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Digital Fluency Intensive Week 8

Week 8

Empowerment: How to empower Teachers and learners

Dean Shareski said …”when it transforms the way we learn, offers us new unchartered
experiences and opportunities…”

When we are:

• Learner centred
• Future focused
• Differentiated
• Personalised                         … the default is VISIBLE

How to make your Blog more visible:

Getting More Views and Traffic

1. Help Search Engines Find your Site. ...
2. Blog Regularly. ...
3. Use Keywords on your Site. ...
4. Use Appropriate Tags. ...
5. Connect to the Community & Spread the Word. ...
6. Read and Comment on Other Blogs. ...
7. Share on Social Media. ...
8. Bug your Real-life Friends.

How to prepare for your google certified test:

The following can be helpful.

1. Have confidence and experience across a range of G Suite tools

2. Work through the Google for Education Training Centre

3. Consider attending a preparatory course

4. Don’t register for the exam until you are prepared to take it

5. Be prepared to use G Suite tools during the exam – and do so efficiently

6. Pay attention to the details – remember what is grading your exam!

7. Use the knockout method for multiple-choice questions

8. Use shortcut keys

9. Keep things tidy during the exam

10. Choose a quiet location with a stable internet connection

Personal experience:

I wrote my Google Test today. It was certainly not a walk in the park and reflecting back I should
have spent more time preparing.

It was good to put everything I have learned the past 8 weeks into practice, I only now realise
the hard work our presenters had to keep me up to speed.

Thank you for all the support.

Manaiakalani Create Staff Meeting

Had a good hardworking day. Constructing a tower.

Digital Fluency Intensive Week 7

Week 7

What is Cybersmart:

Helps keep learners focused and organised online, building critical learning skills.

Greater visibility and access into learner work, saving teachers time every day.

What is Hapara?

The Hapara Instructional Management Suite, which includes Work space, Highlights and Dashboard, enables teachers to organise their students and their assignments, track their activity and progress and dynamically personalise instruction across different metrics.

Why do we use Hapara:

Hapara allows you to focus on teaching,
not the technology.

How are we empowering our students:

Visibility into what your learners are working on, so you can provide feedback
in the moment.Easy differentiation and personalisation of learner work.

Digital Fluency Intensive Week 6

Exploring Examples of Class Sites

Observations From Exploring

Class Sites

NB: We are evaluating our peers sites through TWO lenses: Engagement and User experience.  On the one
hand the site needs to be inviting/appealing -draw you to it.  On the other hand it is a working/learning
environment and it needs to be very easy to use.  Effective sites combine both elements.

Connected

Connectivity is a way of life for our students.

Take it from them and they will check out.

When I think about creating something for my learners or I am asked to do something differently I
like to start with the why.

Making your own site:

What is the purpose?

What is your theme?

How are they accessing the site?

Why are they using the site?

Planning your class site

How many pages do you need?

What will be linked off your home page?

What is the layout of each page?

Digital Fluency Intensive Week 5

Week 5

This week we learned about the importance of visibility in teaching.

Making visible images of learning and being together in a group is a way to foster
group identity and learning. ... It can serve as a memory of learning in the classroom,
allowing children and adults to reflect on, evaluate, and build on their previous work and ideas.

Multi Model Approach:

Humans experience the world via modality, that is, our five senses: vision, hearing, taste,
smell and touch. Given these are the physical ways we ingest information, it is therefore
valid to explore both concrete and abstract topics via these lenses. For example, think about
Starbucks. What visual cues do you associate with it? And so on for sounds, smells etc.

The purpose of this exercise is to establish what the primary modal inputs are for a brand,
and therefore provide more context around the opinions held of it.

It is worth noting that not all brands are weighted towards modal input. For example, using
Google is less of a sensory experience than going to Starbucks, but we can still use the
modes and senses to explore associations with them in an indirect manner.

Creating a google site:

 

What can you do with the new Sites?

Build internal project hubs, team sites, public-facing websites, and more—all without designer, programmer,
or IT help. With the new Google Sites, building websites is easy. Just drag content where you need it.

When you create a new site, it’s automatically added to Drive, like your other files stored in Drive. You can edit
a Google Site together with someone else in real time, and see each other’s changes live. Publish the site for
everyone to see, or restrict sharing permissions and make the site accessible only to people you want to share it
with, like vendors or suppliers.

Google Sites websites are responsive, which means they’re optimised for tablets and smartphones, too.

