DFI te rā tuaono

Data was the big topic today and the group covered Google Forms, MyMaps and Sheets. There was a great amount of content. The challenge was to use a 'create' tool to analyse data and then share the analysis on our blogs. I decided to analyse my blog post frequency over the last 4 years and think about the trends that the analysis shows.

Firstly, I investigated my total posts. I was a little surprised by the downwards trend, although 2019 hasn't finished yet. I looked a little closer at 2016 and was reminded that in that year I was totally new to Google Drive and blogged everything I learned so that my blog could be used by me as a tutoring tool when I forgot. I also reflected that since 2017, I have been carrying two major roles for Kootuitui ki Papakura so that was the most probably reason for the dramatic decrease in posts. Oh, and with this post, my 2019 total will rise to 12!
Secondly, I investigated the monthly data for my blog posting. The trend over each year is quite clear to me that most of my blogging is done between March and September, which is the 'meat' of the year. I don't do much blogging over the summer period and not while I am on annual leave. This is quite reasonable because I only use this as a professional blog, however, I will aim to try and complete a couple of posts over the 2019-2020 summer period to see whether I get views of these posts.

DFI te rā tuarima

Today we had our second day on Google sites. We had a very quick look at each other's sites and gave feedback on them using a Google form. It was great to hear people talking about their sites as they reveal what they think are the most important features of their sites. However, there wasn't enough time to look carefully through each site and to give robust, quality feedback. Maybe we could have separated into groups of four so that we could have worked in a small group - sharing, asking questions, in discussion and giving feedback. These groups would contain people at different stages of site competence so that there would be opportunity for ako among the members. Anyway, the gold nugget today was quiet time to get some of the Trust website pages up-to-date.

www.kootuitui.org.nz

DFI te rā tuawhā

Tohatoha - (verb) (-ina) to spread around, spread out, spread abroad, distribute, share, deal (cards). Not just LCS, but SLC, CLS and LSC etc. Today was about the use of a website to 'hook' (noun: matau) or entice people in, using a universal approach to designing learning and creating a multimodal website. I started a website with a focus on level 5 social studies, NZ history and Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Not having particular students in mind was the biggest disadvantage for me, but I have started gathering some text resources that may be of help to others. Click on the image to access the site.

DFI te rā tuatoru - kia awhiawhi hanga

Kia kaha te reo Māori. Whāia te ara poutama o te reo ka tohatoha ai - keep improving your language and share what you know. Ko tenei taku pepeha.

Let's Animate

At DFI 3 we spent some time focussing on animation. Four of us decided to create an animation that we could join together. We decided to use a plane flying through several landscapes. Above is my individual animation. While below is the video of the 4 animations playing one after the other.

DFI te rā tuarua

Kia ora te whānau. Rāmere, 6th Hepetema, he DFI te rā tuarua. He reremahi ko te kaupapa. He pai ki ahau te taupānga Kūkara. Ināianei, i te mahi ahau te wātaka Kūkara, mahara Kūkara, īmera Kūkara, hui ataata Kūkara me te ripa rorohiko.
The create task was to use Quicktime to record a hangout meet and discuss a blog post. For some reason my internal microphone was not working and I only recorded the video with no sound, which I deleted. So, then I did a bit of troubleshooting and discovered that I needed to give Quicktime access to my camera and microphone, which was strange as I only used it about 2 -3 weeks ago for the Online Toolkits. Anyway, then I did a short test which is attached.

All things 'Doc(k)y'

DFI day 1 has been focused on Google docs. The first thing that hit me was the words and phrases that I am increasingly seeing in use. The current one for me is 'deep dive'. This has recently been coming at me from all directions. No, I'm not researching an underwater holiday, but encountering this term meaning 'taking a thorough look at or into a particular subject matter'. Gone are the words 'focus', 'probe' or 'enquiry'. That got me thinking about the nature of language and common kīwaha, or sayings, which perhaps not coincidentally was the topic of this week's Te Reo lesson for the course I am on. The one I liked from my lesson was 'pai kare' which means 'by golly!', so every time I hear or read 'deep dive', I am going to think 'pai kare'! My first love is language so it's quite hard to distract me from language musing most days.
Anyway, I did concentrate on the content and for my 'create' part of the day, I decided to do a revision of the Trust meeting agenda and add a table of contents. I have created newsletters in docs and drawings, but am currently trialling 'mailchimp' which is the app that most organisations use for a professional look and which also automatically manages the newsletter subscription list.
So here is my new look agenda. I will trial it with trustees until the end of the year.