Enabling Access- Sites

  Today's highlight was  Pedagogy and Kaupapa: Connected

I got to understand about a new word  Rangitāmiro that refers to 'being connected' at school, nation and to the world as well. Dorothy talked about Manaiakalani cluster that kept on growing as more and more people were connecting. She mentioned shared language was the strength of the connection between people that celebrate the differences and diversity. learn create share and connecting with each other. She talked about different opportunities that was provided to the teachers to support their learning in classroom for example DFI. Really important part was to maintain a network between teachers and learners. Tuhi Mai Tuhi Atu empowers young people to be cybersmart and encouraging them to write quality blog and giving feedback . Stay connected to professional learning networks by blogging and staff meetings where teachers share their professional enquiries in groups. So that we as teachers got Idea about what strategies other teachers are using.

Leading learning using google sites: connect with pedagogy and kaupapa. Blogging is a highly important tool for encouraging the kids to write and connect share and create. Visibility for teaching and learning to learns and their wahanu. Benefits of the sites was for the engagement of learner and teaching conversation to those students who needs more help. cognitive challenge, scaffolding text for the students who needs more information and to accelerate their learning.

Sites are the visible space for one stop hub for learning. Providing multiple opportunities for visible planning and teaching handy during lockdown situation. Provide consistency to all of the age groups.

I had seen other people sites and gather some ideas that I can implement and improve my site. I like one teacher idea of putting the link of workspace to a particular task that they need to do. By clicking on that task that link navigate the learners to their task.

We worked in our bubble groups and explored each other sites that was an amazing experience for me to grab some more ideas to implement.

I created my page on acid and base based on multimodal text for today's session.

Collaborative teaching and learning: building sites (Day-5 )

Today's session was started with Karakia, followed by connecting with each other. Dorothy talked about the Pedagogy and Kaupapa about visible teaching and learning.

Kaupapa is about making teaching and learning visible. Dorothy mentioned that the intentional use of technology was a game changer for visible learning journey for the learners. Manaiakalani program of using google sites by the teacher is promoting learning that is replacing old school stuffs e.g. usage of books and printouts . She also talked about class sites that was very helpful for the students. Hapara is designed for visibility for the teachers and learners so that any barrier is removed. Digital technology has been becoming a part of learning and it is removing barrier in the learning journey. I really like the Idea about that the visibility is really important in teaching and learning.

Hapara hot tip for today was highlights and help the students to do guided browsing. 

Deep dive in to Multi Modal Text:

We want to hook our learners to their learnings and connecting and interacting with each other. Different modes of communication highlighted by the Manaiakalani program to getting learner to personalized learning, empowering them, and engage them in their learning.

Changing the way of presenting the text and task and to make more interactive by adding more pictures and videos. It will really help the learners to be on task 

We had a discussion about the multimodal sites and talked about multi text data base. Main parts of the texts are main text, complementary text, scaffolding text to provides extra support, supporting students to engage , challenging text for giving more information. learners selected text as well. We can use different video text infographics for the use of multimodal in the classroom to engage the students.

T-shaped literacy provide wide reading opportunities to the learns so that they can find relevant information and connect with the previous knowledge. It is providing the learners the opportunities to become independent learners. I learned to use Padlet and we created a Multi Modal task planning that I found really helpful. I am going to use Padlet for collaboration and enhance literacy in teaching and learning.

                                 Click here to see the multi Model site that I created in today's session. 

Dealing with Data- Day 4

Todays DFI session was on Dealing with Data.

Session was started with the  idea of sharing pedagogy. All the digital media is for sharing and connecting with each other. Sharing has a purpose to connect with each others. In the digital age we can reach beyond the local community with the world. I found that blogging is an important tool that can be used by the  students. It provides them a wider platform for sharing and getting recognized by others as people can review, share, comment, and provide feedback to the students.

It is a tool for digital citizenship and a very important life skill for the students. It provoke new learning by the people who stimulate our learning by writing comments and asking questions.

So, for my classroom I am going to work on blogging so that students share and learn from each other.

I learned about Google forms today. To create a new form go to google.forms.com. I learned to create a new form today. Choice elimination is a very good tool in Google form. 

Hapara sharing tab enable further visibility and insight for the google drive of the students. I will encourage my students to tidy up their drive and manage the drive

Maps: Maps are great tool to put in the learning for teaching Mathematics and Science. I will use this in my class with students so that they can calculate  the distance from home to school  or the place where they belong.

I have learned about the deep dive with google sheets that was really new to me and I learned new things. Now I can manage data of my students and their progress. 

In Google sheets, we can freeze the row and columns to see the data. We can resize the data and use that to get repetitive patterns. I learnt about conditional formatting tool that is use to highlights the students need more support or the column that we need to highlight. I was amazed by the use of sparkling line to make graphs in the single cell that was wow!

I made a google drawing in today's session by using spread sheet. Overall, today's session was amazing and I learned a lot.  

Media Agenda: Day 3

 Today was my 3rd day of DFI session. I was really excited to learn new things. Today's session was about media. The session was started by Karakia by Vicki Archer. After brief introduction of the session, we were headed to our groups.

Connecting with each other in our Digital Bubble:  In our digital bubble we shared our learning journey that worked for us. For most of us, Google Keep was the main highlight. Everyone was using it and it was really helpful and handy:). 

Connecting with Manaiakalani - By Vicki Archer

Todays focus was on to Create:  For keeping our young people engaged. Vicki mentioned about Life long kindergarten group how  they were using and  developing technology and creativity to achieve the goal of  a world of playfully creative people, who constantly invent new opportunities for themselves and their communities. In New Zealand, the learner is at the center of the learning and all the lessons are developed by the teacher according to the need of the students.

