Digital Fluency Intensive Week 3

Digital Fluency Intensive Week 3

DAY THREE - 8th August  2018

Based at Taipa Area School Today. I arranged for the Y11 Students to make Raspberry and white Chocolate Muffins for the group.Another great day with lots of learning. Everything useful and helpful.
Today we explored the idea of Create - I find this so natural as I am teaching in a practical subject. I know how much the students enjoy creating food in the food practical sessions.

• What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy? Dorothy explained the concept of ' Create' Her slideshow had some great information about the Maniaiakalani philosophy. It was good to be reminded that tasks dont have to be an actual physical written activity. Create includes videos of students doing, making molding and creating beyond a written piece.

• What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional? I am sure that in time I am going to have an orderly email set up. A well organised Drive, with access to loads of good tools. Today using the youtube account I have started a collection of neat good morning short clips to show at Whanau time.I have Made a Screencastify, which is shared below. Importantly too - I have been supported and helped by my colleague in the seat next door ( Gaylene)
• What did I learn that could be used with my learners , capability or workflow in my personal life? I envisioning using the google draw function a lot! I enjoyed making the 'about me' button.

                 

                     I also used the google draw to make a basic Junior Resource!
                    ................................And I tested  embedding a Screencastify

Digital Fluency Intensive Week 2

DAY TWO -1st August  2018

Recap of the four Main Goals; 

1. Our teachers are supported to acquire fluency using the basic tools our young people use for learning
2. Our teachers are supported to acquire fluency using the basic tools required for effective teaching, planning, assessment and professional learning
3. Our teachers are supported to understand how digital technologies used effectively can have a significant impact on accelerating achievement outcomes
4. Our teachers are supported to understand how the Manaiakalani pedagogy and kaupapa has been co-constructed over more than a decade to maximise the impact of effective teaching and learning in a digital learning environment.

Todays activities

Today we made an early start from Taipa - the light was just coming into the day, but it was mild. We traveled to Kaikohe and arrived in good time. 

My reflections for the day on the following foci follow;

• What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?
• What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?
• What did I learn that could be used with my learners , capability or workflow in my personal life?

Again I found the tasks and information was  great, there is a feeling that its okay to ask, I am not supposed to know everything...and as always more help with greats tips. 

We started with Dorothy - who with a click of her heels made everything seem simple. She spoke about the philosophy surrounding 'share' from the circular Maniakalani model 'Learn create share'
Dorothy reiterated that the schools pedagogy and specialist ideals surrounding Learning are central in the process.

 

We had a chance to reflect on how last weeks learning was useful and shred in our week.
My share;
- What Worked

• Told colleague in ChCh about Keep - will use it and Google it to find out more - felt great! Didn’t actually use it myself during the week
• What didnt work

Karren TAS

Need practice & reminders about how to use;

Google keep

Google docs - headings

Folder organisation.

First up in the explore section -Practical tips for 'Taming your TABS' -Arranging and organizing the gmail inbox email. Currently I have 1800+ emails that are not sorted - so useful to have a refresher on making folders and being able to have emails sorted when they arrive. We also looked at ways to use TAB managers to handle multiple window and tasks. I am not sure that I grasped all of this.
I did find it useful to know how to make sure my bookmarks are organised ...and that its possible to have cool folders that set out group.
I had lots of laughs when we trialed the using of google chat and did some handout discussion groups.
Our group has success communicating and Tina recorded this as a video which I will attempt to link to the Blog.

Every thing is still bedding in and I will need to do more experimenting with all of the task today. Once I sort my files and have a good system set up it will make it so much easier to find resources! This will be so helpful as currently I my files are a mess.
Today I have used Calendar to set up a dept meeting and I was able to link the agenda, also made a fabulous group in Team drive. 
 would like to use goggle chat to contact my colleague in Christchurch with whom I have help with Senior assessment & moderation.
In my classroom, I believe that I could use chat in the multilevel class situation, to move between groups possibly?
Will look forward to experimenting with new skills and sharing ideas with collegues.

Update 
1/08/18 Have a Google hangouts meeting on line with Kerry.
6/8/18 Students in Y9 are creating Docs in food tech folders to share with me. Using explore to find images and information - Booya!

Digital Fluency Week 1 -July 2018

                    Digital Fluency Intensive

DAY ONE -25 th July 2018

The 9 week Intensive program involve developing knowledge and skills to be savvy in the digital world.The four Main Goals; 

1. Our teachers are supported to acquire fluency using the basic tools our young people use for learning
2. Our teachers are supported to acquire fluency using the basic tools required for effective teaching, planning, assessment and professional learning
3. Our teachers are supported to understand how digital technologies used effectively can have a significant impact on accelerating achievement outcomes
4. Our teachers are supported to understand how the Manaiakalani pedagogy and kaupapa has been co-constructed over more than a decade to maximise the impact of effective teaching and learning in a digital learning environment.

Todays activities

Today I found extremely useful as the back to basic session had us just look at our google DOCs and how to manage these files. Moreover how to use the tools that support these documents. I found the possibility to use voice recording to record text to be extremely useful! This training is something that I have wanted /needed for a long time! 

The presentations were great, the ideas all good and I will find it useful to use google keep as a way of saving details about sites and information. It good to know that I can sync  devices and accounts.

Easter Baking

Students are preparing to make Easter cupcakes this week. We are examining packet mix cakes and thinking about whether these are useful. Students are designing the garnish and decorations to use to make a sweet treat.