DFI - Session 9 - Revision

It's the last session!!  Argh!
Priority needs to be given to keep the digital learning at the forefront to ensure I don't forget these pieces of gold I have learnt.  The on-going blog will be really helpful for me to refresh.  Great to have met some new colleagues to be able to shoulder tap to remind me too!

Really like the idea of a "slam dunk" session.  Staff record a screen castify and share for 1-2 minutes at each staff meeting of what they are doing, how it is going and next steps.

Ubiquitous learning was a really good reminder.  This concept of accessing learning anytime, anywhere to help learning is paramount.  The summer learning journey is a great option for our whanau to access.  They would love this option for their tamariki.

Google classroom learning

This is closed - you have to have a login to see it and interact with it.  Therefore class sites are a better option.

Things drop to the bottom so it makes it more cumbersome.  

It is in the waffle

Go to + to create classroom

Class name - Enter eg. DFI practice

3 tabs at the top - Stream, Classroom, People

Go to classroom to share 

Create 

Assignment - choose all or choose some students

Give instructions

Assign points if its an assignment

Choose due date

Can attach anything there

You can change view only copy or editing rights or make a copy for each student - automatically names for the kids

Assign or schedule for them

People - invite students to your class or invite other teachers

Copy and paste a list of students

or join using a code (click on join class)

Exam day today

What a great chance to be in a student position by sitting an exam.  Let's just say it has been a huge learning curve as it has been some time since I have sat an exam!  Great to be reminded of the stress!

Summary

Overall have really enjoyed my DFI time.  It has been great getting out of the school and having a look around at other schools, other practice and pedagogy.  Really nice to tour around different schools and see their spaces too.

It is always great to model being a learner and I have enjoyed challenging my thinking and my knowledge.  Digital is the way forward and to be more stream lined and effective in my work flow is essential.  It has also given me a great deal of confidence to try new things and experiment a bit too.  A huge thanks to Venessa Davan and Kerry Boyde-Preece.  They do a wonderful job and challenging, supporting and enabling!
The focus for me is to continue to keep practicing, using rewindable learning, Screen castify etc, will be great to re-visit my learning.

DFI 7: Dealing with Data

Dealing with data

Reminder to go back and use the Manaiakalani website as a reminder of information and background pedagogy and practice which is so easily accessed.  This is a fabulous resource for us to go and use and refer back to.

Check out the Manaiakalani visit day - they run these 3 times a year - this would be really good PD for our whole school.  Great chance to see these schools who have been on the Manaiakalani journey.

Focus today on "connected".  Summary of things that Manaiakalani do so well.
Real focus on visible learning
Coherence across clusters
Learn Create Share
The idea is to cover these aspects over the year:

• Term 1 focus - Learn
• Term 2 focus - Create (create to learn)
• Term 3 focus - Share (foundational skills first)
• Term 4 focus - bringing it all together

Lots of opportunity to connect
- Staff meetings
- Face to face
- Online

Check out Manaiakalani twitter page called Manaiakalani Cluster.  Great professional learning around these with discussions.  It is a platform which shares comments and discussions that you can add to.

Check the cybersmart resources out so you can adapt and tweak to make it work for your needs.

Google forms

Some great tips and reminders.  The settings options of adding in video and pictures adds to the form.  Easy to create and share with others and see the reminder if required
Google form instructions

Aleisha shared.
Check out breakout - make in sections - google breakout edu - use a lock box that they gather a code with the answers - great way to practice with PAT with multi-choice etc.  Needs to be specific or give them a note in brackets eg. must include a capital.
Include a comma to separate the answer
Breakout example
This would be a fabulous interactive learning activity that the students would love!

Google maps

Wow!  The options with this is amazing!  First time using it and I can see the potential!!  Really enjoyed having a go at this.  The learning for students for recording "their place" is huge.  We could collate a school record of our heritage.

Google Sheets

Tutu with the chart.
Great to have a practice using slightly different shortcuts.  Was fabulous
Practice on Dave's sheets
Go to publish from the chart.  Copy the embed code.  Come back to blog and go to HTML and pop in the break at the end and here we go...

DFI 6: Enabling Access

Enabling Access

Can always go back and check, revisit and review on Manaiakalani sites
MK digital technology

Remember to check that it is visible to everyone - will have to remember this for my curriculum site.

Check the Manaiakalani class on air option - great chance for our staff for their PD too.  You can apply to join this kaupapa.  Might be something for our staff to discuss leading into 2020.

Really great to get some feedback from Kerry on my "garden" site.   It is amazing how much you can get on a site when you know what you are doing.  I have deleted my SLP which Kerry taught me how to edit, as my blog will be the digital record I have of my learning and goals as Principal.

I have now shared my PCS Curriculum site and this is encouraging the learn, create share pedagogy for me as I know it is public and it is not perfect!!  Really good to be put in the "learner" seat in such a public domain.

