Devices: Week 5

Reflection on the Week that was

*Google Keep continues to be a tool that has saved me carrying around 2 chunky diaries! Really useful aspect of it is that I can cross off completed tasks and continue on with tasks not completed into the following week.

*Introduced 'Google Add Ons' to the staff at meeting

*Have had a continued effort to comment on 2 blogs a day- children are appreciative of this

Kellen (fellow teacher) mentioned that he has been using 'toxicode' in his Algebra classes, had a little look at this and plan on introducing it in the following week to NBC learners.

http://compute-it.toxicode.fr/

Devices- Week 5

Cybersmart- rather than safe- live in the world rather than being scared of the world we live in. We reviewed the Cybersmart Curriculum as follows:

Term 1: Smart learners & Kawa of care- teaching learners to logout-taking good care of their devices

Term 2: 

Term 2: Smart Footprint

Term 3: Smart Relationships

*Need to be teaching Smart Relationships this term- Positive Thoughtful Helpful- have started this but ensure that I make an hour a week for this.

Digital Dig- Looking at Chromebooks

We looked at some of the shortcuts on Chromebooks, great to have the learners look and work through this slideshow (once they have made a copy!) to speed up their work flow throughout the year. We had a look around ipads, however this was my first real look at this (scrape on the surface) and would need to spend more time with them to fully understand them better.

Hapara Teacher dashboard- everything students are doing, teacher’s can see

Important files to use:

All docs- lets you see all files

Sharing- you can see all files they have

Blog comments & posts- can check this before break so that children have done it- can hover over what they have done.

Can create groups -possibly for particular groups in class- unlikely to use in single cell

*If doing focused browsing need to make sure they still access their docs- so filtered session for specific website and also allow access to their docs - google.doc.com

*Up to 10 URLs at a time

Focus session- Only these sites

Filter session- not these sites

Tell students to archive their work- make sure they do this at the end of the year

Here's a slideshow to explain a little more about what you learnt.

Screencastify

How to video here. I have used Screencastify previously but not some of the more fancy tools such as:

1. 'embeded webcam' which is really great for adding interest- people like to see people.

2. 'Show Drawing Tools' aspect which brings up a window on the bottom of the screencast and enables the user to highlight aspects of the screen, use pens/pencils and circles to add interest. 

3. 'Countdown'- I increased this to give me a little more time to 'prepare myself'.


Below is a created screencast on 'Smart Relationships', just a quick look at 'Positive Thoughtful Helpful',  the purpose was really to demonstrate and practice some of the new tools that I have mentioned.

How to embed a screencast onto your blog

Many thanks to Sharon Thompson at Rawhiti School for sharing the learning that enabled me to do this, previously did not know how to embed a video. I think the formatting looks so much better this way, it is a little bit of a process.