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