Dealing with Data 25/5/21

  Dealing with Data 25/5/21

So many useful tools today- the ideas are limitless to what I can change and adapt into my classroom. So many tools and tips to use. Thank goodness for rewindable learning- so I can go back and review the tools today.

Google Slides- Thanks to Dorothy for her helpful tip to use Google Slides on your phone. Also you are able to go up to the URL and change from presentation mode so you can see the speaker notes.

Dorothy Burt- Share: Digital Fluency Intensive Manaiakalani Outreach

I completely agree with the power and important of children being able to share their learning as it provides purpose and an authentic audience.

Google Forms   Links to slides

Google Forms  Links to slides

It was great to make refresh to make google form- for the New Entrant children I used mote to help voice the questions. For New Entrants you can have multi choice questions using pictures.  There were good tips about sharing forms. 

Google My Map

What an awesome tool to use in Social Sciences- mapping, finding out about different places - with lots of great options to change the types. Activities can include holiday stories, children's pepeha, planning trips, favourite parks and locations around local environment. I have made a google form to identify where the children are from and then we will link it to the map.  Other handy tools are that you can edit map markers- add descriptions and video links.

Google Sheets

So many handy hints- it was great to cover the different tools- such as arrow, hand etc. Google translate was a very cool tool to add in.  Use the Explore tool- to select the best options for graphs. Click on the three dots on the side of the graphs to open into a new google sheets. It was great to remind me of conditional formatting, sorting data through filters.

Writing Quality Posts-

Thanks to the others who suggested link the slides from the day into the blog.

Today there were so much amazing information and ideas that can be explored further.

DFI Media Agenda 18/5/21

 

This week leading up to the DFI I have loved Google Keep. I am trying my best to use Google Calendar and book things into it for either personal, work- myself and my team. My OCD is thriving with sorted folders on my email, tool bar etc. I'm loving all of the learning and having time to think and be creative. I have done some research on Jim Collins' work and having my time to think creatively and expand my ideas rather than the mouse wheel of day to day work.  The DFI is certainly been a great outlet to push pause on the day to day and expand my professional knowledge on an area that had been laying dormant for a "little" while.

Here's today's thoughts....

Hanga- The Hook- Dorothy Burt- Connecting with Manaiakalani

The question that I asked myself was how can I amplify the creativity in my New Entrant class. We are Play Based classroom and I want to send some time refocusing open ended opportunity by having choice. I'd like to spend some time working with my co-teacher to ask how can we embed this in our programme during the week. How can we embed creativity through our integrated planning into our weekly programme.  

You Tube

It was great to check the settings of the YouTube channels that I have. I have been using one channel for a really long time so it was good to get some clarification around channels and playlists. I am pleased I have change my settings and have a little bit of a deeper understanding of how things work. It will be good to spend some sorting out old play lists and thinking about new playlists for my class. I will share with my team the idea of us subscribing to each others channels so we can share playlists. Its always great to be a magpie and see what others have.

Media

It was interesting to see how far teachers can go with their creativity and the joy it must bring students to make green screen videos, be on TV channels and how video can be used in interesting ways.

Draw

I really took on board how limitless this tool can be. I'm going to really try to explore this with my class. It will be a really helpful tool to make quick resources for the children and for a great tool for the children to use for drawing. I'd like to do this in Guided Writing and I have been thinking of ways we can story writing digitally using draw and voice to text particularly for those Oral Language Writing lessons.

So tips to remember-

This is one I can never remember: 

• when I want to change the shape of an image or a photo click on the image so the outline is blue, go to the cropping tool, then click on the downward arrow and then choose the shape. This is gold!!!
• remember to either save the image as an PNG or as html into the blog or slide etc
  
  
  

Google Slides

Hints to use- two fonts on each slide, consistent colour. Important things to consider is who is the intended audience and ensure that some thought has been put into the planning.

I would love to look ways I can use Slides for planning and to also link to our Ako Torowhanui & Literacy themes.  Emily and I discussed how these could be created and shared amongst the team. I love the concept of building a google slide that has resources and links available that is an interface for the children. We use our drives effectively to share resources and planning so this would be an extension can be shared with other team members and their classes so they can collaborate and grow the resource for children. As Emily and I both agreed this will be working a lot smarter and more efficient. The slides could include videos, music, links to websites, learning intentions, links to activities.  So this will be my next challenge with my class practice.

We made a pick a path slide- I have always wanted to know how to do this and it was fantastic- it was such an easy way to link slides to each. So many little tips that I learnt on how to link slides to each other when you use control k- and to also overlay shapes over the buttons that need to be selected to help create bigger buttons.  The other little trick was that I didn't know to use the arrow keys when a menu bar comes down and I am near the bottom of my screen.

This one needs a little tweaking but I am getting there...

