The quote by Michael Fullan "The individual must be capable of creating something with the knowledge that they have worked so hard to obtain. It is in creating that the individual gains purpose" is how my experience during DFI has been so far. The small workshops, with time to create and play in google suite directly after has given me time to process the skills and practice them while they are fresh in my mind with the facilitator for support. This has helped me to understand the 'Create' part of the Manaiakalani pedagogy as I can see how children would find this way of learning really valuable.
The youtube session with Vicki this morning was a good refresher - I have used youtube a bit in the past for PB4L videos but I had made them public in order to share them with the school community. It was good to learn about the 'unlisted' setting, and to be able to adjust that in hindsight for all of my videos in order to keep the tamariki who star in the videos safer. From now on all my videos will be saved as this if they aren't shared via my google drive.
I also enjoyed Venessa's google draw hacks - the cropping into shapes will be used in our space for sure as we currently put children's pictures into an oval for our classroom behaviour management and I have been doing this a long winded way compared to how she showed us this morning! Since we create these 7 times a year with every new intake - these little hacks for efficiency all add up!
Ending the day with the create session with Amie using slides was really fun - we had alot of laughs along the way and learnt lots of new tricks on slides. I can see how a child's creative freedom would allow them to create amazing pieces to use as examples like Amie said - I feel like as adults we can worry about things being right or wrong! I made a Frozen GIF since my class of New Entrants love the movie, it was fun creating it using slides.
Kia ora Caitlin,
ReplyDeleteYay! I agree, hacks for efficiency all add up. Glad to hear you are enjoying the learning and appreciating the opportunity to play with the tools and embed the learning.
Ngā mihi nui,
Maria
Caitlin,
ReplyDeleteFabulous! Love your creation of an Elsa GIF, I'm sure your students loved seeing it. They'll be wanting to make their own too I can imagine!
I love tips and tricks, anything to make my life a little easier, my job a little quicker. The less time we have to spend on these fiddly little things, the longer we get to spend with our family, or on things we enjoy. I'm glad you found some that will help you streamline your mahi.