Week 9 - 7.4.2021 Manaiakalani Digital Fluency Intensive

We did it!!!

These past 9 weeks have definitely been challenging but I have learnt lots of new and exciting Google tools, a special thank you to Kelsey my Bubble leader who has been very patient and to my group who has supported my journey to, Fa'afetai tele lava!

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

  I really enjoyed learning about how "Learn Create Share?" can be applied in so many different areas of education within leadership, teaching, students and our parents. I enjoyed listening to how I can use "learn create share" to my teach my staff. "
  

  
  

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

  I have learnt that giving the Google activities a go is a start! Trying to make all the Google tasks look perfect definitely changed my thinking as I had to put time to practice what I did not know YET what to do.

   
  

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

  Making mistakes or not knowing everything is OK! Being lead my the students was another great example of me being the learner instead of the leader/teacher.
  

  
  

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

  Presenting the variety of these fun Google Tools I learnt such as “explain everything” will definaltly be encougeing to my staff as they will notice how simple, clear and easy these Google Tools can be, Especially when they can connect to their own personal activities such as shopping lists, church events and social events .

  
  

  
  

Week 8 - 31.3.2021 Manaiakalani Digital Fluency Intensive

Greetings to you all! 

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

It’s important that we understand our students in a deeper level by acknowledging their differences, celebrating their culture language and identity! We as educators need to continue to ask questions that challenge the stereotypes of what media portrays to the community..

Point to ponder: why share a video identifying the working poor? Why highlight the disparities??!

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

Sharing the learning with the students. I really enjoyed learning together how to create a “ Scratch” talking Cat with the student. Letting myself be the learner and the student being the teacher was a great reminder that we are all learners:

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

Continue to provide multiple tasks that both the students and teachers are taking turns at leading, teaching and learning.

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

Spending time with a group and me being the learner listening to their tricks and tips on Sratch.

 Scratch- Tom the speaking cat!

Week 7 - 24.3.2021 Manaiakalani Digital Fluency Intensive

Great day overall for learning new ways I can present and share to my students, staff and our community! 

Below is a screenshot of my first attempt at using the app Explain Everything- "whiteboarding". I can see this being a very useful tool for students and teachers to work creatively together to talk about what they are learning together.

Below is me using Screencastify. It is a tool I used to record directly from my laptop. Otahuhu Primary School- HEART Values. It is also great for showing your learning or teaching others through rewindable learning.

Week 6- 17.3.2021

Visually seeing all the Schools Connecting across NZ through Maniakalani was very impressive! My wondering is how much more can we continue to connect to our Pasifika communities through connecting to our churches, community events and linking the same pedagogy “learn create share” to our families in our first languages.

Week 5 - 10.3.2021 Manaiakalani Digital Fluency Intensive

 

Greetings to you all, please see above using the Jamboard tool. This was a great tool to use with a buddy to collect and share information. We used the topic Treaty of Waitangi.

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

Being a visual leader is important! I support that thinking "making teaching and learning visible. As a leader I agree that we need to have no surprises, yes to accessible and available to all.

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

Using the Jamboard is a great tool for sharing with a buddy to collect ideas, information and can then be used to create a Google Site.

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

Jamboard and also Google Site. Both these tools are a great way to share and present to our students, staff and our community.

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?
I would  definitely use Jamboard and Google Sites to present and share ideas with students and staff.

Google Site: Meritiana MacShane

Week 4 - 3.3.2021 Manaiakalani Digital Fluency Intensive

 

Hello and Welcome to my Blog! 
Below is me using the Google Sheets tool, to enter data and create a table an a graph. Lots of learning throughout this new tool. 

I really enjoyed how I could make the connections  with our school Data using both Google Forms and Google Sheets. Both these tools were very challenging but I could see the usefulness using it for the first time (properly). 

I did not participate in using Google maps as we did not have Admin rights, so will look to get the function turn on.

I look forward to using Google Form when I’m surveying our community, and asking for feedback/feed forward with the staff.

I enjoyed listening to the thinking behind the share aspect in Manaiakalani. I value sharing is a tool to listen and grow and learn from others.

Week 3- 24.2.2021 Manaiakalani Digital Fluency Intensive

 

Talofa lava and Warm Greetings to you all

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

Yes! I agree when it comes to learning if the hands are working the head gets going. Definitely I have noticed that when the students are connected, engaged and are participating in the learning, the creativity and excitement in the classroom thrives! Zero behavior concerns!

