Today was all about computational thinking. A whole new world for me. I found the links Venessa shared re a school in Auckland were quite helpful. We had some exam prep for next week and then went into groups to try something new. I went into scratch, I found it the most tricky thing so far during DFI and I think I will be heading to scratch junior for a play around. There were some good tips for Google keep and I have saved A lot of the resources I use for my reading planning into Google keep so I do not have to keep driving my paper work to school and home each day. It really is awesome. I am going to work on my Blogger check list, which I think I have completed most of them. Something awesome during the week. We had our class Manaiakalani session with Donna Yates. My class is year 2 and 3. We managed to get the class to complete a digital footprint using Google draw and got 3 children posted to their very own blogs for the first time ever!!! There was lots of clapping as I loaded onto our big screen. So my mission is by the end of week 12 to have all 23 children have their first blog post completed. I made sure to email the blog link to the 3 parents of those children yesterday so they could share in the excitement. I had one parent who was quite excited but his comments were not working. A few handy dandy tips from Venessa who is also known as my technical adviser, I am now happy to say his comment is live. I used some bubble time this morning to set up filters, with my technical advisers help to collate all the blogger comment notifications into one folder, as not to fill up my in box.
1 more week to go!
Thanks
As you can see I have a lot to learn in Scratch, meow
Wednesday, June 24, 2020
Wednesday, June 17, 2020
DFI Week 7
Another busy day at DFI!!!
We spent most of today looking at devices such as Chrome books and on Ipads using Explain Everything App. It was great to learn lots of chrome book shortcuts as I am new to chrome books this year and my class are like how do I this? And I am like hmmmm. So that was great learning for me. Also being able to have some time to have a play with Explain Everything. Above I attempted to make these slides on EE to demonstrate that you can not believe everything you see on the internet. Was Humarie as school? Or the zoo, or the beach? There is still plenty to learn on EE, but it is a great app and can not wait to have it loaded on my class set of 4 Ipads. So I am hoping the children will be able to make their own and teach someone they know, not to believe everything they see.
Until next week.
Michelle :)
We spent most of today looking at devices such as Chrome books and on Ipads using Explain Everything App. It was great to learn lots of chrome book shortcuts as I am new to chrome books this year and my class are like how do I this? And I am like hmmmm. So that was great learning for me. Also being able to have some time to have a play with Explain Everything. Above I attempted to make these slides on EE to demonstrate that you can not believe everything you see on the internet. Was Humarie as school? Or the zoo, or the beach? There is still plenty to learn on EE, but it is a great app and can not wait to have it loaded on my class set of 4 Ipads. So I am hoping the children will be able to make their own and teach someone they know, not to believe everything they see.
Until next week.
Michelle :)
Wednesday, June 10, 2020
DFI Week 6
Today was all about sites. We had lots of time to try things out on our sites. I am very happy to say I have buttons on my site. With lots of assistance from Venessa and plenty of screen sharing my buttons are almost aligned. Using Google drawing and changing shape and searching for my pictures was great fun.
I have also changed my colours to make it more uniform and easier on the eye. It was great getting to see my bubbles sites as well. Although that did give me site envy I plodded along and I think mine is looking much easier on the eye.
So here is link to my site
I have also changed my colours to make it more uniform and easier on the eye. It was great getting to see my bubbles sites as well. Although that did give me site envy I plodded along and I think mine is looking much easier on the eye.
So here is link to my site
Thanks and have a great weekend!
Wednesday, June 3, 2020
DFI Week 5
Yet another day of full on learning. We had some learning on visible learning and multi modal. Behavioural engagement as well as cognitive. We then went into Google sites and created a new site from scratch. I made mine on Earthquakes as this is what I am focusing on with my class. We learnt about colour picker eye dropper which is pretty cool . And learnt about the sharing settings.
We then went into smaller groups to learn about T shaped literacy. Kerry was very helpful and got us all working away. And more tips on Blogger to finish off our day. I think I will try emailing this post to myself!
Something I learnt in DFI and put into place last week was my class being able to upload their blurb about themselves onto their own blogger. They are not live yet as we are still preparing. But I managed to send out through Hapara a google draw document each and photo of themselves. They changed the shape of photo, added a coloured background and wrote a brief introduction about themselves. It was really a team effort and as I had 7 children away that day it did make it a little easier. Once a couple had the instructions under their belt, I got them to share their new knowledge with a couple more and by the end everyone had completed their blurb. One mistake i learnt from was the google drawing was not saved as a png which it needed to be. So when the children opened the spanner on their Blogger and tried to replace image the file they needed was grayed out. So we changed that and it was all go.
So I am happy it all worked out and hopefully I can report soon on how my classes Bloggers are looking.
Here is the link to the site I made today.
https://sites.google.com/paparore.school.nz/earthquakes/home
Until next week :)
Michelle
We then went into smaller groups to learn about T shaped literacy. Kerry was very helpful and got us all working away. And more tips on Blogger to finish off our day. I think I will try emailing this post to myself!
Something I learnt in DFI and put into place last week was my class being able to upload their blurb about themselves onto their own blogger. They are not live yet as we are still preparing. But I managed to send out through Hapara a google draw document each and photo of themselves. They changed the shape of photo, added a coloured background and wrote a brief introduction about themselves. It was really a team effort and as I had 7 children away that day it did make it a little easier. Once a couple had the instructions under their belt, I got them to share their new knowledge with a couple more and by the end everyone had completed their blurb. One mistake i learnt from was the google drawing was not saved as a png which it needed to be. So when the children opened the spanner on their Blogger and tried to replace image the file they needed was grayed out. So we changed that and it was all go.
So I am happy it all worked out and hopefully I can report soon on how my classes Bloggers are looking.
Here is the link to the site I made today.
https://sites.google.com/paparore.school.nz/earthquakes/home
Until next week :)
Michelle
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