to include in the form.

What did I learn that could be used with my learners?  How to use google sheets - it will be great for checking students understanding of topics. Also how to use Google forms more effectively. Finding how to insert graphs was awesome. I am looking forward to using this tomorrow for science fair with students who are currently finishing their display boards.

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?
All efficiencies help improve workflow. I used my break to do some more work on sorting my email into categories. I still feel I need ongoing practice to feel confident using things in class. I am now a lot more confident with all the areas I have been putting into practice in my class.

Hopefully I am now registered for the exam for next week too.

Waitangi Centre DFI 7 Wednesday 7 August 2019

DFI Session 7 
7 August 2019 - Waitangi

Today's agenda
Agenda week 7

Shared writing for students is working really well for some people - I might trial it for a writing warm up in a shared document this week.

Patsy modelled using a site for a school trip overseas. It looks like a great forum for organisation.

Idea that we need to empower our students to be ready for changes to the environment and their employment opportunities.



What are we preparing students for with the new curriculum?

In the Technology Learning area  there are two new technological areas:

Computational thinking for digital technologies – Students will develop an understanding of computer science principles that underlie all digital technologies. They’ll learn core programming concepts so that they can become creators of digital technology, not just users.

Designing and developing digital outcomes – Students will learn how to design quality, fit-for-purpose digital solutions. 

Today's focus is on computational thinking.

Computational thinking is a two-step process:

1. Identify the steps needed to solve a problem.
2. Use your technical skills to get the computer "working" on the problem.

For example, if you’re going to make a video animation, you need to:

1. start by planning the storyboard
2. then, use computer hardware and software to help you get the work done.

We had a play on scratch as a student.

Goal to become creators not just consumers - prepare for the modern workforce.

Ordering a story or teaching kapahaka is teaching a sequence of events, a game in order is also computational thinking. It can be applied across the curriculum.

5 progress outcomes to the end of year 10.

What is the same: Authentic context - end user online.

What thinkgs will change?

Progress outcomes currently in Level 1, Level 3, Level 4 and 2 in Level 5 of the curriculum.

They need to be rewritten in kids speak.

Progress outcome 1 is non-computerised.
PO 2 is both computerised and not computerised.

Based on a code that is communicated bby input and the output e.g. a robot moving.

Scratch - free, accessible on any device and in English and Te Reo.

Scratch can be used for things like pepeha or creating a story.

Dorothy - the word empowered

Agency was used initially - but for whanau the word had bad connotations - so another word had to be found and the word used is empowered. Didital learning to empower and transform our young people. Digital is not just a tool. It is way to expensive for whanau to invest in. Power of digital is to go way beyond past learning experiences.

Rangatiratanga - digital empowerment of students, whanau and teachers getting control back in your life.

Money is a crucial factor. You are disempowered with housing, warmth, rubbish, health - all aspects of life have costs.

Students mean academic age at school start is a 3 year old. Decile 10 students arrive at school having heard 32 million more words pre-school than low decile school. Decile 1 community turnover rate is 1/3 a year - so no settled opportunity inside the school.

Parents need to have a five step conversation with the child every day. Every speaking opportunity must be a 5plus opportunity.

We created a stop motion animation of children and a bird moving around a tree - it would be good for storytelling or explainiing learning for students.

Can be done with a green screen and have a background put in later but requires purchase of a green screen app.
This was my stopmotion animation.

Empowerment can't flourish if you are not connected and ubiquitous.

What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa today - specifically empowerment? I found the reason for the change in terminology from agency fascinating and very helpful for whanau. It is great to give students more empowerment but our students are not yet really connected at home so it is hit and miss who is able to work on their learning from school at home. My year level are still using school devices not their own so cannot yet take home and many parents said at interviews they have limited or no access at home. This will change as devices are purchased throughout the school over the next few years although our rural areas still have wifi access issues.

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?
More experience in working with scratch and coding ideas so that I could know what the students are doing and be better prepared for thier questions and needs.

