Friday, February 26, 2021
Wednesday, February 24, 2021
Manaiakalani Digital Fluency Intensive: DAY 3
What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?
Hooking students into learning by engagement and enthusiasm.
Giving students opportunities to be creative by using SISOMO.
The ultimate goal is " A world full of playfully creative people"
Create is to get the whole body involved, not just the mind.
What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?
Refining my practice and using tools to create.
Exploring CREATE via a collaborative document shared with other staff to get ideas.
You Tube -Creating a You Tube Channel and having a collection of videos I could use in my teaching.
Subscribing to playlists that I could follow.
Using rewindable resources.
Using Google Slides as a presentation tool.
What did I learn that could be used with my learners?
Promoting risk taking to being creative.
Using Google Draw to create an All about Me Button for my blog.
Using Google slides to create an animation. Using the explore tool for png images, rotating images, grouping images.
Adding this video to my playlists to show my students and to inspire and motivate them to be part of my "Learn, Create, Share " journey.
To practise my skills in using Google Draw as we could not join with the Meet session with Kerry.
Having my own favourite playlists on You Tube channel which I can easily access.
Wednesday, February 17, 2021
Manaiakalani Digital Fluency Intensive: DAY 2
What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?
-The shared pedagogy of Learn, Create, Share which allows for individual differences and being inclusive of all learners.
-Effective Teaching and Learning is in both analogue and digital world.
-Learn Ako - Recognise, Amplify and Turbocharge.
-Teacher actions promoting student learning.
- What does LEARN look in our school? This is to be done with staff at our school.
-Rewindable learning.
What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?
-Google Meet Access through Calendar, Gmail, invite with a link to a new meeting.
-Google Keep - for reminders, notes, adding a new note, drawing, new note with images, sharing with other people.
-Google Calendar- Having multiple calendars, creating a calendar event, Using shortcuts for month/ year view.
Google Mail - Adding labels, Enabling Undo send, Adding a signature
Using Google Meet to connect with a small group. Sending an invite.
Embedding a video into blog.
What did I learn that could be used with my learners?
-Setting up a class blog and embedding a video.
What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?
Using Google calendar and Google Keep.
Wednesday, February 10, 2021
Manaiakalani Digital Fluency Intensive: DAY 1
1. What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani Kaupapa and pedagogy?
-All students can achieve irrespective of attending a decile 1 or decile 10 school.
-Working/ collaborating with parents to come up with a plan to purchase devices for their child.
-It was a long journey for Manaiakalani but they perservered and grew whilst learning and sharing with others.
2. What did I learn that could improve my confidence capability or workflow as a professional?
-Belonging to a group to collaborate.
-Using Google Chrome, adding on extensions to default.
- Setting up a professional and personal profile.
-Chrome feature of Omnibox.
-Shortcuts of jumping between tabs by using command 2, command 3 etc.
- Using google Drive- Clicking and dragging multiple files into a folder. Colour Coding Folders.
3. What did I learn that could be used with my learners ?
-Using a word document. How to paste text into a google doc Changing text style.
Inserting a table , inserting images.
4. What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?
-Creating a blog to document and reflect on my learning.
-Creating a Reading Task Board
