Manaia Kalani Reflection

 After three years the Te Hiku Cluster has completed it's first round within the Manaiakalani program. I have only been a part of this for 2020 and have found it to be an awesome program that allows for students and teachers to learn within a community which is supportive and pushes the use of digital technologies. 

Check out our kura's reflection on the past year within Manaiakalani. 

Maori Spirituality in the Catholic Classroom

 Manuel Beazley - Vicar for Maori in the Auckland Diocese

 Atua --> Whenua --> Tangata 

God  --> Land --> People 

It was a great opportunity to hear from someone who is an expert in this field. I am looking to develop a school-wide te reo program where we are able to track progress. The kupu that was shared today was awesome and is something I can use in this next project. 

Notes:

TAPU: Holy/ sacred/ set apart --> Protected, preserves the tapu 

Te tapu i te _____. Sacred because of what it is, created in the likeness of God. 

Te tapu o te _____. Sacred because of the relationship it holds. 

When hopes and dreams are shared they are considered tapu ('o')

The quality of a relationship increases mana. 

You possess mana by being tapu,  'i' - potential 'o' action 

PONO: truth, and honest look at reality. 

TIKA: right order, just, correct --> Ability to respond in a way that is correct. 

AROHA: Love- Communion (tapu meeting tapu), Action

Wairua: two waters 
Waituhi: of the physical 
Waiora: of the spiritual 

Where or How is your wairua nourished? 
With family, ocean, home, special places, church, nature. 

Whanaungatanga: relationships and the quality of these are important. 

Kotahitanga: Unity of purpose. 

Pukengatanga: the pursuit of excellence. Mohiotanga, matauranga, maramatanga. What I know, what I have learned, what I understand.

Rangatiratanga: Leadership 

Turangawaewae: Stand tall- a place to stand.  Identity. 

Kaitiakitanga: Stewardship: 

Manaakitanga 

Tangata Whenuatanga: being who you are 

CREATIVITY- Out of the Box

 Amie Williams 

How can we get our learners working harder than us?
M- multi modal 

A- amplification 

P- personalisation

I- interaction 

C- coherence 

Allow students to be Free Range - make choices themselves on creative ways to present their mahi. 

Slide 9 has some great ideas on how you can apply MAPIC to students Digital Learning Objectives 

Using Podcasts: great way to allow students to share their passions or to share something they have learned. Could be an awesome way to connect with our Local Curriculum (interviewing people in our community). Can use as a follow up task - listen and feedback, book review, video review etc. 

Scratch is something that I currently use in my classroom, I really like the idea of once you have shared on your blog and received feedback to then go and create a version 2.0. This get students to take a step back and actually action and reflect on the feedback they have received. 

Creating interactive google drawings: We use google draw quite often to share our new learning in Te Kahu, I really like the idea of using a google draw to then link into other mahi. Can link in many different areas of learning- make it transdisciplinary. 

Sharing expertise by creating a screen castify of the task you are completing. This would be a great way to incorporate Tuakana- Teina.

How can we empower our tamariki to be more creative? 
Giving students 'free range' to create using tools that reflect their passion, also tools that challenge them. Trying new things. 

JAMBOARD of create ideas. 
Slide 8 has a spreadsheet that can be used to scaffold students create tasks. 

This was an awesome session that gave me some ideas on how I can better facilitate create  in my classroom. It is always fun to share ideas and tools with other teachers and to also reflect on my own practice. 

4, 3, 2, 1

A journey through Covid-19, 

Like everyone else our lives were flipped upside down due to Covid-19. Children slowly started working from home; the class got smaller as the days went by. Then level four was announced and schools across Aotearoa closed their doors. 

Being a Manaia Kalani school put us in such a good place to hit the ground running with online learning. Class work was uploaded to our class site as usual, except now with the aim for students to be able to complete it unassisted. We ran sessions twice daily through Google Hangouts where I was able to teach my tamariki and the students were able to catch up with each other. 

It was a fast learning experience figuring out what worked and what didn't for the students in Te Kahu. It took just over the first week until we had the perfect system running. With a class of 27, I had 23 attending both sessions and completing their mahi and others joining where they could (only one not engaged). 

