DFI 7

I have struggled a bit with the DFI today. I am one of those people Dorothy talked about who really need someone sitting beside them, giving them instructions. I had some understanding of Hapara, so that was fine, but I found the chrome book and i pad activities difficult without the actual device.
I also found it difficult to add my Teaching as Inquiry to my blog. This was abit fast for me. I know that I need totake time and often go over things several time to consolidate new knowledge.

Other learning from DFI 7

Being Cyber Smart - Fiona Grant

Elevate the positive, using positive language.

Why Cybersmart?
Empowering young people to make smart decisions online.
Be internet Awesome, be internet smart, be internet strong, be internet alert, be internet kind, be internet brave.
Whoe school focus, consistent language, collaborative planning. Smart learner, smart footprint, smart relationships.
Being Cybersmart empowers learners to connect when their learning is visible and ubiquitous.
Whenever and wherever we share online its personal.
Blog comments - positive, thoughtful, helpful. Right place right time. What does this look like?
Cyber smart learning is at its best when embedded into an existing educational programme.
Smart learners use their device to power up their learning.

Hapara

Hapara allows you to focus on the teaching not the technology.
Can shift panes in Principal view to target specific students.
Documents might be in 'sharing' if you have not directed students to add to the appropriate folder.
Noticed lots of unfiled work in some classes.
Don't have highlights on when students are at home as this is unethical.

1-1
Decision to go 1-1 was providing equity to everybody, align with treaty.
Providing the verybest device for learning for every young person.

Chrome books
Give new teachers a chrome book to use so they become familiar with how the students are learning.
Found these activities quite difficult without having an actual chrome book to try everything on. Will make a point of taking a chrome book from school and going through the Digital Dig again.

I Pads
Learners at the centre of the experience.
Safety video for i pads, check that we are using this with out students.
Explain everything enables teacher and learner to create and share learning.
Use the names that the tools are given on explain everything for consistency,
Like with the chrome books I will get one of our i pads with explain everything and have another go at the tasks.

Screen Castify
I had a go at recording a screen castify. I need to continue to look at how this could be used for instructions relating to online lessons. I would like to look at examples of screen castify's that others have made to get more ideas on how this could be done then used when I am teaching, especially for providing rewindable lessons for students.