What did I learn that could be used with my learners?  We are looking at purchasing a robot so it was interesting to have a try with another type of robot whcih seems more robust than some of the other ones I have seen. I also enjoyed having time to work with stop motion animation. I can see this being a great tool for retelling a story.

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life? I need to try only one new idea at a time as otherwise I am getting bogged down and stressed by trying to implement too many new things at once.

DFI session 6

DFI session 6 - 31 July 2019 Tautoro school

Enabling access
Today's agenda

Visible learning
Can be seen by students and their whanau - the education process needs to be clear and not mysterious to parents.

Whanau need to understand the learning happening in their own children's lives.

Also visibility of us as teachers to our colleagues.  Open and sharing of information with our colleagues.

We need to stop hiding what makes education success to students and whanau.  Unpack step by step for learners and their parents what they are supposed to be doing.

Successful students in the past have generally had parents who experienced success - conversations in their homes generally parents talk and children absord what makes success at school.  How can it happen in homes where the parents were not successful themselves?

Visibility is the way to change this - the intentional use of technology is a game changer for visible learning.  This includes teacher planning and outlines.  Students need to see the goals to move ahead.

Some things are genuinely private e.g. personal student info.  But everything else should be visible.

Sites allow everything to be visible.  Access is mobile and accessible.

Think about the visibility of the learning for your students - physical and online visibility.  Just like windows in the classroom it makes it safer for all.

On Air classes share everything - inquiry teachers also share online.

The default should be to make everything visible in class including planning.

Visibility has a clear correlation to successful outcomes.

Goal collegiality blossoms - sharing is the norm.

Sites

How are they good for students, whanau and teachers?  Different perspectives.

Site reviews

What is the purpose of your site - ease of access for your learners.
Images, theme -to keep continuity for the students.

Need simplicity of navigation for the site to work well - aim for no more than 3 clicks to ensure ease of access.

Try to minimise fonts - not more than two for consistency.

Buttons can be made in various places e.g. shapes in google draw.
Layouts on the side can also create buttons.

We got to view lots of other peoples sites which was helpful and time to improve three things on our site.  My focus is maths links, filmmaking slides inserted and improving writing slides.


What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy and Visible learning?
The importance of making learning visible to colleagues as well as to the students. Visibility should be the starting point and we need a really good reason not to share planning and other resources with other teachers. Visibility allows students and their whanau access to all their learning. It also means staff can share without having to ask each other to send resources as they can retreive themselves. I feel more confident about the visibility aspect of the process following Dorothy's explanation today which was clear and helpful.

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?
It was great to have the time to put some more rewindable learning opportunities into my blog. I was able to create three sets of slides about new topic areas and create new pages for them in my blog. Feedback from some teachers who have been using sites for awhile is that they are moving away from lots of slidebanks and just using information put directly into the blog. So I will plan on trying this out more.

What did I learn that could be used with my learners?  
To make everything in the site more accessible and to be quicker to access. To make everything visible through the site for learners and so they are able to share with their whanau. It is easier for the learners to have everything in one place.

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?
Some tips to make my site function more easily for my learners. A reminder on how to get things into the site - I will try to add things daily for the next few weeks to ensure the practices become embedded into my learning and make it easier to progress.

DFI session 5 Paparore school 25 July 2019

DFI session 5 -25 July 2019

Agenda for today's session
session 5 notes

Cybersmart 
About empowering people.
Cybersmart categories don't change throughout school - its just how you engage that is different.
Term 1 - smart learners -our learn term
Term 2 - smart footprint -our create term
Term 3 - smart realtionships - our share term

Learning accessible any time any place anywhere!
Learners can make a public comment - values that what they say is important.

We need/want students to be able to make decisions about what is appropriate to share online on their own.

Keep the focus to the language of the kawa of care e.g. a student on you tube - say are you in the right place doing the right thing - consistently use the words in the kawa of care to redirect and comment - use the vocab of the cyber smart curriculum.