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Challenges for being creative: How to plan and run a lesson and how it will work for some students? we need to do different stuff in order to learning to happen. 

How can teachers empower learners and Implement "create" in classroom?  

• Giving them choices,  proving them relevant knowledge and information, by developing skills, building capacity and scaffolding. 
• Able to collaborate with the peers. share Ideas and make connection with learning.

Hence, as a teacher we can provide more opportunities to create the content rather than consumers in the space.

Goals of Manaiakalani: Motivation of  the learner , utilizing the technology, learning from what students have shared and giving  feedback  what the students have create.

Chalk and talk with Amie:  How as teachers we are going to use and support pedagogy. Application for learning: Digital content is very effective and rewindable. Empower our learners to create collaborate and connect.

I learned about the YouTube and how to make a channel on it. We can add playlist and share with students. We can embed a video in our blog.

I also learned about snipping of the video (whatever I need to  share with my students). First we need to copy the link of video and  then put it on Google slides and there is a  section named formatting of the video where we can edit the timings of the video and share with the students:)

Hapara Hot Tips #2 by Kelsey:

We can view and managing the students files vis dashboard tab. Each tiles displays the document and files with in that student folder.

Deep Dive Media| He Ruku Hōhonu - By Vicki

We watched a video created by Google that was created using emotional connections and utilizing the music. video is a creativity tool . YouTube was launched in 2005 with intentions to provide opportunity for people to become media people. I came to know about SISOMO Sight sound Motion 2005 that is the media company that helps to engage people.

I learned how to create different type of media namely filmmaking tools, using of landscape view, placement of filming , lighting adjustment etc.

I learned about variety of different apps e.g. Screencassify that can be used to make videos.

There are few more apps like Imovie and Quicktime for Macbook.

The Only limitation with the free tools that you can make a video only for 5 minutes. However that is quite useful for the kids and for the teachers to create and share.

I also learned about Green screen: by putting ourselves at different location.

Chalk ‘n Talk Google draw: Learned tips and tricks of using Google drawing. How we can change the picture mask the picture and we can trace the picture and edit the drawing. I learned about the polylines to create the drawings.

Created about me Profile:

Chalk ‘n Talk: Google Slides by Amie

Google slides are really important tool for the learners. I learned to use animation for making Google slides more interesting.

For making animation, we use command D to duplicate the slides. We can change the size of slide by using page set up. We can add voice note by using Mote tool on our slides. Overall it was fruitful session and I really enjoyed learning new aspects of DFI.

Agenda Day 2- Workflow

Today is my second day of DFI and I am really excited to get more knowledge and information that can enhance my knowledge and I can implement new things in my class for teaching and learning.

The Agenda for today's workshop was to :-

• Connecting with each other- To learn 
• Connecting with Manaiakalani - to Create 
• Resources shared      - Shared

The workshop started with Karakia by Vicki Archer. Our facilitator Vicki gave as some tips and tricks that we can use in Hapara teacher's dash board that we use in class. I learned about the function of the use of star on Hapara that is useful for me to add the class in my class list. Later, we were put in digital bubble groups where we shared our knowledge and understanding what we learned till then and how we were implementing our learnings.

Connecting with Manaiakalani

This session was facilitated by Dorothy. She explained the pedagogy of Manaiakalani. So today's focus was on Learn/ Ako.

Deep dive in to Google Keep:

I learned today about Google Keep. I added this as an Chrome extension from keep.google.com. We can put notes, reminders and its easily accessible. we can collate notes reminders. It can capture your thoughts from any device. we can use it anywhere to put our notes and keep them on fingertips type in our content. we can add collaborator to keep notes. We can use a place location reminder . we can change the color. we can put google keep on phone we can use this for getting the text from the image. Tt can grab the text from any picture text and we can use on google doc. 

It is utilized to grab the text from photo from any PLD. I can also add voice memos to hear and keep notes. It can also  be intenerated with google doc on the side we can write feed back 

we can add sticker to the students work for feedback. Google keep is really helpful tool to keep reminders for professional and personal life eg. to make a shopping list:)

Chalk'n talk with  Amie:  

I have Organized my Gmail. I had changed the theme of my Gmail. I have learned that we can change or schedule email timings and we can customize that according to the time and date. Advance option ability to create templates. I have added my signature to the email. we were given time to explore our email and made some changes that we have learned. 

Google Calendar Maramataka:   By Vicki Archer 

We can assess calendar from calandar.google.com. I have used google calendar to send meet  invites to my students during hybrid learning. I used this tool for recording my lessons that can be seen by the students who were away at that time and they could hop in and check what was done in class and the recording and the document that was shared during that lesson stays there. 

I learned today we can add breakout rooms by using Calendar.

Deep Dive: taming your tabs

 How we can keep on the tabs and tracks them efficiently? because every opened tab use the processing power.  Learned how to make a bookmark bar and a folder and pinning a tab is very important not to lose the content. For my today's session I have pinned my agenda of DFI so that I can't loose it. I have added one extension one tab to my chrome that is a very helpful tool to put more tabs at a single place.

Learned about the priority workspace that I can make on drive.

I have sent an Google calendar invite to Manpreet and than I had selected one blog Baby Possum. We had discussed about the post from the Manaiakalani mail out. 

• We discussed about the teaching design behind the post. 
• What was the learners response in the post content?
  
• Who responded to the post how it will enhance the learning of the child?