6. Enabling Access - Sites (Digital Fluency Intensive)

 Today I have vastly improved my site: 

Julia

This included making:

Slides - for the classwork on Monday

Documents - for classwork and homework 

A form - to collect data on the students

Sheets - to share the data collected with the students

Note also that students will be able to paste the graphs they create in a shared doc.

The next step is to link their work back to the site.

Note also that everything is in a folder that everyone with the link can view and I have only locked down one file - the sheet that will hold the students responses to the form (with their email addresses). But everyone will be able to see the completed graphs - as these won't have any individual's information on them (I hope!)

5. Sites (Digital Fluency Intensive)

 This week we learnt about the Visible part of Manaiakalani and Google Sites.

Tips

• You can add protections to globally shared docs so that they cannot download or forward the doc on
• For docs with multiple editors you can restore previous versions via the editing history, and you can name different versions (to go back to them)
• There is a way to split your screen by dragging off a tab
• Switching off Grid view in Meet allows you a bigger view of the presentation
• Hapara - Sharing folders should be empty. All students docs should be filed in Hapara created folders.

Visible

The resources we create, and the planning we do, should be visible not only to our students, but also to their whanau and our colleagues. In the last two weeks I have made my planing and resources much more visible (to the world) but my students work and their voice is still invisible. (I presume this is where students having their own blogs will fit in).

At school I was the one who could read the teachers' minds - and the exam writers!!! It is not fair and does not give equality of access. Students need a One Stop Shop without any password barriers.

I wondered how I would add a folder into each of my student's drive - and this question was answered later - by using Hapara.

Multi-modal

I agree that neither the process of learning nor the prospect of learning appeals to secondary students today. A site needs to attract students into it (like a shop window), it needs to be inclusive, and they need to see themselves in there.

The visible teaching I have just made (my first attempt) looks like the first Point England School site (on slide 17). I have been wanting to make it more visually appealing and I think Sites is going to be where I do this.

I explored a wonderful secondary school's Maths site: Algebra. I found resources I want to use and ideas for my next site. I also filled in the feedback form and gave Aimee my email address.

T-shaped literacy

Wide and deep. I had not heard of this before. I like Dave's two quotes:

1. Reading is faster than listening
2. Reading doesn't create noise

My sites

I have created two sites today:

1. Year 9 Maths: Maths
2. Lest We Forget: ANZAC

Blogs

I have added multiple new labels to my Blog, and will go back to earlier versions to add DFI to them.

4. Dealing with Data(Digital Fluency Initiative)

 Today we learnt about the Share stage of Manaiakalani and Google Sheets.

Hot Tips

• Polyline - I was admiring Barry Huhu's profile picture and comparing it to my attempt via Drawing and he said he used Polyline, which is apparently easy for kids to create with.
• YouTube - I missed this tip from last week - that you can set a video to start at the point you want it to.
• Mathsweek.co.nz - first I have heard of this week or site.
• Blog - the best way to show my doc in my blog may be to embed a video of me talking about it (either through screen castify or recording a meeting with someone). Towards the end of the day we embedded a Google Drawing of our data analysis, which can also be done with slides but can it be done from a doc?

The embedded slides below show the difference between Slides and Docs when it comes to Download and Publish to web:

Hapara tip

Teachers can use Hapara to monitor posts and comments, particularly the red comments as they are from non-Google accounts. Dorothy said their was a "3 Check System" - what are the three checks? Is there any automated checking for inappropriate language (for example)? Or is the teacher the only safeguard? And does it even matter if students are on other social media? Possible answer below.

Share

The key take-away point for me from today's Manaiakalani kaupapa was that we are teaching students to be good digital citizens. We use Blogging to teach our kids to be Cyber-Smart and that they buy into it because it is similar enough to the other popular social media. So best they make all their mistakes under our watch (in Blog) and become safe and informed users of all social media.

Second point - Share has two aspects. 1) It is where you finish the learning (and learning to finish is important) and 2) sharing can also be the starting place of new learning.

Form

Tips:

• use a blank form (not a theme/template)
• personalise the acknowledgment (Settings, Presentations)
• Import videos etc (embedding html codes is for blogs and sites only

Possible uses for me:

• Import a video and ask questions about it
• Use as a digital worksheet - shuffle question order to encourage own work, or lock mode (only works on managed CBs)

My Map

I think a few of us chose Paris - so you can't see my name in the centre:

Sheets

• Yay!!! - I have Freeze Panes now!
• Note you can start typing the formula directly into the worksheet if you know its name - I find this faster than using the menu.
• I found the 1dp custom format today (thought I was restricted to 2 or 0)
• Dave showed us the list of keyboard shortcuts
• The slides for this topic had GIFS in them (wee videos of how to, no sound just animation) - I want to make some of these for my students.

