Day 1 reflections and thoughts

 This morning when I woke up, I was excited to get into the nitty gritty of everything Manaiakalani.
I had seen so many of my staff go through the programme and I was excited to get into the hands on aspects of learning. 

What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?

I loved hearing Dorothy Burt talking about the why of Manaiakalani and it was inspiring to learn about the steps that went into place that have led it to what it has become today.

Especially due to the circumstances that were overcome. This comes from a place where in the past I would find it a little worrying when considering implementing technology into my organisation when I felt I did not have enough access to technology.

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?

For workflow it would definitely be the organisational side of things - especially with google drive. I have only started using google drive this year with our school, as previously I kept all of my resources either on our school server or on my own hard drive. I know that in the future I will be able to slowly add all of my resources to my google drive and access it easily using the organisational tools I learnt today.

Using a table of contents for documents in future to make things easier.

Remove.pg website for removing backgrounds in images.

What did I learn that could be used with my learners?

Speaking to text - tools/ voice typing. Giving students a chance to have their voice heard and get their writing done. Students need to practice to make sure it is picking up their voice properly. Note: Make sure students are in a room that is not too noisy so it is only their voice that is being picked up Making sure that the accent of New Zealand english has been selected

Read and write extension could also be good for students to listen back to what they have written if they struggle with reading.

Note: I will need to model and scaffold students so that when they need to add punctuation to their work, that they are saying "full stop, exclamation mark etc" Names for example may need to be spelt out for the voice recognition Read&Write for Google Chrome™ is the extension you can use to have the device read text back to you. Do they need to re-check and edit their writing? Explore tool - Students can look and add images contained on the document through the explore tool. All these images are also great when it comes to not having copyrighted images.

I would possibly use Google groups with my class when it comes to emailing in future.

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?

To not be afraid to try new things and be creative. To give things a go and to not let my fear of letting people down stop me from asking questions.

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