Our two lessons focused on either math or literacy, running a contract system allowed students to tap into other learning areas and expand their thinking. The independence of students grew along with their level of responsibility. Covid-19 was building students who took agency over their learning, who took pride in what they produced and grew my students from children to young adults. They chose when to take breaks and when to knuckle down and get things done. 

As levels progressed downward and normality began trickling back to us I made my way to school alongside other members of staff to make hard copy packs for whanau who had connectivity issues and for those who needed a break from the screen. 

We are now back at school and normality has been restored. Students entered school eager to get back into the swing of things and with a new sense of ownership over their learning. They were so excited to see their friends and solidify those relationships with one another. 

We discussed how our learning went and what we wanted to carry from our remote learning experience into our every day classroom life. Students enjoyed the choice they had in their learning, the choice of what tasks to complete, and when to complete them during the week. We have established a daily fitness program which students run and plan. We have also now turned our Friday's into an independent day for students to work on what is needed and fill in their gaps as they see fit. 

I have found the whole experience amazing; yes it was hard, yes it had its challenges. But the outcome of it all has been really positive for my students and their learning journeys. 

From one teacher who is very happy to have her 27 smiling faces back in front of her every day :) 

REVISION- DFI Week 9

THE FINAL DAY! 

Ubiquitous Learning - Dorothy Connecting with Manaiakalani

Any time, anywhere, any pace, from anyone. 

Ubiquitous learning will allow for equity for all students in their education. Creating Rewindable Learning allows students to access their learning at any time. The Summer Learning Journey is a great way to keep students engage in their learning over the summer break and avoid summer slippage. It is important as the teacher to encourage students to do this and let them know it is available. It allows you to celebrate students learning when not in the classroom. "If it is worth teaching, it is worth capturing; if it is worth learning it is worth capturing." 

Today I sat the Google Level 1 Certified Educator Exam, I found the exam to be quite clear and easy, that is all due to the learning I have taken part in during the DFI course. I was very lucky to have had experience in google classroom at my previous school (this was the only part we had not covered in the DFI) so wasn't too stumped by these questions. The exam was easy to follow and really tested my knowledge. 

Throughout the Digital Fluency Intensive Course I have learned so much, not just in using the google tools but more in understanding the WHY of Manaiakalani. I have learned the importance of being visible and the positive impact this can have on students learning and also on whanau and community involvement. 

This course has been so beneficial to the functionality and efficieny of my teaching and learning programme and has had such a positive impact on my students learning. I am now able to confidently create sites and embed activities and multimodal resources to turbo charge their learning experiences. 

As the guinea pigs for the new online way of taking part in this course I believe we have done really well. I am really proud of all the teachers who have taken part in this course, we have been risk takers and have become empowered in our own practice. Well done team! 

A massive thankyou to all of the facilitators and to Dorothy for allowing this course to happen, it has been so enjoyable. 

COMPUTATIONAL THINKING - DFI Week 8

Reflection

Today was our second to last session for the DFI course, over this time I have learned so many new tips and tricks to use while utilising digital technologies. I found today really interesting when looking at the Digital Technologies Curriculum and how we can implement and weave that into our everyday teaching at PCS. The Kia Takatu site was really helpful, it allowed me to reflect on my own practice and how I can better implement the digital curriculum. The review useful, this is something I would like our staff to do so that we are able to monitor how we are tracking with embedding this curriculum into what we currently have. Today's create session was a challenge and also lots of fun, I have loved picking up little gems throughout this course that I can use with my tamariki. 

Another fantastic day, BRING ON THE EXAM!! 

Connecting with Manaiakalani - Dorothy 

Empowered: Empowering learners, empowering teachers, empowering whanau. 

Technology is more than just a tool, it transforms the way that we learn and offers new experiences, it assists when making connections with students. No barriers! Empowering students with language, share and converse with each other. 
Blogging gives students the opportunity to build their language banks, this can have an awesome positive impact on their reading and writing. Students are empowered through visible connection and ubiquitous learning. 

