Session Two: Workflow

What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?

Today we began by looking at the pedagogy underpining Manaiakalani - Learn Create Share, with our focus today being Learn. Learn is defined as accessing and engaging with existing knowledge.
Dorothy talked about:
Recognise
Amplify
Turbocharge
Effective Practice (in the digital world for our learners)
I really liked the phrase in her slideshow Great Teaching + Digital Affordances = Acceleration

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?

Much of today's content (Google Meets, Gmail, Google Calendar) I felt pretty confident with already. I have very very fortunate to have had some great professional development in the past and some great Manaiaklani facilitators (Mark Maddren and Kelsey Morgan) at my school making sure that we are all up to date.

I found the session that Dorothy ran on Google Keep as I had only really had some sandpit time with this before and haven't really used it yet. I particularly like the grab image text function. That will certainly change now.

One of my colleagues who was in the Term 1 DFI cohort had already shared Tobi Tab Manager with my team, and although I set it up at the time, I haven't got in a regular habit of using it.

What did I learn that could be used with my learners?  

I am already enjoying using the Chrome Extension Nod - where the students can raise their hand, or give a thumbs up in the Google Meet. I have had this pushed out to all our students chromebooks late last week. I am interested to look into the Dualless Chrome Extension, where you can see your grid view while presenting. Usually I use a split screen so that I can see the students.

Something that has become evident during our Covid online learning is that we need to spend some time with our students focusing on blogging - making a quality blog post, commenting on others' blogs and replying to comments people make on their blog posts.

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?

Love the notion of using Google Keep for shopping lists and sharing it with the other people in my household so they can add to the list. Also love the fact that you always have the list with you - I have lost count on how many times I get the the supermarket only to realise I have forgotten my list.

Loved the little timesaver that Gerhard shared - when you enter Google document names into the omi bar and you can open them without having to search for them via your Drive.

Today's Create Task:

We needed to choose a student blog post to use for our task. Venessa then put myself, Ravina and Gemma into a small group. We created a Google Meet on our Google Calendar and invited the others in our group. When then held our Google Meet one at a time to discuss the student blog we had chosen. We needed to present our screen to the others in the meet and record it.

When discussing the student blog we focused on these 3 questions:

1. What was the teaching design behind this post? (Deliberate act of teaching)
2. What was the learner's response? (Post content)
3. Who responded to the post and how did it support the learning experience or contribute more to the learning of the child?

I chose Joshua's blog post about making a smoothie - http://tpsjoshuan.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-josh-smoothie.html

During our Covid online teaching I am holding 3 Google Meets per day, so the Google Calendar and Google Meet aspects were very familiar to me now. We record each Google Meet and post on our learning site for rewindable learning for our students to access. I just hate my facial expressions I have on the thumbnail of each posted video!

Here is my recorded Google Meet.