Day 3 DFI Create

 

I really enjoyed Dorothy's presentation about creativity.  I particularly enjoyed hearing about the Classics student in his back yard and her work outside with students.  I'm wondering now how I could encourage some of this in my Gateway class.  It's also reminded me to keep enjoying time outside with my moko.  

Youtube playlists - I set one up and it will be nice to put more videos for my moko in there :) 

I put a sidebar in my blog - not sure I will ever remember how to do any of these things but I reckon I can just google most it it.  

Slides

When you present a paragraph try highlighting or making some words bigger to stand out. 

Less words, less fonts, choose own backgrounds & colours.  A picture tells a thousand words.  

Digital Pepeha- How cool being able to put a sound byte or whatever you call it into google slides using mote. 

Day 2 DFI

 

The technology/digital tools are a tool for effective practice - they are not 'everything' - learning is the key 

An effective teacher implementing effective teaching practice is the most important thing.  

Google meet - leave the meeting - hang up icon then it will be sitting there when I get back.  I just figured this out myself today! I've been closing the whole tab then going back into the email invitation every time - eyeroll Susan.  

Share just a tab not a whole screen - this is a cool feature I didn't know about.  

At this point the neighbours were getting wifi installed at their place and I lost my wifi so had to connect with my data using my iphone as a hotspot and then get on my ipad instead.  NOT as easy! So... I missed some of the good stuff...

I was using my phone to take some notes and I did manage to get some helpful stuff. 

Mail - I do have my mail box set up quite well already with folders and coloured stars.  I often use the  'unread' feature to remind myself to deal with that email.  There was a hint I missed about having your email in 'unread first' order and I need to figure out how to do that.  

I also want to know more about the 30 second unsend feature - not sure if I have this set up but I would like to.  And just as a matter of interest I'd like to know if you can set it for longer than 30 seconds.  

Also I think my calendar week is set to start on a Monday but I'd like to double check that.  

Kenneth and I talked for probably way too long about our blog post we were reading - but it was really interesting! :)

Day 1 DFI

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

Academic achievement and well-being - don't talk about them separately - academic achievement contributes to well-being - they are not separate.  

Equity - every child being able to learn -  Everyone having access to and knowledge of all things digital - levelling the playing field.

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?What did I learn that could be used with my learners?What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?

Google groups - separate email address for each one - and for each year 

Google drive - file my folders using different colours and numbers 

When selecting text in a document double or triple click to select words or sentences/paragraphs 

"Titles: - Instead of Normal:

"Title"

Heading 1

Options - default

Tools - voice typing English NZ -say your punctuation eg "fullstop"

When creating a doc create a table first so things stay in place - I LOVE this one! 

- make table border the same colour as background or make borders 0 so they disappear 

Remove the background of an image remove.bg

Paste without formatting