How have I been empowering students during lockdown?

Students have been given a lot of choice over how their work is shared, this allows them to explore multiple digital technologies.
I have also sent students a google form to see how they would best like to learn, this was really positive in terms of designing my teaching and planning to meet their needs and wants.

Deep Dive- The Future of Tech - Gerhard 

 Slide Deck: future of tech
It is so interesting to see how far technology has come and where it is heading. It blows my mind how much has been achieved even in the last 5 years in terms of Artificial Intelligence. The thought of technology taking over is very daunting, I feel as though many jobs will be lost due to technology and already have been. Although there are people behind every technological breakthrough, there are only so many people who can do this job/ have a passion for this job. Imagine a world where robots did all of our jobs? What would we do then? 

I understand that we need to equip our students for the world we are heading toward however, I believe that all students have different passions and strengths, how can we still keep the option of heading toward this later in life as technology progresses. 

Moral machine Activity: This is a really interesting activity to take part in, it makes you think a lot about decision making and what the best moral decision will be. 

Intro into Computational Thinking - Kerry  

A digitally fluent person can decide when and why to use certain digital technologies. It is important to give students the opportunity to be innovative when using digital technologies. It is great to be able to unpack the digital curriculum further and develop my understanding of this a bit more. This is definitely something I would like to go through more thoroughly(Link to the slides). In our current situation with learning it is great timing for the digital curriculum to be put into play. 

I found it very interesting doing the Digital Technologies review on the Kia Takatu site. This is a way to measure how well digital technologies are being implemented in our school. I would like to get the whole staff to do this so we can compare and look at where to next. I believe as a staff and through Manaiakalani we are beginning to implement digital technologies well by facilitating turbo charged learning experiences. 

DIGITAL READINESS REPORT

 Exploring Coding - Gerhard 

Coding : My students really enjoy coding however, I myself am not very confident in this area. I have played around with it in the past using scratch but haven't thought much into the thinking behind it. I would like to use coding apps more with my class and get them turbocharging the way they share their learning. 

After exploring different content I have found a few new sites which I will use with my students, I also really liked the way that the class sites had images of a few children with a link to their blog post under Student Generated Content I thought this was a really cool way to empower students in their learning by making it visible. Hello Ruby looks like an awesome site that can be used to unpack what digital technologies are and how they work. Scratch is a app which I will be using for next weeks math lesson as we are looking at cartesian planes and coordinates. I would like to do more focused lessons with using coding apps to ensure that students are getting a better understanding on how to use it so they can then make use of the app when creating DLO's of their learning.

Create 

I decided to look at Mihi Maker using Gamefroot, this was a challenging task but also a really cool way to share your pepeha. Check it out below! 

CONNECTING WITH WHANAU

During this time of uncertainty and being stuck at home connection has become something that we all value more highly than we may have in the past. Being kept away from friends and family has been difficult for myself and for my students. 

“I love those connections that make this big old world feel like a little village.” – Gina Bellman

I thought it would be awesome to connect the whanau in our class by hosting a Whanau Quiz, bringing our little village together after being a part for 5 weeks. Not only did this allow me to connect with whanau and whanau to connect with each other it also got whanau involved in their child's learning. 

It was a fun and exciting way to be involved and have a bit of fun. 
I received lots of great feedback from whanau saying it was fun, great way to connect and that it provided some good whanau time. This is definitely something I would love to do more of, Keeping whanau connected, Reconnecting our Village.  

DEVICES- DFI Week 7

Daily Reflection 

Today was another successful day of DFI, we got to explore the devices that our students use daily. I found today to be a big help and a massive eye opener to how Chromebooks work. I have often found myself unsure on what to do when asked how to complete a certain command using a Chromebook. I am really excited to take what I have learned today and utilise it to help my students to make their learning more efficient. 

Cybersmart- Fiona  

Cybersmart Link

Be internet awesome, be internet brave, be internet kind, be internet smart. Being proactive online, empowering young people and teachers within our community. When learning is accessible being cybersmart empowers our learners to harness technology in a smart and clever way. Being cybersmart allows young people to engage in online behaviour that is positive. Harness the language used in the kawa of care to encourage positive behaviour online. Cybersmart is at its best when it is embedded into existing programs. It is really important to use the correct kupu when discussing how to use and behave online/ digital technologies. This will help children become accountable to maintaining a smart footprint.

