Day 9 DFI
Google exam! I didn't need that in my life to tell me how far off the digital pace I am. Having said that, I am far more on board as a result of the last 9 weeks than before, and better equipped to explore areas that will assist me in my job.
 Today's theme was on Ubiquitous learning and the thing I'm most proud of along these lines during the lock- down was to be able to set up Google hangouts for my students and to post work on Hapara Workspace.
What I will be taking forward into my new era of teaching will be the use of a class site to store and make accessible resources for both me and my students and a new appreciation of the environment my students are expected to operate in and also the skills they have. The lockdown also made many of the "outside providers" that I use make their resources digitally available, which is a massive step forward.
No regrets!

Finally  I’ve decided that I am now more “Digitally Fluent” because it’s ok for me to decide when and where to use digital technology and I’m also more “Cybersmart, because I’m in charge, and I will not be a victim” of this encroaching expectation. (to a limited extent)

DFI Day 8

Day 8 DFI
https://docs.google.com/document/d/15wShMQpD0qplbOgMKNTTi6hfp1gJFzs8qs_5ZIc-gfA/edit

Above is a link to what a Blog should include!!  Lets have a try at that.

What did I learn about the kaupapa today; How empowerment crosses over so many aspects of life from Health to Education to Income to Education.  I really related to the Rangatiratanga concept of "Taking back control of our lives" I am mindful of too much technology and it's demands taking over my time and I resent it!

Confidence, Capability or Workflow as a professional: I didn't learn anything today that would help with this.I saw a lot of expectations re.NZ Curriculum that would demand more time. This decreased my confidence , not increased it.

What was useful for learners. I incorporate a lot of manners and citizenship learning into my lessons , so today it was good to be exposed to the Moral machine activity which I would like my students to experience. http://moralmachine.mit.edu/

Confidence, Capability or Workflow of my personal life: A good bit of  info today was the link to an app to track moles called Skin Vision.  https://www.skinvision.com/ This ia a good example of technology empowering regarding health.

DFI Day 6 Enabling Access
 Really what I learned today was how far I have to go with creating a resourceful site for both me and my learners. When we had the opportunity to look at and rate other sites that people had created I had to take my hat off to them for their efforts, amazing!!
 My gains today were in becoming more familiar with inputting and "embedding" resources into my site and a little more creative with Visual Appeal and Site Functionality (Thanks to Gerhard)
I have started another site today to support another teaching portfolio that I have (Industry Studies) and will establish a third for Academies.
These sites will in the first instance at least put relevant resources together so that they are available for me to use prior to the students accessing them.
See the link below for my starting point.

 https://sites.google.com/d/1XyRcRRXZd51gHfMlAd0mZD7FMg8VD9Rz/p/10s71UgTw2ylZDnaIBqe3SMqiDgwNIlpA/edit

DFI Day 5  "Sites"

Today was a progress day where there were tools I could find an immediate application for. Top of the list for this was creating class sites, were I began putting some of my resources for Forestry teaching here. It was rewarding to learn the skills (with help) of navigating around the various functions to create something workable.
 It was good to be able to incorporate some of Kerry's ideas about behavioral engagement alongside the cognitive info. The challenge now is to expand into multi textural info. where different points of view are presented and including student selected text.
https://sites.google.com/boic.school.nz/forestry-l2/home

DFI Day 4

This was a major challenge and.step up in my abilities to cope with the demands for today.. Vanessa's presentation on Google forms is certainly something that I can see a need to use in my teaching but I will need a lot of practice to get familiar with it. Thanks to Gerhard for showing the capabilities of My Maps, but at my level I can't see me using that in the immediate future. The presentation on spreadsheets was probably the most applicable application that I experienced today and with Dorothy’s help I  managed to master some elementary functions with this process. I took  a student's blog which was supplied and took some Elementary data from that and embedded into  into a new sheet and also got familiar with having various tabs along the bottom to distinguish the various groups. I developed the ability to select various graphs and display them, which you can see embedded on my site and some elementary analysis of them. In summary for today, I found this pretty challenging. I'm doing this using Google Docs and voice typing so that I guess there's some progression  evident.

Day 3 of DFI 2nd time around:

     I only could attend for the first session of this day as I had a medical appointment. What I did learn re. the Manaiakalani kaupapa was the importance and value of "Creating" for the learner in the whole educational process.
At my stage of development I would feel it is unlikely I would use live streaming but I can see the value of this as a marketing tool and /or to motivate students to perform better.
I can appreciate that new programmes like Google Draw would enhance students' ability to create.

Day 2 DFI

One of the big pluses from today was learning a little more about functions of Hapara from Mark, especially from the highlights icon where I can see what sites students are using.

Recording Google Meets was also a new tool that will be valuable. Hopefully the link below will show the recording of my Google meet today with Mark. It took a while to figure this out!

https://drive.google.com/drive/my-drive

I must confess that I can't see myself using Google Keep to do my shopping with, as Dorothy demonstrated. This would give me a feeling of being a slave to technology that would annoy me!

Vanessa exposed some short comings with my Gmail when it showed I had 13,000 emails. Obviously some of her filing techniques needed.