DFI Dealing with Data, Wiki wha

Kia ora koutou
Our session today began with the Manaiakalani Pedagogy around Share/Tohatoha.  Sharing has been around forever with Adam and Eve, and cultural narratives so it is only natural that it continues. Posting finished work on Blogger is an incentive for learners to complete work and share.  Sharing the learning processes is also valuable.
Manaiakalani chose Blogger as it suits Google, has a good check system, provides the largest audience through Google.  Cybersmart lessons are practical as they have an authentic context.
Sharing can be powerful when it is the starting point.

Hapara Hot Tips - setting up groups, recorder tiles so students can appear at top/bottom and won't impact on others' class view

Google Forms - we created one with different answer options, multiple choice, short answer, lots of options for customising it. 

Google Sheets - this was most interesting, lots of helpful hints that I will be using when collecting and using data.  Best thing was freezing columns, so this stays with you as you move across the page, awesome!  Also autofill, filter and formatting. 
Our task was to create a graph using Blog Data.

Blogging - we looked at the nitty gritties, blog stats, audience, traffic and the importance of using clear labels, just like a filing system.

As we are always collecting, analysing and using data I am looking forward to consolidating the skills we covered today.  I like the idea of using Google Sheets more for classroom planning round group work, where we can create new sheets for different needs.
Ka kite ano.

DFI media, Wiki toru

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Today's third online session began with Dorothy talking about Create/Hanga as part of Connecting with Manaiakalani.
What I found most valuable was that in the Learn, Create, Share model it does not need to be in this order. Creative skills help students become better problem solvers, communicators and collaborators.  Through creating we all learn. 

Youtube - this was interesting as I learnt how to create playlists and then share, very useful :)
Also mentioned was being able to subscribe to others' playlists, so this is something I will look into.


Livestreaming Youtube - Wow, this was cool! loved the example of livestreaming the school cross country or a rugby match.  Also can see the value in the rewindable-ness when playing back with learners.
 
Google Drawing - This is where I spent a fair bit of my day and I have to say it is not easy drawing! Now I really appreciate the drawing work I have seen with our learners, they are super skilled.  Aside from actual drawing, Google Draw has lots of features that I enjoyed learning about and upskilling in.  Things like mask shapes, guides, formatting, background and file page setup.

Google Slides - a group of slides is called a deck.  Embrace blank slides, use consistent formatting with colour and fonts.  Visual imagery is important but should not distract from the core focus.  Insert images as JPEG.  Speed for animations using slides is set in Embed code when blog posting.

Best thing for me to take away from todays session is to give learners time when they learn new skills on devices.  In class I noticed how difficult it was for children to highlight a section of text and then today I could totally understand where they were coming from as I tried to use the line tools on Google Draw.  "Keep trying" said Gerhard as he watched my expressions on the Meet.  Sorry I am not sharing my drawing today as I am still trying.  Ka kite ano.

DFI workflow, Wiki rua.

Kia ora. Today we have used Meet to create a post about blogging.
We all chose a blog post from the Manaiakalani mailout Term 2.  With a partner we discussed the posts and recorded it.  Then learnt how to post on our blog via the HTML.
The importance of Embedding rather than inserting a video is so that the video/audio can be changed later if needed without having to revisit the blog.



This has been another very informative day.  Here are some points of interest:
*  Kerry focussed on Learn/Ako with the acronym RATE, Recognise, Amplify, Turbocharge and Effective Practice in the digital world of our learners.  What does this look like at our school?
*  Learn allows individual schools to focus on addressing achievement challenges within their diverse communities.
*  When screen sharing use Chrome tab when sharing video/audio
*  Google Keep can be shared with other emails, share lists, use reminder to add location, take photo and grab image text, use audio for taking notes
*  Gmail - schedule send, change settings to apply filters, use labels, use signature, access calendar and keep on side.
*  Google Calendar - invite others, check their calendar.  Create an event, add meet, invite and add attachment.  Duplicate events.
*  Taming your tabs - every tab uses processing power.  Consolidate tabs using one-tab.com, Workona, Toby Mini ... Pin tabs to minimise. New tab, begin to type, click on switch.
*  Ctrl A to copy embed code, Ctrl V to paste.

Once again I have learned many useful skills and I plan to put them into action with the idea of working smarter, not harder.  I am looking forward to seeing our colleagues, tamariki and whanau next week as we move into Week 6.  This is a link that I found on the Learn/Ako page that I found interesting as we think about the our well-being and that of our tamariki. Social and Emotional Learning   Ka kite ano.

First blog post ever!

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Welcome to my first blog post for myself, I have been involved with lots of students and class ones, but this is different.  Today we (30+of us) took part in our first of nine online sessions learning DFI (Digital Fluency Intensive).  I like how Dorothy Burt said it was a special edition, I wonder if those words will be included on our medal on completion?

I enjoyed learning the kaupapa and pedagogy behind Manaiakalani as talked about by Dorothy Burt.  What a great foresight all those educators and community had, I feel very lucky to be involved with a school that is part of Manaiakalani.

As a shy person (yes, one of those children who did not contribute ideas much in class), I felt comfortable in our group with Makaore, so thank you group, and for reiterating that no question is a bad question. :)  It's special being part of a group from throughout Aotearoa.

Today I learned heaps that will be useful with my learners, especially the emphasis of having clear set-up systems, naming docs and using Explore.  Lots of new terminology has been flying around, like colorpick, URL-omnibox, labels/tags, Lexend font, table properties, so much to learn about and I am excited to be on this journey.

My goal right now is to have more organisation in Google drive and this will overflow to home life.

Below is a Google doc that I created with lots of helpful hints from Dorothy.

Thanks for a great day everybody.

Ka kite ano

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