Dealing With Media #4

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

We started our session today looking at the final component of the Manaiakalani kaupapa of 'Tohatoha - Share". It is true we as humans have been sharing information in a variety of ways since the beginning of time. In a variety of ways, good, bad and ugly. The introduction of YouTube in 2005 social networking took off which amplified the human race and capability to share their world on a global level. Some students are hooked and engaged during the CREATE phase, and other in the SHARE phase. Approximately 50 % for each. Our sharing is only constrained by time, place and people. This highlights for me as an area that needs regular attention and focus, particularly when looking at my student's blog post statistics. Blogging needs to take place more often and have its own timetabled blocks to ensure more happens.

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

Ensuring my students have an authentic audience when sharing their learning on their blogs will be a big focus for me. Getting them to notice who is reading their blogs? Where from? Number of views? Comments? How often do they respond to these comments? Starting firstly at number of posts they have made over the past 4 years, what have been their averages? What is their story in terms of their journey. Creating a competitive situation where they receive rewards or badges for the number of posts they make. Even getting them to compare with students in our school, same age, in our cluster, same age, across the country, same age and setting. Below is a link to the spreadsheet I got to tutu with today, analysing my tau 7 and 8 and the lack of posts they have made in the early years, compared to last year and now. The trends they see, the reasoning behind this.

Statistics of Students Blogging Tau 8

Statistics of Students Blogging Tau 7

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

The information and tips and tricks when using Google sheets has been so valuable, particularly when our students have been focussing on Statistics. I'm excited to go back to school and share these. The use of Google My Maps will also be hugely beneficial for my students as we are looking into migration of Māori, Polynesian and other ethnicities to New Zealand. We also did a landmarks activity that could be extended using this tool. Our students are familiar with plan a journey but this app and what you can do with it is way better. Below is an example of what I created when thinking about South Island Papatipu Runanga.

Kāi Tahu Papatipu Runanga and Marae

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

I am going to rethink how I use Google Sheets - In particular planning large family events, planning with colleagues and friends. I can certainly see the benefits here.

DFI - Media #3

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

I really enjoyed hearing from Dorothy and how the 'Create' segment of the Manaiakalani pedagogy doesn't just involve being online using digital tools, but the whole body including spirituality. I took from her discussion that it is about hooking learners and teachers in. It is about using one's creativity where learning can also occur. This made me think about a boy I knew who during lockdown created and dug a trench in his backyard when learning about the ANZACS. For me as a kaiako it has made me realise that I need to be using and creating more multi sensory experiences, SISOMO for the learners I teach.

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

Today was another intensive day, but I really enjoyed being able to work from home, especially with the weather being terrible and cold outside. It brought back memories from lockdown for me. I got a little frustrated towards the end of the day when I kept getting kicked out of the Meet on blogging. I tried closing tabs, and then the computer would just shut down on me forcing me to restart and rejoin. I got there in the end though. I really liked how I can have collaborative playlists with my team and will be setting this up when i get back to kura. It will be perfect for having and collaborating a range of Māori waiata playlists and other things we can all access. Particularly if someone is away from kura.

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

Today I found the session on Google Drawings really exciting as I haven't really utilised this tool to it's full potential with the learners in my class. I am definitely going to go through the same process we went through today with my class when I get back to school. Below is my finished product which I have uploaded to my professional blog.

I also thoroughly enjoyed and got lots out of Sharon's session on making slides more engaging, this will save me hours in terms of creating engaging slides for the students I teach. Working smarter, not harder. I work alongside an amazing, talented kaiako who also has skills in this field who I can get ideas from. I will be downloading the MOTE chrome extension also as this will help support my struggling learners. I didn't know you could add to outside of the slide either another useful tip and trick to support my learners more. Below is a link to an example of an engaging slide that I created using transparent backgrounds and pictures with video links.

Engaging Slides

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

I am feeling more and more confident as the course goes on and I love the fact that it is rewindable learning for me also, especially if I missed something. I am more excited about working with my students in this digital world and sharing the skills I have learnt with them. Even though my 16 year old son gives me a hard time saying I learnt that when I was 7 or 13. I can see how the skills I learn on this course will save me hours of time, giving me more time in my personal life with my family.

DFI - Workflow #2

Rā Tuarua

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

Today we looked at the pedagogy behind Manaiakalani via Google Meet with Dorothy, specifically focussing on the Learn/Ako area. This made me reflect and question what high leverage practises I use with my students, and what I need to focus on and include more of. A task I will take back to use with my collaborative team is to look closely at and reflect upon What does LEARN look like at our kura and in our unique reorua environment? What are our team's personal beliefs about our children learning? And what PLD have we participated in that ties in and supports this pedagogy? What's missing?

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

Today I really enjoyed the Taming my Tabs dive as this is an area I often struggle with, having far too many tabs open. I have now learnt to manage this better using the chrome extension one tab. This will make life easier. I also got a lot out of the Gmail and Calendar dives. I have requested access to my teams calendar so I know when they are available, or where they might be on particular days. I have also compacted my calendar whereby it shows only Monday to Friday. I still need to organise group emails for our kapahaka group, PLG, Tuakana and whānau rōpū.

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

Today I really enjoyed learning about Google Keep and the things it can do. Great for students to take notes, images, drawings on the go. I particularly loved how these can be collaborative and pinned for most relevant. I love the feature that allows the notes to be copied to a Google Doc, and that it has the ability to record keynotes, lectures and presentations. I will test this out today. Show students how to use Document Outline when using headings to quickly access parts of the text that are relevant. I need to revisit the explore functions Introduce students to remove background and put in another. I will be able to show my tamariki how to embed a video which is a skill I have learnt today.

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

I have created my own personal email address. Revisiting Google Meets was beneficial also, knowing where to access the recordings from my Meet and embeding the link to my blog. This will be useful to show the students in my class how learning online can be rewindable by recording your Meet. I just need to remember to check the share settings, and change the post view to HTML with the top left pencil button.