Session 7 - Digital Fluency Intensive

Session 7 - Digital Fluency Intensive

In this session we have learnt about how the tukana and teina model is used in the Manaiakalani Kaupapa to connect us into a powerful network. The use of technology has made the connection amongst our schools more effective as it empower us to share   in many different ways like google plus, twitter and many others.  It was also brought to our attention that all Manaiakalani schools have common shared language which is very crucial.  Our Manaiakalani pedagogy is Learn, Create, Share.  Our kaupapa is the four elements: Connected, Ubiquitous, Empowered and Visible.  We have now understood the importance of having a common shared language within our Manaiakalani schools.

In addition, we also explored a variety of tools that could help us with our workflow.  We began with how we can organised our bookmarks and how to deal with having too many tabs open by using One Tab or Toby.  This is very helpful as I am now going to tidy up my bookmarks using One Tab which I have already installed on my computer.

We were looking at google hangouts in the afternoon and this was interesting as many of us have not use it before.  We had practice few times and I am so glad that I managed to do very well.  I can see the use of this tool with teachers but I still need to think very carefully about how I can use it with my students.  Here is a link to one of the task we have to do through Google Hangouts. We also learnt how to schedule a google hangouts and we have to organise a hangout with one of the facilitators for next week.  I have done the invitation and has been accepted so I have put in into my google calendar.

Session 6 - Digital Fluency Intensive

First Half Reflection - Digital Fluency Intensive

First Half Reflection - Digital Fluency Intensive

Connecting with each other

I have been trying to develop a playlists on my youtube channel.

I have created folders and have started organising my drive.

Students has been working on their pepeha and will be using screencastify to record themselves.

I have been practising how to use google keep.

What has worked for you?
My workflow has slightly improved as I have been using some of the tips and tricks I have learnt for the past sessions such as sorting out my work into folders,getting my students to put all their work into the right folder, having an emphasis on how to label their blog posts, Using cybersmart language more often and had a thorough discussion about how to deal with negative comments online. This has raised students' awareness and hopefully it will empower to do the right thing if it ever happen to them.

What hasn’t worked (or made sense)

At the moment I have not got anything that does not work for me and may be because I have not tried everything I have been learning in the past 5 weeks. This will be my challenge for the last four weeks, is to put everything I have learnt into practice.

What do you need help with?

I need help on how to organise my new site. and learn how to embed websites on a blog posts.