Workflow - Week 2

This weeks mahi saw me exploring the learn element of the Learn, Create, Share pedagogy.

Learn, create, share is not new but has evolved and in recent years at a great pace. Enhancing what we do as teachers to engage and support our tamariki is essential to set them up for success in this ever growing digital world. 

I loved this quote 'We must all be swimming in the digital ocean" Lenva Shearing  

Chalk in Talk  - saw the importance of  sorting and organisation of your gmail.

I learn't how to schedule emails, created a signature, add 30 secs to edit a sent email, change display settings, adding a theme. Be careful when adding a theme as this can slow down or change your display beyond Gmail. Lots of tips were learnt on how tidy your tabs. One way was to use One Tab a Google Extension. This allows you to link multiple tabs within the one tab.  

To do this you right click while working in the tab and send it to One Tab. Another Google extension was to use Toby Mini this helps to Orgnaize your browser and share collections with others.

A highlight of today was Google Hangouts - to use either your email or calendar to invite others to a 'hangout' to share ideas or have a meeting. You can present your screen so others can see and also record your session. Our group was successful at joining the hangout and sharing ideas but we had a technical error with an internal microphone not working so the sound did not work in the video. 

The task was to review a blog from the summer learning journey and highlight what was the teaching design behind this post? What was the learner’s response i.e the post content

Who responded to the post and how did this support the learning experience or contribute more to the learning of the child?

There are some very digital savvy tamariki out there! They were awesome. When you reviewed the many layers of digital skills, prior knowledge, critically thinking, writing skills, reading skills & much more involved in the blog posts. They were interactive, reflective, thought provoking and encouraged the reader to leave feedback or create something to share on there blog. I found this inspiring and exciting as my learners embark on their first year of Manakalani facilitation in the classroom. I can already see how I will be learning alongside them in many of these areas. 

Google Keep - where have you been. This is the perfect app for me and my OCD tendentices. I can already see many ways I can capture thoughts or ideas to save them and organise them when on the run to easily .locate them at a suitable time. To be able to use this app on my phone also is fantastic, I foresee linking this to my professional blog, professional appraisal for capturing those unexpected moments for  evidence of student learning and much more. To be able to organised and label them into groups or archive when not needed is a SMART way of working. 

To do... continue to explore and reflect on the new learning, practice embedding a doc into my blog, give feedback to my fellow bloggers and partciplate in some Google Hangouts! Invitation sent, first one is on Monday!