DFI 2 again... Workflow

Hapara Hot Tips (Dorothy Burt) 

 My Classes and All Classes Tabs - check for this and will definitely use Hapara in the classroom.

 Failed camera - I was able to problem solve this, feeling more confident to fix small  techie problems independently without having to get someone to do it for me!

 Enjoyed chatting with my tutorial group this week to hear what they'd done during the week and different ways of how to use Learn, Create, Share throughout the school day. (Deb) ideas to take away!

 The Manaiakalani Programme (Dorothy Burt) 

- Effective Teaching - Accelerated Learning AKO (Learn) 

 - Language of Manakalani deliberately kept simpleallows for individual differences between/within schools and localised curriculums. 

 - DFI goals revisited

 - Importance of Digital infrastructure and tools AND pedagogy for teaching and learning for new learning in the digital age running paralell together. 

 - Embrace, endorse Effective Practise - RATE - Recognise, Amplify, Turbocharge, Effective Practise. - NZ Curriculum 

- 7 Teacher actions promoting student learning. 

 - High Leverage Practises things that are worth investing in. (Wolf Fisher) Things tht are going to make the biggest difference. (Authentic texts, Discussion, Learning by thinking critically and local school philsophies/programmes, Collaboration) What does LEARN look like for Makauri School???

 - Technology allows us to do things we couldn't do before - Amplify teaching. Sites where we can go and get stuff! (See sites where other teachers share!!)

 Managing Workflow - MEET (Maria) 

 3 ways to Create a Meet - Within Email, Calendar Invitation, Through Google Meet in Waffle. 

 Meet Etiquette - on mute, background, headphones, chat feature.

 Presenting your screen - entire screen or window or chrome tab. 

 Meeting creator can record the meeting.

 Extensions to Google Meet - NOD 

 I shared and it worked!!! Both my picture and my music!!! Yay!!! This is something I had done during Lockdown but had been talked through every step by my facilitator. Will definitely use this again in a Google Meet Professionally or personally.

 Google Keep (Dorothy Burt) A place to jot down and keep notes and ideas and things to remember. Put URLs in there.

 ... Use labels to help keep track of Keeps. 

 Can copy over to Google Docs. 

 A way to plan collaboratively around a unit for Hub team.

 Draw inside it. 

Use Keep for your signature. 

 Save time when watching a screen presentation and hold up phone and use Keep. 

 Settings can be changed and can add new items at top or bottom; can set reminders. 

 Use Keep to take a photo of txt to get editable txt and put into a document. ... take a recording to have a Voice memo.

 Keep notes show up on right hand side of screen under Keep icon. 

Keep notes work well as shared shopping list - checklist - record location. 

 Managing Workflow - GMail (Kelsey) 

 Change the view - Quick setting.

 Inbox can be reorganised. 

 Themes can be changed. 

 Use of labels can filter folders. 

 Stars can organise important emails you want to go back to. 

Attaching files/images/links etc to email. 

 Schedule emails to be delayed even though you have sent it at the time. 

 Google translate - Te Reo Maori Advanced settings

 Undo email so if you change your mind about sending something you can stop it from being sent. Change to unread so email pops up to the top again. 

 Smart compose??? ***Go back and rewind the notes*** 

 Dynamic Email??? **Go back and rewind the notes*** 

Signature - change mine for my Professional email. 

 

Google Calendar (Vicki)

 Settings - Display density/colour Toolbar on the right of screen 

Syncs with your phone 

 Tabs (Nicola) 

One Tab ***Go back and rewind the notes*** 

 Toby ***Go back and rewind the notes*** 

 Bookmarks 

Cluster of Tabs 

 Duplicating Tabs 

Right click to organise Tabs 

 I was able to set up a Meet and record my discussion about a Making Oreo Cheesecake Blog. I did not find this easy and definitely needed Deb the tutor to talk me through it!! I can see how this would be a very useful skill to have but I am going to need a lot more practise to feel cobfident to use with success in a classroom or Professional situation.

DFI Day 1 again - A great opportunity for Revisiting and Relearning...

    

  

Manaiakalani - Learn Create Share

Why Manaiakalani? Dorothy Burt

A great revisit of the story and evidence to share with sceptics of the benefits of the Manaiakalani Programme.

Venessa - Google Chrome

                Able to use multiple devices

                Omnibox Bookmarks 

An opportunity to remind myself of the benefits of using Google and the faculties it has.

Google Groups (Dorothy) - G Mail use through here

                                             Hapara

                                             Easier to use than Contacts - transferable

Google Drive - Vicki - Organising 

                                      Shared Documents/Files - use a shortcut (shift z) to shift the file

                                      Disable printing/copy/download/change content options

                                      Search Engine is very useful and can be specific

                                      Word Document can be converted to Google Docs here

Using Google Drive is something I use everyday as a Professional and with my class and something I have recently started using in my personal life to organise Household information.

                                       

Google Docs - Dorothy

                         Teaching Students - 2020 Folder with correct settings each student use their intials on                             every document.

                         Control Shift v - to paste without formatting.

                         Different functions of Google to make it easy for students to read documents online.

                         Voice activated text.

                         'Explore' Tool - Little star on bottom right hand page of Doc. Pictures etc free to use                                 and References it.

This was great revision of how to set my class up and how to organise my my documents to help time management for me in my personal life.

                                     

Create using a Google Doc with  - Earthquake Drill Visual - I will definitely use this easy way of creating visuals in my classroom AND will attempt to teach my Year 2s this!

My DFI bubble with our Bubble Leader - Deb deborah.wallace@manaiakalani.org

A great opportunity to learn within a small group and ask questions to improve our confidence as a learner and teacher. 

Blogging - Nicola

I am still having difficulty putting pictures onto my Blog!!!!!

