DFI: Day 5 - Collaborate

Day 5: Collaborate:

What a week it has been! Lockdown, teaching from home (my own class and 6yr old), and managing the household! Thank you DFI for the many skills you have taught me so far! It has been helpful! 

It was great to reconnect with my bubble group this morning. I feel like I belong to a great group of teachers. 

Visible Kaupapa

I found this Kaupapa really helpful. Making the learning journey visible so that the students are able to see where they are going next and what they will need to do. This learning journey will support my students to see what they are doing and they are able to talk about what they are doing and where they need to be. Make sure the students are able to get access to the learning outcomes and their aim.

Having the learning journey on your site will help you to have everything in one place. Every student is able to access the site, timetable, learning and anything else they need on the site. 

Hapara is a great tool for teachers within the classroom and in lockdown. I have been able to use it in my google meets this week. 

One feedback I have about google sites is: If you consistently show the google site children at any age can navigate it. My daughter is 6 yrs old and can Navigate through her class site. She knows where everything is and what she needs to do. She has learning difficulties but having access to her google site really has supported her learning. (Thanks Koka Beth!!!)

Deep Dive:

Multi Modal is great to have within our sites to support our students.

Are priority goals for the Manaiakalani programme giving students the power to navigate their learning. When setting up your site you kind of need to sell the learning. How will you display your google site? 

You are able to personalize your site to support the learning on our google sites.

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The sharing hub:

Exploring other site ideas for how they display multi modal. It is amazing how much information children need. Having everything available to them would be helpful. Having each task explaining and what type of learning they will be doing. Everything is written and a video has been made by the teacher. 

Here are links to some multi modal sites:

https://sites.google.com/yaldhurst.school.nz/te-mahuri--nz-dinosaurs/home

https://sites.google.com/ptengland.school.nz/science-in-our-world/living-things?authuser=0

Google Sites:

My team leader showed me how to make sure the sharing settings are open to anyone with the link. 

It is important to plan your site before you set it up! There should not be more than 2 clicks to get to student mahi. 

With an image or slide (to resize) uncrop it. 

Explore:

Multi-Modal Database

Looking at the different sites on the database is amazing, you are able to gain ideas and what you would like to use on your site. I never knew about Jamboard on Google. This is something I am going to have a look at!

I like how some teachers have their planning on their site as well. 

https://sites.google.com/edmundhillary.school.nz/nz-heroes/teacher-planning-and-notes?authuser=1

This site has great stuff about sustainability

https://sites.google.com/kaniere.school.nz/thelorax/home

Jamboard:

Sticky Notes

Multiple people can edit and move things around. 

Thanks Cheryl for showing me how to use Jamboard. I had no idea it existed.

Creating our own Site using the resources we have found:

Woah, there was some great learning happening. Learning how to create a site and how to set it up in a multi-modal space. I would love to learn about the ‘Learn, create, share’ model and how I can use it in my teaching. 

Below is a link to the site I created today. 

 

Have a great weekend and Keep safe!!

Day 4: Dealing with Data // DFI

 Day 4: Dealing with Data // DFI

DFI at home has been a new experience for myself as I’ve had to hotspot my data to get internet! Having to pop into school at a selected time to get resources and having to Hotspot and listen to our hui as I drove to and from school! 

Share - 

 

Sharing has been around since the beginning of time. We share stories, successes and failures, as well as connecting with other people. 

Share on a much greater level. Sharing their learning through their blog, gives them a purpose to complete their mahi. 

It is highly impactful for students to get feedback from people who are not from their class or friend group. This can be powerful and how motivating it can be for your learners. 

Toolkits - Online

Chalk ‘n’ Talk - Google Forms

What is great about google forms is that you can use it for a lot of different purposes. Student voice would be great to use google forms for. It gives our students a free platform for them to express themselves in an open manner without sharing their name. 

Great tips to use when creating a form for students to complete. 

Using Quiz mode can help with assessment. Make sure to have the lock mode on too. 

Below is the link to the google form I created today. It is based around questions for my class whanau, based around distance learning if we will have to go into online distance learning again. 

Google Maps - 

Deep Dive - Google Sheets - 

There are many different functions in google sheets. Shortcuts on how to autofill your cells. I am looking forward to having a play with what we have been learning today. I can’t wait to use google sheets for my data. 

More formats - bottom of the tool/format tab.

Chalk ‘n’ Talk - Sheets on Speed.

This is practice for the exam. 

Tips about Sheet’s that I found useful

• Maths - Stats use google sheets for graphs. It will then become a live graph and students can then see if the data is correct or not. 

• Data tab sort A - Z or Z - A

• Protect range - to set current cells for only one student to view. Select cells then add permissions. 

• You can add checkboxes. 

• Use Sheets to enter your writing e-asttle to mark your students' scores. 

Create: Making meaning of content: Analysing data from a student's blog. 

Today we looked at Analysising data from a students blog post. We had to Create a table that displayed each each, month and amount of blog posts that were posted. 

Then we had to create a chart to display the data. I choose to do a monthly overview and a year overview. 

 

I also created something a little similar to what Mele did. 

Share: Embed and Rewind content

I found this quick tip that Kerry shared very vaild. I have used this before and found that it is easier to write a one word comment however, it may not be effective for students. I think I will be using this in my self, and peer share where they have to give feedback. 

