Dorothy spoke to us about the Create part of the Manaiakalani philosopy. It is often the part that excites our students. Creativity is a lifelong skill that helps our students to problem solve, collaborate and communicate.
Creativity is not new to teaching, we looked at videos from 60 years ago where students were using their creativity. ( maybe it was called developmental back then? ). We can't have engagement for many kids without having creativity.
I created a youtube channel and a playlist. I can see this is very useful for supporting students' learning. We were given a tip that youtube has youtube.com, youtube channel, and youtube studio. It can be confusing, so it is a good idea to keep an eye on the url to know which one you are on.
To add a playlist. Find movie on youtube.com. Hover over the 3 dots. amd save to playlist. A tip is to look at the bottom left as it will flash up that it is added to playlist. This is different to google as google gives a different confirmation.
You can reorder your playlist by dragging, you can collaborate with others. You can share a playlist of a video in a class site or a blog. For a playlist make sure the playlist is public and that embedding is allowed (under advance settings)
We explored google draw, and saw lots of examples of how teachers and students had used drawings. During this time I created a drawing that I will be able to use later on my Blog.
Google slides can be used for many differents uses. I asked Nicola to confirm how to speed up an animation. We need to change false to true in the embedding code and change the 3000 (3 sec) to maybe 500.
In the final session I looked at Treasure maps with Mike Madden. I can see this as a fun way for students to access their learning and during this 'lockdown' time it may be possible to create a map so they can choose what they do when. Mike showed me a site called Thinglink which has lots of great ideas for 'treasure map' type tasks. He also reminded me of the remove.bg to remove a background.
Today was the first day of digital DFI and I think it went well. It was well supported by facilitors, which was great. I think this would be reallly challenging and hard to do with a full class or a bigger group. It concerns me about how I will hangout and answer questions in a whole class hangout for my learners.
Kia ora Sue. Thanks for sharing such an honest post. Learning onlilne is new to all of us and as Dorothy said, we need to try things confidently and if they don't work as we wanted them too, we need to make adjustments. In answer to your question of hanging out with a large group & answering questions, you will need to plan how you do this successfully. My thoughts are that you would hangout as a class to check in, maybe share the overall day's plan, then have the students split into smaller groups that you would connect with at different times. As long as you connect with each learner twice a day (ie- in the class group & as a smaller group), then you are doing your job. They can go off and work independently and you can track that on Hapara, without having to Hangout. I would use pen & paper to note things you need to work on with specific students and cover them in your small groups. Keep it simple and make it work for you. Happy to connect with you if you want to discuss this further.
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