DFI - Session 5 - 27/08/2021

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

Visible 

Clear direction for the learners and their families. Visible learning - The whole journey is visible and shared with the learner. Students can see where they are heading and what is happening next. This is a really important aspect that can sometimes be overlooked. This is a little tricky in my situation, with year 0/1 children, but good to remember if I move into different levels.  

Using Jamboard

This was great to use in our mini groups today and would be an awesome tool to use in the classroom. This would make it easy for everyone to share their thoughts and ideas at the same time and all in one place. The sticky notes function is fabulous as no sticky notes can get lost, which often happens in the classroom. Would also be very useful in a staff meeting setting too!

Junior Multimodal Site Planning

This was a great opportunity to collaborate with other junior teachers to discuss and create a resource bank that we can transfer into the classroom. 

This has been linked here for rewindable learning. 

Google Sites 

Wow! It was awesome to have the time to explore creating a Google Site. I have never used Sites before so this was a bit of a learning experience. Once I got into it, I found it quite easy to navigate and was able to create a Google Site around the Rainbow Fish story. These skills will be really useful for interacting with big book activities in my junior classroom. This is how I will begin introducing Google Sites into my classroom. Baby steps to begin! It is fabulous being able to easily see our Learn, Create, Share framework within these sites. 

Click here to view my Rainbow Fish Site

DFI - Session 4 - 20/08/2021

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

Sharing has been around since time began and takes many forms, these forms have advanced over time and now have a much greater audience range. An import key point I took out of this was that sharing is not the end of the learn, create, share cycle and that it is essential to have an authentic audience. 

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

Google forms 

Learning about this was great, and will come in very handy going forward. I had used Google Forms quite a bit previously but had never made my own. I created a lockdown 2.0 survey and sent it to staff to see how they are going. This will be great for parent involvement and input. 

 

Google Sheets 

I do most of my planning on Google Sheets but I still found this deep dive very handy for a couple of new tips and tricks. 

Was great to have the time to have a play around on Google Sheets adding up test scores and finding the average. Filtering data will make life a lot easier when we are looking at whole hub data in curriculum areas or even by birthdate. Had lots of fun playing around with this. 

Blog Analysis 

This would be great to gather data on engagement within student blogs. However my children don not have their own blogs and therefore this isn't a skill I would engage with often. But still great to know how to do it and show this to our senior teachers who use student blogs all the time. 

DFI - Session 3 - 13/08/2021

 

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

Create, Create, Create - Provide students with the space and opportunity to create. Hands on, exploring original ideas. Take the time to create!

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a personally and within my classroom?

Youtube

Creating our own YouTube channel and adding playlists to our channel. This will be great for things like read aloud stories, mindfulness music, maths playlists ect. This will be super easy whenever needing to find relevant videos that I want to share with my children. I will spend some time on creating these playlists over the next week and practise using them in the classroom. I have also shared this playlist with my team so we can all add videos to the same playlist.

 

Google drawing

Great platform for creation, it might be information for parents, other teachers and students and can be made to look very professional. This will be great personally for making notices ect, this would be tricky to use in my classroom setting as we only have 10 iPads for 54 children. But if this changes it would be great to see what they would create.

Google Slides 

Developed my own personal Pepeha. This was awesome and great to have the time and support to play around with it. Adding a Mote voice note was fabulous and a great tool to be use. 

DFI - Session 2 - 6/08/2021

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

 

Gained a further understanding of the Manaiakalani kaupapa specifically around the Ako (Learn aspect). Learn Create Share provides a common language.  The simpler it is the more inclusive it is. Good practice should still be recognisable in any learning environment. How often to do we hear/think/say - Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater! 

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

Google Meet 

Great way to connect with students, awesome because you can see the students faces to connect with them better. We used this a lot in lockdown, both whole class meets and individual check ins. Great to spend time looking at the key functions and features as I haven't really been using Meet. since we came back from lockdown. So was nice to refresh the memory. This would be fabulous to use if you have a students who is away for an extended period of time and would make them feel included. 

 

Google Keep 

This is very helpful for taking notes and great for your phone if you have the app. I downloaded the app onto my personal phone as we were speaking about it. 

Has a chrome extension on the side bar of your laptop and is great for taking notes and making To Do lists. You can do drawings, make lists, pick words from a text and do voice recording all in the one place. I plan in the next week to spend some time exploring this tool and making things look pretty. Great way to keep all your notes in one place. Very handy wee tool. 

Gmail 

Helpful tip is to star important emails, this way you can find them easily. I also sorted my emails into categories, which will make my emails more organised. Also the function of how to schedule emails to send at a certain time will be very helpful when one person may be working late at night or to write the email why it's fresh in your mind but not needing it sent till later on. How to translate from another language into English within the email will also be great to connect with our ESOL families in my classroom.      

   

 

You can add from Google Keep into an email and add emails to My Tasks.

 How to un send an email, this will be a life saver if I am ever needing to quickly un send!!!

 

Adding a signature into the end of your email via settings, you can make multiple signatures for different occasions. 

Google Calendar 

Helpful to be able to see other peoples calendar both personal and professional and add appointments (these emails have to be Gmail). 

 

You can also create your own event and invite others to attend by sending them an invite. This includes, date, time, attendees ect. 

Tame your Tabs 

The thing I found most useful from this was pinning my tabs that I use all the time! This will make it much quicker for me to get to these important tabs and takes up less space across the top of the dashboard. Which is also good for the stress levels!

Creating a Meet 

Send an invite to the people you are wanting to connect with via email and they will be able to use that code to enter the meet. Again this will be helpful to connect with students, colleagues and for external PD opportunities. 

Here is my recording of my Google Meet! Remember to record the Google Meet if you are wanting to watch it back for rewindable learning for both myself and students.