This is the resource I have put together for term 2 cybersmart - digital footprint. I started using this with five teachers last week. All classes have a slightly different version of this resource because I decided to make separate copies for each school to provide a similar base of content and then to cater for the differing needs of teachers and students. I expect that over the course of the term, the content will change further as I work with teachers and continue to co-construct.
Week 1 started well with discussing what happened recently with facebook. Many students thought that facebook's user data had been hacked, so we had some great discussions about what really happened and then why it is important to be aware of age restrictions for social networking sites, as well as how to keep your privacy settings up to date.
There are some things I still need to add including students making an up-to-date blog profile and building in blog posting and commenting - positive, thoughtful, helpful.
Two of my year 3-4 classes are still back working through a few more term 1 items and then I will begin an age-appropriate digital footprint curriculum for them.
Monday, 7 May 2018
Sunday, 22 April 2018
Evaluation from EdTech Akl Summit
Baruk Jacobs and I presented at the Edtech Summit in Auckland. Sadly, only 4 people completed the evaluation but the results are:
What I can take from this limited response is that participants were fairly happy with the content and format of our session. There isn't much from this to work on for our uLearn submission, but we have our own reflections and ideas to make improvements. Even so, it is good to get some feedback which includes positive and encouraging comments.
Wednesday, 18 April 2018
Tuesday, 17 April 2018
EdTech Google Summit Auckland 2018
This summit has held in the first two days of the April school holidays. It was a great time for learning, listening, trying things out, networking and sharing. It was quite hard to choose what sessions to attend, however through the summit app, the resources for all sessions were accessible - and this included all summits - NZ and overseas. What a terrific resource for continuing learning.
I appreciated the messages from the keynote speakers such as the importance of play in learning and encouraging students to tell their own stories. I have a number of activities from the workshops I attended to investigate and think about how these could be adapted for classrooms I facilitate in. I also appreciated the workshop in Te Reo that I attended and have a list of technological words in Māori that I can trust are correct. Here is the list should blog readers be interested. I'm going to try using one word a week and that way I may remember them.
Baruk and I did our workshop. We were quite critical of our performance and immediately jotted down ways to improve it. We are now working on an upscaled version for submitting for uLearn 2018. I am very grateful to everyone who shared their knowledge, expertise and resources.
I appreciated the messages from the keynote speakers such as the importance of play in learning and encouraging students to tell their own stories. I have a number of activities from the workshops I attended to investigate and think about how these could be adapted for classrooms I facilitate in. I also appreciated the workshop in Te Reo that I attended and have a list of technological words in Māori that I can trust are correct. Here is the list should blog readers be interested. I'm going to try using one word a week and that way I may remember them.
Baruk and I did our workshop. We were quite critical of our performance and immediately jotted down ways to improve it. We are now working on an upscaled version for submitting for uLearn 2018. I am very grateful to everyone who shared their knowledge, expertise and resources.
Monday, 22 January 2018
Manaiakalani Innovation Team - Connecting with Each Other
Today I spent a great day with the Manaiakalani Innovation Team which comprised the Manaiakalani leaders, the outreach facilitators and education programme leaders of the first and second outreach clusters. The second outreach is beginning and the team has expanded greatly with wonderful educators coming onboard.
Through the day everyone delivered their 5-minute introduction. This was a way for people to connect with one another. The DLO above was my introduction. I have changed the first slide because I didn't have my pepeha (introduction in Te Reo Māori) written on it at he time. I hadn't put it there because I didn't want to read it. So I had it on my phone as a reminder. However, I used my phone too much and have decided to learn this by heart for the next time and learn to rely solely on my memory.
I shall not be able to join the group again during the week as I have Kootuitui orientation and meetings scheduled, but I am keen to join the weekly online meetings from the start of the term. There is so much we can share about our work and I can learn from the others of the group.
Tuesday, 14 November 2017
Book Creator Volume 2
Here is my second book using Book Creator. This time I added video and also a voice recording. It was quite simple and very effective. Students can record their voice so that the person reading the book can follow the words and listen to the voice. Inserting text, colours, shapes, video and voice recordings are all straight forward.
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