First online DFI session

What a week!
 Global pandemic and first online DFI ....
navigating between two google hangouts and finding where to put my name down to join a group. I found it really challenging. However! I did manage to keep up ( kind of ) and learnt along the way. I have to say I had to be quite brave!

Presently we have a brave piglet soft toy hanging in our front window and I guess I was that piglet!

So Dealing with data using the learn, create, share pedagogy...

• What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?

Sharing is part of human nature. ( something we have limited somewhat presently) With the advent in 2005 of You Tube etc replies could be instant, sharing more global. However what we need to think about is sharing with a purpose. The audience being the people who choose to listen. The people who hold the power of the mouse in their hands. An authentic audience as opposed to a compulsory audience, such as you might see on a Friday afternoon at school assembly.

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

Just being here today and taking the plunge to do it online as opposed to face to face was huge for me. To elect to be in a group with others who I didn't know who were more advanced than me and then speak up and voice my questions rather than sit back. So a confidence builder in that I did it and had some success along the way. I succeeded in analyzing a blog archive, putting the data on a spreadsheet and then converting it into a graph.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QcFNMaD6OpDj848ZgiNzhS7XUr8h7f__QUXwW46F-4U/edit#gid=0

Ta Da!

I learnt how to use that greek symbol ( it's not Egyptian) ánd drag the corner to highlight. How to freeze the sheet cells. I put labels into my blog using the suggested ones but I am not sure that I have done that right...dumping them all in like that...

The map session I got a bit lost with the layers, however plan to rewind that and revisit about putting on markers etc. I will also have to revisit the sheets on speed

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

Well any improved digital competence and confidence on my part is helpful with my Year 2 learners. I could see them using my Maps, once I know what I am doing! Perhaps google sheets for Statistics.

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

See above! I certainly have more time to practice and rewind now. Hey its the school holidays!

Media, Godzilla and a cinnamon scroll

Session 3 19/3/2020 Media

• What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?

CREATE! Listened to Anne Sinclair from Pt England. Sowed the notion of how much autonomy do we give to our learners? Opportunities to discover and explore. Use of the 'whole body' in learning, all the senses. Many clips to revisit, particularly Elwyn Richardson who drew on the local environs to facilitate learning.

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

I discovered I already had a youtube channel and playlist! Kent showed us how to add to our playlist. We can embed it on on class and collaborate and share it with other teachers. Note though that the children are not creating their own account they are watching.

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

Google slides - keep it clean, get rid of unnecessary backgrounds. Can insert a comment and only the editor can see it.

I endeavoured to create using Google drawings. Searching the web to find a picture of Godzilla and embedding a link to a web site. (* it is best to avoid Wikipedia. ) At the side the teacher can put instructions which the children can follow and ' colour in ' as they complete.

I tried creating an animation but found this challenging. Needed to ctrl d - duplicate the slide, then double click to advance the image using the arrow keys. I achieved an out of place bicycle on a streetscape that did move across the slide!

For lunch I enjoyed a cinnamon scroll...

Take two!

Take two! Session number two 12/3/20

Learning from each other! Why not copy and paste the questions in!

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

Editing my bookmarks is a must do, editing unnecessary words, pinning tabs, making a folder or a folder within a folder. Utilising my calendars, making sure I am mindful of which one I am in!

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

I found today's session more useful for me professionally, organising my workflow was its brief after all.

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

Google Keep could be a real game changer. I thought that had real potential. I have it on my phone and it is just a matter of diving in and using it. Presently I have a ' to do list' on my home screen of my phone which I add and delete from. However Google keep is so much more! Cheryl showed us how you can take a photo of some text and then go to grab image text and can then transfer it to google docs.

Google keep link

I am practicing adding in links using ctrl A, C and V. Need to remember to click on link and give a new title to get rid of all the 'gobbeldy gook!' ( which is not a word in my dictionary!)

As an aside from responding to the questions. The group hangout was challenging, juggling and navigating my way around but with Maria's coaching I was able to share my screen. 

I set up a hangout for tomorrow. I am hopeful that I may even be able to impress my 25 year old daughter who has studied coding. Is she familiar with one tab? Toby mini? (not the full on Toby who takes over your life!), nudges and boomerangs...my vocab is expanding if nothing else! Keep deep diving and swimming.

IT'S BUSINESS TIME!

IT'S BUSINESS TIME!

Day one - Manaiakalani

I had heard it would be intense, I could very well feel overwhelmed. ...it actually was ok.

I kept up most of the time and it was great to know we had support that we could draw on.

Having a class of year 2 children much of today did seem more useful for senior learners, however all learning and I took away something from everything.

I learn't quite a lot along the way for myself. The question is will I remember it...however it is rewindable learning and I have been scribbling in a wee notebook with a pencil! 
...click the star it automatically bookmarks..'omnibox'....setting up docs...how to create a group  -direct add and then they don't have to click accept....sorting my drive...Ctrl C and Z and V....the explore button..citation..never use underline..insert a table on docs..colour the table borders...can remove the words on bookmarks..SM sandpit...remove.bg to remove extraneous background..

and this is what I made...