20.8.2019- Session Five
Focus: Devices
Today was my fifth session in the DFI (Digital Fluency Intensive) course. These are some notes and reflection from today.
Cybersmart and being a Digital Citizen
-Showing yourself in the best light. Don't put negative things on there. This is how we train our students. If they are googled when looking for a career nothing negative will come up.
The three categories that we teach are listed at the top. One per term.
Lessons are available through this link.
This programme should run alongside your regular lessons and needs to be taught every year.
Smart Learners- How to use devices.
Smart Footprint- Teaching children to ask themselves- What do I want people to see about me in my future?
As a parent will you children want pictures of them online in the future. It may affect their digital footprint.
Smart Relationships- how to interact with others online. Ensuring children are being positive, thoughtful and helpful.
"Making Learning Visible"
Teachers insight into you class. Nothing you as a teacher cannot see.
Students still own their drives. They are the only ones who can move things around etc. You can just 'see' what they're doing. Not do it for them.
"Dashboard" tab -shows what the students are doing in their g suite.
"Sharing" tab-automatically has everything shared with you as a teacher.
"All Docs"- shows all docs for children and will search their entire drive.
You can also see the student blogs and posts they have made from the dashboard. Hovering over will show a preview and clicking will take you to the post. You cannot see it until it has been published.
You can also view emails students have been sent.
Students must be using the "Chrome" app for this to work. This is a requirement for having a personal device at school.
This is not a monitoring and filtering tool It is to support learning. Children should be in the right place doing the right thing and it is a matter of teaching them this.
**Keep the screen up on the projector-this will keep the kids on task.
Manaiakalani 1:1 Journey
Partnership, Participation, Protection
Having a partnership with home/whanau, community, teacher and students. Having engagement.
Everyone can participate if all students have a device. Devices with Manaiakalani are required to be a Chromebook. (The best device for learning year 4 up) Having the same makes it easier for everyone.
Protection by using Hapara and making learning visible. It should be seamless and you should be able to see all students and all work.
Manaiakalani tested and trialed a lot of different devices and they do this each year to update the best device for our learners.
Digital Dig- Link to my dig with a Chromebook
We were asked to follow some instructions to find shortcuts etc on a chrome to experience how things were for the children in our classes.
1:1 Ipad Workflow
1:1 iPad Support Page
Explain Everything How to
All Ipads need to be set up the same.
We really rely on "Explain Everything"
All children use the same Ipad each time they use the ipads. Name with a label on the back. Ipad should be signed into individual learners accounts (drive, chrome and explain everything) if 1:1.
**Can work on a class drive and all children have their own folder on the drive.
"Explain Everything" - An app that all Ipads should have. There is a bank of resources already created for all ready to reads.
http://bit.ly/dfiexplain - on an Ipad type in. It will take you to a website. When you click on the activity it well say the file is not supported, or there has been an error. Click the 3 dots at the top, click the 4 arrows out "open in" and open in Explain Everything.
To add an "Explain Everything" activity to a class site you can create a slideshow and put in a link to the explain everything you want children to access hyperlinked in to a picture.
As we do not have the "Explain Everything" app on our iPads an quick alternative for sharing is on "Seasaw". If sharing the child's story, take a photo, then do a voice recording of the child reading their story and share on their Seasaw.
Lights, Camera, Action
Screencastify How to guide
A video tool that records your screen that can insert a video of yourself or a voice recording.
Creating my own Screencastify -my video
Explaining how to create a slideshow -Video 2
A reading activity idea I found while exploring...
Today we got to have a play on some devices. I had a look at a Chromebook for the first time. This is not a device my students use, due to their age, but was good to see what our older students are capable of. Playing on the Ipads and seeing "Explain Everything" was really great. There are already some great resources made for reading books and numeracy that we can use. This will be a great app to get on our iPads, particularly for the lower end of the school. This is something I am going to look into getting to trial and hopefully get for next year. The only thing that would make management hard is not having many devices as I only have 4, which isn't enough for a group.
With using Screencastify I found that I did not enjoy hearing myself recorded however I realise that this could be a great tool to use to demonstrate how to do things online or to model numeracy strategies etc. I chose to do my Screencastify on how to make a google slide to share with my team back at school as this is something I have been meaning to share with them. It would be a great way to save time instead of finding a time you are both free to show someone something.
Today has been a great chance to have an explore of some new apps and tools. Each week I have been coming to the DFI I have become more and more excited about what I could do with my class. I have made more multi-modal slide shows and I have shared these as well as google keep to my staff in our Monday Morning meeting. It was great getting to share more of what I have learnt with the staff at school. I received some great comments following this, particularly about google keep.
I have also realised upon doing this course how much quicker I am becoming with some of my shortcuts which saves me a lot of time when creating resources. I am all for saving time and becoming more efficient! Through looking at other people's learning sites I am finding some great ideas I can use with my kids of things I have never thought of or things that remind me of things I have done in the past. I need to make more time to explore sites of others and leave some blog posts.
Looking forward to what I may learn next week. Bring it on!
