DFI Week 9 Revision

Week 9 Dorathy discussed the huge power that Ubiquitous teaching and learning can have. When there is no longer the constraints of learning only occuring within the four walls of a classroom a finishing bell. It can actually extend much futher with access and availability beyond school hours. It can reach into the home, it can streatch out to seek other experts in other places, spaces time zones or countries. It certainly yeileds a different type of power.

If you are away, you are traveling, if covid 19 hits and your in lock down- well you don't have to miss out because its right there and accessible for you. Its even rewindable so if you don't get it the first time or want to go back over something - easy peasy thats' rewindable Ubiquitous teaching and learning. Following this chat and after a few hairy minutes waiting to reshedual and get on to the Exam... Well what can I say it is done! It was a really full on day and on this occasion I had my 14 year old son Around - someone mentioned it being a good thing to do this exam and put our selves in the shoes of our young learners. This was gold my year 10 boy witnessing Mum about to do an exam, was she comfortably? No in fact it had been over 20 years since she sat a 3 hour exam.. Was she jumping for joy to be doing this? No she was a bit unsure about some aspects and was very concerned about the time pressure. On top of all this as life often does it had thrown in some unexpected excitement and change so the leadup to this day had been unavoidably manic in the entire Newlands household to say the least. Despite all this I (Mum) was brave and sat down and got stuck in. Well how did it go? I ran short of time - this was something that I was concerned about, however I was really encouraged that as I was going along I actually found that so much of what I was having to do I actually had the knowledge and skill to do - I truly have learn so much and I can put this into action when required. I do know that if I practiced and used these digital skills on a more regular basic I would be much quicker. As I teach year 1 students and only sporadically need to use many of these tools I am not as polished at using them quickly BUT the exam proved to me that I do know about so much and I now have the confidence to use and develop these skills when situations require. ...To top it all off my son got to see me tackle something that was challenging and that I had to keep a growth mindset about and really just face head on even though the lead in has been hardly ideal. I know this one will be hugely valuable in the exam sitting years that my own children are about to embark on. Life lessons all round and I must say a great deal of digital knowledge intensively imparted on me over this past 9 weeks. Thanks to All the awesome experts and fantastic presenters we had the privilege of learning from and a special mention to my truly fantastic small group leader Venessa who was just brilliant at her role! Thanks DFI

My Fav short video

I am just practicing embeding a few things to practice these skills.

DFI Day 3 Media

 Notes Day three

Anne Sinclaire discussed the importance of the create aspect of the learn create share model and

noted how in the past some teachers had proven success with this method of teaching. It was quite

empowering and seemed like fun for all ages.

Kent 
So inspiring to see the capabilities of videos and media and how it can be shared and made available 

for others to view.  The different ways you can record are on a camera nd even purchase a device that allows for live streaming straight to a live audience.  One school also has a large screen and drone recording the front runners of the cross country in the usually unseen to the spectator art which is u  

Video - video drones phone computer. Teachers can present fotage of students activities for sharing

later.

We created a You tube account and worked though the different ways to save and share media on

this platform.

consumer - using the pre-created stuff already on you tube to save on to your own playlist.

creator - here you can place your own media created by you

studio - studio is the sharing - putting it out there space

I can already see how I may use creating a playlist to share aspects relevent to the curriculum

On you tube that i or my students and their whanau can access.

I will need to so this is something to revise Creating a channel in exam

Google Drawings

I do love presenting and creating fancy posters ect so the learning on google Drawings i can see will

be something very useful and something that I wish to build on and practice. …

I loved working with Amie to create a drawing and make clickable links to find out further information

and that from one picture takes the user to addtional information on the web.

Kids could also customise get kids to use template make a copy and change

Google Slides

Advice for slides are to have the same colours through the doccument, keeping it same similar and

simple - ditch the themes create your own

Tools in google slides

I feel very empowered from todays session.  Wow how much did we pack into one day !!!!  I have so much to learn but have also come so far and already made a shift in my confidence and attitudes 

around this learning.
Create a pepeha this is a work in progress for me using a range of skills learnt.

No I have got so many things to go away and practice and also must begin utilizing these in my daily life.  A challenge will be how I can now take from each week and embed it in to either my own planning or life or my class room practice.  

Week 7 Review

 Week 7

Using crome book shortcuts……..

Using chrome book shortcuts was really interesting. I use many simple shortcuts on my laptop and with the ipad though I am so very aware that there are just so many more out there.  Oh there are so many more alright it has been really interesting to discover just how many there are. I think that I will endeavour to learn and practice a new short cut that would assist me on a frequent basis. I have since printed out a few and am trying to get into more of a habit of using the shortcut rather than the long many clicks options that I usually revert to.

