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Tuesday, September 17, 2019

DFI Week 9



DFI  Week 9

17th September

Mark , Hannah
Ubiquitous
The evidence for the power of Ubiquitous learning is most clearly displayed in the Summer Learning Journey reports.
Young people learning over the Summer holidays with no teacher present.
Their Term 1 progress / achievement is carefully matched with a non-blogger - and the infographic displays the clear difference between the groups.
Ubiquitous carries the idea that learning takes place outside of the traditional school/classroom in the digital era.
Rewindable learning is capturing the teaching, capturing the learning
Enabling young people to revisit it over and over again.

Explore Teacher Tools for rewindable lessons

Very very proud of the energy and motivation to persevere with the Google Certified Educators Level 1 exam today. Though I only got 70%, I am aware it is a snapshot in time.Maybe next time....
My learning and growth has been massive this term, very grateful for the opportunity. Ngā mihi nui.

Tuesday, September 10, 2019

DFI Day 8




DFI Day 8
10.09.19


Dealing with Data
With Mark and Dorothy

Agenda

Connecting with Manaiakalani- Empowered

Empowered as opposed to agency- agency for many-has other not so positive connotations.

It’s not just a tool, if it’s not transforming lives….is it working?
Enables a level of control in their lives
View- It’s not just a Tool- Nigel Latta


Dorothy shared how whanau in her neighbourhood ( and so many others) are disempowered.

5+ a day makes a difference- conversation that goes back and forwards 5 times a day. Build on that!- especially for our little ones.

Dealing with Data
Google Forms
Chalk ‘n talk

Need to be purposeful and useful
No need for Survey Monkey or costs.

There are three main ways to send a form:
1.Email - Allows your to directly send the form. Add the recipient's address, customise your message and hit send
2.Link - Share via link. Highlight, copy then paste the link in the desired location
3.Embed - Copy and paste the embed code to share via Google site or blog

Tips
A dropdown box or choices make responses more consistent, accurate.
Created my first google form

My Maps
You can turn on map sharing (phone) with a partner, friend. Could do with it with a group of friends, colleagues who are meeting up- can do it for a short term. Good for teenagers. Useful for planning walks and trips when you are away.
Customisable collaborative maps- can import data from a sheet-
Operates on multiple layers
Useful for maths- scale, measurement
We used the info from our Google form, then imported info to our MyMap

Google Sheets
Tips for me to practice and remember:
To freeze the top row, go to View- freeze
Freeze left column- go to view freeze 1 column
To resize columns select, shift click- drag to resize
Added Crop it to remove all of those extra cells
Use the Explore tool will do graphs automatically. Click on the 3 dots of the graph to move it to it’s own sheet. Rename it.
Use the dropdown box on the tab to protect the sheet and who can access it.
Check add ons that are available- QR codes, split names. (1 a day free)
Select rows, columns with a pattern to repeat pattern, click on corner, drag down.
If I get stuck, think… is it data, format, or a shortcut???
Sort highest to lowest Z-A

Tip of the Day: If in doubt, click on the three dots.
You can hide a column by clicking on arrow on tab. Left arrow to return it.
An idea to follow through with is to have a Google form on our learning site. Students can fill it when they have made a comment on a blog.
Your name
Blog you posted on
Post link to that blog
Post onto class site.


Eeeeeeek, have registered for next week’s exam!!!!
Need to brush up ready for Level 1 Google Educator, feel totally unprepared and rather anxious.


Tuesday, September 3, 2019

DFI Week 7 03/09/19




Media
With Mark and Kent





Agenda

What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?

Hangout with Dorothy
Connecting with Manaiakalani- Connected

Today in our Hangout with Dorothy we were reminded of how Manaiakalani connects powerful networks of schools and learners with a shared pedagogy and kaupapa language. Clusters of schools showing commitment and strong partnership with consistent pedagogy programme design. Providing that genuine audience, the act of sharing creates connection- a core part of being human. Digital makes possible the impossible.

Important to maintain commenting on blogs, maybe we need to make a targeted commitment from each of our students. Idea from Mel- Blogger of the Week. Or focusing on one studio?


What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?

Today Kent shared his skills and expertise with a range of digital tools. I found myself taking copious notes for my next steps. I liked the way that he treated each question as if it was worthy with a scaffolded response.


Today I am most proud of:
  • Successfully posting a photo with a clickable link (to a recipe) on our Studio blog.
  • Successfully making a channel with playlists for school, this will really help to cull my bookmarks as I have a zillion youtube saves in random bookmark folders.
  • I am looking forward to curating more playlists which can shared on our site.
  • Updating my digital mihi.


A link to my notes and lots more I need to explore.