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!

Dealing with Data

AGENDA

Well what a day! There were times today where I felt really overwhelmed today but in all honesty I feel like that when we are in our room at Awapuni School with all the other DFI colleagues. I need to be positive during this tough time and appreciate the fact that we were still able to do our mahi via Google Hangout and it was awesome seeing so many kanohi.

GOOGLE FORMS
Using google forms was probably the best part of the day for me as I felt I had success. I have never created a google form but after being shown today I realised how easy it is and it was fun! I have created one Your Day and put it on our Team Toroa Site and popped the link on our FB page. Hopefully the tamariki have a go at filling it in for me :) I look forward to using this in my reading workshops (comprehension follow up activities).

**I couldn't remember how to embed my form into my BLOG so it just shows up!!
-I obviously need to practise this more!!

MY MAPS
I understand that using maps could be a great learning tool for our tamariki but today I found it hard to get hooked on this session. I need to go back and think of ways to utilise this great tool. One point that was made is when using this with the tamariki think carefully about the activity you are getting them to do (make sure they are being cyber smart).

GOOGLE SHEETS
I really enjoyed this session as I have not really used google sheets that well in the past. It was great being shown so many handy tips and it was a bonus getting 'Sheets on Speed' to help us with our exam. I need to make sure I go over this also.

BLOGGING DATA BASE
What a great idea to get the tamariki more motivated to get blogging more! Amie is going to create a video to help me more with this.

BLOGGER
Here are some great tips for blogging, especially using labels.

BUTTONS
Today I popped into our WWW that I would like to know more about creating buttons-it was awesome to have someone respond with this slide, so grateful for all the support.

Some further thinking for me...
-I want to have a Hangout with the Toroa Tamariki at some stage, could make it fun like doing a little Name Workout with them, will be a nice way to see each other
-Sharing is a sign that they have finished their mahi-Dorothy made a good point there!
-I want to get our whanau/tamariki more engaged with our BLOG and our SITE
-Dorothy put a picture of a box of books sitting in a container to be marked, it made me think, if we move more into online what will parents think when the stationary that they paid for is empty because they are doing all their mahi online. How do we manage that shift?
-I can't remember how to embed my form into my BLOG so it just shows up!
-I can't remember how to put a link in a doc so it jumps you down the page-was it to do with the 'contents' learning that we did awhile ago-I need to check
-How do I create a Hangout link?

One bonus, I got to see my niece and nephew today via our Hangout-thanks Ada!

And I got to have my morning tea with my darling Isla :)

Week 3 Media

AGENDA

Week 3...
During the first part of the day I was feeling left behind about a few things but luckily we got some time to explore things we hadn't quite got. The two main things for me was getting my head around Youtube (I didn't even have my own channel) and the second bit of mahi was using slides to create an animation. I am so pleased that I got my head around these two things.
NOTE: Creating an animation could be become quite addictive :)

CREATE
First thing this morning we had a Hangout with Anne. She got me super motivated about integrating our mahi and tapping into our local curriculum, getting the tamariki motivated, creating, thinking deeply and differently, tamariki having ownership of their mahi and empowering tamariki through creativity.

LIVE STREAMING
How amazing this would be for our whanau!

YOUTUBE CHANNELS
I have never used youtube that well, I had always thought it was just a way to 'watch videos'. With Kent we explored creating 'playlists' (something I was ok with doing). But then it came to sharing that playlist on our Team Toroa BLOG (a multiplication playlist). Luckily we had time to go through this a bit more.

Notes:

Click on...

-Playlist settings

-3 dots...playlist settings-allow embedding and new videos - advanced settings (unlisted) and then cancel.

-New Share and then embed, copy it and then embed into my side (change code-auto play and the size)

PLAYLISTS

GOOGLE DRAWING
I enjoyed this mahi with Amie. There are so many things you can do with Google Drawing and Kent mentioned that do all their planning and even reports on it. I enjoyed creating a drawing which I added to my BLOG profile pic.

GOOGLE SLIDES
I need to use slides more, teachers use it for their reading workshops etc and it is also a way to create comic strips. Playing around with Google Slides has been my favorite part of the day. This morning we were shown some animations using Google Slides, I had no idea how it worked. But after having some time to explore I was hooked! See my creation below. I will be suggesting to the team that we give the tamariki some time to create an animation apopo (link it with our mahi).

