What I learned that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy
Learning: Anytime, Anywhere, Any pace and Anyone - is such a bold ambition and it is amazing how it has played out so positively in the Manaiakalani programme thanks to the unwavering commitment to equity, the power of the internet and the humble chromebook - very inspiring.
Once again - a reminder that removing barriers to learning is our job - there are always heaps of kids with heaps of reasons for being away from school or not being entirely ready for learning when they are at school... at one stage of my thinking about online platforms for learning I was afraid I would video record myself out of a job - or there would be no need for teachers in the future. I don't think I need to be afraid of that anymore - the teacher is still the person who knows and thinks about each student and finds ways to engage them ... that is ongoing and it involves customising and learning all the time as usual! - it definitely isn't "make a video and my work is done"
What I learned that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional
The phrase "if it's worth TEACHING it's worth capturing, if it's worth LEARNING it's worth capturing" is a good guide to focus my thinking about which bits to screencastify for our class site.
I will look into the 'be internet awesome' ideas and 'elevating the positive' - teenagers can be so jaded and a few are hooked into some conspiracy theories that must be scary to believe (and definitely scare the less worldly ones)
I enjoyed playing with screencastify again - I have a few little videos to make in the next few days to add to our school science fair page.
What I learned that could be used with my learners
Rewindable learning - I will also think about ways the kids can make screencastify videos as DLOs too.
Some of the digital dig tools need to be promoted with my troops.
What I learned that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life
I have never actually collected many keyboard commands and shortcuts - but today I added some
I have never filtered my searches using tools under the search bar before today - now I know about them I will use them!
What the heck happened to my font size? I don't understand why it is so different from all my other posts - I have mucked around with fonts and text size options - this is 'Normal" - apologies reader...no more time to fix it ... any suggestions from a blog expert would be welcome. Ka kite
ReplyDeleteKia ora Lisa,
ReplyDeleteYou know you are becoming more digitally fluent when you start posting comments on your own blog, lol! I wonder if you have inadvertently chosen the 'paragraph' setting as well as normal text? The clue could be that all your paragraphs seem to be indented. You are a Screencastify natural! What a great tool to get some of your more digitally fluent students to do the 'heavy lifting' in your class too, by doing a screencast for a common question you normally field e.g. "How do I insert an image into a slide?" etc.
Ka pai Lisa. Not sure what's happening with the font. Did you copy and paste anything from a doc? sometimes that can mess with the formatting. Ctrl-shift-v pastes without formatting if that is the case. Great Screencatify! These tips will be really useful for your students. I'm sure they'll enjoy the challenge! My only tips would be to click hide on the little toolbar that appears during a recording. And maybe you could explore the Screencastify toolbar to use features like 'focus'.
ReplyDeleteKia ora Lisa,
ReplyDeleteScreencastify is such a great tool isn't it? Great idea to get your students in on the gig and making these for you. I loved Dorothy's comments about making use of your free labour force :) And with the added bonus of reinforcing learning for those who are doing the 'teaching' too. Win, win, win!
Ngā mihi
Fiona