How google can help my students:

Google plays an important role in education by enhancing efficiency, productivity
of teachers and students. Its apps and services foster higher degree of collaboration,
empower students and level the playing field for all. The low priced and free apps
and services can be afforded by all and used widely.

How to improve digital confidence in your class:

The inclusion of technology in the classroom has been shown to improve student participation,
information retention, and overall test performance. One reason for the success of educational
tech is that it boosts student confidence. Students who are secure in their abilities, work harder
and take their educations seriously.

Making my own buttons:

Digital Fluency Intensive Week 4

Week 4

Today was all about sharing. In 2005 the world changed and it became much easier to share information.Sharing is important for us and our kids. Why is it important for our kids to share their work?

Sharing with a purpose:

We use blogger to share. It is the most effective and safe way to share, it resembles the spaces
our young people want to be on. This can be used by learners and teaches. We need to

share to finish learning.

When creating a Google form the following is advised:

• Email - Allows your to directly send the form. Add the recipient's address,
• customise your message and hit send.
• Link - Share via link. Highlight, copy then paste the link in the desired location.
• Embed - Copy and paste the embed code to share via Google site or blog.

About Google Maps:

Google My Maps is a service launched by Google in April 2007 that enables users to create custom maps for personal use or sharing. Users can add points, lines, and shapes on top of Google Maps, using a WYSIWYG editor. 

About Google Sheets:

Google Sheets is a spreadsheet program included as part of a free, web-based software office suite offered by Google within its Google Drive service. The service also includes Google Docs and Google Slides.

My Pepeha

Digital Fluency Intensive Week 3

DFI Week 3

Today we spoke about creativity: The following quote had a great impact on me.
“Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a
nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.”

John Dewey

We started off the day by learning how to do live streaming on You Tube.
We are all aware of the dangers of streaming live, and we have to make our
learners attend on these dangers as well.  

We learned how to create a playlist: A playlist is a collection of videos. Anybody can
make playlists and share them. This is a safe way to share videos with your class
without giving free access to You Tube.

We had a good time creating Google Drawings. And with some practice
I will be able to create a professional blog.
elf here

We can utilise the tools built into google slides to enable
learners how to create and then share.

This was a very good link for slides add on: Easy Accents for Slides add on.
This Add-on allows users to easily insert accents for different
languages directly from a sidebar in their Google Slides.

Now it is time to learn my Pepeha !!!

Digital Fluency Intensive Week 2

Week 2

It was a lovely sunny Friday and today I have learned:

First and foremost these 3 simple words, Learn Create Share or Ako, Hanga, Tohatoha, provide a shared pedagogy across our schools.

We started off the day learning how to make better use of your e mail and how to personalise your mail to make it work for you.

We had a look at our calendars and how to ad and use our calendar not only for work related issues but also to incorporate some personal reminders.

Google Keep is really fast, even on older devices. Adding quick notes is as simple as tapping the text box at the top of the Keep window and typing.

We had a great time sharing in google hangouts, we got connected and just showed me how distance should never be a roadblock in the path of learning and sharing.

I managed to schedule a hangout call for next week Wednesday and am anxious to see if I will be able to manage that. 

Google Keep is really fast, even on older devices. Adding quick notes is as simple as tapping the text box at the top of the Keep window and typing — it's best for those times when someone's giving you a phone number or address that you want to remember, but tapping a half-dozen times just to start typing makes you wish you had pen and paper. Just below the quick-note field are the individual buttons for text notes, checklists, voice notes and images, and adding each of them is just as quick.

Just before heading home we personalised our blogs to make it more interesting and eye catching.

Our Team:

Digital Fluency Intensive Week 1

FRIDAY, 8 MARCH 2019

Week 1

It was our first day at Manaiakalani Digital Training today

I started the year as a beginning teacher at Ruapotaka school who forms part of the Manaiakalani cluster.

I enjoyed the history and how Manaiakalani got started and the journey from then up till now.
As a new teacher who is a bit old style, I have to admit that I have a lot to learn. We learned how to work on and introduce google docks. With this knowledge I can go back to class and introduce the use of these documents in a proper way. I've learned that there are many tools that could save me a lot of time, and by gaining knowledge I can work smarter. I also created my first blog. This is a tool that I will definitely be able to use in my professional career. I found the day very productive and informative.

The course was presented very professional, creative and efficient. I also enjoy the fact that we are a small group and can get personal attention and help when needed.

I am happy that everything I have learned today could be used by me in my daily life, and hopefully I can share this knowledge with my colleges at school.

Today I learned.... I created... and I shared!!! That's what I call a good day.