Hapara Teacher Dashboard- Dorothy

Link to Slides Going through Hapara Dashboard has been very helpful for me as this is something I have not yet learned. I would like to look more into how to use the Hapara Workspace to benefit my teaching and students learning.

Manaiakalani 1:1 Journey - Dorothy -Partnership | Participation | Protection 

Digital Dig- Using Chromebooks 

I found this session really helpful as I am often asked to help students with their chromebooks. Being someone who has personally never used a chromebook I was able to learn a lot. I cannot wait to be able to used this new learning with my students. Below is a copy of my Digital Dig slides. We also looked at iPads, this is the chosen device for junior students 

and had a play with Explain Everything. I really enjoyed using this app and the features that come with it. It provides such an awesome platform for students to share and talk about their work as they are doing it or once it is complete. 

Create 

For our create task today we had to make a screen castify of one of the Cybersmart lessons from the manaikalani site. I chose to use the Smart Surfers lesson. When then had to record ourselves talking about the lesson and how we could use this in our own classroom. Here is mine: 

Home Learning

As our country is in a state of emergency, currently at level 4 schools have been closed. We have had to step out of our comfort zones and move into the world of full time digital learning. I have found this transition to be smooth for both myself and my students. As a Manaiakalani school our students are very familiar with using digital technologies and managing themselves. We have been holding class meets twice a day, during these meets we cover maths and literacy. Students access other learning areas during their independent time. I have found using google forms to hand in work to be very beneficial in terms of saving time and locating documents.

I decided to gather some student voice and sent out a google form to find out how they are finding learning from home. I have linked to results below.



These results have shown me that my students are doing well with home learning, they are happy with our meeting times and method of delivery. They are enjoying having the time to work at their own pace and also that their learning is allowing them to be creative and hands on. The main challenges students are finding is that they have a few distractions at home such as their families and other devices, they are also finding it a bit hard not being able to have mates around. From this first week of online learning I have seen that my students are beyond capable in managing themselves and motivating their learning, I am a very proud teacher and am excited to continue this online journey.

ENABLING ACCESS-SITES: DFI Week 6

Reflection 

Today was another great day spent learning online. It is always a pleasure to connect with other colleagues and to learn something new. I have come to better understand the concept of the Connect kaupapa and have realised how important this is in operating as a MK school. Without connection the rest of it just simply would not work. I enjoyed getting the time to work on my class site and to also look at others. Being a first year Manaiakalani teacher I found it very beneficial to look at the sites of others who have been teaching in this cohort for a few years and see what they did differently. Every week I am growing more confident and polishing my skills using digital technologies. I love how after every session there is something that I can take away and use with my students. By taking this course I have been able to feel confident with moving into online learning while on lock down. I am looking forward to next week and all the learning that will come with it.

Connecting with Manaiakalani

We are all connected through our common language throughout the Manaiakalani outreach program. Because we are visible we are able to connect. MK is able to support learning by intentionally supplying an audience for our learners to share and connect. 

Deep Dive: Maria- Class Sites 

I enjoyed getting the time to look at other classes sites. It was good to go through these together and critique the positives and negatives. This gave me the opportunity to think of my own site and some changes that I may need to make to ensure my site is easy to navigate. 

Chalk 'n' Talk: Gerhard V
Leading learning using sites. 

Affordances causing accelerated shift

- engagement
- teacher conversations
- cognitive challenge 

- visibility 

- scaffolding  

Purpose of a Learning Site 

A learning site is a one stop shop where learning is accessible anywhere, any time and any place. Learning is rewindable, visible planning and teaching. 

Explore- Class Sites 

We had the opportunity to share our own sites with members of our regional cluster and give feedback. It's really good to see what others are doing and also what others have to say about my own site. This is going to help me in ensuring that my site is easily accessible and user friendly. Feedback that I received was very positive. I have been able to take on suggestions and make a few changes to my site making it more user friendly. 

