Online Toolkits

Yesterday afternoon I attended two online toolkits as part of Manaiakalani PD. The first one was  When Basic Facts Backfire: How to engage your learners in Maths.
This was great and I will use the quiz template with my students so that they can create and share their learning. There were also some great examples shared for Digital fluent Mathematicians: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1oGSVKYkRjsU0Ut8YH0voECpLKj0j5PzkfrGND2dys-E/edit?zx=x21t8lcm7t53#slide=id.p
The second toolkit was Te Reo Maori 101
I got a little lost in this one but there were some valuable resources shared. They also discussed the difference between Mihimihi and Pepeha which I found interesting - they said that Pepeha was more about where you are form - e.g. whakatauki etc and Mihihmihi is your genealogy.

Blogging Tips

Today I was getting my students to add an item to their blogs. I went back to my notes on this blog to refresh my memory about how to embed slides into a blog. I couldn't remember how to change the size so had to ask Tina. It was to change the sizing in HTML. The sizing ended up being 650W x 369H. The formatting changed when transferring a Google Doc into a blog and I'd forgotten to press CTRL SHIFT C, CTRL SHIFT V.

DFI Day 9

Day 9
What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?

Ubiquitous - anytime, anywhere
Summer blogging makes a huge difference to writing outcomes
summer learning journey - website (google it)
Rewindable Learning - screen castify etc. - Kids can make rewindable learning resources for their mates.
e.g. How to make a good blog post
What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?
Had a go at the exam and scored 72% so now know what I need to work on to pass this

DFI Day 8

Day 8
What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?
Gerhard -Empowered
Digital Technology - A way to partner alongside the  community and empower them
Kaupapa words need to go together - connected, ubiquitous, visible and empowered
Lots of learners engaged in learning out of school hours - e.g. blogging at 9 p.m.

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

Deep Dive

One Tab -chrome extension - added this to my laptop - gets rid of all the tabs sitting in the tabs bar

To get rid of extension added - right click on the Onetab icon and delete

Toby - for collections of tabs - maybe Toby Mini is better

Google and review extensions before installing - some are dodgy

Kerry - Bookmarking personal and private Link

Extensity - have a look at this

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

Add preview to end of URL and it will go to full screen

Email - use settings to change image, starring etc

email settings 

archive rather than delete

Labs - settings - can enable or disable - may vanish as google use this for testing

To find things in Google suite  = appname.google.com - eg. hangouts.google.com

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

Google hangouts

DFI Day 7

Day 7
What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?
Connect with the twitter feed - especially with the other Manaiakalani teachers.
Clarelle - Connect
Connected learners are empowered learners - make it visible
19,000 learners - 22,000 including original Manaiakalani cluster
Shared language - if we are all paddling in the same direction we have a bigger impact and we are more likely to achieve our goals.
Pedagogy in all schools (100 schools) - Term 1 Learn, Term 2 Create, Term3 Share, Term 4 all three.
Can access all Manaiakalani schools through their website. If you use another teacher's ideas just email them and ask permission to use - good way to find new ideas.

What did I learn that could be used with my learners?
Twitter  @clusternz  - tweets out kids blogs automatically - makes connections to the wider world
Tuhi Mai Tuhi Atu - Write to me, write to others
4 schools blogging on each other's blogs
Share it Bingo - look at links
twitter - Ed Chat
If stuck Tania Couts; Online Facilitator - could use in release time
Google hangout, Google+ Community

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?
Evaluated some sites
Learn - Google Sites
Why? - visible, accessible
Who are your learners? -main audience

Worked on our individual class sites. I managed to complete my goals and make the site accessible through my blog. I am still finding making the buttons quite frustrating but will work more on this at a later date.

DF! Day 6

Day 6

What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?
Danni - Visible Learning
Studeny success - engaging with whanau
Kids have a clear understanding of what they're going to be learning
Access to other teachers sites to help with your planning
Visible - breaks down barriers -Very powerful when a parent comments on a child's blog
Teacher dashboard - Option to have a parent portal on Hapara
Manaiakalani Google Class On Air
Teaching as Inquiry - on Manaiakalani site
Tuhi Mai Tuhi Atu - connect with other classes in Manaiakalani
Comment  on blogs- put up a writing prompt to get more traffic - e.g. give me 4 adjectives about this - good idea to generate lots of traffic
Woolf Fischer - useful data to use - evidence

What did I learn that could be used with my learners?
Multi Modal Learning - Using multiple modes e.g. image, video, text etc
Engagement - "The Hook" -Year 4 - Golden year - shown in data. By Year 8 - just a device
We need to dress our shop windows - so they want to enter
Video then text, text to text - different perspectives.
Use sham article - to get kids to be critical thinkersBehavioural and cognitive engagement
Start with Behavioural engagement - then higher level thinking e.g. wolves

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

We had a go at using Google Sites to make a Garden site. We practised inserting different media to make a multimodal site.


