Manaiakalani Film Festival

This year was our very first Manaiakalani Film Festival. It was a huge success. So much organinsing and planning went into this event, from behind the scene planning with the Manaiakalani facilitators, Te Ahu, Harley Alexandra, but also at the school level. Buying equipment, planning the movies, organising groups to film, etc, etc.

I would like to thank all those that made this possible!

The students had a fabulous time and felt like celebs walking along the red carpet, entering to view their film on the big screen.

Please view the film's that my class made to be shown at Te Ahu on our class blog.

DFI Session 6

DFI Session 6

What I have tried before this session:

• Students posting their blog profiles to their blogs.
• Students using screencastify to record how to post to their blog.
• Share their screencastify video onto their blog also.

What I need more support with, or what hasn't work:

• Lack of devices in our classroom to fully implement all learning
• Students needing more time to familiarize themselves with google and the device, ie. navigating between tabs, etc.
• Students knowing how to make a copy of a document correctly, naming it properly, and saving it in the correct folder.

Visible Learning

The Manaiakalani kaupapa is for all learning to be visible.  This includes the learning, planning, etc.  This is why creating class sites. Students can share - this is what I'm learning, this is the purpose of my learning. This is beneficial to teachers also, as more ideas are shared across schools. Teachers can access other teachers sites to find ideas, resources etc.  

Having all learning, including student blogs, visible creates connections between home and school. The sites allows students to read what's in the teachers mind. 

Having learning visible ensure there are no surprise. Students know where they are starting from and where they are going. 

Hapara enables visibility for the teacher to see where students are, what they are doing, follow up on work etc. 

Keeping learning visible makes it easy for anyone to access. As soon as you put up barriers like passwords etc, people usually only try a couple of times then give up.  Then this is a learner lost, or a lost connection with whanau.

Tuhi Mai Tuhi Atu

A collaborative sharing platform using blogger to connect to a school. This is something I would like to have a look at doing next year when our students have their learning blogs up and running and we have 1:1 devices. Students make comments on other students learning. 

Hooking Student in

Teachers at Pt England school hook students into their inquiry learning at the start of each term. This is showcased as a large assembly at the start of each year.  An example of new entrants teachers can be viewed on this slide, slide 6.

Google Sites

Today we are creating google sites.  We were given information to use, and with that we had to create an engaging site for our learners.  In our group, we created a garden breakout. This requires students to find hints on the site, to answer questions on a form. Here is my example.

Reflection

Today was an exciting day for learning. I have enjoyed learning more about google sites and how they can create a learning platform for students to use, for example a hook into an inquiry topic. 

DFI Session 5

DFI Session 5

Code.org

Using code.org, students can learn coding basics. I have been using this with my class during our STEAM sessions. Students work at their own pace through the tutorials.  When students are ready, they can have a go with the projects available on the site.  Each requires students to think creatively, problem solve and use algebraic thinking. When using this in my sessions, students made connections to the algebra learning we have been covering. Each time, they had to find the 'rule' to move their sprite.  Below is my attempt at making a 'Flappy Bird' game using code.org.

I'm glad I learnt have to add this to my blog as this is what my students are hoping to do.

Hour of Code - Original Maze

Hour of Code - Flappy Bird Edition

Scratch and Makey Makey

Using Makey Makey, Anna and I created our own musical performance. Students can share learning with whanau, by creating interactive displays using Makey Makey. Possibilities could include sharing their pepeha, creating stories, set of instructions, each one linking to a previously recorded voice sharing the matching information. 

Scratch

Using scratch, I have created the following animation. Students will be able to create animations, linked to our current learning. At the moment we can learning about the procedure of a powhiri. Students could create a short animation showing the order of proceedings of a powhiri.

Some of my other creations include:

Digital Fluency Intensive #1

Digital Fluency Intensive

My learning for the day included:

• creating a collaborative doc, where students each add their learning, before sending it to another person to add more.
• add-ons like change font, easy accents, read write, icons by nouns (for picture stories)
• Creating posters using google docs
• Sharing and saving google docs for ease of access
• Use "convert' files in settings to convert handwritten sheets (taken as a picture) in a word document that can be edited.