Maniakalani DFI: Day 9 External Recognition

The last 8 weeks have been really helpful to me, especially fine tuning lots of the things that I had already been using. The session on using sheets was extremely helpful as now I feel a lot more comfortable using this and am now using sheets for all of my planning, which makes life far easier. Sharing ideas with others and seeing what they are doing has also benefited what I am doing, especially with my focus on T Shaped learning and making it rewindable. Lastly I have been very interested in Dorothy’s chats and learning more about the pedagogy of Maniakalani.

Today was the day for our Google exams. I felt relatively comfortable going into the exam as I had been using a lot of the Google tools already. The DFI sharpened everything up and I came out of it feeling confident that I have passed. One area that I wasn't too strong on was Google classroom. I managed to 'fudge' my way through it as I've always found that once you have used Google products they all seem pretty intuitive. I'll have another look at this in the coming weeks and see if it suits what we are doing in our studio.

There are a few things I want to look at further:

• I liked the idea of using Twinery for my advanced writers who are comfortable with using devices to create.
• I'm still not 100% with sheets - KEEP PRACTISING!
• Can our learning site be more streamlined where all of our pages are the same
• Use the skills I've learnt to help with my T Shaped literacy focus
• Make parents more aware of our site as well as letting them see how far their children have advanced in the digital world we live in.

I have had an excellent time over the last 9 weeks and have found the whole course invaluable. It all links really well with what we are doing at school and it has made me feel even more confident in leading my students along the digital path.

Thank you so much to everyone who has helped along the way.