June 27th week 9 DFI

June 27th
week 9
Final day

Make sure all DFI notes are on my blog, have a title which states the date and week.
Re-look at all blog posts and re-look at course notes. Sharing docs and notes with other course memebers.
Add blog posts for my class blog.

May 23rd week 4

May 23rd week 4

DFI Notes

How to use google draw to create mind maps:

Mind maps & Flow charts

Created my slide to add to slides of our group.

Need to learn: how to add my links for my blog and my site.

How to use my maps:

How to use google maps:

Can make "your places" left 6th option down

Can use google maps for treasure hunts in class.

Lesson ideas for google maps:

• Journeys - Historical / Fictional
• Categorizing places within a school
• Describing features
• Treasure Map
• Local guide
• Current events
• Imaginary recount in a local setting
• Pepeha - mihi

June 20th week 8 DFI

June 20th 2018

Kerry, Donna, Gerard (Manaiakalani)

One Tab: Blue balloon (on the right of URL bar (Omni Box). It will show you all the tabs you have open. Great way not to lose bits of work you have open during the day.

Refine searches for lost work:I had lost a google drawing I had made. Got into google draw (omni box). Small downward arrow to the right. Go to search. You can refine your search my (owned by me, rough dates you worked on it etc).

G.mail settings:

To add a coloured label to an e.mail address (this will help to organise e.mails coming in).

To add a nice background photo to your e.mails: Settings wheel icon, settings, themes.

To get the actual time an e.mail was sent to you. Click on the e.mail, small downward arrow on right will show the e.mail and time it was sent.

Google hangout: Trial with whole group. Make sure your volume is off. If you click on someone’s face they will become large on your screen (but not everyone else's. Just click on the person again to make them smaller. Lots of fun. Gerard said it takes a few goes before it works for everyone. Works a lot better when you are not in the same room.

Our hangout (Mina, Clarry, Mary and I) will be on the notes for this session (session 8).

Rewindable Learning:
How to format my blog posts (when the text runs off the page because it's been copied from my D.F.I doc notes.
Highlight the long line of text, go to large T (top right) (text formatting) just click on. 

Re-learnt how to add a link. I had to remember to highlight the word e.g Blog first, then go to link icon and copy in the URL, then apply.

June 13th week 7 DFI

Kerry, Clarelle (Point England), Donna

Site home page with Clarell:
I made a home page for a class site for my students to use. Took a while as we colour co-ordinated the subjects (reading - orange, writing - pink, blue - maths). These colours are used in the classroom to help my students to know where to go for their learning.

Clarry taught me how to insert an image onto my site home page (images, search, select).


Using colour pick with Clarell:
Colour pick is now saved in my top icons. click on, hover over the colour you want in the picture on your screen. Cnt C the colour number that comes up, then Cnt V on the page/frame where you want the colour.


Blog posting with Kerry: Learnt how to insert my notes about my learning onto my Miss Simmond's Blog. If your text is running off the page - select the text (highlight), go up the top to Tx icon, remove, formatting.
Fundamental link (week 6 and week 7 notes) have our inquiry labels to add to my blog posts.
Make sure I have a title for every blog post.


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June 6th week 6 DFI

June 6th

Kerry, Danny Stone (Pt England), Tania Coutts

Ideas: I can link ready to read texts (audio) onto a site e.g reading page for a reading group to have a re-read of a new text. E.g The rain came down (ready to read), Where is Miss Pool?

Learning how to make a site with Danny (notes on agenda for 6th June)

My trial site:

Making a site:

Drive, New, Sites, Google sites, Title

Change image, select image   (you can view your site - top right)

To make a great header - new, more, google drawing

Dimensions for a header 960x300

File, page set up, custom, inches, pixels

To get a nice image for your header -  images that are free to use - tools, user rights, label for use

You can insert an image to create a button - insert images, upload images from hard drive

You can insert a youtube clip - Find the clip first, press on the clip, share, copy link

cnt V into the link space _______________________

                                     _______________________

press on clip box __________________________

                                            __________________________ select

Press on picture box, select, press on picture button (-) apply

Publish, publish setting, manage, change (to open to the world)

To Learn:

Learn how to get E.E kids work onto my blog. Bring i.pad to next P.D to do so.

Think about how to create/use a site for kids (great ideas from Mel from Kaitaia).

To Do:

Use ready to read audio (on I.pads) MORE in class to give my kids pre-reads, re-reads of difficult texts.

Use E.E more for my independent learners.

May 30th week 5 DFI

May 30th

Kerry, Donna, Dave

Sharing discussion: Youtube clip “Who do you share your personal details with?" Parody song. Great clip to share with older students around cyber safety.

The future job market is going to need students who can use technology. (share, connect, problem solving, computational thinking).

Digital technologies curriculum

Learning about algorithms

Algorithms are simple instructions in order to help you do something. Programming with pictures.

Hour of code Challenge (code.org)

                                                                                                  

To Do:

Make a brainstorm on google drawing

Have a look at Google sketchup.

Code.org fantastic for students to learn about coding.

Makey Makey (fun, connect digital to physical, see potential of own making, foster creativity)

Makey Makey on youtube to motivate students

Makey Makey classroom invention kit

Online keyboard

Have to plug into the earth part otherwise nothing will happen.

Mind kits can be cheaper that full $1000 Makey, makey kit

To look at buying: Bee Bot, edison for older students, to open our students up to the world of robotics, electronics etc

                                                                     Edison $69

                                                                      

Bee Bot

Lego robot

Learning:

Blog posting with Donna :)

Blogger, new post, photos, chose file, get out of DC card on word, click on photos so they are highlighted, add, selected, give a title, go to bottom or top of blog and add text.

Animation:

Matthews belonging movie

Use scratch to show a story of belonging. Scratch junior works on chromebooks and IPads.

Good for kids to learn about direction and programming

Learnt another way to Screenshot:

Go to magnifying glass bottom left, search snip it, new (up top), make a box around the picture you want, then insert onto the  doc you want it on.

Shaun: Screenshot:

Learning again (Rewindable Learning)

Function - insert, THEN find the doc you want it to go to and ctrl V

May 16th week 3

May 16th

Kerry, Donna, Raewyn, Lenva

Learnt how to:

Use Google drawing to make MANA sheet. Google drive - File, new, more (to find drawings).

Shared my MANA sheet with Lisa (our Te Reo adviser and my Principal).

Made an E.E project with sound and wand/dot (to follow text).

Learnt how to add a macron to a word in Te Reo: Bottom right (change from english to Maori), top left on keyboard `~ then do the letter you need for the macron.

To upload a photo from an i.pad (I.pad 22): click on photo (in photos) to get a tick on the photo, drive, upload, put into i.pad photos folder in my drive.

You can use any work from other teachers on Hapara. Hapara, workspaces, public work spaces, make a copy.