DFI Cohort 2 2019 Day 2 12 June 2019

What a busy day! We did lots of work with Google Hangouts which was not easy as one of the first few things you have to grapple with is realising what you look like on the screen. It's enough to make you want to give up and go home but we ended up having some fun and feeling a lot better about it by the end of the day.

We had to look at some blog posts by children who had been involved in the Summer Learning Journey and see if by reading them we could figure out what the learning intentions behind them were. This was quite tricky with the one I picked as the writer had not written much and had not started with an introduction that clearly stated the learning intentions. So, that's a good reminder of the importance of teaching children to always start a blog post with an adequate introduction.

Here is the video we made of our Google Hangout discussion.





Before that, we had an online talk from Dorothy Burt which went a bit in depth into what the Learn in Learn Create Share is really about.  We made a Google Keep note to summarise this.
Here is my Keep document:

Now it's time for me to comment on someone else's blog and then go home.

Reflection time:

What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani

kaupapa and pedagogy?

That effective teacher practice is fundamental. Digital technologies can enhance and

learning outcomes but they are add-on to teacher effectiveness not an instead-of.

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or

workflow as a professional?

Using Google Hangouts to have meetings with a small amount of colleagues and students

Screen recording using Microsoft Powerpoint

Google Keep for uploading photos and a whole lot of other stuff that I don't understand yet

Creating a signature for emails

How to organise emails and bookmarks

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

Powerpoint screen record to make a video -

Powerpoint - insert - media - screen recording.

Right click - save media as - onto desktop and then go into drive

and upload onto the drive

  

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability

or workflow in my personal life?

Organisation of emails, bookmarks etc. creating a personal calendar for
birthdays, organising emails with tabs ,Google Keep will be helpful for
taking pics of things on my phone that can be linked directly to Drive