Session 4 - Collaborate - Sites

Feedback from our week

Google Earth - children visited their country of origin. Compare birds-eye view of Auckland to the islands.
Longitude and Latitude activities - Geometry next week

*Youtube channel - refresher next term. Have a look at it over the holidays.

Kea Kids news - Heihei. On Stuff commenting tool is enabled.

Bouncy Balls - balls display for noise levels.

Connecting with Manaiakalani - Pedagogy and Kaupapa

Slide deck
You can't have sharing without connecting. Sharing is about making a connection.
Sharing has been an important part of us as a society for a long time - in our communities the sharing of food, our stories, the positives, and the negatives.
The medium we are using to share has changed.

2005 - beginning of Social media - ability to share our lives with others with speed and amplification -You tube/ facebook/ Bebo/ My space.

Manaiakalani realised that this was something that could be harnessed to be the 'hook' for learners - "Share' was the hook for children. Now we can reach a global community and audience - know our learners know that they are not limited by their geographical location they can reach out and go beyond.

Doesn't matter what medium we are using it is connecting with an authentic audience which is important.

BLOGGER - the main space chosen for our young people to 'share.'

Resembles it in functionality, not in appearance. A vehicle to help us to teach young people to become responsible digital citizens.

Three check system:
Hapara teacher dashboard/ Teachers email address loaded on each child's blog/latest post loads at the top.
Best way to learn about something is to use it ourself.
Blogger - Gives a context to teach children how to navigate their way through the information highway.

"Learning how to finish" is a vital life skill for our tamariki to have and to develop for life as an adult.
Sharing is an incentive to finish learning - when I have shared then feedback and feed-forward can happen.

Multi-Modal

Slide deck

Emphasing engagement as a Hook. 

"Window Dressing" - we want to display ourselves and our lives at our best.

If you want to engage our learners we have to make it look attractive - hook them in. Our learners are faced with a world full of websites and companies etc which are trying to entice them. 

Our challenge is hooking our tamariki into our digital learning space.

When we have hooked them we want to provide them with multi modal learning opportunities.

When you have children behaviourly engaged because you have hooked them in then we need to engage them cognitively. Change the depth of the content and the way that they think about it and that's where a shift will occur.

Each learner learns in different ways - have to present the learning in multiple ways to suit the different styles of learning. need to present our content in a variety of ways to engage every one of our learners. A universal approach when designing learning.

Exploring Multi-Modal Sites

Had time to explore different examples of multiple text and multi-modal learning sites.

Google Sites

Create a folder to save buttons etc.

Plan out your pages and sub pages. The goal is for learners to get from the landing page and get to their reading tasks in 3 clicks.

Multi Text Database

T shaped Literacy texts

Have a main piece of text, 

A complimentary piece of text - a video, a comic, 

A scaffolding text - an easier piece of text. Easier language or contexts.

A challenging text - a harder piece of text. 

Learner selected text - wheres their choice? a text selected by the learner, eg. book boxes, give a list of websites where they can select a piece of text from. Padlet/Form - what was my learner selected text.

Additional texts.

We had an opportunity to look through an amazing resource, a multi-text database.

Create time!
We had to create a multi-modal site for our learners. This was a very long process! I wanted to create something that I would be able to use with my readers. As a starting point, I used Journal surf to find an article that would be my main text and theme. The next step was to plan out what my site was going to look like, a useful step to keep a track of pages and links which will need to be added while sticking to the 3 click rule.

It took me a while to get my head around how this was going to look and work for me, but I guess the more I work through this process and use it the easier it will become. I do think if I set it up properly it will be an effective way to hook and engage my learners.

Session 3 - Media

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

A good way to practice using Google hangouts -  Practise using Google hangout by introducing it to the children. Put children in groups and they can call each other and find their "Happy' place using google maps and talk about it with their buddy using hangout. Could also use this for writing?

100 word challenge/ Voice typing - Google docs have a new feature. Word count can be displayed on the left hand side so you can see your word count as you type. We are going to introduce voice typing to the children as part of our writing plan next week. We were going to select an image for the children to write about, but after some reflection about the 'create' aspect I thought the children could select their favourite image from ski camp or use one of the Google Earth Voyager stories.

Exploring Google Earth

Google Earth

Introduction to Google Earth. What an amazing tool for Literacy and Numeracy!

Doesn't need to be downloaded as an app anymore. You have the ability to set what your globe will look like by turning on animated cloud cover. Shows cloud cover for the last 24 hours.

Google Earth would be a great source of inspiration for writing. Use "I'm feeling lucky" setting and write about the images. Voyager setting would be great for literacy too - select culture - various voyagers you can select. Each voyage has stories about each area, recordings to listen to hear the language. Can visit schools in different areas, landmarks in different countries.

You can measure distances between places - numeracy avenues you can explore using google earth. Would be useful for teaching scale.

