DFI 9 Final day

 Exam Preparation

Preparing for today's exam has been exhausting and frustrating.  I have never been a great exam person and tend to stress myself out before I have even started.  Here's hoping that this will go okay.

I can't believe that it has been 9 weeks already.  What I have learn't and grown to appreciate a lot more is the time and effort our teachers put into preparing their digital learning sites, sharing that information and learning with everyone in the class and then the additional followup work that comes with that.

I started this journey with a view of being able to help in the classroom in some small way.  It is clear that I need to try harder to implement and utilise the amazing Google Apps.  Unfortunately I haven't grasped the multi-google-tasking just yet, but I haven't given up yet!

Ubiquitous Learning

ANYTIME - ANYWHERE - ANYPLACE

TAMARIKI CENTERED LEARNING

MAKING AN DIFFERENCE IN LEARNING ACCESSIBILITY 

An amazing opportunity to log into the potential to access high quality learning.  Distance or location does not have to adversely impact your learning or teaching potential.  Learning inside and outside the classroom.  Learning, creating and sharing.

SUMMARY OF LEARNING

As a teacher aide I am really greatful for this opportunity.  To see beyond just logging in when I get to class and clicking on links is awesome.  I have a renewed appreciation for the mahi that goes on behind the scenes.  I have also found this a struggle as well, but I see this as a good thing.  It helps me to see how students can struggle with accessing and utilising their google skills.  This has most certainly helped to enhance my learning with our tamariki.

Thank you....

Ness and Kerry for always being on hand to help with my endless questions and eye rolling.  Sharing your knowledge has helped to top up my Kete Kukara. [I think that's right]  Thanks also Donna, the online knowledge group facilitators and of course Dorothy and the Manaiakalani team.  What a fabulous opportunity you are giving our tamariki.  Empowering our future generation to learn where ever they are is more than amazing.

Well I survived the exam and I am looking forward to growing into my learning.

Yv

DFI Week 8

Over the past 8 weeks I have been fortunate enough to participate in the DFI learning.  I have found this learning to be very intense and to be honest have struggled with some of the aspects of this learning kaupapa.

However, I certainly appreciate the level of accessibility that the Manaiakalani kaupapa gives our whanau.  Digital learning is not just another learning tool.  There is so much more to our digital learning than just searching for things on the internet.

The Manaiakalani has enabled us to be more engaged with our tamariki and their learning.  I love being a very small part of Empowering journey.  

USE IT OR LOSE IT -

I have been able to feast on so many digital delights for our learning.  I am sure my brain capacity has been flooded and there is no more room at the Inn.  Add to this the lack of time that I have to practice what I have learnt and then the speed at which each week rolls into the next! Whew.

The Future

Technology has advanced so much and changes are rapidly happening.  Maybe the Jetson's Tec is not far away.. Who knows

Lets see if this works.  Very first attempt at making a game.  My boys will not be impressed at all.

  Click here and lets see if my first attempt actually works. Yv Shark doo doo doo

While I have seen the kids at school whip up a Scratch with ease I have got loads to learn.  I am going to enlist the help of my 11 year old to help with this.  I can see the amount of fun the kids, big and small can help and I am looking forward to not being such a scardy-scratch and just letting my imagination run wild.

Not looking forward to the exam!

One more week to go, one more week to review 8 weeks of work!

DFI Week 6 Enabling Access - Sites

As with every DFI Dorothy spoke about the Manaiakalani journey, growth and experiences and how this applies to our professional and personal life.

It was great to have the additional time to work on Sites.  I have focused on the Basketball area of my life.  At the moment my family and I have basketball games or training four nights of the school week, we throw in a night of badminton, rugby training and games. Sunday is for fishing.  Not housework.

My confidence is slowly increasing but  I am looking forward to learning more.  What I particularly like is having access to so many DFI learners.

I have been using google keep with the Teacher that I work with to keep us up to date with one of the students that I work with.  

As I teacher aide I have really greatful to be a small part of this opportunity.  It is really great to be able to help the students that I am working with that aren't confident bloggers.

I am hoping to move our Basketball Whanau and also my own whanau into using blogger and google sites.  This will help us to keep the whanau up to date when we are away at tournaments etc.

What do I want to work on?  My confidence in working with the many awesome aspects of Google Suite and how to enhance my learning without trying to re-invent the wheel.  Still so very much to learn.  Another goal is to utilise my learning to fit within my busy schedule.

Thank you Manaiakalani for such an accessible learning site.

DFI Week 7 Devices

Here is a photo of the DFI group I am working with.

Cyber Smart

Fiona Grant - Auckland

• Empowering
• Connecting
• Confident
• Powerful, Positive, Comments

We spoke about the Kawa of Care, language appropriate responses.

Hapara -  Builds on Manaiakalani strengths to assist with monitoring of google suite access. Its good to be able to utilise the option in class.

Explain Everything

This was a lot of fun.  I do think I need to get some quick tips from Te Pihi though.  I did however forget to delete the second page of my project!
This also confirmed that I don't like selfies. 



Today was another intense day of learning.  I had the opportunity to use Explain Everything for the very first time as well as using Screencastify.  Not sure how I feel about either, however I can certainly see the value in using these for our tamariki.

Screencastify Learning.