The 1:1 Device initiative

Partnership- participation and power.  Manaiakalani supports a program to facility The desire to achieve the 1::1 journey with the tricky issue of students from low income family.     There is power in the ownership of a device they have the power to own and be responsible for it and there is a certain value in this.  Together with this there is also a need to protect them and to ensure a positive introduction and education around using this device sensibly and safely..  If they are encouraged to purchase an expensive device then it has to be utilised in meaningful and empowering ways through carefully selected learn create share tasks, encouraging learner agency.  A my school senior students have 1-1 devices and they are consistently using devices in this way.  They are supported by Manaiakalani and use their devices to assist learning in a variety of ways aligning with the learn create share idea.  Our year twos are using ipads and supported also. This looks fabulous. The device issue is something that hinders my ability to drive forward with digital technologies and some of the ideas I have got from this new learning recently.  I have a small selection of old ipads which sometimes are not ideal.  What I have been encouraged by is the lovely story of a teacher that was able to engage her students and work to utilize one old standa lone computer to drive forward in technology.  This soy inspires me that where there is a will there is a way.

Hapara dash is a away of keeping everyone safe or keeping in check with what they are looking at even what they have deleted !!

After hearing about hapara dash and speaking to my own older children who are in intermediate and high school classes with high device usage I can totally see how it is a fantastic and essential tool for teachers to get using.  It allows us to monitor students activity and assist in ensuring that they are responsible with time and choices.  

Powerful positive and proactive language

Every time before sharing language / communication online 

Is it positive?-  is it thoughtful? -is it helpful?

Partnership with parents important to share info with parents or even better get students to share this information so it is a shared vision and so much more powerful.

Why cybersmart…

We need to keep our students to be safe, SMART and SECUREs online and prepare them in being cuber smart positive online citizens.   Teaching them to interact confidently, POSITIVELY and powerfully online.

This doesn't happen over night Teachers need to model using positive language and show how to interact and communicate in a correct way online. Look for those opportunities to how you can find and use teaching opportunities to model this. It really does need to be seen, heard and modeled many times and must be planned deliberate things modeled and taught to allow this to happen.

 New learners need regular teaching on this that builds on what they know and consistently supports being cyber smart.

They are creating their own digital footprint from the time they begin online with us and we need to introduce and  support them to understand of how important this is and the effects  they can have on line and what impacts this has on themselves and others.  Looking at positive but also make wary of the negative effects.   Doing all we can to make this a positive impact out there.  Even young 5 year old students can experience online communications through a class bog or site or face book page where they observe the connection between their school learning and connecting with other classes schools teachers, whanau and others.

Computational thinking

Being digitally literate ….The ability to navigate various digital platforms and to  understand, access and communicate through them.  being comfortable in your own skin when using technology 

Well I am certainly progressing on my journey steadily.  Not always entirely comfortable as things do not always sink in for me without much repetition and practice.  I would however say that I am  certainly am progressing  on an up wards trend. (Great acceleration doing DFI) If I look at where I have come from and how I have adapted to change and new learning and my continued motivation to do so I think I can feel proud and encouraged to continue on this exciting journey. 

Maria Karasse introduced some of the most advanced technologies.  These are incredible yet they reminded me of a time many years ago when  I attended a huge gathering of teachers, here an expert spoke of the many advancing technologies.  These seemed hugely futuristic but I can now look around and say all are just common place in the current technological world in which we live.  So seems scary to think that driverless cars and other amazing technologies are very much waiting in the wings.  With some of theses new technologies and there capabilities they do bring with them some ethical Issues.  It will be interesting to see how these issues are managed and addressed and peoples responses to these.. 

Dorathy

Devices are not just a tool they can provide awesome opportunities and experiences and learning

Its not just a tool.Screen save here

Kerry  Boyde- preece discussed the new digital technologies curriculum.  Being digitally competent is when someone who can decide when and why to use the different digital technologies 

Empowering students with the confidence to share their learning find resources, have a voice and take charge of their progress and learning, Moving toward digitally fluent teachers and students is going to allow this advancement.

Look for slide here

Google classroom g sheets - g form - site challenge  - youtube create your channel mailsend email add task due date 

No Hapara no 

Coding exploration was super fun and I can see how engaging that this could be for my learners.  I loved the graduated introduction to coding through the vehicle of mine craft and I have also dabbled with Light bot which is loaded on some of my class ipads already.  I am eager to do more to introduce this learning to my class both plugged in and unplugged through grids, maths using the language prepositional language that will support this. 

