Mike M Prof Blog

Link to my screen castify   What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy? What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional? What did I learn that could be used with my learners?   What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life? Cyber smart. Being cyber smart making sure we can share online comments etc safely

 Link to Gisborne Boys High Site I have been working on

Link to my Site The use of Google sites has been a great tool for presenting not only work for the students, but a good preview for parents when helping with subject selection for the following year. When I first started using Sites I felt a little over welmed but within a couple of hours with the help of a Manakalani crew I now feel confident in using this application.  A good lesson I have learned. It is helpful if each area of a department works on their own site, this will prevent the lost material and un doing of each others work. I am really glad we did the show and tell on sites today. It was great having a look around other sites to get a gage on how our sites are progressing . There are plenty of great sites out there and find the simplier the site the better. I think it is very important that the pages aren't to busy.   

Working with Google sheets has be something I have wanted to learn. My marking schedules have been a bit old school and time consuming. Today was the first day where i thought I couldn't keep up but enjying the rush of trying to complete a task in the allocated time. Each week i feel more confident in giving it a go and relising that i starting to come to grips with it all. The Manaikalani crew have been great are are super efficen. Great work and thanks for your patients. I will enjoy playing around with the maps with some of my classes. Thanks heaps have a great weeknd and keep washing hands!!

The importance of creative thinking! Initiating creative minds and how we can promt our students to start thinking this way. Sorting Youtube channel. Create playlists is a helpful tool in organising material for each difent class,this will save a whole lot of random searching. Creating an account for you tube and making it suitable for your students. Organising into playlists. SISOMO sight sound motion We Video is a tool I have used before but would like to revisit and up skill to create some usable teaching tools. Manaiakalani film festival sounds cool and we could be interested. Slides to be consistant through out making sure text size and fonts are the same. We had great fun designing our slide to make an animation. Im sure the students will love working with this. This is my peice of work.

Each day with the course I become more confident in talking and presenting amongst my group. It’s good to put myself in the student’s shoes and is a good reminder when I am designing pieces of work to remember to slow things down to accommodate for students that could be lacking in confidence or even just need more time to process things. Like myself! Teaching my students to blog and record their processes is a good way of recording evidence and communicating with stakeholders etc. Using feedback to inform their decisions.

Day one of the DFI was a great experience. Even though I felt a litle left behind I managed to complete most of the tasks and be on time to all the group meetings. I enjoyed learning to use Google docs to a greater level than just writing a letter/ message. The use of the explore and how to use titles will be of use and look forward in teaching my students these skills.  The use of the referencing tool will be useful for my senior students who are heading off to university at the end of the year. This is my first blog ever and looking forward to the next 8 weeks of this coarse learning some new skills to pass onto my students.