Feedback attached
DFI Feedback KC



This session was also really helpful to practice and review what we have learnt to date.  Setting 3 goals for the session made me really accountable.  I also enjoyed seeing other sites shared within the group as I gained some insight and ideas from this.  Also the accountability of giving feedback so you had to think about the multi modal options and opportunities for learners to have input.  Photo evidence of me sharing my site.


Lots of learning today around the blog.  Really grateful to have the help of Venessa and Kerry with my colleagues to get things achieved!

As always its about LEARN, CREATE, SHARE!

PCS Curriculum Site 2019

This is work in progress

PCS Curriculum 2019 (work in progress)

My goal is to have our school curriculum on our school website so that whanau can access it.

DFI Session 5 Devices

CYBER SMART

Real focus being "cyber smart" so that our students and adults know how to interact to keep themselves safe online.
Some really good resources in this cybersmart curriculum.  10 categories within the resources which are updated regularly.

Each year this needs to be revisited.
Term 1:  Smart Learners (our Learn term)
Term 2:  Smart Footprint (our Create term)
Term 3:  Smart Relationships (our Share term)

The aim is to have the cyber smart curriculum interweaving into your classroom programme.

Hapara

Great programme to oversee the teaching and learning.

Protection and support systems for all.
Our presenter Kashmina was extremely capable at using "Explain Everything".  Really great to see the sites and learning through the lens of a new entrant classroom.  Again, it is essential to set up the ipads at the start to enable fluid and consistent learning for the students and teachers.  Another message of working collaboratively, sharing and creating in action!

Chromebooks

Lots of practice with shortcut keys
These tips are all here
Chromebook shortcuts

Ipad

All ipads the same - through Hapara.
Start with kawa of care
Explain everything
Practiced cut, copy, paste, taking photos. Fantastic app to use for the junior school.

Screen Castify

Great experience to have a go at Screen Castify.  It is important to be well planned and ready to go for this.  Not the best recording, but an example that it does work.  I have learnt not to put the camera on and record myself as that looks awful!!!  I can see the value in Screen Castify for playing back the learning and additionally for staff meetings and opportunities for access to learning if you have not been able to attend the meeting.

Yet again, another session to enable me to record evidence of my teaching and learning.  The shortcuts and practicing the learning is vital for me.  I need to keep working on "practice" sessions so that I retain this new learning.

DFI Session 4 - Collaborate Sites

Google Hangout with Dorothy

Some really good points about sharing today.  It is not a new concept, but since 2005 its expanded to a worldwide audience.  Certainly not discounting a range of ways to share, not just on technology.  I am appreciative of the reason for using blogs as that is a question that comes up regularly with new staff to Manaiakalani this year.  I have some good reasons to discuss:
- its legal to under age users
- BOT has full control of this via the settings
- it can be monitored and regulated.

Multi-modal
I love this!
Multiple ways of "hooking" our learner in - engaging in their learning style
books, art, movies, links, google maps, text, accessing multiple text, multi levels, multi modes to build on a rich understanding of your learning.
All about engaging students.

Learn Create Share - enables leverage up or down for your students
Multi model explained

An example of multi modal learning
multi modal learning

Teacher planning showing multi modal learning
teacher planning showing multi modal learning

Film making
An exciting opportunity for us in the Far North
movies

SITES

Lots of learning here for me.  I have created a site which is terrible and not very engaging, so great to have a tutu!

This is useful for the colours
colour picker

Think about small or large buttons depending on the audience

I had a go at my own site!  It's very basic, but it worked!!
Gardening Site

My next job is to create a school site that is exciting to view!

COLLABORATION

Another really great session.  As time goes on you can see our group working together in a streamlined way.  People are confident to seek help from each other.  Lots of sharing and giggles in between!  I am absolutely loving the new learning that I am getting each week.  The learning will help stream line my workflow.

Google Keep has been very good to delve into.  I already use it, but have enhanced my use this week.

My next steps will be important to practice my new learning and tutu so I continue to embed in my head!!!

Poster on google draw

Put my new learning in to practice  this week creating a poster and embedding it into my blog.  Great to create with the learning and help our PTFA out too!
Another example of using the learning - and I actually enjoyed it too!

The learning in this task
- explore tool to find a png picture that was approved to publish
- send the picture to the back
- insert text
- change font and colour and add in texture
- manipulate text boxes
- embed
- publish!

This will help my work flow by being creative!

DFI Session 3 - Media

Guest Kent Somerville from Point England
Kent Somerville presentation
Thinking
You can not be creative without "learning" that has happened first.  Think about how we can be creative.  The key is that the learning is effective.

Lots to think about - the key point is that creativity promotes learning, so lots of great things to ensure we are focusing on at school.

Next steps.
Go and check out principal blog from slide (must do this and have a really good look).  The honesty of the journey is quite empowering in my own journey.  I am loving the learning - it is exhausting which is brilliant!!

"Creators of content, not merely consumers" - the kids are doing the work,not just copy and paste

Sisomo (Sight sound and motion)

I need to use Hapara a lot better in the school for our safety and the safety of the students.

Think about using "bulk buy" option through Point England for camera's etc.  A wonderful opportunity as part of the Manaiakalani partnership.

