Day 6 DFI

Once again, another full on learning day again for Day 6 of my DFI experience.  I am really getting into this now. Feeling comfortable and confident with my awesome digital group and I thank them for sharing their knowledge and their feedback.

Today we spent most of our time on building/updating our Google Sites.  Last week, in Week 5 of DFI, was the first time I have looked at google sites.  Today I spent more time on my new google site and I am really pleased with how it is looking. Click here to see progress so far

Day 5 DFI - Collaborative Sites

So Day 5 was yet another awesome day of learning with the company of great like-minded people. My bubble group leader Vicki is just fantastic, so easy to listen to and to understand, thank you Vicki. Today we concentrated on setting up our own google site. Very daunting idea, I must say, for someone who is not one of you fantastic teachers however, with the good fortune of having Dorothy Burt all to myself for an hour, and her excellent insight and encouragement, I am quite pleased with my progress so far in setting up my google site. After looking at the shared resource from Dorothy on Tech Toolkit for Families I decided that Bay of Islands College should have a google site promoting cybersmart information for parents and their learners. Made some good progress and is now a work in progress with the input from our Principal. See link Thank you to the team of facilitators, you are always so willing to share your knowledge. I am looking forward to spending some time next week on two toolkits I have signed up for (never thought I would take part in these) and working on my new google site. For now I will take a well earned break from the computer screen and pop up to the school and catch up with what needs doing before the weekend. 

DFI Day 4 WOW

 Day 4 of my DFI experience proved to be full of learning as previous days.  The 'Connecting with Manaiakalani' topic today was 'Share' as part of the 'Learn, Create, Share' Motto. It is just amazing how the concept of sharing has exploded over the years and how the concept of sharing has changed. 

We covered Hapara Hot tips again and then we went into Google Forms.  This was just awesome, learning heaps of new stuff and sharing my creations on my blog was cool.

We also did a session on creating a google sheet for the purposes of data analysis. I have already shared some of my creations, which I really enjoyed making.

Google Maps was a cool session, learning new tips on making my own google maps

Day 4 DFI Blog Analysis First Attempt

Day 4 DFI Learning - My Google Map 1st attempt

Another animated google slide - having fun

Google Draw 1st Attempt

About Me Blog

Day 3 DFI Experience - Even more stuff learn :-)

Wow,  so day three of my DFI experience is now done and dusted.  So much interesting stuff to learn and getting to know some of my fellow DFIer's a little better.

Firstly we learned some new Hapara Hot Tips, I now have a teacher dashboard set up so I can navigate my way around all our awesome classrooms. 

It was awesome to hear Dorothy speak about the 'Create' concept of the Manaiakalani Pedagogy; Learn Create Share.  We all shared how we were able to connect with our creative side during the 'lockdown' period which just showed me that when forced to take some time out, we all have a great creative energy.

Dorothy shared with us how creative our young learners can become, showing us examples of the great stuff students create which in turn empowers their learning.

Our Deep Dive today was around Media. Looking at SISOMO (sight, sound and motion). I have had some great fun today looking at google draw, google slides and You Tube  Video

I found the google slides and incredibly interesting tool and I look forward to spending some quiet time learning my way around this. Google Draw was also a cool tool to look at.

Thank you to Makaore and then Nicola for sharing your awesome knowledge on Google slides.

You have already seen my first attempt at a google slidehow here on my blog and I look forward to trying this again. 

I look forward to taking some quiet time to reflect on all the learning today and to what wonderful things the team will be teaching us next week. Bring on Week 4

Playing with Animation in Google Slides