Digital Fluency Intensive, Day 6.

Digital Fluency Intensive, Day 6.

It was good to explore the “connected” aspect of the “Learn, Create, Share” model. The practice of evaluating the learning websites against two sets of criteria - “Visual Appeal” and “Functionality” -  was extremely useful. 

The feedback on my site was very helpful. It gave me some ideas about improving the content and boosting the appearance of the site. There should be a good balance between having lots of opportunities for children to explore and keeping everything usable and manageable, at the same time.
I have started the work on adding a new "Wizard" page to my website.

Important tip: having the week numbers only on weekly task slides could be confusing for children and whanau. Having the dates alongside with the week numbers will be much better.

Digital Fluency Intensive, Day 5.

A very intensive day in terms of learning. Manaiakalani Kaupapa is becoming more and more clear. The principle of visibility is quite important. It is great to see the connections between multimodal design behavioural engagement and multi-textural design for cognitive engagement. The importance of the Hook!

The T-shaped literacy approach is opening a new dimension to teaching and learning. 

I have managed to create my first Google site today. The whole process was very exciting. I will still need lots of practice and fine-tuning before I can transfer all my ideas into the site. Here is the link to my creation.

https://sites.google.com/edmundhillary.school.nz/monarchs/home

Digital Fluency Intensive 2020, Day 4.

Today’s focus was Tohatoha - Share. It’s all about establishing an authentic audience and connecting with it. Google Forms is fun. It is an invaluable tool for collecting feedback and for different types of data collection. It is important to set the right sharing setting before sending it. 

Google Sheets has much more to offer than I thought it would. Especially with the ability to produce different types of charts and to calculate maths data. Very useful. Here are a couple of examples of the things you can do with it.

The “Google My Maps” tool is fascinating. It is a great way of presenting visual data, I will need to spend some time exploring it.

Digital Fluency Intensive, Day 3.

Google slides would be the highlight for Day 3. It is quite a versatile tool for planning and teaching. One of the useful features I have learned today is how to embed a video into the slide.I have also created a YouTube channel and made my first playlist. Google Draw is another great tool to use in teaching and learning. Overall the media will make it so much easier to learn, create, and share.