Media DFI Day 3

I am really excited to make some YouTube playlists for my language classes. It seems like such a basic thing, but I have never really gotten to it, just bookmarking the world! Hahahahaha! I seem to have some issues with sorting that at the moment, so I am looking forward to having some time to figure that out. If that doesn’t work I will be seeing Kerry in the middle of Feb. to help me out with that. I am also going to have a go at archiving years in my emails since I have an overload there, too. Reader, are you seeing a trend?

This is my first time working with Edublogs, and I was quite nervous to try all of this. Now that I am in, I can really see how using the edublogs will help with my classes.  It is a great way to save work and share the many things that they have learned. I am quite excited to get going and try some of these things out and am happy we have some time to do that before our next session. I look forward to using it for feedback as well.

I have briefly been introduced to adding some animation into a presentation before this, but really did not have the time to imbed the learning. It is always something that I have wanted to do as Japan has so many cool characters, but really haven’t had the time to experiment with it. It is really great to have the time right after we are shown so that we can have a play around.  For today, I found a picture of Gudetama that I have taken. He is popular on Netflix and my students love him. I am working on getting the alien to go over and land under the phrase, ” It is a Gude, ne”- for “It is a good day, isn’t it.”

 

Workflow DFI Day 2

I learned so much that I think will help improve my confidence, capability and workflow as a teacher in this DFI. I have been wanting to learn about how to present, record and do break out rooms myself, so this was a great lesson for me. Learning about Keep was also amazing. I think that will save me so much time creating and editing. I really like that I have a new tool to share with the students, if they do not know about it already. This will enable me to teach them how to take notes explicitly, as many have not been taught before. This means they are cutting and pasting line by line and calling it their own.

In terms of my learners, I will be using Keep with them- when I get them. 🙂 I will specifically be using it for note taking as a start, and going from there as I learn what else it can do:) I am also going to do think, pair, and share in my smaller language classes via Google Meets. This can be done as well as spontaneous classroom talk, so I can see how they are progressing.

 

Lastly for today, I can really see that I am being empowered in the digital realm and why that is so important. It is good for the students to see teachers as life long learners, and I can really see ways that I can interact digitally with my students better than I could before. I also really enjoyed tidying up some space in my Gmail, and I look forward to carrying on with that. I have been doing our usual summer spruce up at home so EVERYTHING is getting cleaned up! Ha Ha

Core Business DFI Day 1

It was a very informative day for me. The first thing I noticed is that I am a real picture person and when I saw the picture with Manaiakalini, I really understood the image and the hook from heaven and I then remembered it was Hawaiian.  I have spent a bit of time in Hawaii, so that was pretty cool. All those connections are all coming together for me now.  I really like the cloud as the hook from heaven. I had heard this before, but I noticed it really sticks with me when I see it.:)

I am proud of myself that I knew some things that were presented today, but also befuddled at how I managed not to find my slide and somehow created another one! I am always afraid that I am going to lose stuff on the computer and make mistakes that I cannot fix. I really liked how we had the opportunity to go and give things a try. We are often shown these things, but I find that if I do not do it straight away I cannot figure out how to do it later.

I am encouraged that I have already started something (my Chinese New Year Blog) that I can use at school when it starts. It is always hard to go back after the long break, but I am getting excited about all of the things that I can add. I have my two Mandarin Language Assistant friends in China, so I am excited to get actual pictures from them as they are celebrating the New Year in real time.

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