DFI 6 Enabling Access

 Google Sites - Enabling Access

Connected - Dorothy Burt

Importance of connecting and checking Well Being for Effective Teaching and Accelerated Learning.

 AKO - Learn Create Share (We know how to do this).

Blog Posts

Twitter

Toolkits Online - I enjoyed and found the one I did with Latham last night about Writing and Avatars very practical and definitely will have a go at it next week once I'm back in my class!

Leading Learning using Google Sites - Why?? - Maria

Visible Learning - Accelerating the learning - Role of the teacher - Rewindable Learning

Acceleration -

Everything needs to be on the site.

Visual Appeal. 

Evaluate Sites based on Visual Appeal (Shop Window) and Site Functionality (Easy to find stuff).

It was great to be able to view a number of Junior School sites and the different ways teachers organise them. I have been able to take lots away from them and to think about how I want and don't want our site to look like. One thing I have become aware of is that since our Lockdown days our site has become a little impersonal so my goals for today were to input more of Room 4 into it! I started with a photo and blurb about myself and have been adding visuals and commentary about and for the students.

Some great advice from my group about setting up the site that I will take on board also - use of audio on the site to complement the written messages, Dropdowns of the weeks to fall from recent to oldest (rather than oldest to recent as I currently have it!).

https://sites.google.com/makauri.school.nz/room42020/home

A great day of reflecting and learning and seeing things through fresh eyes!

Blog Spam

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DFI 5 Collaborate - Sites

 Collaborate - Sites

Connecting with Manaiakalani (Dorothy Burt) - Making teaching and learning visible for teachers, colleagues, learners and whanau.

Fail and Success - due to knowing what teacher wants? Can read their mind? Cultural Capital

Visibility facing the learner AND the teacher facing visibility - Google Class Sites - everything available to everyone. 

Blogs - students, teachers, principals make learning visible through this format.

Hapara - Parent Portal

Multi Modal Sites (Kerry)

Class site delivering communication from one person to another in many forms so that there is a form that suits everyone. Different people prefer different modes. Inclusive for everyone - differentiated so students can work at their own pace at different times.

Engagement - Personalising - Acceleration of student outcomes - Empowerment and confidence.

Class Site - Home Page needs to be WOW!! Multi textural design - rich resources. Behavioural and cognitive engagement. Choice and Collaboration are important.

T shaped learning. Wide and Deep literacy. Eyes on text. 

Hapara Hot Tips - Dorothy

Sharing Tab - Filing work in correct folders or no work? Children don't make their own folders - Admin for our Hapara has to do this.

Multimodal Learning Sites

I have a current Class Site https://sites.google.com/makauri.school.nz/room42020/home and I love using it within the classroom. It has been continually evolving throughout the year as I have learnt how to do new things and how I want to organise information.

Vicki - Folder with all our content for our site with right settings. 2020 Folder.

***Buttons*** have a go at making some.

 

 Use Google Drawing to make exciting buttons/themes.

***I had a go at making a Button for my current site but was unable to add a link  - will experiment some more with this, as this would be a great addition to what I already have. ***

Multi Text Data Base - Dorothy

T Shaped Literacy. Woolf fisher Research Centre.

Context - then identify the main text for children to read (Deep) then go wide to supply a range of texts for engagement - need a variety of texts. Complimentary Text, Main Text, Supporting/Scaffolding Texts, then finding a text that is harder and is going to cognitively stretch and challenge the students. When do students choose the text?

Collaboration of a Database.

Nicola and Super Heroes

Jamboard - A white board for brainstorming.

The Super Hero Site I have started to create - 

https://sites.google.com/makauri.school.nz/super-heroes/home

Today was an awesome session!! Creating was fun and I can see how I will continue to use Google Sites as my classroom Web Page. Learning a few more tips and tricks was great and I will definitely do a Super Hero Unit with my class! Yay!!

What the Duck?

 The Flying Duck

A Slide Show with Audio ...

DFI 4 Dealing with Data

Data

In our Bubble Group we talked about - "Record to Slides" (Extension) App - Voice Recorder to put audio onto slides I will have another look at this as an alternative to what we did last week as Google slides and audio is definitely something very useful in the classroom.

Hapara Hot Tips - Remember to go to 'More" to check out Blog Posts. 'Comments' section - Model positive, thoughtful comments especially those with few or no comments. SPAM - definitely don't click on it!! ***Remember to talk to Cheryl about Hapara and get it pinned.***

Connecting with Manaiakalani - Share Blogger as a Medium to Share. Sharing to Learn.

Google Forms - Vicki - Title, Put into 2020 file, Duplicate Qn. Go to settings to change who, what, where. This is something I'll use so will go back and revisit - didn't get my Fairy Tales Google Form completed today, unfortunately.

Google Maps and My Maps - Maria - I'm not sure how and where I would use this at this stage. Will look some more into it and see how it could fit in with me at school, professionally and my personal life.

I had a go at making my own Road Trip including photos of the destinations (unfortunately the photos haven't shown up in the screenshot!) - I can see how I would use this basic function of My Maps personally and with my class.

Google Sheets - Vicki - Spreadsheet on Google Drive - Hand used for grabbing rows or columns. Resize rows. It can do the maths for you (Functions tool). Filtering - sort by gender etc. Explore tool on sheets - can ask qn about data or make charts. Conditional Formatting - set parameters and change the way it looks, can create rules.

