DFI Day 7 Devices

Another remote learning day as we are still in lockdown at Alert level 4.

Today we learnt more about Cyber Smart from Fiona Grant. It is important we revisit this every year for children who have entered school after Term 1 and also to reinforce this important learning for All children. 

It empowers learners to be positive. Key words are POSITIVE  HELPFUL  THOUGHTFUL.

We also learnt about Hapara, which makes the learning visible to the teacher. The Seniors in our school use this, while the Juniors use Mosley so this was very informative for me. I will be able to view some of the Seniors work without having to visit individual Blogs.

Senior children use Chromebooks as their learning device. And, no doubt, with much more skill than I showed during our practice!!

I was slightly less lost during the session about ipads, as I had used Explain Everything with my Junior class before with Donna Yates' help.

This was our assigned practice, so I recorded it on screen castify to share on my Blog.

Our next learning was about Screen Castify. I viewed the Manaiakalani Smart Values and recorded myself speaking about the tab and adapting it for my Junior Learners. I need to re-record this, as I found an awesome Manaiakalani Rap but as I clicked on it, it must have gone onto the next video, and I missed it. However, I did learn to record... just need to find the stop button!!
Screen castify video to come when I can perfect embedding a video into HTML without deleting what I've already written!

Kerry gave us some more Blogging tips.
I still need to practice using the layout and make a new page 'Teaching as Inquiry'
But for now... I need a big long beach walk in the sunshine while it's low tide!