DFI - 9

Lots of short cuts and new areas to enhance teaching.

Yay today is the day we sat our exam to see if what we had learnt has made an impact - very nervous for this but I have just got my results and I passed Yay

 

DFI - Day 8

 

Day 8

Chalk 'n Talk - Kerry (via Meet)

Computational Thinking

Digital fluent - comfortable and confident teaching online and taking it to another level - to know what to use and how to use it. Delivering effective teaching - When and why we use digital 

Digital Technology - can create new digital solutions.

• Teaching with digit is a collaborative environment with you as the teacher and the students.

• Programming so the students are designers.

• Rather than calling it coding change the word to programming - it widens the expectation of what the student thinks they can do or are capable of doing.
  
  
  

Empowered - Dorothy

• Money doesn't buy you happiness but it does buy you power
• The average wage for our local area is $19,000 p/a
• Technology is a tool BUT not just a tool - this is where the empowerment come from.
• Reflection is key when ensuring the work shared with the students is not only entertaining to keep their attention but also empowers them - this in return empowers you the teacher digitally.
• 5+ backwards and forwards conversation teaching the framework to increase their oral language - this also works in blogging (writing) to support them by harnessing the conversation in blogging. 

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• We all have a different ending to what empowering students is.

A recent example of empowerment is of a year 8 student in my maths group who came up to me when she had finished her work and said "thank you for making me smart Mrs Fisi'iahi".  She had been working on multiplication and understood the strategies she had been learning.  This had empowered her to the point where she was helping her peers with their learning of the strategies, therefore she in turn was empowering others.

Deep Dive - The Future of Tech - Jacob

• Will robots replace jobs or will they enable more creativity?
• We as educators are preparing our students for future jobs that don't currently exist yet.
• preparing students for a constantly changing future
• the need to upskill and become lifelong learners
• Moral dilemmas are might be a large challenge for future technology practices

Scratch 

• All jumping around characters are called sprites
• backgrounds are called stage
• movement is called motion
• game needs to start this is called an event
• operators are when we join things together eg do this and that will happen
• variables are something that holds numbers - things that can change

Teacher Inquiry 2021: Introduction

This year I have moved from NE to Y7/8 and to say it's a huge change is an understatement.

I share a class with Robyn Anderson this year we have decided to carry out the same teacher inquiry, just with different students. This means we have a wider net thrown and are on a learning journey together. Something that teachers who share a class should do. The detailed information about our inquiry can be found on Robyn’s blog as she is the in-school COL teacher for PBS. 

After this introductory post I will be reflecting on my own teaching practice and whilst our inquiry focus is the same, I fully expect the changes and adaptations in teacher practice to be quite different.

Below I have captured my time point 1 data of my focus students. By asking the question Will a focus on oral language in maths accelerate student confidence and capability to use spoken and written maths vocabulary and language? I will be analysing the data going forward compared to previous data captured.

    

DFI - Day 7

 

Day 7 

Devices

Being Cybersmart - Vicki

• A4 - any time, any where, any pace, any one
• Visible - personal and amplified

Ubiquitous - Dorothy

• most of the academic learning is done throughout the school day
• cultural and informal learning outside of the school day
• learning can be done all day
• rewindable learning - capturing what is the learner is learning so they can go back to it when they need to review their thinking
• paired shared thinking and castafy to utilise rewindable learning - if the learning experience isn't what you required for rewindable - delete it

• it's not ok to share one to one devices - every student must be able to use their own device
• 1-1 means every student has their own ipad with their name on it - not sharing

Ipads

• as a teacher you start using your computer to make the learning - do the work required on slides on your laptop then download the EE on your ipad - look that the slides can be seen on ipad.
• make your own video that shows students how to look after their ipad - kawa of care
• once a file has been saved on EE and goes to the cloud it has to be downloaded again to be repurposed - or it can be uploaded as a video.
• desktop version of Blogger does not look good on Ipads - blogger app has been designed to aid this

EE - is just an online whiteboard 

• you have to remember to tap what you want done - eg if you want part of a picture coloured in
• you can record your voice with the insert new and leave instructions next to something
• works like a slide dec - can add slide - tap the numbers and it gives you a preview and navigate between slides
• share as an image file if there is no movement or sound on it - or if there is more than one slide or sound/movement it must be shared as a video file

Reflecting on the Kaupapa of the Manaiakalani Programme in light of COVID 19 , and my readiness for ubiquitous learning...