Term One Vignette

Te Kahu 

Often the success of a school term is based on your students academic abilities and their academic outcome/ test results. However, it is more often than not the things that cannot be recorded on a spreadsheet that really determine the success of your classroom and achievement and progress of your students. As a school we have decided that it is important to celebrate not just what can be seen but what cannot be seen, to celebrate the small things which in turn have had a positive impact on our tamariki.

TEACHER MEET, TUHI MAI TUHI ATU

Slide Deck

Today I joined the teacher meet with other teachers that are taking part in Tuhi Mai Tuhi Atu, this is a program  put in place to connect students with other students in different schools that are within Manaia Kalani. In today's session we discussed how to maintain blogging through distance learning. We had two teachers share how they are maintaining this, one was with year 3 and the other new entrants. Both have really thought about their whanau and how they will be able to best communicate with them to ensure that the learners are still able to share regardless of what devices are available.

A few tips I have learned from this meet are 

- Scheduling blog posts to keep on top of them. 
- Students are able to share to blog using email; this needs to be set up. 
- Scheduled posts allow for your blog to be active and will push readers onto learners blogs. 
- Get parents involved in activities. 
-  Provide different ways for parents to communicate with you; text, email etc.

One thing I really enjoyed was the sharing of the two classes blogs. I liked the idea of using google forms to allow students to ask questions. During DFI we had discussed this as a way for students to hand in work, I believe that also using it for student questions will be beneficial and easy to keep track of. By continuing blogging students are able to stay connected with their friends, teacher and wider world. I am excited to get this going leading into term 2 and to have students continuing with sharing their mahi. 

COLLABORATE- SITES : DFI Week 5

REFLECTION 

It was once again so lovely to connect with others around our beautiful country and to be able to use our knowledge. I to believe that visibility is important and being transparent is the best way to go as it allows students, whanau and other colleagues to share and learn from each other. I enjoyed our create session today and was able to create a site about ANZAC day (check it out here)which I will be using with my tamariki during our first week back. I used the multitextual data base as well as resources sourced within our group to create activities for students to complete. I feel like it will be engaging to them as the resources used are multimodal and offer different ways for the students to learn. I am excited to present this lesson to the students and know that it will cater to all of their learning abilities as well as extending those who need it. Working in small groups for the afternoon was nice as it gave us all a chance to share and discuss what was going on, I also found it very beneficial having the slides in the google meet. Taking part in this DFI is helping me to feel confident heading into online teaching. Well done team on another awesome DFI session.  

Visible Kaupapa: Dorothy Burt

It is important to have transparency in your teaching. It should be visible for your students, colleagues and whanau. There shouldn't be any surprises, being visible will also allow for opportunity and allows you to be seen. You are able to provide timely feedback and feed forward which is relevant, students are also able to do this for their peers. 

Multi Modal: Kerry 

Slides
Engaging students cognitively, personalising learning and accelerating and empowering students in their learning journey. Your site should be like a shop window and be inviting and intriguing, it should invite you in. Behavioural engagement: personalising. Creating to learn: allows students to use their own voice.  Using a range of different modes of technology to hook the learner in, having all links in one spot and accessible for all to use. 

Explore time: 

We were given the opportunity to explore different sites, I found this very interesting and was able to find some new ideas on how I can better present and manage our online classroom. I particularly liked the idea of using a google form for students to hand in completed work, this is something that I have been struggling with (collecting in work) and have been trying to find a more effecient way to do this. Very grateful for the visibility of everyones sites. 

Google Sites: Gerhard V 

Creating Google Sites

Going over using sites and how to set up pages. 

T Shaped Learning 

Multitextual Database  ; this is an amazing document that provides a range of texts that have been shared. 
Multimodal can be photos, videos, charts, graphs etc. Multi modal will present important information and will make students want to read what is there. 
Multitextual: reading multiple texts. 

