DFI Session 6 Media- 04.06.19

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

Being Connected. The point of being digital

Learners learning globally- connected to others. E.g- tagging author in a blog post for a story and having conversations with an author.

Language to be shared across levels. A shared sense of language - the same kind of DNA/terms running across all (Learn, Create, Share)

Can start with either part - e.g create as in past staff meeting

Connected learners share

Potential to LIVE stream school events for parents who can't attend / world wide audience

You tube a good platform for Live Streaming - common for parents and children. Children can't access Facebook streams - not at school either.

Pretty cool, using a drone to film school cross country live - and played on giant TV screens for parents to watch - plus replays via You Tube.

Your own Sky Satellite truck below:

Work on live streaming protocols- only do a wave- no looking directly at the camera, turn settings initially to private then can change.
https://www.ptengland.school.nz/connect/pes-online

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

Making playlists in You tube I already knew - but a helpful reminder.

From 2020 team could have a site with each teacher being responsible for updating their own class learning pages? Shared stuff like Inquiry - a different site

Two weeks ago I was empowered to create sites for themes in reading, now I have learnt that all this can be done using google drawings. So I could create a bunch of google drawings as themes for different texts, better still how about other teachers do the same and save a folder of these for us all to use? Food for thought! This would make our workload so much easier. As teachers we are all responsible for making our workload easier. Sharing is caring!

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

Google Draw

Put instructions or examples outside the palate as these are not downloadable- anything on outside not part of final png

I have created a google drawing on Possums - using multimodal tasks. I can see this being very valuable for my learners - especially when I acquire more devices. Something even more useful would be for all other teachers to create a bank of these tasks that we can share! In my opinion teachers do not share enough - we create the resources ourselves - when we could be working so much more smarter!

I have also created an individual avatars in drawings that can be linked to student work/ blogs later. The students can add their own images with a camera in time and add a comment in the notes underneath.

I can't wait to continue using my class learning site in class. 

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

Going back to the discussion on drones, I would love to purchase a drone to take movies / photos of my house, garden, neighbouring area and make some really cool videos.