Today was day three of thedigital fluency intensive. Our session today ran a little bit differently to the first two sessions. We were connecting with people from all over the country and our whole day was run through google hangouts - it was awesome! I thoroughly enjoyed connecting with a wider network of people across a huge range of schools.
We started today by unpacking the ‘create’ part of learn create share. Dorothy reiterated the importance of hooking the students in and inspiring them to be creative. Another important point that was discussed today was that the students are not just consumers of content - they should be creators of content too! It was really cool to see Robin Sutton’s (tumuaki at Te Huruhuru Ao O Horomaka) and some of our students’ blogs shared during today’s DFI session. A wondering I had after this session was, how can I support my primary and secondary colleagues with their task design to ensure their tasks generate thinking, encourage collaboration and give the students agency. This is something for me to think about!
There were several things that I now feel more confident doing. I am going to be able to blog more confidently now knowing that I have altered some of my blog settings and disabled certain features. I also feel that I now have a better understanding of YouTube and I feel more confident altering settings to personalise my YouTube account.
New learning for me today included how to embed YouTube playlists that I had created into my google site/blog. I feel quite confident doing this now. Vicki led an awesome chalk ‘n’ talk about google slides and showed us so many different ways to create. I would like to spend some time exploring this with my students as a number of them are simply using google slides as just a presentation tool. I had an awesome 1:1 session with Donna on how to use google drawings to create a comic. This was an awesome session and I can see myself doing comic creation with my students. Comics are an awesome way for the students to share their learning and can be used across any curriculum area. I figured out that I could embed a link within my comic that students could click on when the comic had been published to my site. Below is one that I created - it is a little bit of a mash-up, but it was great to learn about the features of google drawings that I was not familiar with.
I am thoroughly looking forward to our next session - thank you to all of our awesome facilitators.
Ngā mihi,
Katie.
Kia ora Katie,
ReplyDeleteAs always, it's nice reading your reflection of the day. I agree it is so cool to be able to connect with such a wide range of educators and facilitators, all bringing our own strength to the conversations. Your comic is really cool! I am sure that the students will love being able to do this as a task. There were heaps of cool ideas shared around slides, feel free to go back in and look at the slides and ask the facilitators any questions you may have.
See you Thursday!
-Kelsey
Kia ora Kelsey!
ReplyDeleteThank you very much for your comment!
I have learnt so much from all of the facilitators and really enjoy when we break out into our regional groups. I have certainly found a number of tasks that will be really engaging and can be done while we are learning online.
I appreciate your feedback.
Katie.