Using Google Earth Engine - Google Earth time lapse - for example looking at deforestation of places like Brazil can lead and open up powerful conversations.

Google Earth Studio for animation and movie making.

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

Connecting with Manaiakalani - "Create"

Slideshow

It's all about the HOOK.

(Kohl 2008) "Creativity is not to be confused with talent, skill or intelligence.It's about thinking, exploring, discovering and imagining."

Creativity is not for preschoolers only - it is for everyone!

Starts with the doing and then the learning follows. Most of us need to do something, explore and discover something before we can learn. 

Disengaged children - be reflective. What 'create' opportunities have we given them? What have we done to hook them? This made me think about the struggling writers, in particular, some of the boys. Why are they disengaged? Have they been given the opportunity to 'create'? How can I hook them in? 

Can I utilise Google Slides with Pick a path stories or animation to hook them in? 

Start with the children "Create" and the learning will emerge from here.

The purpose is for the children to be creating and discovering not just observers. 

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

Chalk n Talk - You tube

You tube channels

Comments and content can't be moderated. 

Create a channel (need to know how to do this) for the purpose of creating a playlist for sharing with our learners. We can create a playlist of videos for students to watch without exposing them to advertisements etc. Add video to a playlist. When you want to share videos with students, open playlist, select share, copy embed code and this can be added to a google slide etc.

Google Draw

Google Draw

Google Slides

remove.bg - removes square backgrounds when you are using images of the internet.

Creating an animation using Google slides.

Can add perspective by changing the size of images, change arrangement - moving image to the front or back. 

New Features in slide - when slides are in present mode click 'B' to turn screen black and 'W' to turn screen white.

Command+Shift+P for a flash pointer when in present mode

Can use Quick time player to record screen and also add sound or music.

Create - Getting creative with slides

Digital Pepeha  Ed tech pepeha presentation

Writing a mihi

Pick a path stories 

My Pepeha

In our create time I chose to work on my digital pepeha. I have worked with the students to create their pepeha but have never had the opportunity to write and create mine. 

Cohort 3 Session 2

Session 2 - Workflow

Exploring different tools to develop an effective practice around workflow.

Different tools we looked at:

Google Keep: I already use this for work and personal use and it was great to learn new things I could do with it. 

Lectures/Keynotes & Seminars - take a photo of slides or notes on the screen, add to note and select "grab text from image", this will grab any text in the image and transfer it as a note and now you have an image and the text.

Google Hangout/Meet: video calling, screen sharing, and group chats. Simple to use, invited Shiralee, Migi and Roy for a hangout next week. Invites are set up in Calendar.

Video Conferencing: Zoom - this is one that Migi has used previously. Allows everyone that has joined the group to be visible on the screen.

Taming your Tabs: apps/extensions that can help to keep a tab of your tabs!

OneTab - will close tabs that are open and save them.
Toby mini - useful for organising sets of tabs together
Bookmarks on your Toolbar - can organise your bookmarks into folders, eg. Companies

*Quick tip for Macs - 'Mac moments'
Click command + spacebar - will bring up spotlight search.
Should quit Chrome when you are finished - fills your computer up with unnecessary things.
Shut down your computer daily, disc doctor cleans your files, etc.
Clean my mac

Create - Hangouts and Summer Learning Journey.

We had to select a blog post we liked and within our group create a hangout and record our hangout using Quicktime player. I will need more practice with this - setting up the hangout, and then navigating between QuickTime and mute and unmute, so it is ready to record.  Record without headphones - if you record with headphones you will only record your voice and not the rest of the conversation of your group.
I can see some opportunities for this to be used in the classroom by the students with sharing their work or discussions around pieces of work.

I also learned how to embed a video onto a blogpost.
Open your video in a new window, select the 3 dots and select 'embed item'. Copy this and paste into HTML on your blog.

Manaiakalani Pedagogy - focus on LEARN/AKO

Digital Fluency and Teacher effectiveness need to work together side by side for accelerated learning to happen.

R ECOGNISE - What does effective teaching look like?

A MPLIFY -      because of the digital tools available things can be easily shared between groups and be more accessible.

T URBOCHARGE -  Doing things we couldn't do before, eg. google hangouts.

E FFECTIVE PRACTICE

What does the Learning Process/Effective Practice look like at Waikowhai?

Effective teaching practice hasn't changed with the introduction of digital devices, teacher roles within the classroom remain the same - devices can help to enhance acceleration.

When working and thinking about a 1 to 1 environment there are some taxonomies to consider.

SAMR model - Bloom's Taxonomy - modified for the digital world -

Rewindable learning - creating learning resources which the students and whanau can access at any time, like a virtual classroom.

Shiralee and I talked about how we are doing this in Te Waka Ako. At the moment we have access to documents and work on the syndicate site. Do we need to think about adding video sessions of group sessions etc?