Dealing with Data

Sharing

Dorothy was taking us through the concept of sharing.

Awesome slides from Dorothy's presentation

Venessa shared new addition in Forms where we can lock the students into the Form until they finish the "test"

Using Maps 

Hot spots for Holidays or you may embed your map

Our last session was all about compiling data in a Google Sheet and get all the information represented in a chart. I used Malia's Blog and investigated how many visitors she had over the years.


            Malia's Blog

Create media

During our third DFI training session we focused on Create.

Create a YouTube channel where you can have playlists ready for any topic you may cover in your courses.

We also had a big dive into ideas of creating videos for your classes and school, looked into drones and other digital devices for recording and live streaming.

Creating a slide in Google draw was also a fun activity. There are a few applications for this. Create something and add it to your class site or Blog.

Animation made with Google Slides

Workflow

Workflow DFI session went really well. I gained much from today.

How does learning look in Bay of Islands College. 

I will definitely say that Collaborative Learning happens most of the time. Most of our students excellerate in learning with groups and I realised that getting them to work online collaboratively in pairs also works fine.

We set up teacher sites with Google Sites where we will direct all learning. Saying that, lately some of the staff started to use Spaces in Hapara to direct all learning. BOIC bought the full Hapara suite that gives teachers a lot of control over the students Chromebooks and their work, current screens and drive. During the Covid19 Lockdown BOIC was ready to go from day one. Most of the problems we experienced were on the students side. 

Technical difficulties were no electricity, no internet connection or no device. Personal problems were lack of motivation, time keeping and overcrowding.

Things that stood out today.

Our first session of the day was conducted by Kerry where she went in depth into the Manaiakalani's Pedagogy of "Learn, Create Share" After the teacher becomes fluened as a digital teacher it is very important to move into the level of Turbocharging their effective practices. The main point is that every child will engage every day with learning and the other class activities.

Core Business

Reflecting on our first session.
1. What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?
A good place to start to understand Manaiakalani kaupapa is to look into their goals. The four goals are to support teachers to acquire skills and tools to support and lead student learning and to improve student achievement outcomes.
Another is to understand the Manaiakalani pedagogy to maximise the impact of teaching in a digital environment.

2. What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?

It was very informative how we can work out of google docs. Inserting pictures by using the explore button is very useful. The quotation marks is also very useful when you do research and want to put the reference at the bottom of the page. Making indexes for reports is also cool. It let your work look professional and easy to navigate.

3. What did I learn that could be used with my learners?

Personally I like this idea a lot of breaking down the lesson into four parts. It will help the students to keep their focus throughout the duration of the lessons.

 Blogging is another way that we can encourage students to do more reading and writing. It is the place where we can portray the Manaiakalani kaupapa of "Learn, Create and Share" I decided to create a link to Michelle Hammond's blog to give you a more indepth scope of all the work we have covered throughout the day.(I am sure Michelle will not mind)

4. What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?

Here is a poster i made in Google Docs.

Looking forward to our next session. I also would like to investigate how to use Padlets. 

Nau mai, haere mai ki tēnei taonga

Welcome to your own professional learning blog. We look forward to reading about your teaching practice at the Manaiakalani Digital Fluency Intensive.