Week 9 and FINAL week of DFI

WHAT AN AMAZING 9 WEEKS IT'S BEEN.

Exam Day Today and we were all very worried about the test. We all started our exam around 9.30am ish, Damn it was a head banger, the first few questions were not what I was ready for but I just answered them as I knew best. I finished the exam after 2 hours. 

Returned back to DFI at 1pm and kept an eye out for our results to see if we have passed this level 1 exam. I was very overwhelmed with the outcome of my result. 

YUUUUUUSSSSSS I PASSSSSSSED DFI Level 1. I just want to take this opportunity to Thank the Head of this waka, Dorothy, it was awesome being in this cohort and being guided through this journey by you. Jeremy and Jacob thank you both for being by our sides to get us all through to the end of this course. To all my new class mates well done on the exam and let's stay connected.   

THAT'S A WRAP!!!

 

DFI Week 8

Week 8 and our last week of DFI. We have been here for 8 sessions and it has been a great journey attending this course, learning more about Manaiakalani and its pedagogy. Next week is the exam that our whole cohort is going to partake in. Anxious people about the test but we will do our best. 

Computational Thinking is the new Digital Technologies Curriculum.

It is a Designing and developing Digital Outcomes and Computational Thinking is Progress Outcomes. 

A digitally fluent person can decide when and why to use specific digital technologies to achieve a specific task or solve problems.

Empower for both Teachers and Learners to enable 

Taking back ownership of our lives.

Us as a community taking back our ownership of living and being able to live. How does our community manage to get through each week, each month, and each year by only living on a $19,000 income for the year. This is not a beneficiary person either, this income is from a couple that work close to 50 plus hours a week. 

We were also asked by our Manaiakalani leader to come up with an ending for this great saying. 

"The greatest joy comes from Empowering students". 

TO STRIVE TO SUCCEED!

SCRATCH CREATE TASK

USING CODING IS FUN BUT DOES TAKE UP A LOT IF TIME AND CONCENTRATION.  

Today we had to used Scratch as our create task, we were asked to create and code 4 different sprites and those sprites doing different things within our scratch project. Take a look at my coding and comment on what I can keep or change. 

Week 7 DFI

 This week in our DFI course we learnt about Devices, We started off with the history of Manaiakalani focussing on Ubiquitous Learning, and how do you say this word, (You Bit Quit Us) and what does this word mean, It means it can be found or looked for anytime, anywhere, any pace and any one. We then looked at the Chromebook device and all the different uses and shortcut keys to use, totally different for Macbook users. Once we had a look and play around with Chromebooks, we then had a look at student ipads, wow wee that was something else especially when my learners are chromebook users, I havent yet been in a class to observe or see how they work with ipads. The picture below is me trying to use a create tool on the ipad.

Here is my create task that we had to complete today. We had to create a cybersmart slide deck,  I chose to do Smart Values, I used 3 values that we hear all the time in Manaiakalani and in our school, I also put some maori words to the pakeha words and then created a create task for people to complete. 

Week 6 DFI

Today in DFI we continued with creating a Google Site.  I have based my site around my Literacy Class and their Reading. I am wanting to keep everything the same and uniform, getting my students to understand the levels in me creating this site.  First level is a warm up level that the student do for 10 to 15 mins once they get into class, Second section is the groups and their reader for the week

 Third section is the level where the learner will challenge themselves with these next lot of readings and having to create with these stories too, the Last section is the follow up section where the students choose a different follow up task to complete each day of the week. 

 

I am hoping to keep everything the same and just change levels 2 and 3 each week. I will trial this site once I have all the resources I need before publishing it to my learner site. I will see how this site works when I use it in class, if all goes well then I will be creating a similar site like this for my maths class. 

Week 5 of DFI

Today we created our own site. Here is my created site about volcanos. Very tired and Information overload was very challenging but I have managed to create a site and get my post done before leaving class.  

CHECK OUT MY SITE I CREATED TODAY IN DFI.

Week 4 DFI

 Kia Ora and Welcome to my blog, Please have a look around at the Mind Map I done. Interesting and Important places in our community. I did the historical places around our school and I added another layer and highlighted all the Fast Food places just within Glen Innes. Enjoy having a look around. 

Right at the end of the day we did a Blog Data Case Study and I used one of my students blog post data to create this graph. 

Week 3 of DFI

Kia Ora tatou and Welcome

This week at DFI we focussed on media and the create side of things within Manaiakalani. This week we also didn't have to go into the class we were all online learning, going to different people for different create task. This was an awesome session and I really enjoyed my day today as we were all engaged in this way of learning and I was on the other side of the call as in I was not the teacher, I was the learner and that was different. One of the create task I attended was Creating a Digital Pepeha, you will see in my slide deck below that I am a proud maori that enjoys returning back to my papa kainga any chance I get. Google Draw and Slides are going to be my best friend when it comes to creating learning work for my students.

My Digital Pepeha

DFI lately has been awesome and I am looking forward to more amazing classes of learning new things, so all in all so far so good. 

Week 2 of DFI

 Today in DFI we talked about Google Meets, Keeps, Gmail and Calendar. We had joined meets for part of our class learning today. Joining a meet with the Dorothy Burt who was in Christchurch doing more amazing things with Manaiakalani. We talked about the LEARN side of the pedagogy, 4 powerful words that we as teachers need to take into account and implement into our teachings. R.A.T.E - Recognise, Amplify, Turbocharge, Effective Practice. One other thing Dorothy asked us during her delivery today was "What does LEARN look like in your school?". Google Keep was another topic we looked at today, a lot of useful tips and tricks that we can use, Google Keep is a bit like Notes on a Iphone. We looked at Gmail and how we can clean up all our emails by putting them into set folders which is called labels in mail, and lastly we looked at Calendar, amazing things can be done with calendar from making your appointments to you inviting people to a google meet. Our last task we had to do today was to pair up and invite our buddy to our meet and talk about a blog post of our choice. Here is a video of our meet.  

Day One of DFI

 

First day of DFI and it was an amazing and full of information day. First up we as the 2021 face to face cohort did our whakawhanaungatanga and shared who we are and where we are teaching, it was an amazing 25 minutes as each person were only allowed 60 seconds to share. We did really well and kept to time. We then learnt about the becoming and origin of Manaiakalani and how and when it was formed. Knowing and understanding the significance of Maui, Earth and the Hook. Our principles in our community had dreams and aspirations for the youth of their area, Manaiakalani was created to improve higher achievement for our low decile schools. Being collaborative and Innovative with teachings and learnings.  When we started our Deep Dive session we were shown how to use most of the Google Docs functions and learning about using the styles, voice typing and explore tool to make your doc a lot more tidier when delivering to your team, on top of all that learning that we have a table of content function that sorts out doc with links to each heading is so awesome. How this DFI course improves my every day personal life, it has shown me that organisation is key, just takes a few minutes to sort yourself out, start at the destination to start your new feature or make your copies.

Our last task we had to do was create a poster in Google Docs. Check out my cool poster.