Day 7 Devices

Had a turn on a chromebook - starting to learn how to use one - the kids have already shown me some things but I'm still not very good at using one.  Was really interesting to learn a few new things.

Had a turn at recording a screencastify.  It is about 4 seconds long and a 'test' one lol.  I would like to be able to do this properly but ran out of time today and once I'd recorded one I couldn't figure out how to get back to the main screen to record again 🙄

my dumb screencastify

Thanks Maria for showing me ctrl K so I could rename my link!

Ok - tried again with Maria's help - this is better and a record of how to do it!!

Am I the only one that thinks that poll thing is cool!!!!??  I want to learn how to use that!  I'm not sure what I'd use it for though.  Unless we go into lockdown again and I can use it for a zoom meeting with my classes maybe.  

I learnt how to mute a tab today!! Thanks Makaore! 

Day 6 DFI Enabling Access Sites

"Really?  You want me to create a Site?" 😂🙄

This was the thought I started today with.  

"I'm not sure that a site will be that useful to me or that I can even manage to create one."

The task seemed overwhelming and I wasn't sure of its value.

Part way through the day I had pushed through and made some progress!

Thanks to my small group for being so patient with me and to Maria especially for all her help and letting me share my screen a million times a day.  

I'm still not convinced I will be making and updating a brilliant site in the near future but I have been so inspired by my classmates sites.  How do they manage that while also teaching a full load?  They are superstars in my eyes!  I would be so happy to have my moko in any of their classes x

Day 5 DFI Collaborate Sites

Hearing of the loss of Cass today was incredibly sad.  

Thank you group members for being here today.  It was good to see your faces.

I am very slowly getting the basics of sites. Veerrrry slowly. 

Day 4 DFI Dealing with Data

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

Sharing being such an integral part of who most of us are.  This correlates well with my work as a guidance counsellor - having an 'audience' to who we are can be an important part of our self worth.  

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

I have pinned the camera app to task bar so that I can have a go taking a photo with the laptop camera.

Helpful Hints - ctrl/shift/v when pasting - pastes text without formatting so that it takes on the format of wherever you are posting it.  This is such a timesaver!  Thanks Maria :) 

Forms - I have answered lots of google forms but never created one myself.  I have created survey monkey instead.  Maybe this is outdated now - I'm not sure.  

My Maps - I would like to be able to add points in maps and calculate the distance between each one as often do jogs that aren't on google maps.  I use the 'map my run' app on my phone which tells me once I have done the jog but it is good to get an estimate before I go.  

Sheets - This section was really helpful for my gateway data.  Maybe I could start using sheets instead of just the table that I have created in google docs.  I am wondering what would be the advantages and disadvantages of this.  One of the advantages would be the graphs eg:

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