Digital footprint - get students to change every year as they age and change.  Integrate kawa of care into reading and writing programmes.

Hapara

Smart share - pushing work out to students - workflow - it is the share files button.

Hapara is to help with learning - not to monitor what they are doing at all times.  Look at student incomplete work - "I notice you have not done this or changed this - do you need any help?"
Use supportive language not monitoring language.

Highlights - guide browsing - filter session - negotiate with students length of the focus session for reading.

Filter prevents access to certain things - focus directs students to only these things.

Focus - give them acceess to only what you want them to view and use.  Set the time.
docs.google.com
drive.google.com
link to published view of the site
Particular readings or docs etc.

Treaty partnership and engagement with the community are vital to this working e.g. kawa of care developed with whanau.

Digital Dig

Tried on chrome books to see how they work for the students.

ipads
Explain everything teachers don't need to create everything and should share what is created

Screencastify video
We tried to make a video looking at the kawa of care and practicing talking through multiple screens.  It did not work very well as we were in a noisy room with lots of noise interferrence but it was interesting to practice.



To embed screencastify - we got the html link and then located in the code where it should go using finder and then pasted it in.

Evaluation

What did I learn that increased my understanding of the Cybersmart curriculum within the Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?
The purpose of teaching cybersmart from the beginning of school and the aim of where students will get to over their school journey. We can scaffold and support to a certain degree but at the end of the day the students need to be able to access the digital world independently. Empower the learners and then look for how they can empower their family to understand how to use devices safely. This is vital as many of our whanau fear the safety of devices - this came out at recent parent interviews. Ask students to tell you the kawa of care rules - helps the conversations between teacher and student and students and whanau.
Get parents to comment on their children's blogs - positive, thoughtful, helpful.
We can check the deleted trash - we can see their digital footprint.  It is good to remind them of this - even if you delete something anyone could have screen shots of it in the interim.
Kawa of care developed with whanau of Manaiakilani - it was aimed at giving equal access to all learners and also to whanau when chromebooks go home - if students are offline at home they need to be empowered to get the informaiton they need e.g. screenshot sites to continue tasks at home. Everyone is contributing to the process and everyone has a voice. Equity in participation is essential to the program. Digital fluency requires the student to be able to use the device. Digital digs should happen at every year level every year!


What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?
How to use guided browsing. I was unsure of how to locate it again and needed the refresher we got today to restrict and limit access if needed. Also the refresher on parts of Hapara was very helpful as a reminder of how to best use it - the focus not on monitoring but supporting the student learning is key. I am looking forward to having another try at using guided browsing this week.


What did I learn that could be used with my learners? 
Using blogging more as part of my reading and writing curriculum to ensure better integration. A better understanding of the digital dig in the cybersmart curriculum and what it is like to use a chromebook for the students as they are different to a pc. Cyber smart site also has other ways to engage the learners in the general curriculum through activities.
Availability of the ipad support site to help with use.
Deep dive into text - we need to spend less time skimming and longer getting deeper into text. Look at the language in a video - make links to learning and allow references to the text in the audio so students can focus on the language and other features of the text.


What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?
Screencastify could be useful but experimenting with it uses up the quota of video's available very rapidly. We had trouble ensuring it was recording screen changes and then it required extra permissions, when I said no it stopped the video. I am still not comfortable with using my image on screen so think I will just use the microphone function rather than the camera. I can see how it will be very useful but the inability to edit without purchasing the function is a negative. I will need to practice with this a lot more to be effective as I am not yet confient with this.

DFI Week 4 post 26 June 2019

DFI Week 4 post 26 June 2019

DFI 4 notes

Todays notes

My focus this week is to use voice typing with more students and to get use of Hapara sorted.

Get blogg issues resolved so all students can use thier blogs.

Focus this week is on Share.
Hopefully writing in a blog allows students to think and check work so they can improve it in expectation of their family and a wider audience checking it.
Everything does not have to be finished to share on the blog - it can be a work in progress.
Sharing to learn and sharing to finish learning.

