DFI session 2 - WORKFLOW

Friday 2nd August 2019 DFI session 2 - WORKFLOW

WHAT HAS WORKED WELL SINCE PREVIOUS DFI:  Toggling between tabs!  Efficient/helpful. Remove.bg another helpful wee tool.  Tried hard to use Learn-Create-Share pedagogy so learners feel what they have learned/created is going somewhere, and has a meaningful,authentic audience.  Fixed up photo on my professional account so that it’s appropriate, just me - no pets, no kids etc

WHAT HASN’T WORKED OR MADE SENSE?  Have not done Scavenger Hunt as yet.  Can’t figure out how to bookmark, back to top etc.  Can you help me to move a file into my own Drive using the shortcut we learnt about?  I didn’t achieve this when I tried.

WHAT DO YOU NEED HELP WITH?  Accessing and commenting on others’ blogs can now be done as I’ve got the links..  Using Docs voice typing in class effectively. Amie will be coming into school to demo use of Sunshine online as a tool to support fluency in reading.

I enjoyed connecting with Manaiakalani kaupapa and the reassurance that it in no way is throwing the baby out with the bathwater.  References to Blooms and SAMR model, hoping to modify or transform learning for our tamariki… turbo charge!

Rewindable learning:

The concept being that if it’s worth teaching, and worth learning, then it is worth capturing and putting on your Google Site so that learners can access it any time, and rewind to it when they need to.  If it’s worth teaching/learning, it’s worth sharing.

We had a delve into Hangouts and Meet.  You can present what is on your screen to the group.  You can include many people in the group. Can access through gmail, calendar, hyperlink or apps.

Screen castify - thanks Ubby and Briar for the tip!  A great way for learners to record their reading, so you can see all their behaviours, and they can measure their progress from week to week.  Ubby shared her Site. A great hub where all of her planning for EVERYTHING is available. Learners go there, using it as a hub for their reading books and activity, word work, writing material, websites with practise activities etc.  Really enjoyed seeing this very slick model - organised in such a meaningful way. She spoke about very high levels of engagement using this model, as well as the sense of safety and predictability providing children with sound routines.

Briar kindly put me on to yet another clever shortcut; Ctrl + shift + t which re-opens the previous tab you just closed.  Pretty quick way to keep organised, I can see myself using this one. Also, the ‘starred’ feature in Drive will prioritise key documents making them more accessible.  This makes them quick and easy to open.  

Toby Mini is a Chrome Extension to tame your tabs.  ‘Save your session’. Could be good if you open all sorts of sites relating to a particular study or focus (termly integrated study as an example) for planning, then save and share with other collaborators.  Essentially a collection of URLs. Could be good/quite useful at a team level.

I can see the workflow benefit of pinning tabs, the ones you like to keep open most of the time, Drive, Keep, Gmail.

For the CREATE component, we worked in collaborative teams of three to record some discussion around a child’s blog we read, sharing an activity from The Summer Learning Journey.  Not without its connectivity issues, we had some quality, critical discussions as well as lots of laughs. 

 

Turns out soft skills aren’t a big focus at high school, I’m told.  Who knew two men could be so chatty. Lots of fun in our group, and a great opportunity to practise using Hangouts, presenting screen content, and recording using Quicktime screen record feature.

Through lunchtime I was able to delve back into the scavenger hunt… you can do so much without leaving Docs!  Loving the ‘explore’ feature.