I have used Google Spreadsheets to input data in the past - but have never created my own. I have definitely learnt more about many of the functions they can do - Wow!! 

I had a go at finding the averages on the data we were given - I was able to find an individual's average and then use that to find the group average, I could rank them lowest to highest and highest to lowest!!! But my Explore tool would not pop up the graphs for me to use. *** See Cheryl*** An awesome tool to organise data that after practise to become faster will be  great tool for our Data Analysis.

Room 4's Blog Posts for 2020 (so far) I was able to average the number of blogs so far for 2020 and then use the Explore function to get charts that I could put on my Sheet. The average number of blogs was 4.4 a month. I was then able to insert my charts to Google Drawing. By having it in Google Drawing if there are any changes made - these will be recorded also.

Great to see how all the facets of Google can be linked and used together!!!

Blog Comments

Insert hyperlinks to link back to learning or other people's blog posts. 

I have uaed hyperlinks before in my blogs when I was unable to get an image on my page. Great idea to use regularly!!

Installing in the students to make blog comments that are Positive, Thoughtful and Helpful is very important - also helps them to be less boring and robotic.

I am now finding (and using everwhere!) the benefit of using the Screenshot function on my laptop!      I find Visual Images great to help me remember and access information learnt!! A great tool for rewinding the learning!

DFI 3 Media again...

Our learning today was about Media...

Hapara Hot Tips - Teacher Dashboard

- On Landing Page see the Groups button (top right) Items button to see one or many items of child's work. Sort button to organise Priority Learners.

Explore Home Pane.

I am not yet using this in my classroom, but have seen how my Manaikalani facilitator has set it up for my class. I can see how this is a very valuable tool to have in a classroom setting.

Deb talked about making sure we use the tool to take names off the screen when in a Google Meet when taking screen shots - especially of the children.

* The Manaiakalani Pedagogy: Learn Create Share

Dorothy talked about Create being all about "The Hook" and engaging our students.

Creativity helps students be good problem solvers, communicators and collaborators.

Importance of continuing with creativity from Kindy - Tertiary and making learning more interesting/exciting by creating.

Manaiakalani Pedagogy sits perfectly with Play Based Learning Philosophy. Will definitely ponder the amount of 'Create' time my children have during the day across the curriculum areas!

* Vicki talked about Youtube Channels and Playlists.

Students must be 13 years or older.

Videos set as Unlisted and turn Comments off.

Setting up - Go to New Account for a Youtube Channel, create a channel, choose account type, change settings - click onto youtube studio, gear cog on left hand side go to channel space and advanced sttings, content for kids, upload defaults, select inlisted on visibility, advanced settings disables comments and save this. Click onto acc in top left hand corner.

Channel status and features to verify account. Share through Google Drive.

Playlists of videos can be shared and embedded to collate wanted videos.

See rewindable links on page to review this.

My Youtube Channel and Playlists - I have set this up but don't think I will use it at this stage.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSLwHCOEoPUcN19E1AUl3Cw/playlists?view_as=subscriber

* Media with Dorothy 

SISOMO - sight, sound and motion - entertained and informed created by Sacchi and Sacchi

To capture people this is what's neeeded.

Examples -

DIY filmmaking                    Film Festival                School TV            Live Streaming

- get Tripod                                                                                              - use a drone

- phone landscape when filming                                                               - Google Meet

- WEvideo (See Cheryl)                                                                           - eg Sports events

Chroma Key - Green screen (paint and carpet availabe to take the green out)

Pod Casting - See tips slide

IPads recording use 'Garage Band'

Screen Castify

Not an area I have been involved in up to now. But am now very conscious of the SISOMO idea and engagement in children's learning so will look into this...

* Google Draw (Venessa) named 'Google Drawings'

Set page size in File

Set background colour with right click

Use guides to help you space out your picture

Add Image - get png image so no background

Format options to change if needed

Crop using drop down feature to change shape

To share - download as a png can now share anywhere

               - embed by publish to the web put into html make sure have put it into 2020 folder so sharing                   sorted

I joined Kelsey's group to use Google Drawing and was frustrated with the lines everywhere when using the Curve line and poyline. Great that other people had the same problems and asked about it!! Great tools - but I will need lots of practise at this to be efficient and for me to use often!

However, I have managed to change my previous Profile on my Blog to today's more professional one! Thankful for the template and step by step directions to make this happen!

 (I will need to learn how to resize images from my laptop!!)

* Google Slides - Maria

Movement, Sight, Sound make them more engaging.

Keeping them consistent - fonts, colours, theme etc so viewers aren't distracted.

A very useful Google feature that I use lots for planning and organisation within my classroom. 

I also find it easy to insert Slides of examples of work into my classroom blog, this means if I want to add more work I can do so even after it's in the blog. I also used Google Slides lots during Lockdown to record work to upload onto my Classroom Sites Web page. Will continue to use these regularly!!

* Planning with Slides - Kelsey

We learnt to put audio on a slide. Definitely something I'll use to add to my repertoire of Slide features when using these!!

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1pP-4ABTN4QPaXPRPQ-98Cn4bGOW5KNJRw_24OR2oiC0/edit#slide=id.p

Blogger Settings

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