Fifth Day of DFI- Collaborate Sites

Today I had a fantastic session on Collaborate Sites, which can help me to add some creativity to my sites to get my students engaged. 

We started connecting with Manaiakalani 'Visible Learning'. In terms of learning, it is difficult for students to success if they or their whanau do not know where their children are going or what they need to do or what is happening. So it is very important that every part of students' learning should be visible right from planning, process, outcomes till assessment. That is visible teaching should be accessible, available, and advance- should not be a surprise.

Then we had a Multi Modal deep dive session- Engaging the learners by empowering them.

The priority goals are engagement, personalised learning, accelerated achievement, and empowerment. It is very important to create a hook which helps to students get engaged- this can be a Multimodal design for behavioural engagement and Multi-textural design for cognitive engagement.

The I got some Hapara hot tips on the Sharing tab. It was interesting to know how teachers can keep a track on students' learning by checking unshared, public, external and all docs drive on teacher's dashboard and also how teachers can have a quick search for particular topic by using magnifying tool.

The next part was knowing about Google Sites. I got to know about different features like adding a title to home page, changing background, adding additional pages to it with subtitles, inserting button with hyperlink, and adding youtube or google forms in it. 

Then we gathered information and resources to begin with creating our own site. This part was quite interesting and gave me a different perspective to think how I can make my site look creative to engage my students.

Lastly, we created our own Google site with the gathered information. My Google site was created for Smart Media- Fake or Real? Below you can see my created Google site.

Fourth Day of DFI - Dealing with Data

 Today's first session was 'Connecting with Manaiakalani' where the main focus was on SHARE.

Manaiakalani works with learners to raise their achievement outcomes by making them share their learnings. Blogger was chosen as a platform to share. The reasons for Manaiakalani to choose Blogger are it is multi purposed, can be used by learners and teachers, able to provision this legally, systematically and securely, and also it reaches to the largest audience via Google. Sharing is to finish learning.

Then we moved on to Google Forms, where I learned to create my own Google form adding questions and images to it. I just did some basics today, but I would like to explore more with the Google Forms as it would be useful for me and my students in different ways. Below is the image of Google Form I created.

The next session was on Google My Maps, which I found very interesting as I could make my students do some Maths learning of Perimeter and area of the shapes formed by joining different places in the map. Below you can find my learning of Google My Map.

Then we moved on to learning different features of Google sheet which would be also useful for me in my profession to organize with different data of the students. I learned to change the format, add different formulae, filter view, and conditional formatting. I also learned to explore charts for my data set and move it to own sheet which was very interesting. Some additional features then I learned was adding spark line, text wrap, and adding check box.

Finally, we ended up learning how to analyze the blog post on spread sheet. Below is my analysis.

Third Day of DFI- Media

Today's session started with knowing Hapara hot tips- how to view folders and files by sorting out by names in chronological order.

Then I got to know about Manaiakalani Create- Developing creative skills in students can make them better problem solvers, communicators, and collaborators. It is very important to give students an opportunity to do something rather than something to learn and doing this increase demand in thinking and results in learning naturally.

Then I got an opportunity to create my youtube channel and my playlist. I then learned about Media- that is how to make a video, where I got to know about some video making tips for a good quality video- using proper light, tripod, clear sound, and videoing in landscape mode. Then we had a session on Google drawing where I learned to insert image, add shapes to the image, insert wordart and change background. And then this is now embedded to my blog page on the right side.

I then learned new things in Google slides which I found would be very useful in my teaching. The below post is the small part which I did for this session.

Lastly, I worked with some shapes- aligning it, changing the colour, rotating them, changing the boundaries. Below is the post for that learning.

Second Day of DFI- Workflow

 Today in second day of DFI course I learned about Manaiakalani working on "Learn Ako". I understood how Manaiakalani is supporting the learning community move from analogue world to the digital world via Evidence-based programme and also increasing teacher effectiveness and accelerating learning outcomes.

My school site has an access to Akoranga Learning Hub where we have an access through all the subject resources link shared by the teachers in school. This means "Learning is to continued". If the students are not able to attend school for some reason, they would always have an access to their learning. Also, this learning in our school is not limited to only students and parents, even the people from outside community can access the learning.

Today I learned about Google Meet, Google Keep, Gmail, Google calendar, and controlling different tables. I really liked an idea of labelling emails with different colours which is helpful to sort out the email I am looking for and also giving a colour code to different events in the calendar and viewing the events by sorting it out by labels. 

I also learned to create a Google Meet invitation. In this I enjoyed recording the video of Google meet with Anusha who is in my bubble group of DFI course. You can see my first Google Meet recording below.