Polyline cartoon characters.

Today we have been learning to create characters with a polyline tool. Some of us traced around a character and some of us created an original drawing. We have included the images on a slide deck with a few tips and tricks that might be helpful. Please enjoy Room 4

Level 1 Completed

Reflection week 9 DFI

 Time to reflect and share

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

There are many opportunities to stay connected with other educators and continue the digital fluency learning journey. Support and guidance is ongoing.

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

Ongoing use and learning of the google products that I didn't use often has mean't that I am aware of ways to use them more effectively as tools.

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

I think I can share with my learners the ways to use the google tools more effectively, different google tools to teach/showcase content and to also do some fun activities to demonstrate their learning in different curriculum areas.

Geometric shapes with Scratch.

Reflection DFI week 8

 Time to reflect and share

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

agency = empowered. Manaiakalani aim to put students in the driving seat for their learning. Students can access learning anywhere, anytime and take advantage of multimodal learning opportunities. They can access this learning as often as they need for additional support.

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

An introduction to coding which I know the students will love.

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

We completed an exercise on scratch that the students could use to learn the basics of coding. Within the day I also had the opportunity to look further into 'CoSpaces' and learn a little bit about how to code in this space. I think CoSpaces would be very engaging for my learners.

The greatest joy comes from Empowering students to... believe in themselves.

Screen shot of whiteboard activity.

 

DFI Reflection Week 7

 Reflecting on the Kaupapa of the Manaiakalani Programme in light of COVID 19

What are you proud of?

• I am proud that I am continually learning and applying new ways to teach and engage my learners.

What do you regret?

• Not so much regret as get frustrated when technology doesn't work the way you want it to, either with user error or device error.

What have you taken forward into the ‘new’ era of schooling?

• Rewindable learning might just be my new catch phrase. I can see that during online learning such as in lockdown, this does make learning more available to all students at all times. But also it would be a valuable resource the students can independently access in class to support their learning.

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

• Ubiquitous learning is being able to access learning any place, any time. Students able to access their learning on their terms.
• Cybersmart learning and checkin should happen regularly, at the beginning of each year is a good time to refresh student learning.
• Cyber smart students use positive, powerful and proactive language.

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

• Today we learnt to use whiteboard and Håpara workspace. I will need to keep practicing with workspace but white board was pretty straightforward.

Some screen shots of my Google site

DFI reflection week 6 - Google Sites

 

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

Having learning visible, accessible and user friendly. also to consider student engagement by considering visual appeal and multimodal choices.

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

The google sites is a platform that I think will be engaging for my students. I have tried to customise it so that the students see themselves in many aspects of the site eg photos, their artwork as the customised buttons.

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

Something that I will make sure I use as I move more into digital learning with my students is the rewindable learning. As a learner myself I find this is the easiest way for me to learn new skills online.

Student work - thanks Taya

Student work - Thanks Amy C

Student work - thanks Sophie

Week 5 DFI Reflection- creating google sites

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

 I learnt that in order for our teaching and learning to be truely visible we need to consider our audience which can be made up of whanau, colleagues, students and other teachers. As teachers we can also share our learning and teaching with a wider audience to enhance our own and others teaching practice. 

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

The more I get to practice and refine my skill set with new digital tools the more readily I will include them in my practice and also introduce them as tools for my students to use. 

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

 Students can create their own google sites and share their work to a wider audience.

Example of Student work - thanks Fokus

Example of student work - thanks Hope

An example of student work completed in lockdown - thanks Braith

DFI Reflection week 4

 

Tena Koutou Katoa,

Another busy day of learning. Today I certainly feel like I have been introduced to a few things that will help reduce the amount of time I spend analysing data. This makes me very happy but like anything I need to use it regularly or I will forget how to use it. The google forms and sheets are tools I think I will use a lot. 

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

Sharing as a final step in the learning but also sharing along the way in the process of learning is a fundamental aspect of the Manaiakalani kaupapa. Sharing by students and teachers alike strengthens all of our skill sets. 

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

                I think I will definitely use google forms to create assessment tools. The reduction in time

for marking is really awesome. In addition, the google sheets has lots of features that I can

see myself use it regularly to record student data and be able to view and manipulate the

filters so viewing is really easy.

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

               My students have already used google forms for various information gathering purposes

and they love that in regards to how easy it is to set up, share and evaluate data.

               My maps has a lot of features that would be great to explore in more depth before   

               introducing them to my class. 

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

               I love the time saving features for me with the introduction of using google sheets and  

               google forms.currently I am creating my own colour coded table to view student

               assessments and although this is great to quickly view students data on it is time

consuming to set up. 

Ngā mihi

Kim

          

Example of work - Google sheets - analysing data

My Maps - an example of work completed today

DFI Relection week 3

Kia ora e te whānau,

Wow, a full on day today but lots of time to create which was good. I tried my hand at animation in google slides, turning my photo into a cartoon in google draw and also in google draw creating an information page where I have introduced myself with my pepeha.

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

I like to play around with new digital skills myself before I introduce it to the students so I have managed to make that start today with some new learning. I will however like to take a gentler pace to explore it in more depth and the real learning for me is in the exploring/creating. That is where you discover you have missed a part in the puzzle and may need to go over it again.  

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

I really love the creativity of the digital tools we use and I really do think we have to keep making it fresh and interesting in class. However, in my life outside of school I will be device free as much as possible. I am highly likely to not even carry my phone!

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

I think my students would love to create self portraits and this could be a great activity at the beginning of the year. Also I know they would love to create animations and cartoons to show their understanding and express themselves. 

Until next week

Ngā mihi

Kim

animation

DFI Reflection for Day One

Kia ora koutou,

Just about to finish my first day of Manaiakalani Digital Intensive Fluency.  Found some really good tips to help me stream line my google drive, create resources with google docs and set up google groups.

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

I was interested to hear about the history Manaiakalani and that it had been around for a number of years. I love the idea of 'Learn, Create and Share on a digital platform.

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

I was very pleased to have the time and tips to sort out my drive. For me this was a biggie and the tips with the numbers at the front of the folder title, colour coding folders and using an * were great. I also found the google groups beneficial because it will just save me time and again a great organisational tool.

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

I really like anything creative so love to learn more tips and tricks with visual presentations. I also think this is a draw card for my tauira.

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

In one word... everything!

       

Can't wait for next week.

Ngā mihi

Kim

Day One

 And so it begins...