The fun continued using scratch junior.  It continues to amaze me the huge amount of different possibilities to create, learn and share using the range of different learning supports out there.  This was a step up from the program scratch junior which I have seen and used a little with a few of my year 1 students.  Again the possibilities and different ways you can use these learning apps is seemingly endless.  I love how there is layers of complexities you can simply explore and create or also create a challenge or task exploring and using the extended range of tools to create then share.

These awesome tools are an invite to any  creative teacher who could utilize the many apps and tools  to inspire learning and development  for the range of learners in their class.

Week 6 review

Week 6

Connecting across the city nation and world. 

Limit the links  

The power of connection.

-Connecting others support schools and teachers to connect with others, with each others and with each other. Google meets during this time...remember the richness that this type of connection has made during this time which may have been lonely and isolated but we have had this digital connection across so many different peoples and groups. 

This past week has been definitely inspirational and encouraging.  I have been trying new things and continuing to dabble in making attempts to move forward with my site and other digital tools and learning.  I have felt frustrated about my site and how it looks and functions. Also the fact that I used it during lockdown to connect with parents and students but now predominantly I use it for me to access and use with the students and have continued using my slides to plan and access in class with students but have no longer been sharing them to the site.

So the skills learnt on sites have allowed me to begin the transformation process of my class site. 

I also attended two fabulous work shops during the week that have inspired me.  One was on book creator. It seems soooo exciting and I can see that I would enjoy making class shared books with the students in it, or presenting their work. I would also like to have them use it. I am going to check out the capacity of the old ipads I have in my room and have also asked another staff member who was keen to see if her older students could connect with and teach my students.

Google draw has excited me though I had been frustrated trying to use the tools effectively.  After attending a workshop on this I was re-inspired.  The tutors gave cool options for younger students where
templates could be offered around the drawing space so young students could be taught to  manipulate, duplicate and resize / colour shapes to create using drawings.  I challenged myself and created a drawing on slides demonstrated by my lovely daughter.

 I am really thankful to be taking part in this fabulous professional development.  I am not the fastest or the most knowlegable  but I am gaining skills and knowledge every week.  So thankful to my fantastic bubble group tutor Vanessa. She is so very patient, explains everything so well and although there are some times I feel a tad over whelmed I feel so well supported. infact I am possibly my harshest critic. Great to reflect on all the positives and to be in the shoes of a learner who is having to pay close attention.  I believe in this course I have many options to discover all that I do not yet know or have not yet grasped as it is all there in its rewindable form... how comforting is that, so no excuses. Thanks DFI.

Week 5 DFI

 Week 5

You can look back to select the revision aspects for the exam.  READ THE QUESTIONS CAREFULLY

It is really like  comprehension alongside the task.

Visible

Dorathy discussed what the term visible means in our DFI world and the world of  Manaikalanin. Simple “can you see it or can you not’.  Can you see the teaching and learning. Is it visible to - the teacher- to the whanau - the staff/ to other colleagues.  Dont keep the learning journey hidden from your students or their parents.  Use the many ways of sharing that can allow all supports of one learner to know the path the direction and the right steps heading towards success.

I would describe myself as more of an introvert and I struggle slightly with putting myself and my stuff out there. I lack confidence in a way and have nagging concerns that what I am doing may not be good enough.  This modern way with you having an open online presence has challenged me.  On so many levels I have progressed forward trying new things and have made many attempts to put myself out there.  I am still working on this and also work to learn more so that what I have to share I  can feel proud of. Today we discussed  the power of sharing your journey.  Your planning your failures and your successes.  The impact you can have on others by making your planning,  teaching learning and thinking VISIBLE can be hugely Powerful to others though this effect may be invisible to you.  You have more impact than you will know being VISIBLE.  This is something for me to let resinate with me.  I do know I can learn so much from glimpses of others ides directions and journeys and how thankful am I to those who share resources saving me hours of  my time preparing very cool learning support materials!!!

Muli modal

This is delivering information from one person to another.  Important to remember that what works for some does not work for others. So many others that we are communicate with have different modes of communication.  It is important for us to find ways to cater for the range of different learners their modes and their learning styles. Engagement personalising it so it reflects the person who is producing it. Priority goals listed below, 

In the past the children who have the ability to seemingly read the teachers mind and intentions are the ones who are able to access the learning and succeed.  We should aim to ensure that all students have the ability to have clear vision of what is expected of them on their learning journey and that they need to do going forward and to access success.  On top of this that parents and families also have this access and knowledge VISIBLE and available easily for them. Technology does offer so many additional ways to meet every ones needs should we work to ensure this occurs.

Sites

What makes a good site?

