DFI Week 2 Workflow Overview

Work Flow

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

That there is always something more to learn and share. Limited device and access does not mean you are limited to learning

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

The best away to improve my confidence is to practice, research and ask questions.

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

Regular use of the google meetings with presenting and utilising splitting the screen would certainly help. I have schedules a google meeting with another teacher aide at our school and two students to assist with sharing our learning from today.

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

Learn create share repeat. Being able to practice our learning and asking the facilitators questions while we are on site has helped a lot. Labels and filters have changed the look of my email for the better.  It has helped to simplify things.

We continued to look at aspects of google that can help us to complete tasks quicker, tips about google keep for instance.  Its good to know that we can share these labels.  I have set one up for the tamariki that I am working with to help keep connected with my classroom teacher.

Google Meet and Recording

There is something about recording yourself speaking that for me is a bit intimidating.  However it was great to practice scheduling a google meeting with our group and recording our assigned data.  We had to review a blog and shear the screen with our group.

For some reason my video did not embed correctly.  I am checking the settings and will re-post.

Another fantastic day of learning.

DFI Week 1 Learning never stops

Today I had the opportunity to be a part of the DFI Learing group.

I learnt that the Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy started back in 2006 with a group of wonderful people that saw the need to implement a learning platform to capture the creativity of a community.  This community didn't have access to today's devices or internet connectivity but they still made it work. It would be interesting to see how this initial project has impacted the tamariki, whanau and community.

When I started this I did not have a lot of confidence in navigating my way around all things google.  What I quickly found out is that there is always something new to learn and the best way for me to learn is to practice, access and do.  Mistakes makes learning interesting. Questions are great.

What can I take back to class, well Headings for one thing and voice typing!  Who knew this was even a thing.  The explore icon is more that just a tool to insert pictures or facts, you can also add the link to the article without adding the full text. I am excited about sharing what I have learnt with my class.

How can I improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life.  Well like google drive maybe not having so many folder's open.  Merge what needs to be merged, try not to duplicate things and use quick keys.

This is my first attempt at a poster.  Still a lot of work to be done.  I am looking forward to improving this.