• What are you proud of? That we had such an amazing online presence from our students and the amount and quality of work they produced was outstanding.

• What do you regret? That we didn't have multiple Google meet practices pre Covid.

DFI - Day 6

 

Leading learning using Google Sites - Vicki

Five affordances causing accelerate shift

• engagement
• teaching conversations
• cognitive challenge
• visibility
• scaffolding

Why are we creating a site?  

• one stop shop to access all the learning
• able to learn anywhere, anytime, any place
• rewindable learning - go back and revisit the learning - can continuously add to it.
• personalise content 
• visible teaching and planning
• one place for all the information - learning, reminders eg togs etc
• consistency - for all year groups

Visual appeal and functionality

• pick a theme eg pick a colour and use those shades or complementary colours
• layout consistent - plan your content before you plan your pages
• 2 x heading font and main text font
• learning no more than 3 clicks away
• check that content is visible - you can check on a incognito window
• links to class blog and student blogs

Evaluating Class Sites

What works well - Visual appearance

• hooking people in - visual engagement
• visual experience - can you find the stuff you need.
• complimenting colours
• clear site fonts/buttons

What dosen't work well - Visual appearance

• too much colour
• too cluttered
• white writing on a light background

What works well - User experience

• able to be easily accessed by learners and whanau
• a few clicks to where the learning is

What dosen't work well - User experience

What is the first thing we are looking at? 

• Banger needs to be visually appealing and user friendly
• Have a good site plan before you start

Site buttons 

• make them personal to your class
• use photos of the students 
• use free picture site eg pixabay 
• put in what size you want in draw - eg banner in cm will be different than buttons in cm
• download draw image with 'png'
• once a button has been done - a set template eg circle, size etc then you can go to replace image and it keeps the same dimensions. 
• you can replace the shape keeping the same format - eg change circle to triangle
• use 'color pick eye color' to help with colour combinations.

Icons

• The following links are for icons that will not pixelate when enlarged. 
• Awesome icons

• Feather icons

DFI - Day 5

 

Connecting with Manaiakalani: Dorothy

• Making teaching and learning visible - no surprises - accessible, available, advance
• Visible
  to teachers and learners

Multi Modal Deep Dive - Vicki 

• Engagement
• Personalised Learning
• Accelerated achievement
• Empowerment - making choices

Chalk ‘n Talk: Jeremy

• plan the layout of your site before you begin
• create a folder in your drive to keep all your content
• customise to your liking - something that will attract attention to the desired content
• publish your site for others to see

My Site

DFI - Day 4 Papakura

Dealing with Data

Deep Dive with Dorothy - Share

• Sharing is a human instinct 
• 2005 April - You Tube was born which changed society.  All future social media knew the idea to 'share' was the way forward.
• Share along with Create is a hook
• sharing with an audience is a part of it - like taking your work to the principal to get a start - now with online/blog sharing has become global 
• an authentic audience - not in assembly that have to be there but people that see what you have shared authenticity
• sharing can be from one to one, groups, class to global   
• Our kids have to learn how to share in an open forum.
• Understanding the satisfaction of what it's like to finish something and then share it.
• Learn, create, share is a cycle - you may start with share so the learning has an understanding of what it's like to finish work ready to share.          

Google Forms - Jeremy

• required selected means they can not move to the next question unless this one has been answered.
• description - can add this if you want a specific question in number 5 to go directly to 9 instead of having to answer every question.
• Limit to 1 response - this allows only one form per person
• add collaborators to allow someone to edit the form/ share with someone to change

Google My Maps - Vicki

• Can create a new map my typing in Google maps or through your drive under 'new'
• When published it doesn't always look like it does when making it - look at preview to see that look
• can overlap journeys on the same map
• If students are sharing their maps we don't want a marker on their home address - double check they have not put their address.
• Can add your own marker eg favourite place to chill on the beach
• Use as a measurement tool when talking about distance and time
• ruler can measure distances on the map - it disappears when you are not using it so won't be on the map - the ruler tool is in straight lines
• Check for blue line on the side if using more than one journey to make sure you are working on the right map
• When there is a lot of data - go to uniform style and change to individual style and change colour or/and icon
• click and it can be embedded on blog

         

Google Sheets - Dorothy/Jeremy

• There is more than one way to use sheets - hold and drag, using the instructional tabs
• Conditional formatting - can chose what range eg greater than 7 - change colour to show which ones they are.
• Conditional formatting - custom formula is - eg medial is one colour. behaviour another colour, boys/girls, year 7/8.
• Can add as many formulas as you need.
• If sheet names in cells changes you need to make sure conditional formatting is changed too.
• Data range - change what column you want to show the age from youngest etc
• Duplicate each page to keep all the cells the same.
• Drop down box - data validation.
• Tick box - has a certain child been tested etc
• Notification rule - if someone other than owner has made a change.

