Week 7 F2F Device

Week 7 F2F topic was "Device" so Vicky was talking to us on google meet about Being Cybersmart and this is the language that has being used in 2011. Cybersmart is the roof of Manaiakalani's house and the roof needs to be well equipped in order to be safe for the users. These statements are the reminders for us teachers and students as to be Cybersmart: Be Internet Smart! Be internet Alert! Be Internet Strong! Be Internet Kind! Be Internet Brave and Be  Internet Awesome. The students need to learn cybersmart language.  Being Cybersmart empowers learners to be confident, connected and life long learners. I have learnt about the importance of students learning to be visible and ubiquitous. Dorothy, Jeremy and Fiona have demonstrated how to use the chrome book and ipad with our learners. The three of us worked collaboratively to create the task Explain Everything  using the ipad. I also created a task  for my class using Tongan and English for Cybersmart using Explain Everything App.  Thank you Manaiakalani team for providing the F2F programme to give me more opportunities to learn how to teach our students digitally. I have learnt a lot and taking it to my classroom and for me personally to use. Mālō 'aupito.  

 

DFI F2F Week 6 Enabling Access

Dorothy was talking about the importance of "Being Connected". Manaiakalani is connecting us to a powerful network where we can build up relationship with each other. This is the opportunity for the teachers and learners and the community to be connected digitally. Today I have worked hard on my Class Site and I have learnt how to use different tools to enhance children's learning. Visibility is an effective way for children's learning and I am looking forward to upload some resources for my class. 

DFI F2F Week 5 Collaborate Site

Today I have learnt about the idea of being Visible and using Multi-modal and Multi-text. We have worked as a group to create different text using a theme. I have managed to create a site and below is the theme we have put up and all the text that the children will use when working on this theme. You can click on the link to view. 

 

DFI F2F Week 4 Dealing with Data

 I have learnt about the pedagogy of Share and Manaiakalani chose Blogger as the main online space for our young people to share. Blogger is the most useful platform for our children. I  have created a google form and used All about Me as the title and I have learnt how to use different type of questions for that topic. I was able to create a google sheet and here is the sheet and the graph I have made for  number of blogs that one of the students shared from 2015 to 2021.

  

DFI F2F Week 3

On this week we have learnt about the pedagogy of CREATE. Creative skills help our students to become  better problem solvers. "Creativity is giving to pupils something to do NOT something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results" John Dewey. I have learnt about different tools to be used by my children to help them with their learning like google draw, google slide, and using youtube channel but they can't create their own youtube channel. I want to share with you what I did and it was a google slide animation. Hope you will enjoy reading it.

 

F2F DFI Week 2

 Today I have learnt more about how to use different tools on my calendar and my gmail. I was able to arrange my gmail to the most recent one and the ones I haven't read and also set up my signature so I don't have to sign my name whenever I send an email. When learning about google calendar I could manage to colour codes the events. I also learnt about Google Keep but I need to practice more of how to use it. I have learnt about sending invitation for a google meet through my calendar, recording google meet and  I am still learning of how to use the tools of embedding my video into my blog post however  I am happy to share with you my google meet with Tania.

DFI FACE TO FACE SESSION 1

 Today I have learnt more about the story of Manaiakalani over 16 years now and their pedagogy and kaupapa. I enjoyed working face to face DFI because I had support from DFI team; Dorophy, Jeremy and Jacob and also my colleague who has more experience on digital learning. I have learnt how to create google groups and work on google docs. I want to share what I have done today as I have made a poster about our school values and put some helping tips of how to practice them. Looking forward to learn more next few weeks.

DFI Wk.3 MEDIA

 

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

*I have increased my understanding of the concept of Create. 

*Creative skills help students to become better problem solvers, communicators and collaborators. 

*It is something students have to do and focus on the process of forming original ideas through exploration and discovery. 

*It gives opportunity for the students to make a choice of what they want to create.

*Media is useful to creating.

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

*Learnt how to create youtube channel.

*Making a playlists and started to put collection of videos to support my teaching.

*Some understanding on how to use google draw and google slides.

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

*I could be used google slide for my teaching and create activities for children.

*Students could be used google draw to create something they want to do but I need to practice more on google draw.

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

* I need to practice my skills on google draw due to technical problem and we couldn't join with the session with Kerry.

*I enjoyed working on my youtube channel so I want to add my favourite music and video to my playlists to be easy for me to access.

Below is from my playlists he is a teacher from our school. Enjoy watching and listening.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRlo6Wvokj0&list=PLRlw0sv3ERPVDY_vUQf12UDLPp-Uh8q5b

My Week 2 DFI

Today I have learnt new things and I want to practice it a lot on my own time to develop my confidence with DFI. I have learnt how to use different tools for my gmail and google calendar and I have started to use them today. Jeremy helped me a lot in our bubble group to guide me with google meet especially embedding video and I still learn to practice it.

 

DFI Week 1

 Today is a new experience for me to learn about Manaiakalani  Programme and although I was struggling to get all the information and tried to practice at the same time but I was excited to try new things. Jeremy helped me when I was in our group so that I could swim 😁. I have learned a lot of things today and I am keen to implement  it in the classroom to enhance my children's learning. 

I have learnt about the key concepts of  Learn, Create and Share and this is what I practiced today in each session. I have developed a knowledge and understanding of using google drive and how to create google docs.  I was happy that I managed to create a document and shared with Jeremy and the members of my group. I still need a lot of support in doing this programme.  I need to keep practicing some of the sessions that we have done today.

I am looking forward to learn more things next week.

Nau mai, haere mai

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This is a place where I can reflect on my teaching in relation to my Teaching as Inquiry goals and how they link to the Education Council's Standards for the Teaching Profession.