DFI Session 9: It's a Wrap.

WHAT A COHORT!

Check them out! Apparently the best cohort this year according to Gerhard and yes it still counts even if the other cohort didn't ask ha ha ha.

Photographer (Using Google Drawings) : Sharon Riley of Ruapotaka School

Watch out kids.  In these craniums is a wealth of new learning. 
I have learnt so much and was fortunate to sit the Google Level 1 exam. I didn't quite get the desired outcome of a pass; however that is NOT a reflection on my time here doing the Digital Fluency Intensive.

The Sparkle I leave with since DFI: 

• Sharing using blogs is something I will be setting up and maintaining in class.  
• I also intend to share with my colleagues how to make class sites visible by filing docs and other material into accessible folders in my drive.  
• I have had so much fun and have met some wonderful people along the way.  Thank you so much to everyone for genuinely sharing openly.  I learnt from so many of you. I will keep in touch.
• A massive thank you to Dorothy Burt, Gerhard Vermeulen and Tanya Mundy for your patience and teaching.

DFI: Session 7

Making Teaching and Learning Visible

Equality is giving everyone the same box.

Equity is making sure everyone can see.

I love the example shared in the picture above.
Question to self as Dorothy was sharing was...
What can you change to make the learning and teaching in your class visible to not just our school but to everyone looking at our class site?

I was fortunate enough to have 13 critiques share constructive advice with me about visibility of learning and teaching on my class site. Thanks team I really appreciate the feedback. From this my goals are to give everyone access to the rich material on my site, work on the 3 clicks rule and add more rewindable learning.

Google Keep is the number 1 App for me since starting this course.

This is note taking at the Next Level. My notebook of to do lists might be a thing of the past.

DFI: Session 6

Once again another great session.  

Check out my new learning.

Chromebooks . . .

Teachers

Have you ever had this issue - Managing Your Workflow?  

Today I learnt to use different tools that can help make our job more efficient.  

• Toby Mini - Use this app to organise folders, files, docs, drawings etc...
• Creating a new google site with buttons that I use all the time. Thanks for this tip Dorothy.
• Calendar.
• Hangouts - You can have meetings anywhere.  Example Below - Thanks to our group (Jo, Maria, Tanya, Ulrike and Myself) you get to see how Hangouts can be used.  Please enjoy the audio of our Hangout.  Maybe next time we might let you see us. 

In case you are interested the content was the NZ Digital Technology Curriculum using the Level 3 Computational Thinking Strand.  

DFI Session 4: Sharing

Kids born after 2005 (13 year olds) know no other world other than to share publicly online.  

Sharing.

After our session today, I am keen to start blogging and posting; especially after hearing that 3 blog posts per week make results go up and 2 blog posts per week maintain levels. This week I will endeavour to make the connection with blogging and commenting just like Fiona shared.

Get ready Room 3. You will be posting at least 3 times this week and hopefully it will be just as entertaining as it looks thanks to lovely students from Room 13 & Ms Petrus from May Road School.

Thanks for teaching me how to use Google New Class Sites more efficiently Fiona.

 My screen shot below is a work in progress.

https://sites.google.com/wesleyintermediate.school.nz/gardenwithscienceconnectedseri/home

Session 3 - Create, Create, Create

'Creative Skills help students become better problem solvers, communicators and collaborators' Today I enjoyed creating so many engaging and stimulating tasks using Google slides and Google drawings. Our focus was on creating. I will continue reflecting on the create aspect of LEARN, CREATE, SHARE in our class. Pretty proud of my animation slide and digital pepeha which is still a work in progress.

DFI Intensive Session 2

Today I learnt about Digital Fluency Pedagogy. Having access to people, ideas, rewindable learning to harness or enhance students learning are some points Joy shared today. Brain overload today; but definitely in a good way using Google Forms, Google My maps and Google Sheets. Had many lightbulb moments. Check out the tables and graphs I made using Google Sheets and unpacking data from Candice F da @ Glenbrae School. After our session today, I am confident that data entry will be far more organised, less complicated and done in a much shorter time. Thanks Joy, Gerhard and Maria for your expertise today.

Day 1: Removal Of Barriers.

Talofa Lava Everyone.

Wow!  Don't I feel smart.  Today was my first day in our Digital Fluency Incentives Manaiakalani course. It was a real eye opener into using Chrome and Google tools.  Next week I will be starting our class as if it was day one of 2018.  We will all be re-setting up systems to create new docs that go straight into the correct folders.  Room 3 will learning about headings and sub-headings by inserting contents tables.  Some of my lovelies will be voice typing and I will no longer be underlining words as new age underlining means a link of some sort.  My colleagues may be some what confused but my lovelies in Rm 3 will hopefully appreciate the amount of mind and will power it takes to remove the line from my bold headings. 

'Removal of Barriers' was a quote from Gerhard Vermeulen that really got my attention.  I feel like  there were many barriers taken away today for me and my class.  It gave me the confidence to blog today which is one of those barriers that I will slowly chip at.  Thanks Tanya Ching for sharing your blog with me to help me make a professional blog so mine can look as styley as yours. Feel free to check out the link here :)

Great day today.  Couldn't have started any better than meeting and hanging out with Ulrike. Thanks to the whole team who supported me through today.  Looking forward to the next 8 session with the team. 

Manuia le aso.