Your site should have the draw in like a really desirable shop.  The viewers want to go in and see whats on the site - whats happening, the wanting to be part of it.  Your front page is the initial draw in ...or NOT.  Is it inviting and exciting? - like a well dressed shop window… "ohhh, I just have to go in and see what’s inside!"... is the desired effect on viewers / participants - the waning to view see more and engage or buy in.

Students have a voice 

Sites designed to give choice and encourage collaboration.

Overall Reflection of today.

WOW I HAVE LOVED TODAY!!!   I have found today sooooo helpful. I have learnt so much more about sites.  (A great deal by having time and set tasks to work on using them. I have begun a revamp on my own class site.  As although I have been using the site that I had help creating last year (pre-lockdown I loved it)  Since lockdown I have found that it no longer suits my and the classes needs.  I also have a different vision for how I would like to present and interact with my class, whanau and audience online.  Frustration had begun to set in as I felt I wasn't sure how to go about changing it.   I now can independently do sooooo much more to change and insert things on sites.  This was a real positive inspirational day.  It is so nice to be finishing the day feeling that I accomplished so much and also have the inspiration and motivation to go off and make changes and adaptions that will work well for me, my learners and my  learning community. 

Hapara Dashboard

Sharing in Hapara check in to see that children have filed their work in the right folders

Sites EXPLORE

Eyes on text Tshaped literacy.  REading wide and deep.  They say we are not teaching reading well that learners abilities across the board and over the years are dropping.  How can we embrace the technology which is here to stay to embrace and improve reading and reading achievement for our NZ students?  Not all texts are created equal.  Careful text selection is important

DFI WEEK 4 

Dealing With Data 

Hapara - primary teachers need to look through the top line and check more Check on comments Don't click to open posts that may be spam as it will explode the issue indicating to the spam bot a hit. Make a note and deal with it later. 

 

The Share Concept 

Right from the beginning of time we have been sharing. Sharing can occur in so many ways with so many things … sharing food - sharing things sharing joy, fun conversation and time, love and laughter. Sharing is important and needs to be two way to be sustainable for people to keep it going. So many ways to share online have happened through time. People have use these many vehicles to share and communicate. In DFI we use blogger.  It is not the smartest or the most popular tool / vehicle but it has the functions that allow students to have a good platform to teach digital citizenship and cyber safety.

 Google Forms

Used to get a response from participants, create a quiz, find out information or opinions, or to gather data. 

It is important to make sure that whanau or those out of your school have access to view and participate. You need need to allow access in the sharing settings or they will be unable to access and participate . There are many features to google forms. You can limit one response from email to ensure you get an accurate representation of your participants views or ideas. (ie not one person submitting their views multiple times. 

You can shuffle question order so each participant gets questions in a random individual order. This means if the form is a test or intended to gather each individuals thinking then neigbours can't copy as questions to each participant can be random. If you wish your class to focus only on this without exploring other tabs ect then you can lock students into the participant completing the form without being able to surf or begin something else online or on the device.- This is however only if the users are using a chrome book or device managed within your domain. 

Can send to open in email or if larger can open in another tab. 

My Maps 

Add marker points Name each marker point and can add image also Set default screen so you don't have to zoom in. Once you have marker points you can find distances from point you point This tool can be used for maths.. My maps I figured I could use in my personal life or to demonstrate distances or routes 

Google Sheets EXAM support slide check this as it is all that will be in the exam on google sheets. I have dabbled in google sheets and can see that it could be really useful. As I am getting use to how to use the many possibilities and functions that sheets has I am starting to feel a wee bit excited. Once we practiced a bit and I was able to see my information transforming into rather cool graphs quite quickly I felt less over whelmed and I began to imagine how this could look in my role as a teacher. 

Sharing information and data to others. 

 With my class - I could even see this as a tool that we could use to make a quick visual graph of class statistical data gathered input then presented in graph form to analyse and make statements about together. I am motivated to play some more to become quick at this. I can definitely see multiple uses for this in my role. I do find myself not quite grasping all the shortcuts so I do things the long winded way because I just know that it works even if it takes a bit longer. My goal is to take that little bit of time to learn skills that will save more time in the long run.  I am also intrigued but the huge number of tools and want to explore these further.

