Tairāwhiti Slam Session

Yesterday I took part in the Tairawhiti Slam Session.
It is such a great idea where you have 1 minute to share something digital.
I look forward to looking back over the slide to get some inspiration.

Google Certified Educator Level 1

On Friday I completed and PASSED the Level 1 Google Certified Educator exam!

Last week of DFI

AGENDA

Ubiquitous Learning

I love this idea and again can't believe I haven't really thought about this concept until now. I do need to make sure I practice this even more-if I don't I am not giving the support needed for my students learning.
Effective teaching-cause learning! And the Summer Learning Journey-so through the Summer Holidays tamariki can continue with Ubiquitous Learning, the data says it all.

Teaching online (during Covid-19)
What are you proud of? I am proud of how myself and my team have worked collaboratively together throughout this lock down. The mahi that is on our Site is there for those tamariki that can access it. There is so much Ubiquitous Learning there waiting for them.

What will you be taking forward into the 'new' era of schooling? To continue to use our Site and ensure that all our mahi that we will be covering/covering in class will be there. It will be available for those tamariki that are absent or for those that need to go over it again!

I am so proud of myself and the others how we continued with the DFI course during lock down. I did think about not continuing it and I am glad that Nik suggested I did!

Exam all done! Gosh my eyes were very sore afterwards and I pretty much needed the whole time. I actually enjoyed the scenario based questions and saw it as learning/practising the skills that I have learnt rather than a test. My exam didn't validate though so I had to send a form to the help desk.

There is so much I could say about my DFI journey but in all honesty I think all my precious Blog Posts sum it up. I feel very privilege to be given the opportunity to participate in DFI (especially seen I have only joined Awapuni School this year). It is great now though that my team (Janine, Sherryl and myself) have all done DFI, it will be so beneficial for our learners and I am looking forward to continuing my learning journey with Amie.

I have really enjoyed hearing about the Manaiakalani Kaupapa especially Learn, Create, Share and Ubiquitous Learning. DFI has increased my confidence when it comes to all things digital and look forward to exploring this learning even more with my tamariki and team.

I will ensure that I continue to update my Blog with new learning as this amazing journey continues.

Ngā mihi nui,

Michelle

Computational Thinking

AGENDA

FUTURE OF TECH
What is tech doing in transforming lives? It is exciting time and we are part of it. Sophie the robot (speechless). Want our learners to be creatives and innovators.

DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES
Teachers who are confident to deliver lessons online-turbo charge the tamariki learning.

Kia Takatū (looks engaging, signing up wasn't working for me so will try again later).

Computational Thinking: is an approach to problem solving. Taking apart a problem and figuring out how to attack it. 1: Decomposition-breaking something down. 2: Pattern Recognition-finding similarities to make predictions. 3: Abstraction-finding general principals that generate this patterns. 4: Algorithm Design-developing the step by step instructions that solve similar problems.
It is actually everywhere. Computational thinking increases tamariki confidence. It isn't an 'extra'. As a teacher I need to develop this skill more to support my tamariki.

I like the look of CS Unplugged will have to explore more of this website.

Great video explaining Algorithms

CODING I really enjoyed having time to explore the coding. I haven't done much of it and I am excited. Hoping to pop some activities up on our Site for the tamariki.
Hour of Code
Studio Code
Lightbot
Code.org

CREATE TIME

I was really excited about exploring Scratch but I ended up finding the whole experience quite challenging. It look me a long time to get started, I wasn't overly happy with my creation and then once the Manaiakalani Team had sorted out the 'sharing' option I couldn't get the code to embed. Hence I took a screen shot.

I have registered for the exam-bring on next Friday.

LEVEL 1 REVISION

Devices

AGENDA

CYBER SMART
I enjoyed listening to Fiona speak today about Cyber Smart. I liked how she mentioned to keep the language positive-eg "what will I see you doing if you are doing the right thing online".

HAPARA
I still can't believe Hapara this so new to me. I think it is amazing. I had some PD with Tony last week around Hapara so I knew mostly everything Dorothy was saying today but one thing I learnt is that when you click in gmail, if the title of the email is still bold it tells you they haven't opened the email. Good to know!