Analysing data with a spread sheet.

UPDATE

I used what I had learnt about Google maps in this DFI and added the Google Maps as part of my reading plan.  We were working on current events and adding the map component gave the lesson another layer of thought and interest to the students.  They had to plot where the events happened in either New Zealand or internationally. 

DFI - Day 3

 Hapara Hot Tips

Viewing and managing files 

Each student has their own tile

• Can choose how many tasks show up on each tile
• drag child that needs a eye kept on them move their tile around
• can look at the slide deck or doc and see what they last did

                                                                     Presenting online

• go into the address and delete the end of the link that says present and that will take off the rest of the window and will present the whole presentation.

Create

• Hanga (Create) is all about the hook - which is why it is in the middle
• Create - can be dancing and sport, culture, art, digital creativity - movies, games, animations 
• creativity flows from the mind if they are doing something - if the hands are involved the head really gets going.
• Give our students opportunities to create
• Make create the heart of the pedagogy
• Embrace create 
  
  

  
  

  

Chalk and Talk - Jeremy

You Tube

• We don't suggest students have their own channels - not cybersmart
• Teacher encouraged to have a channel for subscribing, organising content
• Using blogs with embedded videos  on to blog or google site instead of You Tube
• Setting up playlists - group of videos that have a similar theme or videos related to one subject - can be embedded into one site - so students don't need to search for videos themselves.
• Can create a playlist with individual titles that cater your needs
• Can search others playlists and save those if they have been shared

Media Deep Dive

Video

• everyone can be a filmmaker eg Tiktok
• the difference between professional filming and amature is a tripod
• think about the ways in each it can be the best it can be - green screen, microphone, backdrop
• dont film into a window - a classroom has too many windows
• Green Screen - sometimes blue screen - technically called Chroma Key - if your school uniform is green don't use it (use blue screen) - can you white walls - use an green/blue sheet 
• Blue screen with children with blue eyes their eyes can disappear
• Place screens on the floor too
• paint one wall green/blue to use as the screen
• Podcast - everyone has the technology to do a podcast
• walls need to be covered with carpet, thick curtains

Google Drawings

• Can change the size of your drawing
• Can embed it onto your blog
• can download as a png so it doesn't have the white background                
  
• digital art
• anything you can do on paper you can do on google drawing
• drawing.new in address bar instead of having to go into drive

Google Slides

• As a presentation tool
• If you can't write it on a post note you can't present it - it needs to be concise
• the story comes first - what are the things that are going to build the story - put each idea on post it notes - move them around until its saying what you want - if it doesn't throw it out and keep moving them until it works for you and tells your story - that is your plan.
• Consistent format and colour - do not underline if it is not a hyperlink
• Slides should support what you're saying - some people are attracted to pictures and some to words so mae

Message in a Minute

• Google Trends - get students writing and think - use trends and it shows what the world is talking about
• daily search trends show what New Zealanders have been searching in the last 24 hrs - you can choose to do this for any country.

                     Presentation.                                 

                                                   

Today I really enjoyed the 'create' are of of the Manaiakalani pedagogy, one of the biggest outtakes I took from today was to not be afraid to give things ago, be creative and embrace what that means for you. Today's session has given me the confidence to try being creative in new areas of our learning. Message in a minute would work well with my writing groups - it will give them the choice to choose something that interests them to write about. I feel that using the create philosophy in my personal life will be a great way to experiment with how I overthink things without trying to be creative first.

DFI - Day 2

DFI - Day 2

Chalk n' Talk - Google Meet

• Able to meet with anyone anywhere - up to 100 people (49 people in the grid at one time)
• Record meetings - always record when talking with students for safety as well as being able to use for rewindable learning. All recordings will end up in the meeting creator.
• Access via email, calender or hyperlink - easy to place hyperlink on site/email for students to use
• As a teacher always be the last person to leave - that is when it is code for meeting expires.
• Etiquette is to have your microphones on mute and cameras on to allow the person speaking to be picked up.  The person speaking is the face that shows up.
  
