Session 8- DFI Course

Today I have learnt how to code. I had always been a little worried about coding, because of the patience required to cover every little step and go back and change if necessary. I'm not really a patient methodical person.

Below is the Cat and the Jelly fish story created today.
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Session 7 -DFI Course

What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?

Heard from Dorothy about the amazing numbers of levels of connectedness, Manaiakalani has across the sector they serve. We do know that connections and relationships are so important for students in their learning, and in this case increasing 'visible learning'.

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?

Creating a 'button' of a school photo with colleagues at s senior ball- along information about myself as a professional was a positive learning experience today. I have added to my blog posts- and gained confidence in blogging. Blogging was not an area I was greatly confident in.

What did I learn that could be used with my learners?  

Learning more about creating google slides and animations to help show/teach my students in class. In this way, we will have a new tool whereby we can 'create' and show off our new learning in Science. See example below of my animation.

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?
I almost feel confident enough to consider creating a personal blog post- regarding my personal interests as compared with a blog on my professional life only. This way can communicate with friends and family at a more personal level.

Session 3 DFI Course

What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani’s Learn kaupapa and pedagogy?

Today we learnt about Google forms and Google sheets. Created a survey for the Field Trip students next week, which I will use as my survey form for my appraisal. As I am in many classes have to take every opportunity to use what I've learnt in the classes I go into. I will be creating a Google form for the teachers of the classes I have been working with also.

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?
As mentioned above can now create google forms for my classes and staff as necessary.

What did I learn that could be used with my learners? 
We also learnt about google sheets and handling data. See table re blog posts for a students blog. Could certainly use this in analysing data collected from students.

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?

In my role as DP often analysing data and need to send out surveys. Excellent tools today.