DFI 8

 A fun day today learning focussed around Empowering students, understanding the communities that we are all passionate about, and especially through the Digital Curriculum. As a teacher finding my way through the sea of Digital Tech and meeting the curriculum requirements seemed like another chore. I am so grateful to Manaiakalani for the links to awesome resources where the big thinking has been done. I can now see where I am with the Digital curriculum and where my students need to focus their next steps! Yay! 

Here is a te reo maori resource I made in scratch. I have known of the scratch site for programming, now that I know the potential to custom make digital resources for learning, I am wrapped. Eventhough I don't want to reinvent the world, there are so many localised curriculum areas that need resource support. Ideally you should be able to click on the waka parts and you would hear a kupu maori recording for each part. So cool!

 

DFI Week 7.

 Seven weeks have quickly disintegrated! it is timely that we looked at screencastify. I have been looking for ways to tidy up videos from classroom google meet's during the week to add user-friendly instruction, working toward ubiquitous learning. My apologies for a boring video... But it's going to take a bit of practice and rehearsing to up my acting game... but I'm ready for the challenge!

A great app for learning through an iPad was Explain Everything. Here is an image I created and hopefully you can click on it and access the recording of my thoughts of this app.

Week 6 Website - Enabling Access

Learning today was focussed on making our learning website more accessable for students. We established three goals. My goals were: 1. Personalise Room 2's home page, add Room 2 flavour. 2. Make pages more engaging - Use images that entice students and make learning accessable. 3. Add time table and planning so students know what is planned. This is how much i have achieved so far. I am happy with the new look! Before:

After: