Digital Fluency Intensive... Day # 3

DFI Session# 3 had a media focus. My animation reflects the content we explored today to will help us help our tamariki become ‘creators of content not merely consumers’. We need to make sure our learners are safe in an online environment, something that is no different to the way we make sure our learners are safe in an EOTC environment. As teachers in a 1:1 environment we can do this by ensuring the settings in YouTube and Blogger are in place.

‘Creativity is not about doing something better than others, it's about thinking, discovering, exploring and imagining’, Kohl (2008). Joining us in our session today were three of my skilled creators Jack, Alex and Nyjah who confidently shared with their amazing digital drawing skills. They began with a 'how to' presentation that they had created then took us step by step through creating an animation in Google Slides and creating a drawing using the line tools in Google Draw. This part of my reflection is unashamedly a boast post!

My takeaways from today are:

• To make time to make sure the safety settings on blogger and YouTube are in place so that my learners can operate safely in an online environment.
• To share the online safety reminders with our PBS staff.
• To think about the opportunities my learners have to create.
• To share the possibilities of introducing of rewindable learning that our drone can offer sport training. Thank you Kent for this tip.
• To share the possibilities that our drone can offer for live streaming and delayed coverage so we can strengthen whanau connections.
• To use the Google Slides to create my own pick a path style maths challenges to help strengthen my learners number knowledge and vocabulary connections.
• To use the Google Slides to encourage my learners to create pick a path DLOs that reflect their understandings and connections to the learning.
• To strengthen my own digital drawing skills by completing my own digital portrait.

Here is the link to my notes from our learning today.

Sharing our learning...

This week I took a group of year 7/8 students to Tamaki College to share their learning with some of the Tamaki College students. These boys did such an amazing job of sharing their google draw skills. As their teacher I was so incredibly proud to see them shining as they lead the learning and explained the instructions so clearly and confidently. A huge thank you to Mrs Pameka and Ms Apelu for giving us this opportunity, and to Mrs Hamer for inviting us into her classroom and for joining in the lesson.

Here are the links to the boys blog posts: Jack Sanujan Alex

 Jack explaining the skills he was teaching

Sanujan helping Mrs Hamer

  Jack explaining sharing some of his work with Mrs Pameka and Ms Apelu

  Alex explaining the skills he was teaching

Engaged learners

Team photo

ISTE 2018 - Learn to create some pretty sweet graphics

Presenter: Manuel Harrera

This was another session that Kiri and I attended together. The most valuable part of choosing to do sessions together was the follow up conversations we had immediately after relating to how we can use the learning with our own students. We have many students this year who are highly skilled graphic artists and I am very much looking forward to sharing my learning from this session with them. Below are my notes.

• Creativity is a process - not just choosing the go to app (ref to slide 2)
• Sketch to visualise thinking - communicate without speaking to each other
• Adobe capture in iPad saves your data
• Canvas slide - saves colour pallet - has image sizes
• Insert word art allows for automatic resize of text
• Google search font pairings
• Vector art can be scaled from any size - doesn’t blur or pixelate
• Use Instagram template to create bio for historical leader etc
• Use polyline in google draw to create shape for vector art
• Remove outline - colour fill - send to back
• Repeat process for each shape - layer
• Innovation Exchange 
• Change canvas using pixel measurements
• Add graphics
• File - download png
• If wanting sticker cld send design to sticker mule
• App design storyboard 
• All drawings are done in slides too
• Gif animation - draw peanut jar - find png arms on image search - upload each movement snapshot to google photos - assistant in google photos creates animation gif
• Sound = shrink YouTube clip down to smallest size to hide but can hear