Kent Somerville - live streaming

"How to"
You tube.com

Check your username when you are on Youtube.


Google Draw
It is set up to fit online images automatically or custom size (google A4 or A3 size)

Google Slides
Use Toby to save all the slides ready to pull up
Create a animation with google slides
Can upload so they play automatically
Can hyperlink with each slide as each slide has its own URL (slide deck)
Create animations, make sure it is PNG.  Use explore tool
Publish to the web - go to embed - choose small as medium is too large.  Choose speed of slides (ever 3 seconds is ideal)  Grab the code
Go to HTML (not compose) and animation is there.

Media Slide
Remember to come down here type in "zzz"....control F to find that, then double click and paste the URL




Pepeha
This is the start of my digital pepeha.  I will keep working on making it interactive.  I am thrilled to be able to embed my slides into my blog.   The fact that it updates automatically makes the workstream flow!!




Must go and look at the resources for the exam

Google Hangout Session (DFI 2)

Amelia Blog

- Summer Learning Journey (SLJ)

Point England School

Questions and thoughts to drive your conversation for the Google Hangout Session:

• What was the teaching design behind this post? ie what learning outcome was the teacher hoping for?  How was the lesson/activity designed to promote literacy goals? Key Competency goals? ‘Soft Skill’ goals eg collaboration? Manaiakalani pedagogy and Kaupapa (learn create share I Connected, Empowered, Visible, Ubiquitous)
• This task was about to "learn" about NZ, with a focus on who we are, culture - reading was required to research and check her facts. She is Tongan so there would have been some learning around Maori culture for her to build up her knowledge. I really like that she could adapt the task to suit herself and she provided links to more information. I think the teacher was aiming for literacy with reading mileage and applying new learning to create and share for an audience.
• What was the learner’s response in the post content ie What did they do? What did they learn? What did they create? What did they share about?
• She could add further information (which she did). This was a combination of appropriate use of text and images. She went on to do the extra option which impressed we, as she was highly engaged in this task.
• Who responded to the post and how did this support the learning experience or contribute more to the learning of the child? ie look at the comments beneath the post. Does this reflect a learning conversation? Who was involved in the conversation. How does this contribution to learning stack up against the original task design and/or the child’s post?
• Really good discussion with the comments on her post. The comments were positive, followed by a thoughtful comment and a question to promote more discussion.
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you tube

This is the You Tube video version.  I now know how to load two ways which is extremely exciting!!!

DFI - Session One Wednesday 6th March 2019

Time to reflect and share with colleagues

What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?
Great reminder of the background of Manaiakalani and the kaupapa and pedagogy. Really enjoyed the learn, create share - we actually did that today.

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?
The tips to speed up my use of the drive, using documents with confidence and clarity will help me immensely. The little short cuts and efficiencies to streamline my workflow will be key. It is amazing how many things you learn and then stop using (ie. Google keep). I am going to work on actually using my new learning so I retain it.

What did I learn that could be used with my learners?  
The collaborative sharing for writing will be very useful and the reminder to use the voice typing option. I will also use the contents and footnotes in my documents to help finding information quickly. I think the other very useful option will be the group mail. This will ensure all members are getting messages without overlap, which again will decrease my workload double-handling things.

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?
Speed using the tips and tricks! Getting some order in my document storage and making me use my blog for reflection will be vital. I have started with limited consistency, so this will make me more accountable.

Creativity Empowers Learning

Staff meeting with Donna Yates our facilitator with Manaiakalani based around Creativity.

- Sharing of our digital technology learning based on creativity
- Lots of great creativity happening within PCS in the classrooms.
- Favourite for me tends to be iMovie as the students can use this to share our school values with ease.
- Next steps will be to try some animation using lego men or puppets to add to the range of digital platforms I am trialing with the students.

This is a real passion of mine.  Always allowing for creativity to expand thinking based around some good knowledge.  Students need to be empowered to take risks to be creative.  Creativity is fun for the students and the teachers and empowers LEARNING!!!

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/19bZWvWaFZ2j3S3Y2mpxIyEEuJDHyxXviOXh0sqa4g1Q/edit?ts=5b1de67d#slide=id.g365fddbe70_0_0




This image represents the entire Design, Create, Share with a focus on creativity.  It sums up each aspect of creativity!

Digital Toolbox

Had our first cluster Digital Toolbox session around Blogs/Sites last night.  Great to be in a group of supportive learners who are focused on pedagogy through the use of digital platforms.  We had the option of blogs or google sites.  My focus was Google Sites.  I am working on developing a digital curriculum for our teachers, students, whanau and community to be able to see what we are teaching in the NZ Curriculum and at Pompallier Catholic School.  The use of Google Sites is enabling transparency.  We have a commitment to providing authentic learning opportunities within the rich NZ Curriculum and this is a way forward.  This platform enables us to update the changes in the curriculum without double handling across multiple documents.  It is very much in a draft form at this stage, but the plan is to have each curriculum leader feed into this document.  I have much to learn about Google sites!!!!!