DFI Day 5

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

There is a huge bank of lesson plans and resources on the Manaiakalani website that are constantly being added to. These resources will be hugely beneficial for my teaching and therefore will accelerate my students in learning, creating and sharing.

We discussed using the correct language around being cybersmart. We do not call this cyber safe. It is important to teach your students that when they are online they leave a digital footprint. Everything is visible. This means that when they are posting online they need to remember that they are posting as them (not someone else). Teaching this is important!

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

Below I have embedded a video of myself explaining how to embed a video from Screencastify. Using this extension has been extremely valuable for myself personally as it is rewindable learning that I can go back to at a later date. I can record exactly how to complete a task and easily access it on my blog.

What did I learn that could be used with my learners

We discussed using voice typing to help with students punctuation as they have to verbally add in their punctuation. I may give this a go next week.

I found some slides with a selection of Chromebook shortcuts, which will be fantastic to print, laminate and have on display in the classroom for my students to refer back to.

My students will continue to create their own Screencastify videos explaining their research project slides which will be shared with the class and later posted to their blogs.

Below is a Screencast of what you need to add when posting to to your Blogger.

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

After using Screencastify quite a few times now I am feeling quite confident at implementing this into my classroom practice. I learnt how to cast my entire screen to the TV instead of just casting my tab which has helped improve my workflow hugely as I don't have to stop and start casting between tabs.

Many of the shortcuts I learnt today have been mind blowing! I will use these constantly and this will help my workflow.

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.