DFI Wk 4 Collaborate Sites

Collaborate Sites


Introduction  Revisit learning, from comments by other teachers was reminded about the power of google keep this would be a great way for students to take notes about their learning as they go. This can be linked into my ideas about forms link for google sheets in Workspace.

Connected Learners Share
Tohatoha sharing is a key component of learning and how we create and sustain relationships. Social media provides speed and amplification for thoughts and ideas. Social Media, You Tube,

Audience

This is part of a conversation I had this morning, I believe that we need to be able to critically choose our audience, this is something of a criticism of the ubiquitous nature of the Manaiakalani Kaupapa that we are expected to share our students learning Globally, many of our whanau and teaching community are happy to only share within our local community. At least initially this is an important step in educating our people about digital sharing, all on the net is not acceptable for many of our people.

Blogger
Hmmm some thinking regarding this space, getting the learning around cybersmart and safe strong relationships. Learning the cybersmart stuff is great but if we wanted authentic engagement we may need to include platforms that the students use (horrors) but like instagram etc. MAYBE.

 Deep Dive Multi Modal
Managing Eccentricity in your Sites, balancing appeal and learning access. Home page needs to change often.
Creating engaging sites to pull our students in.
Developing systems, teacher classrooms management that engage empower students to stay on task.
Making the sites are multi-modal and multi-textual. Balancing, creating and engaging with Universal Design for Learning, in this learn space we can leverage their learning up and down.

Important to understand about Multi Modal Sites is;

Multi Modal Sites (behavioral engagement)   +   Multi Textual Sites (cognitive engagement)

Google Sites from Scratch
1. Create direct from your Drive Folder New More Google Sites
2. Plan your site on paper first
3. Create a home page, Theme ie Maker Space
4. Create a banner, Learning Area ie Coding
5. Create a Multi-Modal resource.
6. Create a Multi-Textual resource.
7. Link to an assessment and/or task completion check.
8. Share options for students to demonstrate and celebrate their learning.

Multi Text Data Base
Great Data base with some good examples of Multi-Modal and Multi-Textual resources for different themes. I think this is all a great idea but quite time consuming to create. An idea would be be perhaps a Hapara workspace with a series of T Shaped literacy M/M and M/T lessons accessible by all staff/people.

Leveling Up
Finding resources that level up and down the learning. As we learned often our resources are aimed at the mythical average child in our class which when you think about it is erroneous. All of our students are either operating above or below that average level this means an average resource is essentially useless for cognitive development for say 90% of your students.

Create a Multi Modal Site

Blogging Tips
Downloading a template to organise our teaching as inquiry posts.

Reflection
Another very busy day but rewarding in that we covered some important concepts about share and collaborate in regards to Manaiakalani and how this becomes live in our classroom, also to get our sites working. My big takeaway for the day is the site needs to be LIVE ie stuff has to happen and change in order for kids to remain engaged and learning.

DFI Week 3 Dealing with Data

Dealing with Data

Google Hangouts meeting with people in Hokitika a nice way to revisit our learning from last week. This seems to be a "coming thing" re virtual meetings and coordination.

Create
The create model being influenced by people like Sir Ken Robinson and Ruben Puentedura is a great idea and I think the theory is good, especially when we look to students being able to contextualise their learning in ways that make sense to them.

Google Forms

Another great Google tool with huge potential but would have to say it will take a while to integrate this into our work flow and data gathering.
Like the Maths Breakout Idea from Vanessa this should be a way to help assess my students progress.

Google Maps

Using a data table from google forms into google Maps and creating a map of locations.

Google Sheets 


HEAPS to learn here, almost need a whole day/week just getting this tool under control, BIG takeaway for me here is the cross when you hover to copy Contents or Formulas across a range of cells. Things we covered Level Up: Sheets and Forms
Power UP Tools look like a good way to access greater functionality in Google sheets.

Example of transferring Data from Blog to using Sheets, Drawing and Blogger.

DFI 3 Week 2

Kia ora

DFI 3 Week 2

My first day at the DFI course a very good experience but a seriously large amount of work covered, I kind of think I am relatively tech savvy so I could see how beginners would find the pace a bit of a scramble.

Good presentations and calm thoughtful support from Kerry and Vanessa, well done thank you very much.

Manaiakalani Learn; what does it look like in our school?
How does what we do facilitate/ enhance learning, enhance/facilitate teacher pedagogy?

Part 1 Hangouts
Great intro to something I haven't used much at all, I believe this could be a very interesting way to extend and develop some remote learning opportunities.
Part 2 Google Keep
Been using this for a while but like most things google I had no idea on the ways it can be integrated into other google applications.
Part 3 Gmail
Great opportunity to look at the ways to improve my work flow particularly managing email filters, linking emails as events  to google calendar and tasks great idea.
Part 4 Calendar
Interesting look at Google Calendar another part of the Google suite of apps well integrated and with bags of functionality. Would like to get students used to planning their work week and managing their time with this tool.
Part 5 Tabs
Organising Tabs and utilising bookmarks. Not a whole lot of learning here per say I tried the Tab organising tool Toby mini which seemed a great option for restoring your tabs but the tool loaded every time you opened a new tab which was intensely annoying.
Part 6 Hangouts in a Group
Very good session here and an app I have been wanting to use with greater understanding, I think it will be useful in the future but it almost needs a Netiqutte lesson all to itself, particularly reminding people that they are still visible even when the sound is muted.

Reflection.
Overall a pretty intensive day with lots of little its glaened and reworked. I would like to run this DFI program with my students, particularly the workflow ideas and linking this to managing themselves online, invaluable to start this early I believe.