DFI 3 - Media

A great start to the morning with Dorothy sharing my favourite part of the Manaiakalani pedagogy - CREATE. The most powerful HOOK!

I am always thinking about the Create tasks I am setting for my students as we know that Create engages our learners. I love watching what my students come up with when they are given the task to create something to share their learning. 

We need to remember that we want our learners to be Creators of Content - not consumers!

Creating should not be limited to just writing tasks, students need to be doing / using their whole being to Create - Harness Digital Technology to support this.

You Tube

A great reminder about playlists. I have playlists but a great tip I picked up today and need to use more often is the creating of playlists to share with the students. I love using you tube links to support students with their learning and instead of having lots of links to videos I can put them into a playlist and have one link and embed it on my class site.

Also love the trick about adding ?rel=0 to the end of the HTML code when embedding a video to avoid random content recommendations coming up at the end of the video.

Media

Media is Multi-Sensory. It engages our learners. There are many tools available for students to create media. It is not about the cost, it is about what you do with it. What have you got that you can make use of. We have been really lucky to have had Harley Alexander share his knowledge with us and our students about creating film. This was very beneficial when we created our movies for the Film Festival.

Google Slides

The sharing of some good tips that we need to remember when creating presentations.

If you can't fit your key message/takeaway on to a post it note, you need to refine, refine, refine until you can. When you create the presentation each slide needs a key message. When presenting don't read the screen - the slide needs to be the supporting cast of your talk.

When starting out - start with a blank slide.  Remember pictures can tell 1000 words.

CREATE TIME

Today I chose to work with Makaore on creating a Digital Pepeha in Google Slides. It was great to see and hear different ways our pepeha can be presented. Here is what I have done so far. Still need to add some more photos. We have a big focus on Pepeha at the beginning of the year. I would like to teach the children to make their pepeha with photos.

DFI 2 - Workflow

A great start to the day with Dorothy sharing the Manaiakalani Pedagogy with the focus on Learn/Ako. Again a great refresher about this amazing kaupapa. 

Today's focus was about managing our workflow so we explored calendar, google keep and gmail. These are all fantastic tools that I use everyday. One useful tip I picked up from Kerry on Google Keep which I am going to do is set up some feedback comments in keep that I can then access and use in google docs when providing feedback to my students.  I also learnt of some new extensions that will help manage my tabs, especially as I am a person that likes to have lots of tabs open. This might help my workmates too, as they like to hassle me about all my tabs open.

I am going to teach my students how to pin their tabs as some of them end up opening the same tab numerous times - this may help solve this.

Todays create task was to use a Blog post from lockdown and through google meet with a buddy answer the following questions about the post. Please excuse the baby noises in the background.

1. What was the teaching design behind this post?

2. What was the learner’s response ie the post content

3. Who responded to the post and how did this support the learning experience or contribute more to the learning of the child?

Recording a Google Meet is a great way to create rewindable learning opportunities for our learners. 

A turbocharge example!

DFI 1 - Core Business

Today was the first day of my Digital Fluency Intensive journey.

The day began with a presentation by Dorothy on the back story of Manaiakalani. I have seen and heard this presentation a few times but it was a great reminder for me about the Manaiakalani journey. 

Love the pedagogy of LEARN, CREATE, SHARE!! and feel privileged to be apart of this kaupapa. 

Having been involved in Manaiakalani Outreach for many years and taking part in many professional development opportunities eg toolkits I knew most of the content that was delivered today.  One thing I will take from today is the use of Google Docs for poster making etc as my go to is normally Google Drawings or Google Slides. I will be showing the kids how to create posters using tables as Draw is their go to. Another skill for their kete. I also really liked the reading mileage idea using voice typing. I could see this being a great task for those students whose goal is fluency and also helping with their editing skills. I will definitely be incorportating the Eyes of Text activity.

It was great to connect with Jeremy and our team of learners that we are going to work with over the next 8 weeks.