DFI 4

Today was full on with lots of new stuff to take in. It was 'Dealing with Data' day and the learning attached to it was quite interesting.

Another walk through into the Manaiakalani pedagogy, with today being 'Share'-Tohatoha and how that it is also an important part of the Learn, Create, Share model. It's about having an 'authentic audience for their learning outcomes.' Since 2005 the media bubble has kept up a frenetic pace with new apps and innovative ways to make life easier or to hold and capture audiences attention.

The Google Forms was great to finally tidy up the missing 'bits' that I wasn't sure of. I can see that information gathering, class tests and quizzes could be used in this way especially as I use it a lot in maths and literacy.

The Hāpara Hot Tips was great. I have done lot of trial and error runs using the dashboard, from checking student work, sharing a file to students, grouping students into literacy, maths and groups necessary. I am looking forward to more hot tips in the future.

Once again the time to explore and practise the new tools was great to sort it out in your mind about how it worked. The Google Sheets with Gerhard provided new information to take in and this would be very helpful to know and cut down the time to show and produce data. I am immediately putting this learning into practice.

Google My  Maps showed how it could be used to extend learning and develop a whole lot of discussion points about conversion, currency, distance, time zones. I will look at using this in the measurement unit.


The World Map can't be drawn in a smaller size to show distance or a flying symbol to create location to location.

Analysis Data from a Student Blog

The data shows that in one particular month there were a lot of page views with the highest being 9 views. A lot of activity during the lockdown.

The highest all time page views were 678. I think this is when this student started and everyone was keen to support each other with views and comments.

A wide range of audience with some South American countries involved. New Zealand had the highest recorded possibly from friends and families. A real spread of audience viewers.

Nogo's - Digital Pēpeha with sound

My second attempt and I've worked it out, cropping, trimming and recording.

DFI 3

Today was another full on day,I gleaned a lot from the tutors today in the digital bubble groups. The 'Create' part of the Manaiakalani Pedagogy as the 'hook' was very interesting with "a lot of time spent learning but little being creative" hindering student engagement. I've understood from Dorothy's presentation what SISOMO stand for; sight, sound, motion. Schools have based their pedagogy on the create theme allowing staff and students to be creative while learning. Learning about Media today it has been really great to upskill and learn how to use the tools within a class. I enjoyed the Youtube with Gerhard and the 'Deep Dive' with Kent. I liked Kent's shared vision about streaming events using 3 drones. Bringing the 'action' to the wider community enables engagement from community. The specifications for cameras and drones also were helpful. I learned about the digital pēpeha and how to incorporate Screen Castify to to add sound, which will be helpful for learners who are shy in front of others. Google slides have been our go-to for teaching and learning with students. This is also helpful for students who want to show their learning with sound and motion. My confidence has improved from being inspired by peers digital work on the DFI course. This has raised the question of why can't I do the same too. I have to practise and then use what I know with students, sequencing and a thoughtful approach using Learn, Create, Share. The emphasis for me will be to share both my students'learning and mine.

DFI 2

A lot to take in today.

The Manaiakalani, 'Learn' content is evidence based research to assist the community transition from analogue to digital. It is about teacher effectiveness and accelerating learner outcomes. The intentional and focus part really hones in on the teacher and learner, which is Ako.

What I've discovered is that today's session was about trying to make myself as a teacher more efficient in using digital tools e.g. Keep, GMail and Calendar to organise your work and personal life especially as a teacher. It does help with personal confidence and workflow. It provides balance e.g. scheduled emails can be sent at a specific time and date and incoming emails can be archived and sorted.

Our learners can use the GMail, Keep and Calendar to make themselves more efficient especially at Y7 & Y8 as this enables good organisational skills for later on. Keeping lists, making notes, taking images for future reference does help being mobile and agile.

What I could improve is organising my emails into an archive as they clutter my dashboard. The little extensions make life easier too. I preferred the 'One Tab' as it puts everything away neatly. I like the planning aspect of the calendar and got more tidbits out of it today.

The blog posting, commenting and recording in meets shows potential for having those rewindable moments to reflect back on and to share with peers.

I like the digital bubbles to share and talk about the focus of a lesson, but mainly the practise is important.

Today's video clip was about commenting and recording about a student blog. I found this very useful as an insight to what was the outcome for the students work.