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.