DFI Day 4

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

Today we discussed the importance of students sharing their work with authentic audiences. As we delve into these discussion I had some ideas which I would like to try and implement into my literacy program next week at school. The first idea I had is begin using Google Slides to display the student learning.Students who are fast learners could extend their learning by recording themselves explaining their slide using Screencastify. This video could then be shared with the class and eventually we will begin to add students work to Blogger. 

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

Learning how to use Google Sheets competently is something I have always wanted to learn, so I found this session really valuable. I am feeling a lot more confident and can see the value of this in my professional life. I collected my students assessment data and colour coded it to the different stanines my students are working at. My data is identified with a gradient from red (low), to yellow (mid) and green (high). I find that this gives me a quick visual of who is working at what stage for each assessment. 

Star Reading	PAT Math	Reading Comp.
6	6	7
3	6	1
6	5	3
9	5	5
9	6	9
7	6	6
7	4	6
3	2	2
9	8	5
5	4	5
5	5	3
4	3	3
9	9	9
4	3	4
9	9	8
1	2	2
7	5	7
6	4	5
4	1	4
4	3	4
1	2	2
6	4	2
6	4	5
1	1	3
5	3	5
6	7	6

I then took this data by highlighting the students names and their data went insert, chart. I played around with the different settings and chose a bar graph to display my students data. It is very clear in this graph what stanine each students in my class is working at from each assessment because of the coloured bars. 

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

Over the week I had some trouble trying to erase the background on my students shark drawings so we has some discussion about some different sites to used and we found one that worked really well that I am going to use with my students next week. We went onto Burner Bonanza and in one click the background was deleted. Next week we will implement this site and use our shark drawings to start our animations on Google Slides. 

Before

 After

Experiments with Google (AR experiments) - Make music with your body movements on your Chromebook.

Screencastify - Students could create a video of how to complete a Chromebook skill and share this with
those who may need the rewindable learning to help them.

Google Slide ideas for Literacy - For my literacy program I could create a range of Google Slides to share
with my different learning groups. E.g. book reviews, spelling vocabulary, research projects.

Google Forms - We made our own Google Form where we can add questions for our students to answer. You can also add photos, videos and links in Google Forms.

Mt Google Form:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1FK_-HbP-YChTfqAYuqXMLmwvGmmL82QjEMYW5YWjWsc/edit?usp=sharing

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

Following on from previous DFI sessions I used Toby Mini to create a new tab for my students writing group. I feel like this will be a really helpful extension that I will use in my personal life to simplify my tabs. 

DFI Day 3

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

Today I learnt about some new ways of sharing students learning and creativity with whanau. We listened to Kent who shared how his school uses drones and student videos to live stream events such as cross country, rugby games and netball games for families around New Zealand and the world to watch live. This was a great look at just what is capable in this forever changing digital world and outlined just how important sharing is.

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

I feel as tough I have a huge bank of creative ideas to go and explore which is developing my confidence and really empowering me as a professional to develop and implement these ideas in my classroom. I can see that through engaging in today's activities just how powerful they really are. I have been so engaged and focused in the digital tasks which has really shown me the importance of this digital technology. 

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

I used Google Drawing to create an image including text to welcome people to my blog. I used Bitmoji to add a animated picture of myself and learnt how to add this to the sidebar on my blog. This is a great site that I will use in the future with my students when creating digital drawings. 

I also used Google Slides to create an animation of a shark eating a fish. This activity was very engaging and I could see this being a very effective activity that I am going to try and implement into my teaching next week. I added this slide to my class learning hub and will use our animations as part of our writing!

I also learnt how to add a a slide to blog by going into; File, publish to web, embed, publish, ctrl copy https;//. Next you have to open blogger, hit new, click into http and ctrl paste. 

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

I can see that I am becoming a lot more confident at using all of Google Suite and I am coming away from these sessions with a brain overload of how I can use all of this content. I can use some of the skills learnt today for my own personal blog which has helped develop my confidence with using Blogger.