Session 7 of DFI - Media

Connected

Our hangout today focussed on Connected. Connected is very closely tied with visibility.

The Network of connections have supported our ability to make a connection with others. It has enabled us to come together in a different way without having to be face to face.

Shared Language is very important to enable us to come together. What we have in common is our shared language of Learn, Create, Share (pedagogy) and the Kupapa.

The Outreach programmes are supported by Facilitators. Everyone is following through the same theme and language. Nicola presented the 'Create' at our Staff Meeting last week. I enjoyed creating the flower garden out of biscuits, icing and springs. Yummy!! The slide below shows our pedagogy deliverance for the year.

Within the delivery of the Manaiakalani there is built in, lots of face to face opportunities to connect with others.  We have a cluster website that Madeline has been creating - link to our own cluster website  

• Toki Pounamu Website (also Hokitika)
• Hokitika Schools Website

see the Manaiakalani Cluster - see the tweeter feeds

Tuhi Mai Tuhi Atu - "Write to me, write to others" 

This is a great platform in which to connect with other classes. We are not currently doing this in Weka but we need to register and do this. It would be very good to connect with other classes and groups of a similar age to share our learning. ***Task for this week.

Toolkits online - allows us to continue the DFI experience. I have really enjoyed these and they work really well and allow for rewindable learning when you need to go back and revisit.

 The Connected - Share need to be tied togetherneed

To be connected you have to have all 4 elements of the Kupapa - jigsaw puzzle

Continue to use the professional blog as a way to share the teaching and reflection - class blog - child. 

Not recommended we used Youtube to share the learning.  We need to share on our blog which makes it a nice safe place in which to share

Chalk and Talk Sections

For Teachers YouTube channels are useful for subscribing to and organising content via a Google Site and playlists - We currently do this at school via Google Slides - this is another possibility - advantages easy to add to and delete.

Playlists - are a collection of videos. Anybody can make playlists and share them.

* recommend we subscribe to this for the Google Certified Educator Preparation for Level 1

this playlist

Google Draw

I learnt some tips when using Google Draw

I learnt about making same size shapes - how to press the shift key so that things didn't move out of shape. Filling colour behind some word art. Lots of great and helpful little tips - thanks Vicki

Animation Slides - Really enjoyed the opportunity to begin creating an animation using slides. Unfortunately didn't have time to complete but certainly was lots of fun.  Thinking of how this sort of idea could be used on 'Explain Everything' on the iPads.

Began to create some slides to use in our class for our Pepeha - will finish these and make an Explain Everything project that goes alongside these for the students to create their own - they can add a drawing and record themselves saying their pepeha.


I am going to start linking some of the learning that I have gained from DFI that we have used in the class onto this Professional Blog along with the link to the class blog.

The hangout with Kent was great. It was certainly very inspiring and gave us food for thought.

Thanks once again for a great day. If only there were more days to just play and experiment.