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

Youtube: Creating a Youtube Channel and Play lists. This will be very handy for the whole school events such as Choir, Concerts, Cultural festivals, Kapa Haka etc. Having access to my music and songs on Youtube in a play lists will be very useful.

 

Google Slides: Presenting to my staff and at Parent/Whanau meetings. This Google tool will create confidence in me as it is a user-friendly tool. The functions I learnt such as command D (duplicate slides) centering pictures, changing the text styles, fonts, sizes (dragging in the middle seeing the red lines), and using the shapes to form a background will support my understanding of the tool to work best for when I need to present.

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

Animating with Slides! I am really excited about this tool! I can see our students using this tool to share about themselves in a fun and creative way. I enjoyed how simple this Goggle function was to explore and create!

Fa'afetai Amy for your motivation during this outbreak activity, your pace and flow teaching us was very much appreciated!

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

Youtube- creating playlists! This was my favorite new tool this week! I look forward to sharing my Youtube playlists with my family and friends and also using it when I have to download songs for choir and dancing!

Week 2- 17.2.2021 Manaiakalani Digital Fluency Intensive

 

Talofa lava and Kia Orana!

👀 ❤💻

Above is a video using Google Meet that we made comments on. Next Time I look forward to using Google Meet so I can practice recording my comments.

HAIKU Poem in summary of my learning 

• GOOGLE CALENDAR
• HAPARA WE NEED TO GET
• GOOGLE MEET RECORD

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

• It was very interesting listening to the kaupapa and understanding of the acronym R.A.T.E . (Recognise, Amplify, Turbocharge, Effective Practise) as YES all professional educators need to continue to grow and develop their practice, to keep up to date with current digital content students are using.
•  A wondering I have is, how does our Pasifika/Pacific families warm to seeing visually the acronym R.A.T.E?.. as it may come across as “payrate” or what’s your rate?.. is their a connection between the kaupapa and the audience?

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

• Google Keep will be a great tool for when I need to write a check list for the responsibilities I am involved with, especially during end of year term events and checking teachers reports.
• Using Google calendar to support the different events and activities we have within the school and community.

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

• Google meet: using this tool will be fantastic for my LSC and outside agencies meetings. Especially when it links to my Google calendar.

• Google calendar: visually connecting all my meetings, events is a user friendly tool I can clearly see what’s on top for me.
• Google Keep:absolutely looking forward to implementing this tool not only in my professional work life but personally too. I use to always write down “to do lists” but now this tool will become a very useful day to day check list!
• Google Gmail: creating “VIP” labels in order of priority will be awesome for me as I like to make sure that I have replied back to them. I liked how you can schedule emails being sent, and add on privacy settings.
• Uploading and embedding a video on to my blog would definitely be an exciting tool to share with my students and colleagues as it’s a fun way to record comments and reflections.

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

• Using the different Google Tools (Google Meet, Google Keep, Google Calendar and Google Gmail) throughout this week has definitely been a time saver! I have been enjoying using the shortcuts on the keyboard to go in between the applications.
• I have implemented my meetings/events/activities and set up Google Meet sessions using Google Calendar. Sharing with my sister my personal Google Calendar and setting up Google Meets  has been a great way for us to connect as she has recently moved to 🇮🇹 Italy.

Week 1- 10.2.2021 Manaiakalani Digital Fluency Intensive

 

     

                                      

Meritiana MacShane's Reflection

What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?Connection between the leadership team, the students, and the community.

( it's about the people first than the devices)

I enjoyed listening to how “Learn, Create, Share” has been developed over the

Manaiakalani journey and I look forward to applying these across my responsibilities.

All learners can achieve at a high standard regardless of the school's decile.

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

Definitely, using Google Drive more effectively by organising my folders.
Sharing my documents ie: minutes with the staff via Google Docs.

Practicing and using Google applications regularly eg:Googlemeets, and Google Docs.

What did I learn that could be used with my learners?
Resilience- keep trying! At times I was definitely struggling to understand how to use the Google applications, but as I asked questions and ‘played around’ I started figuring it out!

Using the Google Drive " share with me " folder so we can use the same document to add, edit, and comment on the information.

Using Google Docs the insert button to upload a picture from your computer.

Using Google Drive " rename button" to prioritise my folders.

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

Using Google Drive "shared with me" to upload our family meetings and our cultural activities we celebrate.

Continue to ‘play’ get familiar with the day to day Google applications.

DFI Google Docs Create

Nau mai, haere mai

 Welcome to my professional learning blog.

This is a place where I can reflect on my teaching in relation to my Teaching as Inquiry goals and how they link to the Education Council's Standards for the Teaching Profession.