Notes:

Explore Tall Tweets (didn't load - 0.6 and 0.2 save and down load, back to slide, insert slide, insert image)

Or publish to web - Embed (396 and 670) or change to small and change time! Also change 1000 to 600

DIGITAL PEPEHA

Some things I have more wonderings about:
Buttons-I had been wondering about these from the mahi Amie does on our site.

I must comment on others blogs

And I need to use screencastify rather than writing notes to myself (next week maybe)

Week 2 Workflow

AGENDA

So what...
Today I was exposed to so much new learning I am finding it hard to start!!

The first thing that was shared with us today was that you can now also remove the background of a short video, thanks Chebs!

HANGOUTS (from slide 18)
Today we explored this tool, we were part of a chat with Lenva Sharing and then this afternoon myself, Janine and Karla were part of a chat where we discussed some mahi done by some tamariki. We did a fantastic job and it was recorded but unfortunately we had a tech issue and we were unable to hear ourselves speak haha.

LEARN with Lenva Sharing.
Some key point's from Lenva:

Learn, Create, Share (make it inclusive)

To create effective practice

In a digital learning environment

Goals:

Fluency using basic skills (learners together)

Supporting the teachers and put into practice

Understand the effectiveness of digital learners

Understand how the kaupapa has been created

“Must be swimming in that digital ocean”

Learners Learn Best… (see the slides)

Supportive environment

Encourage

Enhance

Facilitate

Make connections

Provide and Inquire

WFRC Findings:

Read from authentic texts

Learning by sharing ideas in discussion

Learn by thinking critically and developing strategies

Collaborating and making choices in learning, creating and sharing

Amplifying etc

Getting: From online etc

Giving: Put back online

Turbocharge: Where you hook your learners in 

Capture the learning moments!! Make it rewindable.

GOOGLE KEEP

I got super excited about Google KEEP and can't wait to explore and use it more. One down full though is that some function has been removed and unfortunately if you set a reminder for yourself it doesn't actually 'notify' you!! I have already added notes etc to my Google KEEP and also played around with taking a photo of a poster and then clicking 'grab image text' which then means you can copy the text that was in the photo!!

TABS and BOOKMARKS

Bookmarks! How satisfying! I have now put my bookmarks into folders and for those that are not in folders have edited the names so they aren't so long. Something I need to explore more into is 'OneTab'. If I have a doc etc and want to add it somewhere (for example-KEEP) I must right click the mouse in the above section and it will give me that option. 

EMAIL

I need to go back through this presentation and look more into the gmail options and calendar etc. 

One last thing to finish on...

Week 2 Embedding the code...

This is actually my mahi from last week but I was unable to add it to my BLOG as a full screen. Today Chebs shared 'height=500 width=660' where you add it after the word 'frame'. I really need to keep practicing this as I know I will forget how to do it.

-File > Publish to the web and grab the HTML code New blog post > HTML > Paste

Ngā mihi,

Michelle.

Core Business-Week 1

AGENDA

Time to reflect:
Wow I have really enjoyed my mahi today with our first DFI session. Yesterday myself and Janine voiced to Amie that we were feeling a little overwhelmed by what is ahead. She assured us that we would be fine and even, if we took just one thing from today it would be worthwhile. Well I have taken many things away from today that I will add to my kete. So many tips that I will be able to use personally and with my tamariki in Team Toroa.

A few things...
-Google Groups
-Sharing and not sharing with people
-Making my emails all separate
-Control/Shift V not just Control V
-In a doc making the Title and then the headings (store it and then it will continue) and then inserting a content
-Voice typing tool
-Using the Explore Tool (much safer)
-Copy the text from the Explore Tool and then add the footer (")
-You can share a doc but make it so they don't receive and email
-Create some text so the tamariki can create/answer questions
-Scavenger hunt (create task for ready activity etc)
-Adding png to get no background, using snipping tools and removing the background
-Dragging a picture into my blog
-Putting my doc into my blog and making it large (need to work on that), or just screen shot
-Docs (add a table and then remove the lines)
-For next week...add a table to my blog!

GOOGLE GROUPS

CHROME

CHROME EXTENSIONS

DOCS

Here is my first creation

Nau mai, haere mai

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