  
  
• Before joining a meeting make sure there is no light behind you, a blank wall behind you and check your picture, audio and video before clicking join now.
• Raise your hand button - (good for when asking class a question) and text chat function for those that are unsure of sharing in front of everyone.
• Presenting your screen - to share with everyone in meet what you are presenting.
• Host Controls - can admit or deny all, can mute people who have not muted.

RATE - Recognise. Amplify. Turbocharge. Effective Practice

• Ako - we are all learners
• How do we move into a digital world?   From analogue (pencil and paper) to digital. 
• R - An effective teacher is reflective and makes connections with prior knowledge - sharing and discussing ideas.  Ensuring PB4L, play based learning, values, well being is recognised.
• A - to describe how teachers harness their teaching - being empowered and connected and visible. Increase access to all sources of information.
• T - thinking about doing things that never could have been done without digital learning, giving our students opportunities they would never of had if it wasn't for technology.
• E - Effective teaching practice - should still be recognisable in a digital learning environment.

Google format for searching ________ google.com. eg keep.google.com

Google Keep - extension

• The new sticky note - good for commenting on students work - change names, shopping lists
• Add labels - to keep organised - subjects, dates
• Collaborate and share with people in real time, draw, make grids.
• Can change colours, profile picture, notifications eg Countdown - phone will ping for shopping.
• While downloading a photo you can type your notes while waiting.
• Reminders like in a calendar - drs, meeting etc
• Grab the text from the image
• Use microphone/voice memo and tape what is being said - (student talk), turns into text.
• Can search saved notes from as long as the app has been loaded.

Gmail

• Setting is by default - can change setting by cog wheel.
• Organising - archive - does not delete, hides or mutes the email so you can search for it later - Label in groups 
• Attaching - insert something directing from your drive, can put confidential mode on, can change signature depending on who you are sending to.
• Schedule - sending an email by time - check time zones, pick time and date - don't send work late at night, schedule for the email to be opened in the morning.
• Translate - does not always work exactly but you get the idea of what is being sent.
• Smart compose - the more you use it the more suggestions will be added and adapt to what is being said.

Google Calendar

• Check default - it should show where you are.  Can change time and colour.
• View - which day of the week your calendar it shows what day you start on eg Mon - Fri and can show the whole week.
• Multiple - school, private, close workmates - colour code
• Creating an Event - title, select date - all day or time, defaults doesn't repeat but you can customise it, can add a Google meet, put address of person and it will send link.  Can choose what event the meeting goes onto.  Can attach doc so it is in front of you so you don't need to look for it for a meeting.  Click on person you share a calendar with you can click their name and find a time they have available.  Can link private calendar to work one with message 'busy'.  Can attach agenda to event so it is easy to find when at meeting.
• Use create button to create an event - you can also book in slots for appointments
• App - can be on your phone and synced
• Keyboard shortcuts W = week view, D = day view T = today (can use dropdown menu) K and J = flip through.

Taming Your Tabs

• Pinning Tabs - use the bookmarks bar usinging remove titles Shortcut - Command + D to add to bookmark.
• Use 'One Tab' to take them in collections and shows one tab. Tab Snooze, Toby Mini and Workona all collect the tabs.
• Right click on a tab you want to keep and click 'all tabs on the right', it will keep open all the tabs to the left of the one you clicked on.

Create with Meet and Embedding a Video

Today we had to create a meet with a partner and make sure we recorded the meeting.   In the meeting we had to share a blog post and discuss what the learning in the post was.  Once we finished with the meeting the video was sent to our Drive and we then embedded it onto our blog post.