DFI Media

Its all about the hook The importance of creativity and how it fuels learning. This was at the heart of learning in NZ but has become less important and needs to be brought back and reignighted. Creating a you tube channel and making a playlist making it child friendly SISOMO sight sound and motion revisit slides to study Filming - you need a tripod to produce quality fiulming Always film in landscape so you can uise this againg later in the best form. Ways you can use footage Drones Live streaming Blue screen or green effective you can get green screen paint to paint a wall or have green screen carpet or wall cover. Pod casting chrome music lab. Pod cast using go So many options with media with ipads also You DO NEED A SILENT space for clean noise. Possibly one of the best things that I feel that I have taken from today is the session on using google slides to plan. As my school has for sometime now have taken the journey from using paper planning to have mostly transrotmed to using online docs and slides to doccument everything. My personal journey is currently in the transformation phase where I feel I am exploring a number of options, yet I havent really nailed it down to the very best and easier way for me, my school and my class. I am still exploring the way that works that I can feel that I have full evidence and planning and that I can seamlesly move betwwen and locateall of my infromation.

DFI week 2 - Work Flow

Small group discussion what worked what didnt 

AKO - don't throw the baby out with the bath water Aim to empower learners 

What does Learn look like at your school 

How to create a google meet 

We went through how to do this which was through Gmail Using a Calendar invite  or through Google meet app itself .

An important thing to know about google meet as a teacher is: You should as a teacher Create and be the last to leave to see all kids gone first. 

You need to choose bottom option tab if you want to play a video with sound. Google meet has tools you can use if you are the creator eg record meet.

Google Keep You can draw within in and may use this for your signature At conference --- hold up phone and in keep save 

Google mail You can Delay or shedual send 10 seconds to unsend Dynamic email -respond with out opening I have already used some of these tools, I like the shedual emails as I tend to work later at night when it is quiet. It is nice to be able to deliver emails at a more poliet hour. 

Google calendar Can use settings to change font Change colors cording Multiple caledars can be available with only some or one open so it's not to busy Create G meetings from here with additional information about the shedual for the meet Can customize with notifications Sits it the side bar while in any other G suit Can send quick note to guests to remind to bring…. Tool Syncs with your phone so you can access on the move or be notified. This is a tool our school has been immersed in and I am transfering to use more consistently. Having multiple calendars able to be opened and use along side each other or in single view at the click of a button is very helpful to manage your various groups and lifes 'circles.' Accessible by phone on the go means you can check your up and comming events and make appointments eaily then be reminded and notified at the appropriate timely to attend. I do use this and find it very useful professionally - I can see that I may be able to use it more in my personal life to assist my planning of life and family organisation. I could make more use of this tool and rest my brain a little which tries to hold the timetables of a family of 5! 

Too many tabs: Too many tabs used power you can manage tabs using One tab and Toby tab which collects tabs as a group that can be stored as a list Work owner is a collaborative tool to manage tabs I am a person who opperates several/ many / possibly too many tabs. I will be mindful of this and close those not needed to save power. I am not certain that the additional tools would be required by me at the moment. I feel that I will focus on taming other areas to organise myself and just stop leaving unnecessasary tabs open. These tools look useful and I see there place but I feel that they may be more than I require currently. Go to three dots at top then copy paste Go to insert htm viewclick embed While I am getting good at joining and leaving and participating in Google meets, I had to revise shedualing my own. It was a step up to share my screen and then to share a video and pictures while presenting.  

I can see this being a valuable skill and while last time I made and posted demonstration type videos during lock down. I can see how this is a really great way to be teaching and sharing in the moment when distance learning or sharing. I can see that this allows for questions and discussion during the showing and sharing - very powerful. The last part of our day was a bit of a challenge and I was so thankful to have assistance for this. I am becoming more practiced at sharing my screen and this helped me acomplish the task. There was many levels of achieving the task and I mannaged it though I felt a tad overwhelmed. May need to practice recording during google meets and sharing on my blog and rewind this learning to try several times so I can get better at it. I am dont feel like re-watching my video discussion effort so I hope this inspires me to re-do and edit it.

DFI DAY ONE (Take 2)

Well this week was revision as we had begun the DFI course at the beginning of the year. It has been very different coming in and out of google meets rather than face to face with someone else leading and in charge of linking you on to meets with specialist tutors and experts. 

I have to say it has just now become very frustrating as I somehow mannaged to loose all the many pragraphs of reflections and discussions about today and the learning that I have had.  - I am unsure how I mannaged that so I guess that in itself means that it is a great thing that I am upskilling and destined for more practice with blogging and all of these other digital tools.  

The coming and going from meets and working in this way together with some of todays tasks and discussion has allowed me to realise just how far I have come since I had my first DFI oh so long ago at the start of the year.  Lock down forced such alot of learning and I already have done some upskilling just through necessity.  I do realise I have a long way to go and to be honnest I realise that the learning is HUGE and there is just so many possibilities and directions to grow and learn in. but I am thankful for My inscreased knowledge in slides, the ability to use google meet and google calendar. 

I am ready to continue to absorb.