DEALING WITH DATA : DFI Wk 4

DATA DATA DATA 

Data is something that us as educators are constantly using and sorting through every day. Today's session provided me with some amazing tools, tips and tricks that I can use to better collate and organise my students data. I got the most out of the Google Sheets session with Gerhard, we learned lots of new shortcuts, tools and add-on's which I was able to use straight away and also the My Google Map's session. Today's session was our first one through distance learning due to the Covid-19 Virus. I absolutely love how we are still all able to be connected with each other even when we are all stuck in our own homes. It is also nice to connect with other teachers from other cohorts as well. This session ran smoothly and really makes you think of how this course can be run in the future; do we need to meet in person? Do we need to travel? In terms of running sessions with my own students I will definitely be changing to using the grid version so I can see the full class. I also loved how we split into smaller groups which is something that I can do with Te Kahu to focus in on learning. 

All in all a great day of learning for myself! 

NOTES & CREATIONS

SHARE TOHATOHA - Dorothy Burt

Sharing has been happening since he dawn of time. By using digital technologies students are able to share their work to an authentic audience. 

Top Left Corner: One to One sharing 
Top Right Corner: Sharing to a small bubble/ your class. 
Bottom Left: Sharing to a large group (school hall) 
Bottom Right: Sharing on a global scale. 

Sharing work resembles the end of learning, as soon as someone goes and comments on a students work and asks a question the cycle of learning starts again.

Chalk 'n' Talk - Gerhard Vermeulen

Using google forms; this is a great way to gather student voice, whanau voice/ community voice. Can also be used as a tool to create online learning checks and activities. Here is one that I created to gauge how students are feeling moving forward in their digital learning. 

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Deep Dive- Google My Maps: Gerhard Vermeulen

The next tool we looked at was Google My Maps; this is an incredible way for students to use their mathematical thinking and geography skills. I aim to use this as part of our math program heading into next term.r /> Here is an example of one I have created showing participants of the DFI's holiday destination and also showing the outline of our school and a trip to the top. 

Deep Dive- Google Sheets: Gerhard Vermuelen

Link to presentation.- This slide is full of tips and tricks
Google sheets is a efficient and effective way of organising data. This can be used to identify certain parts of the data which could help in your planning. 

Leveling Up: 

Google Sheets- Functions, Scripts & Add-ons

This google sheet has lots of amazing links to add-ons etc which will help with formatting sheets in the most efficient way.  I love how easy this has made organising my data. I also liked the Pixel Art idea, I think this is something my kids will really enjoy. Below is a chart which I have created by using the tools on google sheets. 
We looked at the blog analysis activity from Robyn Anderson, she shared this at our first Manaiakalani day. This is something I will do with my students in the coming weeks. Donna had actually set this activity up for them to do during their next Cyber Smart lesson. 

Blogging 

Slide Links

- Add labels to organise posts 

- These can be organised as a list or a cloud 

- You can also show how many posts come under each label

MEDIA - DFI Week 3

AGENDA

Create

Connecting with Manaiakalani

Google Hangout--> Anne Create

Create is about the hook, how do we hook kids into learning?

To create is to give students the opportunity to explore. It is a tangible way of learning and allows students to create to improve their metacognition. Students need the time to to explore and dive deep into learning. Forming original ideas and discovery. 
Creativity combine SiSoMo (sight, sound and motion)with innovation and imagination as well as accuracy and attention to the last detail. 

"Creativity focuses on the process of forming original ideas through exploration and discovery." -Kohl, 2008

Thinking comes from learning and learning comes from doing. 

Deep Dive

Live Streaming - Kent Somerville Live Streaming

Live streaming is a great way to connect with your tamariki and wider community. It allows everyone to be a part of what is happening within your kura in real time. There are lots of great pieces of technology that are useful in doing this (these can be found on the slides). Is it worth doing if it isn't worth sharing? 

Creating & Reflection

Today we had a lot of time to create. I chose to create an animation using google slides. This was a great opportunity to explore this tool and taught me a lot. I have been in classes where students have created animations using slides before but was not completely sure of what mahi had to be put in to complete the task. I have created a short animation about an Octopus going shopping. I will use this as an example of telling a story. The students will use this as an example to explain the stations of the cross in preparation for Good Friday. We will also watch a stop motion using lego showing this story which I have added onto my YouTube Channel Playlist. I loved how hands on this session was as we were able to make use of our new learning straight away and begin to think of how we can use it in our own practice. 

