Connected Learners and Teachers

DFI #7 - Media

Live Streaming YouTube

What is possible?

What can you do?

How can we take the kids passions and what they do further?

I WANT A DRONE!!!

Live Streaming all school events. We have a multi-cultural school who have whanau all over the world. How can we get what they are doing out to them?

- Streaming from our phones as well as laptops.

Connected

Maaniakalani has created a powerful network. It sprang from a culture where people held things to their chest without sharing. 

How can we create stronger connections between our two clusters? School Leaders?

It is our Shared Language, which creates the connection. The pedagogy and kaupapa language. Learn. Create. Share. Visible. Ubiquitous. Connected. Empowered. We create the language for our akonga through the cyber smart programme.

Our akonga need to be able to make authentic connections. In order to make a connection, both parties need to Share.

There's a misunderstanding that Share is about digital sharing. Seeing in real life is always going to be better than seeing digitally, but it makes it possible for people who aren't able to be there and to take it out to a wider network. Face-to-face is always the ideal.

Tuhi Mai Tuhi Atu was designed specifically to connect our learners.

Online Toolkits then came about. It enables us to connect and learn alongside colleagues from around the country.

Google Draw

We looked at ways to utilise Google drawing. It really is the tool for any task and is very underused. 

I can see uses that have previously been monopolised by websites, such as Padlet, which were once free but have now locked themselves down to needing to pay to maintain services.

The Google Drawing Sandpit gives some great examples of how this can be utilised in the classroom for a wide variety of uses.

I created the About Me drawing for the sidebar of my Professional Blog.

Google Slides

Concepts around using Slides as a tool to enable access to learning have been sitting in the back of my mind for a while now. I've been trying to throw ideas around in the back of my head, for a method of planning on slides that tick all the boxes and is effective as well as efficient.
There are so many benefits for using slides over docs. It's useful for embedding onto sites. It makes it easy to embed and link content, texts and tasks. There is clear and consistent formatting, making your end-user appreciative. The current week's slide can be moved to the front.

Because you are an editor, you can see the comments. If people are view only, they can't see reflections in the comments. All planning is on slides so that it is visible, while still keeping reflections private to editors because they are comments only.

By putting instructions in the side, off the side of the slide, it means it is there for akonga to see and use, but once they publish it, only the pallette is seen. Same is the case in Google Draw.

You can also insert audio instructions with the teacher's instructions.

Way more than just a slideshow - Jesse Lubinsky

Game Changers:

• Getting traction for change with Google: when something isn't working, then email them with what's not working. Even better, email your class with the wording for what you want them to say and get them to copy and paste the wording into the help box.
• I'm envisaging learners creating their own jeopardy game to share their learning from Literacy!

I'm falling down the rabbit hole of additional resources and links at the bottom of each agenda!