First Steps into DFI

The journey has begun with DFI Professional Development and Learning in action online.

I think the Manaiakalani kaupapa has enabled my kura, Rāwhiti School to meet the ongoing challenges right now with Covid-19. The vision to make us an outreach school can now be repaid with how staff, community and students are responding online. We are all learning each day, new things, exciting stories and of course developing an online family. We are welcomed into our families homes when online and catching glimpses of how they are all managing. I have so many online families right now other than my peers and students, I can say my bubble has really expanded with uni PD, Core PD, DFI, work and PLN to maintain.

I have learnt today about making professional and personal profiles using Google Chrome. The new photo will be up after this blog post. The making of professional documents with table contents was a 'winner' for me as it could easily point out the specific highlights in a document that you want to focus on. Creating Google groups is relevant for our profession and knowing how to set one up was always an 'eye-opener' for me. The Learn, Create, Share, modelling is evident in todays session and it gave me more time to explore and 'touch' on new learnings for me.

I have learnt some clear cut guidelines about 'routines' when setting up and naming your doc. This frustrates teachers when looking for student work. It needs to be taught. Setting up a doc to have a Table of Contents will surely help with doc organisation. I really liked the Speak Tool as this will surely help my reluctant writers and to compliment that the reading online fluency template too. We were discussing this the other day on how to maintain our students fluency while online.

I have learnt to organise my files, how to name and label them. I have just been shown how to post a blog online with particular focus on what is involved.

My learn, create, share today.