Reflection: Looking back at week 2
Hapara Hot Tip # 2 Viewing and Managing
Over the last week, I have been playing around with my new found knowledge from week two. I tidied up my emails by creating folders, sent scheduled emails for 8 am. I loved using the pinning tabs..keeps everything tidy up top!! I set up a google meet with a home buddy to explore a bit more. Set up my google keep and used for school and personal, as well as introducing this to my family so we can share our holiday lists and recipes. One thing I did not pick up through our lesson was how to do ripping of text..however spending a bit of time playing I taught myself - this is now my favourite part of keep and I showed a few students how to use this. I now use Google calendar more regularly. An extra I did this week was to tidy up my bookmarks and put everything into folders, and I'm loving my new look!!
MEDIA
This week we focused on Media and its place in Learn, Create, Share. We were shown a few ways media works in our learning environment. We learned about SISOMO -The idea is targeting and hooking in our learners. Empowering our learners to find the connection (learning by being creative)
The idea is to "Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results"
John Dewey
SISOMO = sight, sound, and motion. To capture the audience - tips:
DIY Filmmaking (anyone can do) - get a tripod for stable shooting, if using your phone to film, use ph on landscape.
Live streaming-can use google meet, drone - great for any sporting event
Green Screen - if using a blue backdrop and the person has blue eyes - they can get lost
Personally, I love anything arty that involves creating, especially cake decorating this is my ideal world -
however when it came time for me to create something digitally, this proved to be more difficult, but perseverance paid off (I can fully appreciate how daunting some tasks can be for students now - especially when they get given a task that is unknown to them)
While Dorothy was presenting, we all got to write in the comment section what we created while in lockdown, it was great seeing the multitude of talent we all had, and I realised then however small it may seem - we are all capable of creating and learning no matter what our age.
Chalk 'n Talk: Channel and Playlists
Another first for me was to create a Youtube account and made my own playlist. I have always enjoyed searching and watching Youtube but having my own playlist is amazing. In the past I would see a video I liked and always think I will remember what to search for if needed again ..but I don't!!
I understand the importance, of how to set up my youtube account, and make sure our uploads are always set to unlisted, make sure commenting is turned off. (we were advised that children under 13 should not have personal Youtube accounts, this is for their safety.) We then broke off into our bubbles and set about creating our own playlists, I had extra help from Vicki my facilitator - thank you!!
Reminder: Adding videos to my playlist, find a video, click on the symbol of 3 lines + add to already made folder or create a new one, Change to unlisted (world icon or padlock for private)close down the save to screen.
Embed to blog: select your video-share-embed-hi-lite link, copy-go to your blog, open a new post-add title-HTMLview-make sure cursor is at end of link-ctrl v - should get a grey box-preview post - if happy publish
I managed to embed my chosen youtube video successfully
Chalk 'n Talk Google Draw: exploring draw
Venessa talked to us about Google Draw, (this is the tool for any task!!)
Mindmaps and flow charts, Digital drawings, word banking, concept drawings, comic strips, storyboard, digital portraits, digital art, visual instructions, concept drawings, infographics, and more!
Very useful slides as to how to set up your page, checking your sharing permissions, tips, and tricks
We then went into our bubble groups and created our own 'About Me' for our blog.
We learned how to set page size using FILE - set background colour, add an image using png (no background), Sharing download as png - embed by publishing to the web, put in HTML.
Chalk 'n Talk: Google slides
Maria talked us through Movement, sight, sound to make the slides more engaging. Importance of
keeping the slides uniform, so the learners do not get distracted.
Maria also talked about how to utilise the tools that are built into slides to allow learners and ME!! to create. This one is going to take a lot of playing around for me - but I love the look and idea of using slides.
Levelling up
Youtube / Draw / Slides (we had to choose one of these)
We then broke off into small groups after choosing what we needed extra help in - I went back into a youtube group and set about creating a playlist with extra help from my facilitator. thanks again, Vicki!!
Create: Making meaning of content - Slides
I chose to Doodle myself in a portrait - I missed the presentation due to going to the Drs, but gave it ago later that night...this was incredibly frustrating and eventually, I called 'timeout' on this one (but will go back and have another go!!) Anyway, I went in and had a play in animation slides - I thought id give it a go by following the instructions, Although I did not fully animate I was still happy that I created five slides and added a ship to my scene..The next stage was to embed - which I did successfully below:
Slide Links
Other useful Resources
Wow Lyn, what a comprehensive post about the day! I feel like you covered everything that was mentioned in the day - this will be a fabulous resource for you to come back to in the future! Good on you for going in and having a go creating an animation, and a drawing - the drawing can be quite tricky, but a lot of students love it.
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~ Vicki
thanks Vicki - these posts will be my come to if i forget bits and pieces. I find if I jot down notes through out the day I can rehash it in my time at my pace.
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