Week 9 FINAL REFLECTION!!

WOW! What an awesome journey it has been doing the DFI course. Looking back on the past 9 weeks, I have learnt so much more than I could have expected. Something as simple as creating a group email that includes all teaching staff has been a life saver (soooo much easier than adding a person one by one). 

I have taken away so much learning after every lesson as you can see by the weekly reflections. There honestly is not a lot else I could have asked for! I am feeling super positive with how the Google exam went, I did however, finish with lots of spare time so I am hoping everything I did was correct....I know there was nothing else I could have done or would have changed so I am happy with what was submitted. I even managed to learn about Google Classrooms during the exam. This is something that I had not used before nor was it covered in the course. I spent and extra 5 minutes playing around and working out how to use it which was actually super simple! 

Overall, I am beyond happy that I was able to do this course (even if that meant a day away from my lovely superstars!). Below is me reflecting on the course through Google Forms. For now, I will continue to use everything I have learnt from this course and use it in my work and personal life. I am also hoping crossing all my fingers and toes for a big PASS of the exam. Wish me luck.

Week 8 Reflection

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

Today's session has definitely helped me feel more at ease for our exam next week (eeeek!). For the last session I chose to do the Scratch 10 Block Challenge with Jeremy. I would have preferred to join the Scratch Jnr but, I didn't have my iPad with me! (Sorry Kelsey!). However, it was very beneficial but also very much an activity that is trail and error.

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

I got very caught up in one of the coding games earlier in the day. Kodable I think it was called. It had many fuzzy characters and it was super fun - I felt like a kid again! This is something that my Year 3's could use. I will try get Scratch Jnr on the iPads so the students cane have a go at that too.

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

Once again, everything I have learnt over the course of these 8 weeks has extended my knowledge of everything Google. This has built my confidence in not only my work but my personal life too. Especially being a beginning teacher and getting assigned head of technology I was concerned I didn't have enough knowledge. However, now is a different story! Big thank you to you, Kelsey, for helping!

Here is a photo of my 10 Block Challenge Scratch!

Week 7 Reflection

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

I loved todays session! It was super cool being able to look more into Explain Everything on the iPad. It has been really good finding out NOW (before the students are actively using it) that Google accounts have not been set yup on each iPad. Once this is sorted it will make my life much easier being able to see all their work through Hapara (which I also was unaware I could do - but makes sense now!).
Check out the activity we did today! (no sound though - sorry!)

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

Having a better understanding of EE has helped me gain more knowledge of the tools that I can pass on to my learners. I know they will have a lot of fun creating things on here and doing learning.

In the afternoon we have been making a lesson overview for our students of one of the cybersmart lessons. I will attach mine under this so you can check it out!

Reflecting on the Kaupapa of the Manaiakalani Programme in light of COVID 19 , whether you did Lockdown: Season 1 or Seasons 2/3/4, and YOUR readiness for ubiquitous learning...

I was only relieving at the time of Lockdown #1. Therefore I can't really reflect on these questions as such. However, I am grateful as my student's are more technologically skilled and can work independently.

Week 6 Reflection

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

Being able to have some time to focus on my site has been amazing. I feel like I have been able to have time to get some slide decks sorted and ready to put on my site. This is going to help with my teaching and planning and make life easier for not only me but my students! As they have FINALLY got their iPads it will be great to have a routine during math's and reading that the children can use our class site to go to when they are unsure what they are doing, rather than interrupt me during group teaching time.

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

Fixing up and improving my classroom site means the students are one step closer to being able to access the site from their iPads! This will mean the the students can learn to be independent learners and not have to be guided all the time. This will be super beneficial to my group of student's as they are very needy! I am looking forward to watching their independence grow!

Week 5 Reflection

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

Getting my head around multimodal has made my head hurt, I must say! I had heard about this before but I hadn't totally understood what it meant. I have more confidence in what it actually means and will now be able to implement it in my class soon. This session definitely helped showcase how awesome Learn, Create and Share is to help with learning.

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

How to navigate more of Sites has helped make my site look so much better. I cannot wait until my students have the Ipads going so they can access their work that way. It is going to be so handy sharing my planning with the students.

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

Having learnt a little about Jamboard during this week I would like to look more into this and see how else it could be useful - quite possibly with my families and friends outside of school! I will continue to use everything that has been learnt today outside of school to give me a head start during school! Build that confidence👌

Check out my Site I worked on for multimodal

https://sites.google.com/stpatricksgm.school.nz/multimodal/home

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W4 Reflection

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

Using sheets has allowed me to become more confident when inputting data of my students work now. Knowing how to make graphs is something that will help show my data in a different way. Sheets have so much things that it can do, I just didn't even realise.

What did I learn that could be used with my learners, how could they use it?

Something that they can use would be filling out a form that I make. As I have young learners this will be great for me to use this in seeking their prior knowledge and pre, post tests. It could easily be used for a simple quiz that I wanted to have my students do e.g. an all about me quiz.

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

I have never used or knew My Maps existed. This is something super cool that I can use to show the class where our classmates are from. I have a very culturally diverse classroom so this is great for that. For my personal life this is going to be amazing to help plan trips like Vicki said she used for hers.