How relevant is it for us today!
After farewelling Team 5 this morning I jumped straight onto our DFI for our fourth session. Blogger is where I have begun today! Blogger was selected years ago, today it is still highly functional space for our children. It looks after us legally too so thumbs up all around!
WARNING! Don't be swayed by the latest look/app, stop and check that it's safe legally, systematically secure. Blogger still wins this hands down.
AUDIENCE: you want an audience? We need an audience! Blogger promotes celebration of completed tasks, the effort to share what you can with your audience! As an audience we have a role to play too!
Our well being is very important! Hauora - our students hauora right now is being supported by our ability to interact through comments on their blogs and google meets etc.
DEALING WITH DATA
In sandpit time I've created a survey I will send to whole of team to find out what our students want for the weeks of distance learning ahead in regards to regularity of meets for various learning groups. Part of this will be their need around social connections for Hauora - Well being.
Google MyMaps
So much opportunity here to support teaching and learning for literacy and numeracy.
Google Earth has many great functions - 3D imagery, embed html content, does not yet allow importing of spreadsheet.
A lot of cool tips here for admin involved in teaching AND the teaching and learning we provide our students, whanau and school community across regions.
Blog data case studies - using spreadsheets and google draw to analyse blog data.We had the chance to hear from Robyn from Panmure Bridge School. Her sharing was around a case study on a Mele - a student in her class. The idea of setting goals for blog posts and children planning using statistics to work out how many blog posts per week/month/year. What is a realistic goal and how it can be achieved. Along with this I imagine that students will also refine the quality of posts not just the quantity!
We had sandpit time to create our own graphs and analysis of a blog and it's data re posts etc. That's the image I've posted right at the top!
So what you gonna do with this all Mrs Tele'a?
I will plan a lesson like that of Robyn and Mele's sharing today to support student goals and motivation during this time of distance learning. I will send out the google form I've created to support our teacher planning. Also refresh my own plans around rostering when and where to be giving feedback via blog commenting.
Thanks to the DFI team from across Aotearoa for such a productive day.
Ka kite Ano.
Le Atua i lo tatou vā
Andrea
Kia ora Andrea,
ReplyDeleteShare sure was a relevant theme! And I read with interest your post because you have thought of so many ways of applying what you have learnt today into your teaching.
Looking forward to seeing you next week at DFI.
Cheryl Torrie