Last Day At DFI

All Geared up for my last Day at DFI

My Last day in getting Digital Fluent at DFI, been wonderful learning from the best Dorothy & Gerhard. Well it is not called an intensive for nothing because it was very intense and a lot to take in for someone who has been away from it for a while. I have learnt a lot, I will be able to use what I have learnt to better equip myself for my own teaching. It was effective professional development as we use these tools everyday in the classroom. 

Session 8 @ DFI - CYBERSMART, T-DashBoard, Screencastified & IPad Tips & Tricks...

Talofa Lava, another day to deep dive into my DFI course. Learning about CYBERSMART Curriculum, how to effectively use the different Features of Teacher Dashboard.
Session 8 -
Integration Of CyberSmart vital through Inquiry very important.
CyberSmart - pBFL
Smart Learners - Effective Users
Smart FootPrint - making sure our learners understand that what they are sharing is visible
Relationships - How to best do that through Blogging - How can we equiped our learners to have smart decions = positive contributor to our online society
A4 - anyone anywhere anyplace anytime
Connected - connected - behaviour n thinking is smart

CyberSmart - Embedded into our everyday online Life 

Hapara Dashboard - Teacher Dashboard - Powerful Tool 

Weekly Tidy up For kids Drive

Dashboard should be up on the big screen all the time.

If they appear not to be doing any work is that they are either logged on to another account and appear to be typing away is that they are on a personal account. Focus Browsing should only be on for 2 hours max. 

EYES ON ME - New Feature of the Dashboard great way to check whos on their school email and who is on something else. 

Teachers can change the kids passwords whenever. Reset Class Folders.  

Parents Portal -                  , Students Dashboard- 

Manaiakalani 1-1 JOurney 

Equity & Access

BOYD - If they bring their own can you imagine the different range 

Not setting up learners for Success

Digital Fluency - Starts with the ability to use the device. 

Screen Castified - Use it for Reading Activities -

Treasure Hunt Activity - Powerful Tool Giving Students Ownership with their learning and Responsibility and accountability on their part of completing tasks and sharing their learning. 

DFI REFLECTIONS FOR SESSION 6

DFI SESSION 6 

MANAIAKALANI

VISIBILITY - SHARED LANGUAGE MADE POSSIBLE WITH VISIBILITY. 

THE ACT OF SHARING  - WITHOUT SHARING HARD TO CONNECT TO PEOPLE 

IMPOSSIBLE TO SHARE WITHOUT BEEN CONNECTED

CONNECTED - TWO WAY STREET.

THROUGH THE TWITTER FEED - EXCITING TO SEE A BLOG POST FROM A STUDENT AT POINT ENGLAND SCHOOL- READING A RECOUNT ABOUT HOW THEIR SCHOOL KICKED OFF THEIR TOPIC WITH THE WHOLE SCHOOL GETTING INVOLVED. 

DEEP DIVE - LOOKING AT VARIOUS CLASS SITES - OBSERVE WHAT WHAT IS GOING WELL AND WHAT IS NOT.

CREATING A CLASS SITE & TIPS ON HOW TO MAKE IT WORK. 

 CLASS SITE - WHAT IS IMPORTANT AND WHY WE USE GOOGLE SITES 

HOW TO BUILD A CLASS SITE - PLANNING, LINKS,LAYOUT, 3CLICK RULE

PRACTICAL PLANNING - USE A BOOK/ PAPER/STICKY NOTES/ BOOK

COLOUR LAYOUT FONT - A U OVERWHELMING THE KIDS WITH THE COLOURS YOU A USING. 

START WITH THE BANNER. 

MAKING SURE LAYOUT IS NOT TOO CLUTTERED

CONSISTENT FONT

USE PHOTOS OF THE KIDS IN CLASS..

THE WHOLE SCHOOL SITE GO HAND IN HAND WITH THE INDIVIDUAL SITES. 

THINGS NOT TO HAVE - TOO WORDY.... ETC...

Class Site - Improvements - Move the Main Functions of Reading, Maths etc to the top

Link at the bottom To go with the button and get rid of the link. Better pics. 

PURPOSEFUL LEARNING TASKS -

SUBSTITUTION

AUGMENTATION

MODIFICATION

REDEFINITION

USEFUL SITES 

MATHS - EAKO

                      MATHS WHIZZ

READING - READING THEORY

DFI DAY 2

NEW DISCOVERY ON GOOGLE TOOLS

- Taming the tabs, amazing tool in saving time and having a hassle free dashboard

- Such a useful tool to grab text of pictures, old scripts,  create checklists, shopping lists etc
- renaming tabs & organise tabs



online calendar, learnt how to use with other collegues to collaborate and organise events, meetings etc
such a cool way to share information can use for shared reading, authentic audiences for sharing learning or talking to a subject expert.

DFI day 1

DFI MOMENTS ON A COLD FRIDAY

SHORTCUTS ON THE KEYBOARD

Command C equals copy on a MAC
and Command V equals paste on a MAC

Setting Up Various Chrome Profiles & Editing Profiles
Setting up a Blog Post
Learning To use Google Docs

How to Zoom into text by changing a few options on the Accessibility Settings - Exciting to learn this new feature of the machine as it helps a-lot when working with reading groups to emphasize a text or show meaning etc...