Day Three DFI Course - Google Meet
This week, we used Google Meet to connect with our DFI whanau. We started our morning meeting as a whole group before breaking into our digital groups to discuss what has worked, what hasn't worked and what we need help with.
Our Manaiakalani pedagogy focus for today was create. Dorothy Burt shared many ideas, quotes and research around empowering creativity in our classes and schools. We learnt about how creativity gives a real purpose for learning and that doing a task helps learning to naturally occur. There were lots of great quotes about the power of creativity.
The next part of our learning was a Hapara hot tips session. This is a tool that I haven't used before but have been really keen to learn more about. We learnt about how we can hover over student names and see what they are working on which was good to know. We also learnt about moving the names of students around so we can choose which students sit at the top of our page on the Hapara dashboard. Hapara is something that I know I want to use in my classroom and I am excited to be able to apply the knowledge I gained today and the new tips we will learn each week.
We then worked with our digital bubbles to set up a Youtube channel that we can use as Manaiakalani teachers to create and share playlists and videos. It was good to learn about the settings that we needed to change to make our channel and playlists only visible to those with a link. I use Youtube in my class every day but hadn't thought to create a channel to help organise the videos we watch regularly. I will definitely be making the most of my new playlist and will be sharing the link with my class and their whanau.
Our next session was a deep dive into creating media which began by exploring video and film making. There were awesome little tips about recording videos in landscape and checking the lighting which can sometimes be things that you forget to do or prepare for in the moment. This session also explored tools like green screen and live streaming too. We also learnt more about podcasting and the key aspects of creating a podcast which was content, recording, editing and sharing.
We also had a session around using Google Draw. Alicia showed us some of the tools we can use to create buttons. I had participated in an online toolkit which explored Google Draw so today's session was a bit of a refresher. We then got to create our own All About Me buttons to add to our blogs.
I really enjoyed the afternoon sessions because they were based around Google Slides. I use slides every day at work so I was excited to explore this tool. Vicky showed us how to create backgrounds, download them and then use them to create drag and drop activities. I had been wanting to learn about this and had even saved some videos on Facebook to watch back and learn how to do it, but we covered it today which was awesome. I used this time to create a mathematics problem. We have been working on problem solving tasks but the children have only been showing their solutions on paper, so it was great to learn how I could use the same task but move it to a digital platform.
It was wonderful being able to learn from the comfort of my own home.
Wow Jessie clearly you are taking full advantage of this PD learning new skills and being reflective about what you are learning. It is going to be really exciting using these new tools in your akomanga.
ReplyDeleteThanks Dave. I am definitely trying to make the most out of this learning opportunity.
DeleteKia ora Jessie,
ReplyDeleteIt was great to work with you last week. I love the drag and drop activity you've created - what a fabulous way of working out problem solving! And so glad we were able to support you with something that was on your 'things to learn list'!
Looking forward to seeing you tomorrow.
Vicki
Kia ora Vicky,
ReplyDeleteIt was awesome working with you! Thanks so much for your guidance. My colleagues and I created a few more drag and drop activities for this week's learning too.
See you tomorrow.