MANAIAKALANI JOURNEY

EXPLAIN EVERYTHING

CHROMEBOOK SIMULATOR and DIGITAL DIG
This lesson would have been even more valuable if we were able to use a chrome book, the Manaiakalani team did a great job at thinking outside the square to try and continue this mahi. I have used a student chrome book a few times but not enough to really understand the differences. This is definitely something all teachers should do to be able to support their tamariki more with their learning.

CYBER SMART
I really enjoyed having time today to explore the Cyber Smart Values. Below I have added links to two screencastify videos I made while exploring them.
Smart Values
Smart Surfing

Blog-Teacher Inquiry
Blogger Tips

Google Training

Janine and myself are in the process of making a time to meet with Amie around our Blogs and Google Sheets.

SITES

AGENDA

CONNECT

Today I felt like I did a lot of listening and didn't make too many notes: just one of those days.

EXPLORING SITES
Today it was great that we got loads of time to learn (exploring others sites), share (what we have done so far on our sites) and then create (we were given time to add to our sites). I really enjoyed looking over other sites and getting ideas from them.

GOOGLE SITES
I do feel like my team have done quite a good job with our site (obviously so much still to do and learn but I am proud of how far we have some)

BLOG TIPS

Over the past week I have been working A LOT on my reading slides with the help of Chebs, I am so excited about presenting my reading programme this way when we eventually go back to normal. I also had some PD with Tony Scragg on Hapara last night. I learnt quite a bit:
-To email our parents I go to etap and select only their email addresses and then copy into my email (make sure to BBC it)
-Once I have created a Google Meet I copy the emails from 'class info' and then add guests. You can also copy the meet link (date the date) and that way the link stays the same.
There was so many other handy hints and features I learn about Hapara

*I need to get more clued up with Flipgrid.
*I didn't quite understand the instructions for the Blog Tips today.
*Need to use sheets (create them myself) so the tamariki can add their mahi

Really grateful for all the people who are helping me learn so much! You know who you are!

Very proud of the mahi I have put in with my Reading Slides.

And our Team Toroa Site

Collaborate-Sites

AGENDA

Visible Kaupapa

We started off our day with a great idea from Maria...A Grateful Chain! I really enjoyed listening to what everyone had to say. Lovely way to start the day :)

I really enjoyed today as it was about Sites and I have been wanting to explore this tool more and was feeling frustrated with how to layout things. I really enjoyed the second part of the day when I worked alongside Janine, Julia and Sarah with Chebs to create a 'Reading' slide and a Site. I have been wanting to try and do my reading planning more on slides so I felt like this was really worthwhile.

Dorothy talking about making things visible for our tamariki and whanau. I enjoyed listening to what she had to say as it all makes so much sense. We need to make sure the learning is visible for all to see so there are no surprises. I can't wait to have our site up and running more so the whanau can see what their tamariki will be learning etc and also so there are no surprises for anyone.

* Dorothy mentioned the 'Parent Portal' on Hapara. I didn't even know about this. To be honest I had never heard of Hapara until I arrived at Awapuni this year. I need to so some learning around this amazing site.

Multi Modal

Kerry made so many great points about how to make your sites engaging, we need to get our tamariki and whanau hooked. She shared a great video around 'Shop Window'-I need to think of our site etc like a shop window! *Slide 20 has some good examples

GOOGLE SITES

I really enjoyed creating my own sites (2) today as we had created one as a team awhile ago but it was great to have a go at it again on my own. While working with Chebs I asked about the layout-LAYOUT is exactly it, the different options make everything on your slide sit nicely. 

Multi Text Database

Main text, complementary text, scaffolding and challenging text. I love this idea-it makes me think why I haven't thought about this or been exposed to it sooner. It is so great for learners, we should be giving them the option to try more challenging things. A good way to think of each text type is like a 'Running Record' level. 

While creating our Reading Slide today I learnt about the website Epic Reading and Wonderpolis.

*Towards the end of our session with Chebs we did a few settings things around 'publishing' etc. I feel like I need to go over this again. 

My Site

Here is my collaborative Reading Slide

 

YAY! I embedded my slide myself...I am starting to think it is different with Google Forms??

Google Sites for Remote Learning

Amy shared this today

*My grid didn't work for me today on Google Hangout like it did last week. Not sure why
*Still haven't worked out how to get the macrons on for maori kupu (not sure how to do it on an hp)

Bit brief today...my daughter wants me to play-so off I must go!

Update:
Buttons, Buttons, Buttons...I created some!