Today our session was online and it was nice to be at home- especially when the weather wasn't the best first thing. The day seemed to go even faster than normal. I think I prefer face to face as it is easier to brainstorm/problem solve with others. The session feels more intense online and I felt I really had to concentrate alongside doing technical things while managing the Google Meet. Though it was nice though having a cup of tea and the odd thing out of the pantry- plus my old dog enjoyed being inside for the day.

 

DFI Week 2- Workflow 11/5/21

 

I really appreciated the WWW review at the start of the day. It was excellent to reflect back and then be able to refresh my mind and then collect a few more ideas and tips that I had missed in the first session. I wasn't aware of the "explore" function which will be so very useful.

Manaiakalani Pedagogy session with Dorothy Burt- Learn, Create, Share- It was highly useful to spend more time delving deeper into the Learn, Create, Share. The RATE acronym was useful. I particularly liked the Treaty of Waitangi example which will be a useful framework to use when planning Inquiry topics. 

Google Keep- This is going to be amazing. I love the features of taking photos and the feature of it turning the text on the photo into text. I love the checklist features. I think being able to take photos with notes when I am on courses or at meetings will be so helpful. I think having reminders while also be very helpful-especially when I have daily checklists. The voice recording feature will also be helpful. Also being able to transfer the keep notes into google docs. I am going to transfer my checklists- to do lists- I love that you can colour them. too.

G Mail- I am very OCD with organising my emails and filing my emails. The icons on the side I had actually never noticed, particularly the contacts icon- which I will find really useful. 

Google Calendar- it was great to refresh and remind how to set up a entry. Appointment slots will be so very useful for meetings- team meeting. We can only use it for people with google accounts and I have looked at sending invites to Junior Team events.

Google Meet- It was great having another session on Google Meet to refresh on the updates. I really liked the etiquette poster. That will be helpful if we have to teach remotely. It was great to go back and do another Google Meet with a colleague to practise presenting and to also make a recording that used a video. We needed to have another go at recording our google meet, but that helped with working out the tricks and knowing how that menu bars and tabs work. So I need to remember when I am presenting to press Present now and then click tab.

How to embed a video on your blog:

-First change your settings in share and make sure 'anyone with the link can view'

-Double click on the video

-Next go to the 3 dots and go 'open in a new window'.

-Next go back to the 3 dots and hit 'embed item' and when the box comes up copy that text.

Then go to your blog and hit the pencil drop down in the top left corner and go to the HTML view and then paste the text you copied in there. Go back to the compose view and voila.  (Thanks Mr Gold for your notes)

Its been another fabulous session today. So many helpful tips. It has been reassuring that I had already learnt (only a few) tricks along the way with emails and using google calendar.

DFI Week 1 4th May, 2021

 

Today's session has been really refreshing and so helpful. It has been a balance of relearning information and tips that I have previously forgotten. 

It was fantastic relearning and hearing the Manaiakalani story and having the vision shared. I particularly thought hearing about the timeline of how Manaiakalani has evolved over time and where our kura fits with Manaiakalani. It was fantastic to meet Dorothy Burt and that she was able to korero  about how Learn, Create, Share evolved and the way learners have used such a wide variety of digital tools over time. I think the analogy of our devices are our pencils to how Learn, Create and Share.

I took part in professional learning in 2019 with my Year 3 class and since returning to the New Entrant some of tools such as blogger I haven't used in recent times so I had concerns that these sessions were going to be beyond my current skill base.  I have found the pace of today's sessions well paced and our facilitators were both patient and explained tasks well.

Some things that I have immediately changed were my photo in my chrome profile.  The google groups session in the Deep Dive was interesting. I will set up a group for the Belfast Early Childhood Network. The group has discussed sharing readings and emails- so this will be perfect. 

It was also great to have tips and feedback on ways to improve the organisation in my google drive- there are a few tips that I will share with my co-teacher Judith Short around sharing docs and opening the links to all people who have that link to a doc. This will be a time saver in the future.

I have particularly found the short cuts useful and I have a doc of short cuts that I am particularly wanting to remember. I will keep adding to this doc. 

Short Cuts

It has been extremely helpful having some time to sort my bookmarks bar and reorganising my folders. 

Google Docs

There were lots of many tips regarding google docs- such as opening a google doc in the correct folder. I also used the voice to text- this I will use during the Oral Language Writing sessions and also to when I am publishing the children's writing for cut out sentence.   There were also lots of other useful tips when presenting in google docs and I will utilise tables when creating on google docs. I liked the idea of changing the table outline to the same colour as the background. This will be so useful when I am creating resources for the class and the Junior Syndicate.

The other really useful tips were around using headings within a google doc. Our staff had learnt about this in a slam dunk but I hadn't really understood- so having this reshared today was so helpful. I had previously set up our school's Team Profile and I had used bookmarks. I have already replaced the bookmarks in our Junior Team Profile with headings and I have added the contents to the top of the doc. I will share this with the other Team Leaders at our next Middle Leaders meeting.

Overall today has been so very helpful and I feel its been like doing a jigsaw puzzles- where I already has quite a few pieces joined and today I filled it many more pieces.