Potential for an increase in feed forward than what one teacher can give them.

Blogs over the summer are proving to increase student achievement and stopping the summer slump.

Schools need to push harder to get whanau looking at their children's blogs.  Run more training with whanau about how to do this.

Home page on your site needs to change over time.

Visual differences can greatly improve student interest and access.

We made a test site to look at making it multi-modal.

We made a multi-modal garden site today.

Garden test site












This is mine.

Ahipara science site












Our group garden sites
our group garden sites

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

I learned to use my site better so that it will be easier to share more information more quickly with my class.

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

The more I use the tools the easier it becomes to get things into my site quickly. Today I discovered how to link pages in the site without creating buttons which is much quicker than going through the button. Now they are linked straight to the images.

What did I learn that could be used with my learners?  

The focus today was on improving my site which will make it easier for my class to access documents. We also learnt about altering comment buttons in our blog which could be applied to my class and student blogs if suitable in the future. From past weeks I am still working on Hapara use with my learners and on voice typing over the next week.

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal like?
The greater speed I can create with the less time is spent in planning - it is good to be able to make links to how to access information I can utilise quickly so I am not always reinventing the wheel from scratch. Sometimes when the presentation to the site is too difficult I have resorted to email to the class etc. So the goal is now to make changes and additions to the site daily so I don't forget anything and then the learning is always rewindable for the learners throughout the year.

DFI Week 3 19 June 2019

DFI week 3 2019

Agenda link for the day
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HE3qm_k8ttsPgfjMP-KzKU_Lu-yA5Amz_opsGAAQ_Dw/edit?ts=5d088ed0


Work to be done still with students organising files and checking on blog entries.

Remember to get Chase a cup for voice typing - what can be done for students with speech problems who struggle to type and to anunciate clearly?

Remember to do class blog weekly!

Task appropriateness in create is very important - i.e. times tables you would not use painting but maybe a poem or song.

Learing comes naturally through being creative.

Instead of saying what are we going to learn today - what are we going to create???

Create is a doing word -multiple senses.  USe the whole body.

Exploring creative ideas
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FLqJiqIjQt-xzzbloW4hfboA09DG2o0-eC6czb1DXSs/edit

It is okay for not all students to produce something every time - they will still learn from the creative process of doing things.

Putting a video on the blog helps students feel like they are more creative.


Kent - livestreaming different events
Livestraming through youtube - no scial media as they should not be on it under 13.  Footage is much easier to use like this as you can embed it where you need to.

Create the week ahead of time and have it count down to it - people know there is an event to look out for on the school website.

View has about a 30second delay as it goes back to California.  You can have students run a live commentary - you might set as private until you check the audio is all ok and so then run it on delay after the event.

New expensive technology out of America - about $2000 so need to consider how often you will use it before buying.

Creator studio - live streaming on your laptop.
Drone filming is another option - height restricted because of aircraft.
Your phone works to record things so be careful of speech.

Schoolwide - sports- art projects, performances at assembly, production,

Command space brings up spotlight search

You Tube

Putting up video's of students needs to be checked with BOT.  Not reccomended.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1N1QcGfZ892-3JTSwpWU99Wrp5VVxvKQexngrjk5TVcE/edit#slide=id.gd5afd16d8_0_0

Playlist to embed - edit then share

Google Draw

Lots of options
Callouts can create speech bubbles in a comic strip.



Google draw - save as a png to add to google slides.  I have added this to my Matariki slides.


Google Slides

Create your own theme in slides.

Using slides is a great way to create.
Try to get students to be creative in their design

Goal for students to get better at designing their own - after they use too much colour you discuss how does it look to read etc. Visual design is an important part.

Sharing planning on site - only people with editing rights can see the comments - so you can use comments for private notes and reflections.

Students online is like they are out in the public on a giant field trip.

Here are my attemps in google draw today.

