We started our session today exploring the 'visible' aspect of the Manaiakalani kaupapa. This was really interesting and emphasised to me the importance of the whole journey being transparent, not just the teaching. All aspects of our professional practice should be transparent - we want visibility for our learners, our colleagues and whānau. Some files genuinely do need to be private, but the large majority of stuff doesn't need to be.
The session around how to ensure our task design is multi-modal was really useful. It certainly got me thinking about how I am planning currently and gave me a lot of ideas. I now have a better understanding of what the term 'multi-modal' means in a variety of different learning contexts. The site exemplars that we had shared with us were really useful. I loved creating a multimodal site from scratch! It was a really useful exercise and certainly made me reflect on my current site design.
Click on the link above to see my multimodal site (work in progress!!)
New learning also includes the reaction buttons on blogger. I had no idea about these, so it was useful to see how to access this feature and set them up. Jamboards are also going to be a really useful tool and I can see myself using these with my colleagues and students. Here is an example of one that we collaborated on during this session:
https://jamboard.google.com/d/1-L-KNOXsaGp8GU7nDyzMbMlg_ri5sCpXghuJwtlw-dM/viewer?f=1
My workflow is continuing to improve and I feel that the use of tools such as google calendar, google keep and google sheets are the reason why. My learners are becoming confident users of google calendar and we are connecting more as a wānanga group online. During our first DFI session, I started creating a google slideshow to share with my learners introducing them to Google Meet. I used the slideshow below after session five as I was able to incorporate JamBoard into this.
Really looking forward to our next session. Ka kite!
Hi there, I agree that all aspects of our practice should be transparent - the kaupapa of last week's sessions was a great reminder of this. I too enjoyed last week's session. It was great to have the time to build a site from scratch. It is great that you are able to use the things we are working on with your learners after the sessions. Did your learners give you any feedback on your slideshow? Will you use your fake news site with your learners as well?
ReplyDeleteKia ora Jo!
ReplyDeleteThank you very much for your comment. I certainly learnt a few new things when building the site from scratch. Yes, my learners gave me some positive feedback on the slideshow. When I started running google meets with my class, this slideshow was a great point of reference when talking about netiquette. I would like to tweak the fakes news site a wee bit, but would love to use this with my learners. What are some of the tools that we have been introduced to that you will use in your everyday practice? Is there anything in particular that you would like to share with your team?
Really appreciate your feedback.
Katie.