DFI Week 4: Collaborate Sites Reflections for the day.

• What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?
• I learnt how to create a site for a multi modal unit. The unit I chose was Gardening.

• What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?
• This is ongoing learning to get more confident with creating google sites.
• What did I learn that could be used with my learners?
• As above.
• Here we are hard at work. It's pretty intense learning and working.

Now for some lunch and some korero in the lovely sunshine.

DFI Week 4: Collaborate Sites:Multi modal site

Today we learnt how to create a google site for a multi modal unit plan.

My multi modal unit plan is about Gardening.

Voice typing

Recording ideas using voice typing.

This week I showed 2 of my students how to use Voice typing to record their ideas for writing.

These 2 boys are struggling writers. They have low achievement in literacy.

It normally takes them at least 30 mins to type their ideas in writing.

I gave them 15 mins to have a tutu with voice typing.

What a difference it made. They were able to record so much more of their ideas.

Their writing sounds more natural and uses more language not just words that they 

feel confident in trying to spell. As you can imagine these boys felt elated at what they

had achieved in such a short time.

Dealing with Data: W3 DFI :Using Google - My Maps

We collected information about the preferred holiday destinations of our DFI group.
We analysed the data using Google sheets and then we imported the information into Google Maps.

DFI Week 3 Dealing with Data:

:Google Form- Here is the Form I created today.

DFI 3 Dealing with Data

Using Data from Kohl-lee's Blog I used Google sheets to analyse her blog post data.

I was able to generate a graph. From the graph I could write this simple report.

Our Google Hangout experiment-DFI2

Thanks to Ellen, Lauren, Alistair for your help.

My 2nd Day of our DFI-Workflow-DFI2

I enjoyed my second day of DFI.

Time to reflect and share with colleagues.
What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani’s Learn
kaupapa and pedagogy?
Increasing Teacher effectiveness and accelerating student outcomes in digital learning
environments.
Don't throw the baby out with the bath water

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?
I learnt to tidy up my emails, calendar and bookmarks. Helpful for working smart and
managing workflow.
Also using Google Keep and Tasks.
What did I learn that could be used with my learners?
I learnt to be able to manage my workflow better so this should help me to work smarter
and to be able to spend more time on what I need to do to be more effective for my students.

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?
Using Google tools better to manage my workflow more effectively..