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.