Seuga's Professional Blog

Today's Blog was titled Revision. Time out was taken to reflect on where we had come from, the various gems we had picked up on the way and the whole journey with the Manaiakalani Facilitators throughout this nine week course of Digital Fluency. This was once again demonstrated in our Digital Bubbles where we were able to feedback on what had worked well over the week including any difficult areas of concern. Following this we had a presentation of the Manaiakalani Kaupapa on Ubiquitous by Dorothy.   The message which I received from this presentation is that life long learners need digital devices to tap into learning about anything and everything. There are a variety of resources and tools which can accompany ones learning if we all but use what is available and learn from the different aspects and experts who live and breathe this methodology and pedagogy. And from the slide it shows: The rest of the morning was focussed on sitting the Google Exam which was very inten...

Today's session was all about Computational Thinking. The day started as usual with Karakia followed by WWW where it was a good way to collaborate and catch up with members in our Digital Bubbles with facilitator Nicola. A very positive response about how we are heading towards the end of term looking forward to the end of Week 12. The Manaiakalani Pedagogy and Kaupapa covered to day was "Empowered" What I learnt was that through technology and the devices being used, these were not only a tool for learners and educators but an expensive tool for life time learners. The slides which were visual and had meaning showed that the schools from Tamaki were all in the socio economical decile one area surrounded by neighbouring Decile 10 schools. Over the years of determination and a clear vision the programme has grown through the empowerment of many involved. This was followed by the Chalk n Talk of an Introduction into Computational Thinking and Higa...

8.00 Started off the Session with Karakia followed by 8.05: Fiona - Cybersmart Today in our Create session I was able to take something from the morning session Cybersmart and use the screencastify tool to record and implememnet the pedagogy and information for my class. There was a take 1 as a test to see if I could adlib, unfortunately I needed a script and to also have my tabs open for the screencastifying. How to screencastify? Go to the icon which is at the right hand corner of screen. If I want to show the screen then I play record while on the screen projecting. Once I have stopped recording then I should wait until the recording is completed so that it can download into the Screencastify Folder in my Drive. To embed I must open the video, click on the 3 dots, drop down window will have get embed code item. Copy and paste into blog. New blog post. Add text first then add embed. Html - Compose. It is always good for students to know where to start from as a be...

Today after karakia and sharing our WWW with Digital bubble members we listened to more of the Manaiakalani pedagogy - CONNECTED. "Connected is a way of life for our students. Take it from them and they will check out." The LEARN CREATE SHARE goes with the CONNECTED UBIQUITOUS  VISIBLE  EMPOWERED. Something which I have learnt and applied to my learners is how to make buttons for my Reading Page. I did get stuck on how to shape the picture once I had copied it onto the Google Draw page however thanks to facilitator Nicola who explained how I had words on my picture which meant I hade to click on the picture only, and then go to the drop box beside the crop symbol which enabled me to find the circle shape and click on that. Once I was able able to create my buttons I decided to rename my Reading Groups to Kea Roopu, Kiwi Roopu and Tui Roopu. I added the list of names to each group. Once this was completed I sorted out the 9 weeks of Reading activities which have...

Today's session was very meaningful and full on with the DFI team teaching us everything we needed to know about collaborate sites. After karakia we went into WWW which we were able to reflect on what was working well and what wasn't. We then listened to Gerhard explain the the pedagogy behind Visibility. Visible learning and Visible Teaching. What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?        What I learnt was that online learning means visibility is most important for the teacher plannig and the learners. There should be no surprises if everything is being collaorated and shared with other professional educators and learners. What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional? There is a vast knowledge of examples and lesson s available to be used for all. I really enjoyed the the google sites create sessions from the start to publishing. It was v...