Revision

For me, the 9 weeks has been extremely interesting.
I have learned a lot.
I wasn't very confident when using docs, forms, sheets or any of the other google apps.
I now feel confident using these tools.
I feel I could set up a google site etc.
I have enjoyed meeting people and making connections with other schools.

I now have a great understanding of the Manaiakalani pedagogy and kaupapa.
Going forward:

• I would like to think I will use the skills I have learned on a daily basis
• I will work with one of my teachers to get a learning site up and running
• I would like to work at times in the senior room to increase their skill level
• I would like to send my other teacher on a DFI next year. 
• I would like the LCS pedagogy to be more visible in my school

Dealing with Data

Forms.google.com
Use the addon that changes form data to sheets and then to a doc.
I like the way you can convert the information collected from forms into a sheet.  I have set up a few of my forms now to send the data to the same sheet.  This is great all my community consultation forms are set to collate in the same set of sheets. Yay! All consultation will be in the same place.

Google maps and my maps
Loved this. Can see lots of ways this can be used in the classroom.  Plotting travel points in a novel, looking at distance and travel
I like the way you can share your location with family.  I will use this when my son goes to Samoa. 
While we were working on maps, a tradesman going to work at my school sent me a message saying he was on his way, included was a google map link to say where he was and his ETA.  This was really useful.

Sheets
Add on called crop data that takes away the extra rows extra and columns.
I learned so much with sheets.
How to average one row, then all rows.  How to make columns wider and thinner, how to do different sorts of graphs easily and use explore function in sheets to get graphs easily.
I made a graph of the number of posts my senior class has made this year, this has given me some food for thought and something to work on with the class.

DFI Week 6 Media

The above is a playlist I created and embedded.  I can see this would be very useful to add to learning sites.  I intend to make more of these playlists that can be added to planning slides.  During the holidays I want to get the reading or maths part of the learning site up and running on the senior class page.

Infographics Links
Slides to blogger
Draw to sites

Text box, select the space you want to show.  See the cursor, Select the box the cursor disappears.  select the link and add the link.  It appears invisible. Can have a visible link using a shape
Don't cut and paste.
Insert from drive

Digital Pepeha
Will work on these with the senior class next week. 



Great day.  Have tried lots of stuff and have learned many new things. 
Thanks Kent.

DFI Week 6 Enabling Access

Visible Learning
For us, this is a work in progress.  We are working through this slowly but surely.  The students are bogging, this could and should be more regular.  Our school site, after today, is more useful and has some more information on it.
I need to work with my staff on learning sites and making the class learning visible. 

I have added a Toki Pounamu tab to the website and added some useful information for parents.  I have linked the School Values site to the school site.  Everything can now be accessed from the main page.
https://www.kumara.school.nz/
Has been a good day today.  I have had time to play with the site and try things.

Hapara parent portal? I want to find out about this and how it works.

DFI Week 5 Devices

Connect the RIGHT values to cyber smart
What does this look like throughout the school?
Year one through to year 8.  Part of the Graduate Profile?

Hapara
Looked into Hapara and how it works
Use this to send out emails
Able to set up focus sessions through guided browsing.
Can see what students are doing and what sites etc they are on.  Used in a positive way.

Using Chrome Books
Found this very frustrating.  The screen was small and it was very slow.   Feel empathy for the kids.
The digital dig was really good. learned lots of things I didn't know. The short cuts activity was great.  Lots I didn't know.  Will finish the digital dig in my own time. Was very worthwhile and will share it with the staff.

IPad
Using Explain Everything
You can draw, write, take video and photo and record stories.
Will share the Maniakalani iPad site with Junior teacher.  We are not one to one in the junior room but this is really great stuff for them to be learning
https://ipads.manaiakalani.org/home
I would like to go through the Kawa of Care with the Junior class so they have a good understanding of cybersafety.  How to look after their device and how to act responsibly online.  Would be good to get them blogging on the class blog as well as using seesaw.



To embed the screencastfy in the blog go to open a new window, go to the three dots, embed item and copy the link, go to the blog, change to HTML, paste the link, then go back to compose.  I will have to practice this.
I will teach the senior students to do this, this week.

DFI - Week 4
The speed and application of sharing must come with a responsibility, especially in teaching. How much is too much sharing?

Students and society as a whole have a multitude of information coming at them all the time.  How do we filter this? Much of what we see online and news etc is one person's point of view.   How do we teach our kids to filter this and to think critically about what we read and watch online and on television?
Sharing in the traditional sense is a lot less problematic.  I am pleased that part of the 'Learn, Create, Share' pedagogy is to learn to share responsibly online.

DT Curriculum

Inquiry - searching, spreadsheets
Construction- robotics
Communication-  blogging, writing
Expression - creating

Inquiry and communication is like using Instagram
Construction and expression is like making Instagram

Look up kinetic maths

Coding, try Hour of coding
Follow links on the OMG tech web site 
Toxic code

 Making a maze using scratch.

This was a great session.  Really hands-on and lots of stuff to take back to school and use straight away. 

Thanks, Kawana, I feel much more confident about the Digital Technologies curriculum.

Tried using scratch with the students during the week. 

Was great fun and a successful lesson. 

DFI Week 3 Collaboration - Sites

Create
When a slide show is in presentation, go to the Omni bar and high light from present, delete and replace with edit.

Create is about creating in all senses of the word.  Not just on the computer but music, art, etc.  Letting children learn, explain their learning and present their learning through many different avenues. All learners are given a way to learn and present their learning that suits their style.

Multimodal learning
Using videos before reading a new text, introduce the specific vocab, gives the students an idea of atopic they may not have come across before.  Great scaffold.
Video and two texts with opposing views on a topic. Great for critical thinking. 
Multiple texts on a topic; could be a video, poem, journal article, pictures, etc.
This is not a new way of teaching and learning.  The new and now exciting bit is the way it can be done using technology.

Wow! The session on Multimodal sites was mind-blowing for me.  Took time to get my head around even some of it.  Was great to have the time to play and experiment.
Link to presentation on Google sites.  will need this to remind me how it goes.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1CxXAI9FdAXMndAWF6mycHd8lKCRq4-GDqoi_6nRvU3Y/edit#slide=id.g3ba4a56141_0_53
I genuinely see how these could be used in the classroom and will endeavor to help my staff use sites.  This may take some doing but will be well worth it as it can only improve teaching and learning.  Once I have added more to my values site and I feel more confident I will start to work on something for the senior class.
I have started to make a site around our School Values that I will endeavor to add to over the next few months.  As a school we are intending to break the values down with the students and have them create videos explaining each one, it is my intention to add these to the site. 
https://sites.google.com/kumara.school.nz/kumara-school-values/home

Use Haparra to set up a focus session.
This limits what the students can access.
Haparra - highlights - Guide browsing

Universal Design for learning
Ed Talks
Chrissie Butler