Chalk ‘n’ Talk 

YouTube
YouTube  Playlists and Channels

Create a YouTube Channel to save videos, these can be saved to a playlist. 

Chalk 'n' Talk 

Google Draw Examples: slide 2
 About Me button

Chalk 'n' Talk

Google Slides
Google Slides

Vid 1: Kathy Sharing her Creation 

Vid 2: Group Sharing our 'Create' Task 

Creating with Google Earth Projects

10/03/2020

Tool Kit Slides

Manaiakalani Toolkit: Creating with Google Earth Projects. 

Today I took part in my first Manaiakalani toolkit where we looked at using Google Earth Projects. This was my first time using google hangouts which I found to be an amazing way to connect with each other and share resources remotely. Gerhard took us through a short presentation on how he used Google Earth Projects to share his pepeha. This was an awesome and engaging way to present mahi. 
You can check out my Google Earth Project here. 

WORKFLOW- DFI Week 2

              WORKFLOW DFI WEEK 2

Workflow 

Chalk 'n' Talk - Managing your Workflow 

Hangouts- Allows you to work remotely. - Google Meet: works similar to skype whereas Google Hangouts you send an invite via google calendar. - Hangouts should be 1:1 - See 'hangouts' link for how to. AKO- LEARN-  Intentional, focused, evidence-based program that will support moving from the analog to the digital world. - Aims to increase teacher effectiveness and accelerating learning outcomes in a digital environment.
- What promotes student learning? 

Making connections to students interests and culture. Building relationships with students, whanau and community. Making connections to students interests and culture. Building relationships with students, whanau and community. RATE 
R-Recognise Effective Practice
- Reading authentic texts. 
- Sharing ideas in discussion. 
- Thinking critically and developing strategies. 
- Collaborating and making choices in learning, creating and sharing. 

What is my schools philosophy on how children learn?
Do we have a learning model? Place based learning?
We are currently developing a local curriculum. 
Great teachers are face to face- build that connection. 
A- Amplify 
T- Turbocharge Effective Practice
- Transform the way we learn. 
- Offer new experiences.
- Offer new opportunities. 
- SAMR Model.
Rewindable Learning 
E- Effective Practice 
This is not just a tool! 
Technology enables removal of barriers, previously inconceivable solutions to problems, opportunities for new ways of learning.
DEEP DIVE 
Google Keep 
Chalk 'n' Talk 
Gmail

- Think about the giving and the getting. Getting: doing readings, learning. Giving amplifying effective practice. 
- Empowering, Connected, Visible, Ubiquitous. 

GK Notes - You can drag things straight onto your calendar or notes via gmail. Taming your Tabs 
Bookmarks: using google priorities for work space easy access. 
Use folders to organise pages dependent on profile. 

CREATE 
We were given the create task of analysing a students blog post through a google hangout and making a screen recording of this. Below is myself, Gemma and Ayla. Next time we need to find a way for the sound to work from all members of the hangout when using screen castify. 
on a positive note, this is a really awesome way for students to share their learning with others and will be a great way to connect with our Tuhi Mai Tuhi Atu buddys. 

Reflection: 

Today we looked at different tools and aspects of google to help manage our workflow. Google hangouts is a great way to connect with your learners and others, it provides a platform where you can share your screen and could lead an entire lesson from their if you wish. This is something I would love to try with my senior students to help them build independence in their learning. 

We went over the Ako-Learn stage of the Manaiakalani framework which was interesting. Anne Sinclair took us through this using google hangouts and explained the goals for this. Over the remainder of the day we went through other things such as google notes, bookmarking/ tabs and gmail all of which will be beneficial in making my digital work space more efficient. To finish our day we had to 'create' a screen recording of our google hangout where we discussed and reflected on a students blog post from the summer learning journey. Although ours did not record sound properly we were able to see the benefits of google hangout and how it helps to make learning more efficient and turbocharged.