My Learning Journey

What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy? It was neat today to put "Learn- Create- Share" into action with Robin and Jo.  We made a good attempt to create our own website about following a tree through the seasons of the year. We discovered how to pop in a you tube video into the "learn" part of the website and create a google drawing template so the students could click to create their own tree drawings. If you wish you can view this unfinished site here...  Year 3/4 Garden site with Robin and Jo What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional? Many things.  However it is finding the time to consolidate the 100's of new skills learnt and put them into practice! What did I learn that could be used with my learners?  The multi modal learning approach and how to make this engage learners in their learning. What did I learn that could improve my confidence, c

Time to reflect and share with colleagues What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy? It was interesting today to see the learn- create- share pedagogy in action. The SHARE element was presented by Stef and it was interesteing to learn in this session all about blogging and how paramount it is for the audience to be authentic. CHALK'N'TALK was presented by Maria in the arena of Google Forms. It was interesting to find out about all the ways you can use a form. It was good to have time to explore google forms. I was happy to create the following google form. Do have a go and fill in the form! It was amazing to learn about google maps in a DEEP DIVE with Dave. This would useful in creating a map for visitors visiting our school. Food for thought indeed. Today I was happy to be able to do a few simple things with google maps, see the interesting map below. What did I learn that could imp

Thank you Maria and Stef for today. What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy? How the different components of Learn-Create-Share operate for example what the concept of "chalk n talk" allows as opposed to a "deep dive". I like how the kaupapa and pedagogy is repeated and reinforced. What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional? How to create two Google slide presentations and how to use or present information clearly and confidently with the aid of this app. What did I learn that could be used with my learners? How to construct a google slide presentation which will be of great benefit for learning languages and different ways for learners to meet and greet each other.   What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life? To keep having an open attitude to technology and that li

FRIDAY, 1 MARCH 2019 DFI - Day Two - Riverdale School, Gisborne, N.Z   Thank you Maria and Tanya for today- lots of interesting items explored today. Time to reflect and share with colleagues What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?- Great to see the cycle of Learn, Create, Share in a different context. It has been interesting to see how this can be used and built on. What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?- How to use the Loom Extension to create a recording which could be used in my class to help learners who have missed an instruction. A great extension to help with rewindable learning. What did I learn that could be used with my learners? - The Loom extension and how to include this to support my learners. Click HERE What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life? - The use of Google Calendar and how t

DFI- 1st March - Day One - Riverdale School, Gisborne, N.Z Wow! What a wonderful introduction to the Digital Fluency Intensive under the mentoring of Dorothy and her team.  Information was organised and well presented from the cycle of learn, create, share to all the fancy keyboard tricks. So much was learnt in one day and so much more to learn in the digital learning journey ahead.   Thank you Dorothy, Maria, Stef and Herman. P.S It was fun to learn how to embed a doc of an item of work done today. See below! P.P.S Reflections below- What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy? That successful innovations truly do require champions. Different tools are yet to be presented over this 9 day course with a four goal focus- wonderful! What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional? That everything I am learning can be used in so many ways within the classroom. What did I learn t

Welcome to my professional learning blog. This is a place where I can reflect on my Teaching as Inquiry goals and how they link to the Education Council's Standards for the Teaching Profession