Cybersmart and being a Digital Citizen
-Showing yourself in the best light. Don't put negative things on there. This is how we train our students. If they are googled when looking for a career nothing negative will come up.
The three categories that we teach are listed at the top. One per term.
Lessons are available through this link.
Smart Learners- How to use devices.
Smart Footprint- Teaching children to ask themselves- What do I want people to see about me in my future?
As a parent will you children want pictures of them online in the future. It may affect their digital footprint.
Smart Relationships- how to interact with others online. Ensuring children are being positive, thoughtful and helpful.
Hapara
"Making Learning Visible" Teachers insight into you class. Nothing you as a teacher cannot see.
Students still own their drives. They are the only ones who can move things around etc. You can just 'see' what they're doing. Not do it for them.
"Dashboard" tab -shows what the students are doing in their g suite.
"Sharing" tab-automatically has everything shared with you as a teacher.
"All Docs"- shows all docs for children and will search their entire drive.
You can also see the student blogs and posts they have made from the dashboard. Hovering over will show a preview and clicking will take you to the post. You cannot see it until it has been published.
You can also view emails students have been sent.
Students must be using the "Chrome" app for this to work. This is a requirement for having a personal device at school.
This is not a monitoring and filtering tool It is to support learning. Children should be in the right place doing the right thing and it is a matter of teaching them this.
**Keep the screen up on the projector-this will keep the kids on task.
Manaiakalani 1:1 Journey
Partnership, Participation, Protection
Having a partnership with home/whanau, community, teacher and students. Having engagement.
Everyone can participate if all students have a device. Devices with Manaiakalani are required to be a Chromebook. (The best device for learning year 4 up) Having the same makes it easier for everyone.
Protection by using Hapara and making learning visible. It should be seamless and you should be able to see all students and all work.
Manaiakalani tested and trialed a lot of different devices and they do this each year to update the best device for our learners.
Digital Dig- Link to my dig with a Chromebook
We were asked to follow some instructions to find shortcuts etc on a chrome to experience how things were for the children in our classes.
1:1 Ipad Workflow
1:1 iPad Support Page
Explain Everything How to
All Ipads need to be set up the same.
We really rely on "Explain Everything"
All children use the same Ipad each time they use the ipads. Name with a label on the back. Ipad should be signed into individual learners accounts (drive, chrome and explain everything) if 1:1.
**Can work on a class drive and all children have their own folder on the drive.
"Explain Everything" - An app that all Ipads should have. There is a bank of resources already created for all ready to reads.
http://bit.ly/dfiexplain - on an Ipad type in. It will take you to a website. When you click on the activity it well say the file is not supported, or there has been an error. Click the 3 dots at the top, click the 4 arrows out "open in" and open in Explain Everything.
To add an "Explain Everything" activity to a class site you can create a slideshow and put in a link to the explain everything you want children to access hyperlinked in to a picture.
As we do not have the "Explain Everything" app on our iPads an quick alternative for sharing is on "Seasaw". If sharing the child's story, take a photo, then do a voice recording of the child reading their story and share on their Seasaw.
Some great resources for the iPads
EE iPad MathsLights, Camera, Action
How we all became filmstars for the day... Screencastify!
Screencastify How to guide
A video tool that records your screen that can insert a video of yourself or a voice recording.
Creating my own Screencastify -my video
Explaining how to create a slideshow -Video 2
A reading activity idea I found while exploring...
Reflection
Hapara is not something I have used as my students are too young to have their own google drives and accounts. I could see how this would be valuable for the older classes with one to one.Today we got to have a play on some devices. I had a look at a Chromebook for the first time. This is not a device my students use, due to their age, but was good to see what our older students are capable of. Playing on the Ipads and seeing "Explain Everything" was really great. There are already some great resources made for reading books and numeracy that we can use. This will be a great app to get on our iPads, particularly for the lower end of the school. This is something I am going to look into getting to trial and hopefully get for next year. The only thing that would make management hard is not having many devices as I only have 4, which isn't enough for a group.
With using Screencastify I found that I did not enjoy hearing myself recorded however I realise that this could be a great tool to use to demonstrate how to do things online or to model numeracy strategies etc. I chose to do my Screencastify on how to make a google slide to share with my team back at school as this is something I have been meaning to share with them. It would be a great way to save time instead of finding a time you are both free to show someone something.
Today has been a great chance to have an explore of some new apps and tools. Each week I have been coming to the DFI I have become more and more excited about what I could do with my class. I have made more multi-modal slide shows and I have shared these as well as google keep to my staff in our Monday Morning meeting. It was great getting to share more of what I have learnt with the staff at school. I received some great comments following this, particularly about google keep.
I have also realised upon doing this course how much quicker I am becoming with some of my shortcuts which saves me a lot of time when creating resources. I am all for saving time and becoming more efficient! Through looking at other people's learning sites I am finding some great ideas I can use with my kids of things I have never thought of or things that remind me of things I have done in the past. I need to make more time to explore sites of others and leave some blog posts.
Looking forward to what I may learn next week. Bring it on!
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