Something to take away and practise - I have tried publishing to the web and using compose and HTML and screenshot, but alas something is going wrong.....

So no shot of my Google Doc Visual Create!

Thanks Maria for the suggestion to add a link!

Thanks Cheryl for your help to resize and then include the Doc!

<iframe width=600 height=600

src="https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTX1eAfOY3RLaQfY3ZWim_ZOKFazSufX3dsf0J6cNqC6ZMYfPz-JW8r3g5nJ5cggDMfFhgyLUsCztep/pub?embedded=true"></iframe>

DFI 3- Media

Create

Today the Pedagogy discussion was about Create. We google chatted with Anne Sinclair and heard about the value of an Integrated Curriculum with a Play component. Student Voice on what doing is an important factor and shows real possiblities for Online learning. My focus back in the classroom will be to ensure their is plenty of CREATE time!

With Kent Somerville Pt England School (Deep Dive) we looked at Live Stream - taking kids' sharing to the next level - if it's worth learning it's worth sharing - life stream it. This is something I'll need to revisit, but can see the benefit both personally and professionally. 

However the use of a Youtube Channel/Playlist will be something I will continue with and can see myself using on a daily basis - both in the classroom and professionally AND personally. An efficient way to store, organise and access clips that I'm interested in. I have started a Playlist for Maths and Just Dance clips.- Awesome Awesome Awesome 

Youtube Drawing with Amy Williams was also awesome, awesome, awesome! We completed an About Me Google Drawing for our Blog Page. 

Maria introduced us to Google Slides and the multitude of issues. Maria discussed the value of Clean slides, using own images, SISOMO - Sight Sound Motion to make connections - less is more eg images, consistent format, enable access to learning (very relevant as we head into the unknown) eg Reading groups planning and activities - visuals from book/texts - engage learners in independent activities with animaton - multiple applications for other areas of curriculum eg science
Context to use - Planning, Explaining concepts for maths etc. I can see the benefits of Google slides and have already used them in a limited way and have used Powerpoint in the past. But it was great to see all the other functions they can be used with Slides.

I used Google Drawing also, to Create a picture with links suitable for Home Learning. I can see that if it comes to it and we have to distance teach this will be a valuable way to initiate thinking, deliver factual content and hook students into learning in a digital way.
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Create - I used Google slides to create a Visual Pepeha that I willcontinue with and add audio to at a later date. It was great to have models to view, but also link the digital learning to other learning that I have been wanting to complete.

Today has been the most fun day yet! I am getting more and more confident to have a go, and surprise myself with some of the lingo I hear myself using. The practical implications of today's learning is very exciting!

DFI - Workflow

Hangouts/Google Meet
Today I learnt to chat and view through Hangouts. We tried to use Hangouts to record ourselves discussing some Manaiakalani Summer learning. I have set up a Hangout with a colleague for next week.
Lenva Shearing discussed some Manaiakalani Pedagogy  Again the inclusiveness of Learn, Create, Share was emphasised
as was that this is a Learning Journey for us as teachers as well as for our students. The level of engagement with the use of Digital Fluency and Digital Devices is accelerating our students' learning. RATE - Recognize, Amplify, Turbocharge and Effective Practise are key elements. 
Using Google Hangouts could become a great way of me keeping in touch with my adult children who are overseas or my granddaughter who lives locally that helps me out with techie things.

Google Keep
This is how to file and store Google information. It is a quick way to access information that may be archived or just in my drive. By using a Title, Tabs and Labels it is easily accessible. I will Rewind the Learning with this in order to attempt to file and store both professional and personal information in a way that is easily accessible.

Managing our Email
By adding Tabs to the top of my Gmail page I am now organising my mail into categories and can readily see if there is any unopened mail. I had been missing some G mails because some mail had been going to Forums which was not visible from my G mail page when initially opened, so was not aware of these G mails.

Organising our Tabs
I can see this will be a beneficial tool to manage all the open tabs I have. This is something I will need to Rewind the Learning to remind myself what to do. 

Google Calendar
I have had one of these all year but have not been accessing it because there was nothing on it!
Dah!!!
After ticking my name I have now discovered I have a current up to date calendar that I can use on a daily basis to stay informed of my school events! I have also included the School Calendar and the Release Calendar so am able to follow current school events. I have already accessed this calendar to plan and invite colleagues to events in the next week. I can see it will become a valuable tool in not only keeping up to date and informed, but also an easy way to communicate information with other colleagues.

DFI Poster

Digital Fluency Intensive - Core Business
A great day spent getting to know new people and learning new skills.
Today I made an Autumn Planning Poster for my class using the skills I have learnt when using Google Docs. The poster was made by setting up a page, sizing it, and colouring the background before adding a table, locating images and adding text. Lastly I was able to remove the black cell lines by colouring them in.
I learnt about the function of Explore to add images and information.
<iframe src="https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTqTeqYQEc8nQcpzE__Eb5Tp14-6fMfCWq-V-11svUdOOgcKV1_LZUbTDQmYaUxSKacrStx-JGJ5AAd/pub?embedded=true"></iframe>

Earlier in the day I learnt how to set up a google doc to include paragraphs with titles and a contents page. We also learnt how to format text we were copying. It was great to work cooperatively and collaboratively with Rachel to keep up with the information we were learning and to practise the skills we were learning.
I can see myself using the google poster using a table to create lots of pages in my classroom including poems, newsletters and children's published writing.
We learnt about google groups - I probably won't use them at this stage, but can see how useful they may be in the future for communicating with staff groups, parents or other groups.
Voice recording is something I have heard about before but not something I have used. I can see this could be very useful for reluctant writers, or for when publishing a lot of childrens' writing.

Gymnastics

Today's thinking

Visual Teaching & Learning

Drawing 4

Anne and Anna-Maree