Week 3 Reflection

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

This session was a very big one! so much new learning for myself which has been wonderful! I had never been one to start a YouTube channel so was super interesting learning about how to do that and super useful to be able to make a playlist which make it great for our Hymn's we listen to during Religious Education.

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

I chose the Drag and Drop learning on slides. This is so great. I can make some awesome slideshow activities where my junior learners will be able to do once I put it on my class site. See slideshow below of my nearly completed work. Something so simple and easy can be such a great fun, easy activity for my learners! Also learning how to get rid of an images background using 'remove.bg'.

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

Google Draw is something I haven't used yet as I simply did not understand what it was or how to properly use it. This was something I think I will use for both work and personal life. Also practice of embedding a slideshow into my blog was super helpful (more practice the better!).

Week 2 Reflection

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

Learning how to use Google Keep has been awesome. I hadn't learnt anything about it until today this will be an everyday use for me now. I am always jotting down notes and then finding I end up leaving them at school (or home) which is not useful whatsoever! This is going to be a great way I can have my notes all in one place when I'm on the go.

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

Not directly use with my learners but now I know how to embed a video in my blog, I can use this for my classes blog. Any videos that the student may make on the iPads etc. Can be uploaded straight to Blogger. This will ensure all parents get to see it.

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

I had some knowledge around taming my tabs but todays session gave me even more insight. Knowing I can now have folders for my billions of tabs is fabulous! This will also decrease the overwhelming stress caused by looking at all the tabs that I need to come back too eventually. At least now it looks like less!

Google Meet Recording W2

 

Week 1 Reflection

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

The whole course is a great way to help all educators be up to date with the technology side of teaching. This is SO important in this day ad age when technology is growing in schools at a tremendous rate.

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

This knowledge off all of todays course has helped my professional workflow as everything can be done without having a million tabs open! Such as copy and pasting (text to type - you can just read this out loud, YAY!) Also being able to search google through the explore button - saves me switching through 500 tabs open to search something!

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

If I had learners that were older I would most definitely use the explore function as when it comes to inserting pictures this would be an easy, quick way for them to add pictures from Google or search information fast. As my students are still little darlings, I wouldn't want them searching google (especially on Ipads as I can't see them through Hapara - but text to type could be beneficial depending if they could be understood.

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

Todays session has built my confidence in working google docs. I thought I had a good understanding of everything on it but there was much more to it than first thought. All that was learnt is beneficial to my work and personal life.