Day 3: Media // DFI

 Day 3: Media // DFI

Reflection from Day 2 learning in class: 

One thing that was on top for myself and using the learning I’ve learnt this week is…

My students were able to pin two tabs that we use often in class. They were buzzing that when they reopened google chrome there tabs were still there. 

Using the dashboard to view and manage students files via the dashboard tab. You can group your students to be able to share files with a select group of students. If you need to keep track of a student you can drag their tile to the top, to keep a track with what they are doing. 

Connecting with Manaiakalani - Create

Create - 

I really liked the statement from the Lifelong Kindergarten group. I really enjoy learning through play/doing within schools. 

This slide spoke to me alot! I love hands-on learning. Whether it is gardening, building, using papatuanuku and being a kaitiaki for her. I try to involve my students in what learning they would like to do. Creativity involved in the classrooms. Getting everyone involved and sharing their ideas and thoughts. 

https://youtu.be/c1bPAWEfmWY

When we create we use our whole body.

From the Create presentation, I have found that a lot of the kaupapa that was spoken about is the type of learning that I like to do in my class. Creating is giving students purpose. Making connections is important for teaching, learning, for our students and whanau, and is a big part of my culture. My people believed that making connections is important when getting to know people. Or in other words whakawhanaungatanga. 

Chalk and Talk

Youtube:

Great new learning. On how to create a youtube channel and how to make playlists. How you can create playlists of videos that students can view and is helpful for students to use in their learning. 

If you click share you can share it straight to your blog. 

Kerry gave me some great advice to keep my personal playlist to be in my personal email and my school email to be for playlists I’ll use in school. 

Deep dive: Media.

There is so much that can be said within a few minutes within a video. It can be captivating, motivational and moving for our students. 

https://sites.google.com/ptengland.school.nz/movie-making-moran/home

Links to things that you can do with google drawing. Make sure to change the setting for the link so anyone with this link can access your image. 

 

- I like this aspect of google drawings to put your image into a shape! I think I might teach my students this next week!

I really enjoyed creating this in google drawings. 

Chalk N Talk:

Google Slides:

There is a lot of things you can do on Google Slides, I am thinking about exploring google slides and using this within my class. 

I am going to use one of the ideas from the create section of the slides shared with us. To build into my literacy programme.

Levelling up session:

Working with Google Drawing and exploring more of its functions. 

Ctrl + D = duplicate a shape to create a flowchart or GO. 

All of the google drawings tools work the same for google  slides. 

Double click in your shape and you will be able to write in the shape without adding a text box. 

If you want to change the colour of your shape and want patterns or lines of different colours you click on gradient then linear and then you can change the angle and direction of the lines/colours. 

Creating with Google Slides: Kiwaha - Makaore

I learnt a lot within this space of learning. 

I learnt the following:

• Put a picture in the background. - Ctrl+Shift+Down Arrow.

• To bring it to the front you will then do: Ctrl+Shift+Up Arrow.

• How to publish my slides to the web then getting the code to embed it to my blog! 

Nga mihi Makaore!!!

DFI Day 2 - Work Flow

 Day 2 of DFI - Work Flow

Woah, What a day of online learning! Getting my head around some of the new learning that has happen today has been mind blowing! Shortcuts and tips I had no idea that were on each of the google apps, will be helpful for my own workflow professionally and for my personal lifestyle. 

Firstly, Thank you Vicki for your comment on my Day 1 post. (using Shift and not command!)

I would love to learn more about Hapara and how to use it. Over the years, I have been at Central. I have had access to Hapara but was left to learn how to use it. Last year, a member of my team helped me in lockdown to understand some parts of Hapara. I'm looking forward to learning more HOT Tips about Hapara. 

One reminder I need to remind myself before each Friday is to fill in the WWW before each friday. As I over looked it yesterday. As well as looking at my comments, reading other peoples blogs and commenting. 

Learn - Connecting with Manaiakalani

Ako - Learn

Building and strengthing the teaching and learning relationships between learner and teacher. The DFI goals aline with the aspect of Ako - Learn. 

For myself, I think it is important to learn along side my learners, so they are able to see that I am trying as well. I have noticed that with completing the DFI course each week my learners are able to support me in my online learning. In the same way I support them in learning. 

I liked this comment alot and throught I'd reshare it. " Changing the way we teach to support our learners in a digital space." 

Reflection; What does LEARN look like at my School? 

PLD based around Write that essay and the sentnce train, mana whenua PLD based around learning our local history and where our school fits, PB4L, In our Junior school cthey do play based learning every day and the next syndicate does one day a week, and weekly Te reo lessons for our learners. 

Google Meet:

If we ever went back into lockdown, I will use the above poster to show my learners, what they need to do before coming on to a google meet. 

I found that the recording part of google meet was great! having the evdience to show your discussions was pretty cool!

I also found that the 3rd option when sharing your screen was helpful when wanting to share a video. 

Google Keep:

I found google Keep great! I love how you can take a picture then convert it into written text. I will use this in my own practice. 

Gmail:

Wow! I enjoyed how you can change the layout of your emails, what the background looks like and how you can put labels and colour code it. This weekend I am going to tidy up my emails as it is a mess!!

All in all it was a great day where I was able to learn heaps and take alot away. 

Creating with google meet: My Blog discussion.

Have a great weekend!!!