DFI - Session 2 - WORKFLOW

Link to Agenda

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Time to reflect and share with colleagues

• A great day of learning new tools and tips to help with workflow.  Definitely out of my comfort zone at times in that it was lots of information to retain.  Technical issues were a little hindering however all good in the end.  Thanks to Kelsey and Tanya for your time and patience.  Today I have come away with extra knowledge about how to use gmail, google keep, hangout etc.

What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy? (principle/policy & method of teaching)

• Learn: Listening to Lenva via Hangout and Google Slide show about Manaiakalani Pedagogy. Some of the slides I had heard before in a Staff Meeting session with Mark Madden, which help cement the 'Learn, Create, Share' pedagogy.

• Create: Creation of a Group Hangout - interesting in that I again had the microphone issue. Keen to have another go to cement this knowledge.
• Share: Last session was good to share what we had learned and to go over the content of the day.

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

• To keep having a go
• Ask questions if not sure
• Downloading Google Keep APP - This definitely is a tool that would improve job lists and not having lists everywhere. Great that it connects with IPhone.
• How I can use Hangout as a tool in a junior classroom.

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

• Hangout tool - in a small group. Beneficial for enhancing / increasing vocabulary for those able readers. Less able children could practice their reading and hear themselves talking. I can see this could be used as a very good incentive to promote on task behaviour.
• Using BLOGs as a reading tool - could set up old computers for this.

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

• These tools I have learnt today will help free up time for family and self-indulgent activities. Google mail/calendar/Google Keep will be beneficial in planning. The knowledge of labels, settings etc will help make gmail easier and to get the full benefit of.

Extra Kelsey tip - Online Toolkit - has a number of hangout scenarios that can be viewed.

Create: Making meaning of content
Using Google Hangout to connect with a small group.


THINGS TO DO:

• Revisit Agenda
• Have a go of Group Hangout 
• GOOGLE KEEP - Practised sending Google Keep notes from phone to MY Drive but would not allow to view notes - said I needed certain APPS for it to work.  Need to research.

DFI Session 1 - Core Business

Digital

Agenda for Session 1

Manaiakalani

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

• Origins is from Samoa (Hawaii) Looking at Manaiakalani as a tool to help and enhance your teaching.
• It can be used on multiple devices e.g. Iphone, laptop, IPads etc - Namely it is a pencil.
• Aim is to ENGAGE, ENGAGE, ENGAGE

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

• Has helped me to streamline planning and filing documents/folders for future use
• Rather than use Team Drive - use 'My Drive', put in folders and use the search engine to locate documents
• Understanding of Google Groups - love the choice of 'send daily summaries' at a specific time
• Understanding different terminology when using Google Docs
• Using the Explore tool - the fact that it is a legal tool, hence great search engine for children to use.
• Resources, documents and planning potentially easier to find and to use later without endless searching or redoing.
• Very easy to share to make it more collaborative between our Junior Syndicate.
• The Scavenger Hunt activity was a good example of exploring google docs.
• Looking through other peoples' blogs, google doc creations, learn create share examples with links was good to get different ideas.

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

• Voice to text 
• Incorporating it in Reading groups - such as voice to text to check fluency and how a particular child is reading,
• ESOL children matching words with pictures

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

• The new skills taught, will definitely help me become more efficient in planning.
• This will on-flow to allow more family and partaking in activities that I enjoy such as gym, cycling etc.

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These videos are by Brett Petrillo. He talks quite slow so use settings to speed up the sound.