• What did I learn that increased my understanding of Create within the Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy? It was good to have a chance to try google draw which I had not yet had time to explore. I used to to make some images of our class science learning. It was also great to have a step by step on playlists which I can now put into my site.

• What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional? I think the playlists will make it much easier for my students to be offered short clips to introduce topics and reinforce their learning. I explored blogger more and checked all my students blogs to see who has not been making their entries and have now emailed all those with work to add. I also loaded the learning drawings I created to my class whanau blog.

• What did I learn that could be used with my learners?  I will definately get them to create with google draw - it is a great way to record their learning journey. We are still working on voice typing and will try the cup as volume is an issue in the classroom - I am not sure what to do about speech issues which also affect two of my students who struggle to write - they are nervous to try voice typing.

• What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life? I need to spend time over the next week to cement this knowledge as with toolkits and reports over the past few weeks it has been hard to sepend time embedding knowledge. I feel more confident now to track and comment on my students blogs.

DFI Session 2 12 June 2019

Wednesday 12 June 2019

Workflow
Today's agenda
Agenda


Progress since last session

Worked with several students using voice typine in NZ English.
Students used doc made in session to plan for Science Fair.
Planned lessons to focus on Explore tool.

Plan - to try voice typing from a reading so then they can check against the text for errors.


Dorothy  - learn, create, share allows for inclusion of all schools.
Focus on Learn today - Railtracks represent shift from analogue to digital - two tracks laid together - digital infrastructure and tools one track, the other track how we change what teaching and learning looks like in a digital learning environment.

Teaching practice must change alongside the technology to accellerate learning.
We want to use current effective teaching practice - this is to support existing highly effective practice.
Good practice should still be recogniseable as good practice.
RATE my teaching.
Recognise
Amplify
Turbocharge
Effective Practice

Sharing practice is one of these things.

The word Learn encompasses a large collection of valued outcomes and knowledge and understanding about effective teaching practice by schools.

SAMR model - designed for teaching in a digital world.

Rewindeable learning.

If it's worth teaching its worth capturing, if it's worth learning its worth capturing!

Rewind for us as we expect it for our learners.

Explore Manaiakilarni Google Class on Air

Video in class what it looks like in a digital learning environment.

Technology is not just a tool - it needs to be.

Changing the possibilities and the learning outcomes for our students!


Exploring Google Keep session

Can set yourself remindeers
Make a bank of comments
Add labels


Gmail

Setting up signatures for you gmail - done
Looking at filing gmail so its easier to find

Calendar 

learning to make appointments etc

Google hangouts

We practiced presenting, lots of learning about microphone etiqute.  It was fun to practice in a safe environment.

Be careful not to pin a person or the screen will not move with the presentation.

Can be used to support students through their work as you can see what they are working on.

Taming your tabs
Organising bookmarks

Folders can link information together to make it easier to find

Small icons gives you quicker access to find things.

• What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy? The focus is on using digital technology to accellerate and improve access for learners to a wider audience. The summer blogging dramatically improved the results of students who participated in comparison to their peers who did not maintain the same learning journey for literacy. It would be great to encourage students at our school to participate in such a programme so they don't stop their learning journey over this summer. I have been reflecting this week on our community buy in to the digital citizenship and feel as a school we need to do more work on convincing our whanau of the importance of this to accellerate student learning. Our school has started students buying chromebooks only in year 4 this year and will add to this next year but I am not confident all whanau are committed to the opportunities this offers their tamariki. As most classes use school devices we are not currently getting the whanau buy in that they get in Auckland where students are able to take their own devices home and have free wifi at home. Many whanau do not have great coverage and access to wifi in our school area.

• What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional? I feel more comfortable about presenting and talking in google hangouts. I feel more confident seeking assistance when I am not sure how to do something. I think once I use the google tools to sort things more clearly it will save me time in the long run.

• What did I learn that could be used with my learners?  How I could use a google hangout to support a student complete work. I am still waiting to try more with the microphone tool and making more apparent links between reading and writing using this tool for struggling male learners in my class. I also want to work with my class on the explore tool to build on work we have been doing over the past few weeks around copywrite and plagerism.

