DFI- Week 5

 Today at DFOI (Week 5) we looked Google Sites. With Dorothy, we discussed the importance of making learning visible for our Tamariki. It..

• Encourages partnership with school and home 

• Teachers being able to see what the child is doing 

• Visibility of what other teachers are doing (blogs, planning etc)

Dorothy talked about the Hapara Hot Tip- using the sharing function on Hapara to find the children's things that they haven't put into their folders. This is a part of Hapara that I use regularly to find things that the children I teach haven't put into a folder. It's a very useful button to know about.. although still doesn't create finished work!! 

Our task today was to create a Multi Modal Site which encompasses a variety of texts to support our learners. Click this link to take you to the site I created. The site focuses on the text 'Wonder' by R.J. Palacio that I'm reading with my reading group.

I used the MultiText Data Base to support the children.

Here is the link to my learning space site that my children use daily. This is where literally everything goes that we need the children to access.

DFI- Week 4

Sharing isn’t something new, it’s part of being human.  

Connected learners share: positive, thoughtful, helpful.  Face to face sharing, Small group- whanau size, sharing with a group of known people, big groups that we share to (assembly, festival, still in real time), online world.

BLOGGER: Why was it chosen as our online platform? 

• Resembles the spaces that young people want to be on

• Able to provision this legally, systematically and securely

• No new sign in with GSuite users

• Guaranteed three check system

• Largest audience reached via Google

• Multi Purposed- it can look and feel different to other blogs

• Can be used by learners and teachers

• Supports our cybersmart curriculum 

• Teaches kids how to ‘drive’ in the digital world, Blogger is functional and allows kids to learn in an easy way

• Connecting with whanau is not the purpose of Blogger, it is to protect our kids and allow them to become cybersmart 

Share to finish learning: 

• Encourages kids to ‘finish’ something in order to be able to share it

• Lots of kids don’t value ‘finishing’ so giving them this opportunity will benefit them when they are in the workforce. 

• Having a  purpose for sharing is important (for learning from others, to teach others and to start new learning conversations) Sharing for feedback (feed forward)

Google Forms: Good for student voice and evaluations 

• A way to collect and sort information 

• Search ‘forms.new’ and start with a blank template 

• Add, duplicate, required are all great options 

• Add images, titles, sections and videos

• Settings: Top right hand corner- can turn off and on depending on what you are wanting. You can restrict the user info (distribute to people further than your school). Check only add the form once. Allowing others to edit their mistakes. 

• Summary chart - You can choose whether others can see this - or just yourself. 

• You can send the form once complete via email. You don’t actually share the file with others like with other google apps. Share it as an email, as a link or embedded (like on the site)

• Viewing response data, you can export this into a spreadsheet. You can link other forms to the same spreadsheet (this is to create a new tab).

Google maps

• Good way to introduce a new place e.g. camp destination to anxious learners. 

• Can add layers, move map around, marker - grab and drop-, pin places, add information and pictures. Line tool to connect two parts together. Use the measuring tool 

• Great for measurement - maths 

• Layering- School map with ECEs underneath then the universities on top etc

• Customise markers - click on in and add details on style, pictures, make it a house or a star etc

• Can bring in information from a spreadsheet (e.g we filled in the form, download the data from there into a spreadsheet and import the data from there. Tell google maps what you want to ‘bring in’  e.g. names and selfie pics etc

DFI Week 3- Media

Today at DFI we learned about different types of Media (Slides, Drawing etc) that we can use.

Three things I learned today
- masking an image
- aligning images with 'arrange'
- adding a clip to a playlist in Youtube

Here is a Google Drawing to show some take aways for me today.

Here is my Pick a Path for 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire'

Google Meet Recording

Screen recording of blog conversation (used this a lot (everyday 3x a day) during lockdown).

DFI- Session 2 (Workflow)

Today our focus was about 'workflow'. Honestly, I'd already set up a lot of the functions that we covered today so today I haven't learned a lot. However, upwards and onwards!

One thing that I have taken away from today was how to change the 'unsend' time limit on my Gmail. I've used it previously but didn't know you could change how long you had to unsend the email. So... I've changed it to 30 seconds... just in case!

Although I knew about Google Keep (and don't like it for myself- I use Google Tasks), I might try and use it with some children to see if they like it or not.

I am going to try and use Toby Mini so that I can keep all my planning in one place (instead of clicking from folder to folder ugh!!).

DFI Week 1

Today was the first day out of nine sessions for the Digital Fluency Intensive (DFI) Term 3, 2020.

Throughout the day, we covered a variety of learning including:
- Add ons and Google Extensions
- Google Groups vs Contacts
- Formatting Google Docs (to make it pretty!!)


The following is my favourite take-aways from today's session



We played around with Google Docs and this is the 'poster' I've created to fit into my technology for the term. Click on the link at the bottom to go to the pdf to access the links to take you to the videos!


https://drive.google.com/file/d/1B5dTD1LpYB726N0G2LRODhdc2BhF7pCG/view?usp=sharing