Session 2 of DFI - Workflow

I learnt so much that what I now need to do is to find the time to practise all the different things we covered today.

I always enjoy increasing my own knowledge on Connecting with Manaiakalani. Today we covered the 'learn' aspect. The 2 most important aspects for me were

I would like to see our school creating our own uniqueness in the middle

 I need to go and revisit Google Keep

Google Keep

An Example of Google Keep

We also covered Google Calendar and G Mail.

 The next thing we looked at was Google Hangouts and we presented where we lived to the others in our Hangout. We Set up a calendar invite to schedule a hangout call with on Nicola on Tuesday evening.

 

Hangout about the Summer Reading Blogs - Our group made a recording of our discussion about the Blog Posts we read.

Thanks for another great session. Will now find the time to revisit, digest and practise all that new learning to improve myself and my students.

The 1st Day of DFI

Wow - when I think about the knowledge and skills I have acquired during my 1st day of the Digital Learning Intensive I get a little excited at how far I know I will have come, by the end of the nine week programme. It's exciting to be getting some Professional Development that helps to improve my own Digital Skills, during school time so thank you and with practise and new knowledge the chance to sit and achieve 'The Google Certified Educator Exam'.

As a teacher at Kaniere School we have been very fortunate to be involved in Manaiakalani over the past three years. We are currently in our 4th year. In the 1st term of last year we were lucky enough to visit Point England and some other schools within the Manaiakalani Cluster. This further increased my ability to create a picture of what this could look like in my classroom. Today it reinforced the evolution, progress, consistent reflection and change as a result of these reflections that Manaiakalani has taken and the inspiring vision the Educators had at its origin!! They knew what needed to be done to improve learning/achievement for our ākonga. Rather than starting with a device, the focus was on the effective pedagogy of Learn, Create, Share. This is something that we need consistently at the forefront of our classroom - the focus is not the device it's the process of Learn, Create, Share. We are skilled in the Learn, Create and Share in the Junior School - using our ipads as a tool allows us to do this in many different ways now.

Some of the tips I've learnt from today is that My Google Profile should have a photo, rather than my thinking of not needing to identify myself. Yipee - success - the photo is there. The remove background is a great tip and something that I will be using regularly.

I will also be create a google group for the coaches and managers of our netball teams.

I have nearly created a google doc for sharing 1 of our School Values and I will be completing this alongside our tamariki and adding it to our class blog. Tidying up my bookmark bar and folders and organising my labelling/tags will certainly help me to find things easier - saving precious time. Thanks for an inspiring day.