What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?
Images that can be used
Google Draw
Tools
labelled for re-use

To forget network
Go to Wifi symbol
Open network preferences
Click on advanced
click on the network you want to forget( Northland College)
Click  minus symbol
Then apply
Go back to Wifi symbol and enter a new code

DFI Day 5

What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?
Share
Still going to share in ways we always did but now adding the ability to go beyond the local community and go global.
Sharing with purpose - authentic audience - someone who chooses to listen to them.
Can see Blog posts and who is reading them through Hapara.
Sharing doesn't always need to be the end product (blog post). Authentic audience may need to be triggered!
Share to learn - not always share to finish learning
Feedback has a high impact on learning

Digital Technologies Curriculum
100 kiwis now have over 100,000 youtube subscribers
It's all about problem-solving and computational thinking
2 things
Computational Thinking and Designing and Developing Digital Outcomes
Tec Practice, Knowledge and Nature of Tech still there
Computational thinking - thinking like a computer

What did I learn that could be used with my learners?
code.org  - get the kids signed up for this. Can them move to using Scratch
We had a go at writing instructions for another group to follow - emphasising the need to be very specific.
Google Sketchup - can design 3d drawings

Homework - check computational thinking - progress outcomes, exemplars, and snapshots  Have a go and see what I could use in the class.
What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?
Makey Makey
Science for circuits
Interactive exhibits to display work
Scratch - had a go at animation using coding with mixed results - still can't work out how to get rid of the green line!

DFI Day 3

Manaiakalani DFI Day 3

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

Cybersmart Curriculum
All about students being at home in a digital world
Cybersmart a positive thing so don't use words like Cyber Bullying - it's just bullying

Kerrry - Cybersmart Slideshow

Resources Cybersmart
Teach in context

Keep it positive, thoughtful and helpful - for blog posts etc

What did I learn that could be used with my learners?
Omni box (where the url is) - Correct name
Tips for Hapara
Hapara lets you see what the kids are doing-it's about visibility and access
Sharing - All Docs - search for a word

To limit screens
Got to link
Browser tab on

mystudentdashboard.com - lets students see Hapara Workspace

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

To insert videos into Hapara Workspace click in the omni box to secure, drag to Workspace tab and then drag into red box to insert

Where Reading, Writing Maths etc is -  need tab that says Blogs and Comments

Explain Everything

Saving

Save it as a project (teacher)

Students save it as a video - only when it is finished because it can't be edited

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?
Table - to insert etc. -Format-table - insert row etc
Copying and pasting media
We used screencastify to record something we learned today.

 My Castify

DFI Day 2

Manaiakalani DFI Day 2

Sharing- What did you try? What worked? What didn't?

Explore and Unsplash - legal use of images etc
Google Drawings- make then paste into Docs
Cut off plastic cup for voice box to use in the class
Reader Writer App for editing
Kids put writing into folders - I need to do this with my students
Also using shift when pasting to retain formatting

What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?
Learn, Create Share
Every school will have their own take on this - intended to encompass what you're doing in your school
Digital technology needs to work alongside our pedagogy
How can we use technology to lift achievement?
Recognise
Amplify
Turbocharge
What does Learn look like in the NZ Curriculum?  Recognise Effective Practice
Watch Rebecca Jessen -
Watch Manaikalani Google Class On Air
Go to Variety of Forms

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

How to create a Google Form 

Form
Send
Via a link
Shorten url
Copy
Highlight word in docs
Press link button
Control v

My Google Map

Google Map Using Embed

How to embed

Go to map
Go to 3 dots
Embed on my site
Go back to blog
Go to HTML
Paste url, shorten url
Go to bottom of page
Back to compose

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

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?Google Sheets - especially for analysing data

DFI Day 1

Northland 2018 DF Intensive Agenda

Today made me think about the disservice we have done to some students by imposing our schooling system on them. The Manaiakalani pedagogy is to improve outcomes for students by giving them learning tools to support and empower.
The "Share" part of Learn, Create, Share is giving students a worldwide audience to showcase their learning through blogging. Students then have a far greater audience for their learning.
I learned some shortcuts and tips for making Google documents and also how to use Add-Ons so that it will be easier to make documents. I will use the sharing documents with my students when doing activities so students have the opportunity to collaborate with each other. I am also thinking about using Voice typing as part of my writing inquiry for this term.
Command, Shift 4 gives me a screenshot which has improved my capability. I also learned more about creating tables in Google as I have been a bit frustrated with this.

My Poster


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LEvidence	Learn - Gather Evidence	CPlan	Create - Make a plan	SPublish	Share - Publish
LScan	Learn - Scan	CTry	Create - Try new things	SCoteach	Share - Co-teach
LTrend	Learn - Identify Trends	CInnovate	Create - Innovate	SModel	Share - Model
LHypothesise	Learn - Hypothesise	CImplement	Create - Implement	SGuide	Share - Guide
LResearch	Learn - Research	CReflect	Create - Reflect	SFback	Share - Feedback
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