DFI - Devices

Today I learnt about using hapara more effectively from Dorothy.  This was great because I have been meaning to learn more about this since teaching back in the senior school.

We also had to do the digital dig again which was good to go through, we had started it with Donna but Rob's class (who were starting up with their brand new chrome books) only got through 2 slides.  So this was great to revisit.  I need to continue doing this... I actually had this timetabled into my weekly plan - so students were to do 20 minutes of cybersmart on Thursday. 

Then with Gerhard he introduced us to ipads and how the junior school would use them.  The video (kawa of care) was awesome and it would be cool to make our own one for the school.
Expalin everything tutorial was great. These are the things we had to learn to do:

In the afternoon we did looked at screencasify, I have been having a bit of a play with this and did two last week for my students.  I made one with a funny video that I was sent about toilet paper and dominos, the kids loved this and used it for writing inspiration.  The second one didn't work as well and the sound went off the video (not the screen recording - just the video) so I need to keep having a go with this. 

We also looked at our blogs, It was a bit fast for me when Kerry was talking and so I need to go back and try to add a page and change my blog layout. 

Time to reflect and share with colleagues

• What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?
• What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?
  Keep up with the cybersmart tips especially on a chromebook so I know what it is like for my students.
• What did I learn that could be used with my learners? Make sure the kids are keeping up to date with
• cybersmart ideas and mahi.
• What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?

First DFI day 1

Day 1 - Introductions  Intro slides

The four goals of DFI see slide show  Slide about DFI

Learn create and share came before digital fluency: established 2006
The first goals/outcomes from the original leaders of Manaiakalani were:

email for this group is dfi-northland-cohort-1-2020@manaiakalani.org

CHEAT SHEETS for google test

Learn for google test 

groups.google.com 

mail.google.com

slides.google.com

open a new tab... 

About groups 2  notes: dont set up class groups - Hapara does this already.

Check what name you call your group with senior management.

Create a group called 3 bio spiny urchins ctrl c and paste this name 

invite members - start typing the email addresses.... 

Directly add these members don't click invite.... 

use this guy on youtube to help making google groups slide 20

Drive set up:

colour code folders 

put * next to folders to be at top of list

search for folder name in search and then advance search - then say location or time

Google Doc set up 

always name doc with initials so you can see each childs work as they share it.  

Set up with the class is important - use hapara to check if they are naming the doc correctly and saving it into folders.  

To copy and paste make sure you choose format options to keep format the same. ctrl/shift/c

Voice typing under tools. ctrl/shift/s

Highlight and change headings

Make a table of contents after making headings - this will auto. make these headings in the table of contents.  

word counts - good for competition for kids - ctrl/shift/c under tools

To add comments to certain people - highlight the topic you are asking them about then click comment button and then shift + will show contacts.  then assign to that email address.

Creating google docs/images/poster

get rid of background by googling https://www.remove.bg/upload

then up load the picture and it will automatically remove the background.

1. What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy? Heaps... got a even better understanding of how Manaiakalani was established and how the need arose. Nice backstory...
2. What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional? Keep my drive organised, I do try... also need to sort my emails and delete stuff more regularly. Keep trying the new tips with google docs.
3. What did I learn that could be used with my learners?  I liked the remove background tool, I want my class to do this themselves so they can add new profile pics to their blogs.
4. What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life? To keep google drive sorted at home also... maybe organise emails into better folders for accounts to pay etc.

Meeting with Meg around blogging/goals

TOD around our inquiry

Teaching as Inquiry TOD 26/4

This morning we broke down and summarised the Spiral of Inquiry with Susan.

As a staff we had rich discussion on what each stage of Inquiry means and how we can incorporate
this into our practice.

We then established a direction for our collaborative inquiry that worked underneath the Ka Hui Ako
overarching question:

How can I use rich tasks and flexible groupings to promote critical thinking?

Oruaiti School focus:

How can learners use a range of ways to demonstrate their learning?

Why?

We have noticed a school wide gap in students not being confident to articulate the direction of their learning.

Seven principles of learning.

We identified Learners at the centre as our areas of focus.

These reflective questions are what we are focusing on:

We understand that there can be a range of ways that learners can demonstrate their learning.
We are interested in discovering which ways learners can currently articulate their learning goals,
needs and next steps and how we can support them to do this better.

Week 1 Scanning:

• We will collect student voice
• We plan to teach lessons and ask students to demonstrate what they have learnt

(we will try 5 different methods e.g: discuss verbally, write, draw, song/poem/rap, blog reflection,
drama, p.e)

• We will record data and be prepared to share our findings at our staff meeting in Week 3, this will also
• be recorded on our blogs.

What was the most successful method?

Where do I think focusing my attention would be most useful?