• What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life? Organising files and folders in gmail will be extremely helpful to find things more quickly. I now feel able to try to organise a hangout and to participate more in my toolkits through hangouts. I could embrace the calendar tool to make time management and meetings more effective.

• I would like some more support organising slides on my site but will try to ask our school experts about this during the week

First DFI session 5 June 2019

First DFI session information 5 June 2019 

Links
Karakia
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Ao5rGhM07g0X74mpxO3hteUP37N4bVsG1djnSNZ_ryY/edit#slide=id.g518dffb25d_0_0
Information for the day
https://docs.google.com/document/d/16QaXpXCoZPeqbjZWpUtRgORNzFCIfDg_ly9RLd5Gkso/edit
Introductions slides
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1CHRttLrgamxdvFcwOcPFcQd0rGx3vzEubwdbkDm1Jdo/edit?ts=5cf09242#slide=id.g5ae2a397ed_0_245

Started with a warm welcome at Taipa school.

Teaching fluency in the digital environment is vital to teacher empowerment.  Goal - for us to feel like the lead learner in our classroom.

Important to allow the time for the share part of learn, create and share.

The types of learning we will undertake over the 9 weeks are:
Deep dive, Chalk 'n talk, Explore, Levelling up

Evidence of shift is vital to the philosophy that it is making real gains for students.

Learn, create, share should be effective on any device.


Google groups
Replies in Google groups go to everyone in the group.

To set up a google group - groups.google.com
You can be a member, manager or owner - only owner can delete the group - managers can be given some functions.
All emails sent in the group are listed under the group.
Tags means the same as labels in the blog.

Google groups can be useful for parents e.g. a kapa haka group, class parents etc.

Four types of group you can set up.  Check group name is suitable.
Check if you invite paretns you tick allow members not in your organisation.

In the exam you will be asked to create a group and invite people to the group - not just to add them.

Reflect - when could google groups be useful?  When you have students from multi-classes that you can't work with through Hapara.

Google group allows people to join later and get all the past communication with the group.


Setting up user profiles in chrome

Set the account up and name it.
Omnibox - url menu bookmarked.
Command and tab number e.g. 3 to move to that tab.
Asterix before will put them first, numbering will then put folders at the top behind those with an asterix.
Shift z allows us to add a document rather than moving it.  So it is the same document in multiple places.


Using documents with headings
Paste text only and no code - Paste and match style - will be the text only.

Underlining means a hyperlink.

Tools voice typing - change to English (New Zealand).  This will be great to try with my low writers who struggle to get their ideas written down in the writing lesson as they find creating ideas and forming words challenging.  This will allow them to focus on the ideas rather than trying to also process how to record them.

Practicing using the explore tool following on from the toolkit on explore last night was really helpful to consolidate my knowledge.

We undertook a scavenger hunt to consolidate our knowledge of the Explore tool.  I then practiced screenshots to insert it into the blog.

Reflective questions for today - DLI one:

What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?
I have visited the Manaiakalani schools about 5 years ago so just got a reminder of how it all began.  I got a better understanding of the learn, create and share ideas not just being linked to the digital platforms and how to start them in more curriculum areas.

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?
Using Google groups and discovering I am already a part of some groups will allow me a platform to work with students across several classrooms which happens weekly for Te Reo Maori during Kapa Haka when we combne classes and during technology once a fortnight when parts of another two classes combine.

What did I learn that could be used with my learners?  
I would like to develop use of the explore tool with my class.  I will also take documents back to the basics to check students are saving in the correct places and labelling correctly for ease of locating documents.

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?
Once I use the tools all the time it will be easier to work quickly and load more to my class site.  I still struggle with all documents being digital and like to print paper versions but am working on my filing to ensure I am more comfortable relocating documents.


I created this today which I have put into my site to use in class tomorrow for science.