DFI - Day 1

• In the beginning -Nov 2006 - 13 schools in 3km of Tamaki - decile 1 community surrounded by decile 10 schools. 
• 2 Challenges - 1) chn not achieving as they should be  2) not being able to have the digital technology
• Principals discussed how we need to do things differently to increase student achievement - spoke to local Kaumatua - he gave Manaiakalani their name which was derived from Hawaii.
• Learners at the centre with community and whanau on each side of them giving support
• Our young people can not be guinea pigs we need evidence before we implement processes 
• Why do we do this? - Equity - making sure everybody has what they should have,  Achievement, Hope - whanau said don't raise our hopes and let us down again hence the longevity of Manaiakalani.  From year 1 - 13 everybody should have their own digital devices.
• Goals - engaging our learners, 21st century learning
• 2006 - 2010 very little tech in class rooms so it was decided to focus on one area literacy - it was decided they would create every time then share it with real people. Learn, Create, Share came from this form of learning - gathering evidence (research) was most important.
• In 2010 the discussion was what would be achieved if we had 'more' - Manaiakalani went to Whanau and asked what they needed - do you want to take this further?  What do you think about the chn having their own devices? discussed about payment plan for chn, on a 3 year cycle parents talked and decided how much they could afford p/w.
• The notebook was not going to be a BOOK in the hands of students but a PENCIL - if a pencil breaks you get another one/fix it same as with the device.
• With collaboration the schools put internet on their schools giving wifi to the Manaiakalani students.
• Cloud computing - collaboration is why Manaiakalani decided to with Google then in 2010 - 2013 - digital moved to the younger children
• 2011 Hapara was born with Manaiakalani - this made visible to teachers what the children are learning and in 2011 the class site was introduced so it could be visible what was being taught.

Chalk and Talk - Vicki Archer

• Google Chrome - you can personalise it - if you join you get more benefits eg bookmarks, accessing your history, save passwords, add extra features and extensions. Can sync to all other devices er phone, watch etc
• Have it set up as a professional profile - put a professional photo (not a bitmoji) to help with online communication - use your full name, not just Mrs ......
• Adding bookmarks to the bookmark browser - text can be removed and just icon showing to make more space on book marks bar

Deep Dive - Google Groups

• Gmail group - have to make sure there isn't already a group email. Never make groups for children  - only time to add students in a email group is eg all Tongan students for cultural group - ask management first.
• Purpose - to receive emails, use specific words in subject line.
• If people are joined late they can go back and see all the emails that has been sent. Everyone coming into the group has the same email address - stream line communication
• Thinking about the name of the group is the main thing - thats what it will be forever
• DFI groups never get deleted - people have the choice to leave the group

Google Drive - Cleaning up your drive

• Consider - name - room number and year number makes it easier, permissions - make a folder for your class and change the folders permission for the class and order, you can make a folder in the folder that is not for everyone to see - put an * before the folder to put it at the top eg 2020 and *2021. Can 'star' a folder when it is first made to put it at the top. Has to be functional to you
• Person in a folder means it has been shared, if its blank only visible to you
• Share the folder to your personal drive as well for a copy
• Be careful when moving folders and documents around if they have been shared, the other people might not be able to find it.  Use 'shift + Z' to add to folders instead of moving shared folders.
• Share with anyone with the link - they only have access with it if they have the actual link to view it - if the link has been sent to the class only, they can only open it
• colour coding folders eg different areas of literacy different colours
• Person owning the document can only move it - you can copy it but it is best to keep the original by adding shortcut
• Once a week or term get the students to clean their drive 

Teaching for learning 

• Name docs with students initials first then the name of the document eg DF Docs 101
• If docs have long tiles there are more words that you can search for which is a bonus
• Copy (command c) then paste without formatting (control shift V)
• Word processing - To have all the paragraph headings the same go to 'normal' then 'headings 1' then update heading 1 to do the whole docs headings the same
• Click on 'title' name then the hyperlink will make you go the the paragraph linked instead of the whole doc
• Instead of typing on a doc you can 'voice type', you have to say the full stop.  When editing the written work is where the writing comes together, they have to make sure where the capital letters go and check the spelling.
• Explore tool on docs - look for images (these are free) and it is already attributed
• Eyes on Text: Reading Mileage - document useful for running records through voice type - they can check reading/spelling by holding up book and checking that it is the same. - a great way to engage the students.

Create Using Docs

• Change margins to 0, colour page any colour - planning is important
• Use remove.bg - download image (dont' copy)
• Can search for picture - search png it will show pictures without background - use table properties to change the colour/format of the lines.

An example of Creating with Docs - This is my first attempt but hopefully with practice my creating will improve.

The process that Manaiakalani went through to implement this program was interesting how it came about and grew taking into account not only the students and their further education but also their Whanau and the surrounding community. 

I realised I knew more about using Google docs than I thought but I now have the confidence to work through newly acquired information and put that into practice.  I learnt a lot that I can take into the classroom to use with my students, I really liked the concept of voice typing which will work in well with one of my reading groups.