DigitaLee

Making learning visible, now more than ever, is showing it's worth. With moving into online teaching and learning during lockdown. By making learning visible we are able to provide students with engaging tools that they are able to go back to as many times as they need in order to grasp the learning concepts. Visibility also allows whanau to engage in their child's learning by making it accessible and mobile. Multimodal Teaching sounds exciting to me. I love the idea of having rewindable learning available for students to revisit as they need to.  With the universal design for learning that looks to provide a hook to engage the learners, personalised learning, accelerated achievement and to empower students to be life long learners through giving them the tools they need to learn with greater independence, reminds me of why I became a teacher. And by creating multimodal and multi-textural environments for the learners, I can see this generating increased engagement not only for...

Sharing is a part of who we are as human beings. We want to be noticed, to feel seen and heard, and to be remembered. Manaiakalai's kaupapa around share is vital in growing healthy and confident communicators within an ever evolving digital and global audience. There has been so much to learn today from creating pathways in google forms, Loading… To creating maps from embedded information in Google Sheets, To using Google Sheets for all of our Data processing and analysing needs, I am definitely going to be exploring how I can, more efficiently, use Google sheets to analyse my assessment data. A lot of this is going to enhance my personal use of these programs as I already use them in my planning and assessment. I hope that I will get to use some more of the Google Sheets with my classroom to extend their analysis and goal setting based on data.

 Creativity is something I deeply value. I have grown up in an extremely creative whanau and am a creative myself. Having the chance to connect with and practice the CREATE  part of the Manaiakalani kaupapa was so much fun! I loved using Google slides for something other than presentations! I have learnt to create an app using slides that can allow my students to navigate one of their lessons. I can see how this could become an exciting way for students to present their learning, and as a beginners step to app creation. I would love to see how this also could become a way of akonga reporting back to parents about what they are doing and what their next steps are. Take a look...

Google has so many functions that can increase work productivity and efficiency. Cleaning up tabs and gmail is a task that I would generally need to do each term however, with changing a few settings (and adding some folders in gmail) it makes it into a much easier process. I have customised my settings and added some filters to sort emails appropriately into the folders which makes keeping up with blogs and google classrooms heaps more manageable. Using Google Keep  I want to try and use Google Keep. I am quite an organised person by nature and I respond well to lists. I have created many notes in different places, but I would love to centralise these so that I don't have to go looking  in  multiple places to find them. I can see where this could also be beneficial for learners in terms of helping to keep them organised with their own tasks whether it be for school, sport, or personally. Using Google Meet This is a really cool tool. I am more familiar with Zoom, however,...