DFI Week 2: Workflow

Workflow

Time to reflect and share with colleagues

• What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?
• What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?
• What did I learn that could be used with my learners?  
• What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?

Reflection

Today we started with a WWW session (agenda)

• What has worked for you since the last time we met?
• What hasn’t worked (or made sense)?
• What do you need help with?

This reflection tool helped me hone in on challenges and successes.

This also allowed me to hear others fixes and things that worked for them - giving me focus for my own challenges.

Typing lessons and variations from typing.com are one example of this with dancemat and nitro

Google Keep

Google Keep

• postits/reminders
• Set up for assignments
• Events
• To do
• Connect to phone
• Make a note - take a photo of text - touch pic and 3 dots - this will transfer text to typed - send to doc and voila

Google keep - this has already proven valuable for a work/organisation perspective.

The feature of book to text  - changing a photo of text into a document will be a valuable tool. 

This was a reminder to use google.com to find apps as well.

As serial flibberty jib this tool opens up great possibilities to focus my time.

Gmail

Google Mail

Settings are always to right of screen

• Configured mail
• Labels
• Organisational
• Find an email and add labels

I have been using the apple mail app. This limits me to my device. It offers me quick access to my emails and I find it easier to move things around.

With the session I was able to focus my labels and will need to use it through gmail to prepare for future assessment.

As with every trick this old dog learns things become more comfortable after use and, invariably, invaluable as per sites, docs, pictures, slides...

Google Calendar

Create a calendar

• My calendars - create
• Hit m for month, d for day, a agenda, w for seek, s for settings

These 1 key shortcuts make the calendar more appealing to me. The accessibility of layouts - weekly, monthly and daily is useful for inputting viewing.

Learn

 We 'hung out' with Dorothy through a google hangout. Accessing her knowledge from across the globe.
This focused on the learn aspect of Learn Create Share and emphasised effective practice, thinking how this looks in schools with or without technology.
The task of recognising and recording effective teaching in our school would be valuable for our staff to see the things that are working and consider what things are transferable.

This was a reminder of SAMR. Seeing how it relates to Blooms and aiming at theTransformative activities.

 Rewindable learning - Slide 25 - reviewing - if worth teaching it’s worth recording

Not FLipped… Not preparing

Hangouts

Our adventure into recording a screen using quicktime was a fun process. We looked at the Summer Learning Project, which looked like an amazing way to engage children though their holidays. Our discussion was deep and meaningful (read: verbose) but unfortunately the audio didn't record.

Looking forward to next week!

Any teacher who can be replaced by a computer… should be