DFI Day 6 - Hamilton F2F Cohort

What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?

There is a whole community of us out there that can help us learn, create and share. Manaiakalani has grown a lot since first starting and is willing and excited to get a lot of schools and kura involved so we can all share together.

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?

Having to set some goals and tick them off in the evaluating sites doc made me get 3 things finished, where as before I felt I was flailing around from bit to bit. But actually setting those small goals I got them finished and feel much more confident about my work in sites now - not saying that I'm an expert by any means but it has definitely boosted my confidence.

What did I learn that could be used with my learners? 

Being able to make buttons and link them to things for my site will be great for sharing on different things with parents and the school community on my site.

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?

Everything I learnt today!! I am looking forward to going home and showing my whānau what I have created today.

Below are before and after of my website from when I first started and had only a rough idea of what I was going to do, to the end of today when I had a more clear idea... although still a lot more to do.

Before:

After:

DFI Day 5 - Hamilton F2F Cohort

 

What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?

It's important to make learning visible, not only for tamariki but for sharing amongst kaiako.

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?

At first I found the concept of making a site difficult, it was hard to compute in my head. The site in the picture below is my one for our kura, and I was having difficulty with what to put in it. After our break we started working on ones for a Multi Modal site, each kaiako and kaimahi doing our own page for our manu amorangi here at kura. For this I started planning first on a piece of paper and soon had a good idea with lots of notes jotted down for where I was going to go with this. Taking the time to writing out a plan for this site made me feel a lot more confident in creating it.

What did I learn that could be used with my learners?

I am looking forward to creating my site for the tari, so that I can get info out to the parents and interact with them in a new way. Have forms, procedures etc on there that they will have easy access to and know where to go for them. I will now take the time to plan this out in writing, jotting down notes, so I can get the process sorted out in my head first.

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?

Everything we went over today, but like with anything, the more you use it the more I will get used to it and be able to create new things. Writing out a plan will help me a lot, I found once I started writing out one, it led to more and more content I could put in my site.

DFI Day 4 - Hamilton F2F Cohort - Papakura Central School

What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?

Where sharing came about e.g. 2005 and all the sharing platforms came about. I also found it interesting why Blogger was used, as I did think why is it this platform being used? But the analogy of the car made it make sense and was understandable.

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?

My first time creating a form so I'm sure I can bring that into my office work. There so much I could do in Sheets if I know now so looking forward to learning how to do more.

What did I learn that could be used with my learners, how could they use?

I have learnt how to use data from one sheet in another sheet which will be very helpful for Tohu Angitu sheets to get the daily data into the results sheet. Super happy about this as I won't have to copy and past each days totals across, it will be done automatically now. And also the simple thing like inserting a check box, that will be very helpful for permission slips etc.

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?

If I want to learn to do somethings that might be a bit more difficult in sheets, there is most likely a youtube video to show me how.

Below is the map I created of Places of Interest in the area where our kura is and where I live.

DFI Day 3 - Hamilton F2F Cohort

What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?

Create, create, create.  Get kids engaged by being able to create.

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?

Google drawings looks like a great tool to be able to create things. Learning about animations in google slides will be fun and allow me to create some amazing things.

What did I learn that could be used with my learners?  

I didn't even know about google drawings before today so that will be great for creating, will be great for creating flow charts etc that I need.  Slides - learning about how to 'animate' just through using slides and seems so easy (time will tell).  I also learnt screen castify for the first time and my attempt at that is below.

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?

Animations through slides, I'm looking forward to to showing off to friends and whānau with what I have learnt here.

 

DFI Day 2 - Hamilton F2F Cohort

 What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?

That the kaupapa and pedagogy has been co-created for over more than a decade to get the maximum impact of teaching and learning in this digital environment. Taking in to account all the research and findings along the way. All the while teachers are being supported to work within the digital world and teach within the digital realm... but not just the digital world as we're not throwing the baby out with the bath water.

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?

Embedding video is my blog is rather exciting and looking forward to having more goes at that, once I get the hang of recording myself in google meets... and in other mediums as well.

What did I learn that could be used with my learners?  

Another day of crazy fast learning, that I am glad I can rewind the lessons. Looking forward to using and getting more confident with google meets. I had a good grasp on sorting my bookmarks and email already, but have learnt a few extra tricks to use them more efficiently.

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?

Pretty much as above. Looking forward to getting more confident with google meets and taking advantage of all it's features.

Below are my attempts at recording my google meet and then learning how to embed it into my blog (super exciting to be able to do that).

Second attempt at recording:

First attempt at recording:

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