Blog Data Analysis

Blog Comments

Positive - Thoughtful - Helpful (eg question).

Html code to insert a link into a comment:

<a href="insert URL here">Insert display text here</a>

Wish me luck - I'm off to comment on another's blog.

Plan for a unit of work

 Plan for the next unit of work

I have made the following document and shared it with my students and their parents. I want them to have "rewindable content", which I have labelled Ako. And at any time they can access the ako, classwork, homework and some extension work.

3. Media (Digital Fluency Initiative)

Today we learnt about the Create stage of Manaiakalani and we learnt to create content with Sight, Sound and Motion (SISOMO).

Create

Give them something to DO!!! People learn through doing. Think about Kindergarten - the walls in my house and my parent's house are filled with pictures drawn by my daughter. When I was 5 I wrote a story (at school) about making hot cross buns and it was published in the Gisborne Herald! My mum has just published a dozen poems that were written by my grandmother in primary school and were published in the Christchurch Press!!!

We don't do that now - but Manaiakalani is suggesting we embrace the Internet as a place to publish student's work and that this is key to motivating them to engage with the content we want them to engage with.

Ideas that came to me during this session:

• Measurement topic - get students to draw rectangles for other students to calculate the perimeter and area
• Get students to lie on the ground to make shapes and take photos of them
• Last year another Maths teacher at our school got students to trace around their feet, cut them out, measure them, then stick them on the classroom wall to make a dot plot of the distribution of foot lengths in the class - a great visual creation!

SISOMO moments that blew me away (not necessarily in chronological order):

• SIGHT - The Matrix - wow! I wanted to be Trinity! Surely we can all run around the walls of a room if we just launch ourselves with enough speed.
• SOUND - Surround Sound in the home lounge with Sub Woofer (circa 1996) We watched Twister and the booming went straight through our chests as a physical feeling.
• SURROUND SIGHT - Dragonheart in the Cinema. When the Dragon flew over us and the sound traveled from the back of the cinema to the front and before the shadow appeared on the screen (while the dragon was over our heads) they flicked on and off the houselights so it felt like the shadow was going over us!

So YES - I get the emotional effect Manaiakalani and Saatchi & Saatchi are talking about.

You Tube

Teachers can post to You Tube, or we can just create a channel so that we can collate others' videos through Playlists.

Students, however, should only post to Google Drive and their Blog, which is only set up by the approved Admin person at school and has all the protection of Manaiakalani, Hapara etc

I have today created a channel and have started making some Maths playlists.

Draw

Tip - double click to crop an image. 

Can use draw to make buttons for web site.

To paste as a picture - Download as png

To insert into Blog - Publish to web - Embed - Small - Paste url into HTML part of blog, as I have done below. (Uses  ColourPick extension).

Hot tips

Te Reo

Mahi - work

Kaimahi - worker

Kaiako - teacher

Kairiwhi - reliever (spelling?)

Hapara

Use Items to change the amount of detail per student:

• 1 for the latest work
• 25 for learning conversations with individuals

Sort - drab students' boxes to the top of the page .

Hover over a doc for a quick look.

I had a problem with students teaching in a recent maths test. They were allowed to use a simple calculator on their chromebook, but I caught 3 googling extra help. If I had had Hapara up and running - could I have prevented that?

Have just sent my class lists to our IT person to get my classes created in Hapara.

Embedding a Doc in a Blog

In week one I wanted to embed a Google Doc in my Blog post. We learnt how to embed a video in week two, so I will now attempt to apply that learning to a Doc.

Here is the document I created in week one:

Attempt 1

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-5IjCkyHisCX_5m3sKDvfZPfuySSsIxI4x38ihgjH4Y/edit?usp=sharing

Not what I was hoping to achieve. Dave had mentioned I might need to place it in as a photo.

Attempt 2

Document

Better - but not as good looking as a picture.

Attempt 3

This is the best so far - I took a screen shot of my document, but to crop it I had to paste it into a slide. Then I took a screen shot of the slide (from present mode).

Not ideal - too many steps.