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. 

CORE BUSINESS -DFI Week One

Reflection 
Today I attended the first session for the 2020 Digital Fluency Intensive at Bay of Islands College. It was interesting to hear how Manaiakalani was founded and what work was put in to make this accessible to all students within the first cluster. We focused on a lot of different tools and extensions that can be used to amplify student learning and make it more engaging. I found the idea on using word count for writing and reading with the text to speech tool really exciting and is something I would love to use with my students, I would also like to tie in math by getting them to graph their progress in this. I am looking forward to our next session and to see what other digital technologies can be used in my practice and my students learning. 

Create: We had to use google docs to create something. I decided to make an infographic that provided hyperlinks to sites that students can use to work on their math skills. I then uploaded it onto their class site so that they all have easy access to these sites. This will be a part of their contracts. 

Notes 

Digital Technologies Roadmap

As a staff we sat and discussed our journey as a school toward using and implementing digital technologies content into our program.