DFI Week Nine - Reflections

This course has been a great journey for me. Some "landmarks" have been new to me, some of them I revisited, and some I saw them in a different light. It's been a joyful ride and I am glad I had the opportunity to take part. Also, this experience opens up new questions, new pursuits and new adventures.
This was my "digital bubble"

DFI Week Eight - Reflections

Today's session focussed on computational thinking. It was a relatively new subject for me so I was really curious to learn. It was an interesting session where I got the chance to try different coding resources (studio.code.org, compute.it.toxicode.fr/).
Next term we are going to learn about Position and Orientation for Maths, so it will be a great opportunity to share with my students what I have learned today.

DFI Week Seven - Reflections

This week's session was focussed on the use of devices (iPad and Chromebook) from the student's and teacher's perspectives.

The use of devices from the student's view enabled me to understand some of the frustrations my student may feel when working on their tasks due to lack of visibility (small screen, different brightness) and to be mindful when designing learning tasks by avoiding moving of small objects, filling in small boxes, or low quality or small pictures.

On the other hand, utilising the device from the teacher's view, helped me gain new knowledge about shortcuts, but also the multiple use of Explain Everything and Whiteboard.

DFI Week Six - Reflections

Today's session was focussed on enabling access to learning through Google Sites. Sharing and talking about our class sites with our bubble colleagues and getting feedback was really helpful.
It was a productive session for my professional development and I'm looking forward the next session dedicated to devices.

DFI Week Five - Reflections

Today's session was focussed on Collaborate-Sites and the use of Multi-Modal Learning. The great thing about multimodal learning is that you can engage with my learners in a variety of different ways (visual, audio, text, etc). It can be used as a tool to differentiate the learning to suit diverse types of learners. So, along with practice, it will help me improve the way I present ideas to my students.

This is one of the tasks that we had - to create a multi-modal site:

https://sites.google.com/ptengland.school.nz/true-or-fake/home

DFI Week Four - Reflections

Today's session was focussed on Dealing with Data and it offered different ways to organise (filter/sort/display) data (Google Spreadsheets), but also how to create and share learning content using Google Forms and Mymaps. It was a very interesting session for me as the information presented today filled in some gaps in my knowledge (Spreadsheets), but also added new learning (Mymaps and Forms). Along with practice, it will help me improve the way I present ideas to my students.

This is one of the tasks that we had - displaying and interpreting data from one of our students' blog posts and visitors:



I'm looking forward for next sessions about creating with Google sites.

DFI Week Three - Reflections

Today's session was focussed on Media and it offered different ways to create and share using Google apps and YouTube. It was a very productive session for me as the information presented today filled in some gaps in my knowledge (YouTube channels, Google Slides and Drawing). Along with practice, it will help me improve the way I present ideas to my students.

This is one of the tasks that we had:



I'm looking forward to our next session on spreadsheets.