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.