Skip to main content

Reflections from DFI - Day 9

Today we focused on the revision of the content we learned and tips on Google test. It was a good opportunity for us to revise what we know and add another certification that would be great on our CVs. If we passed, great. It will look great on our CV, with something different to add to my profile - not many teachers have those kind of certifications for professional development. If we didn't pass, it is 10 US dollars gone, but we still have done a 9 week course, and we now have a lot more tools on our hands that would help us. Whether I have passed or not, it was still a great learning opportunity, exploring different learning tools and creating things with it. 

Overall, I have found Create activities quite fun to do, and that was the most memorable as well. This gave me chance to think about what could work or what couldn't work with my own class. If I already knew some things, I could always use that time to extend myself abit more, if not, I could do things on my own pace, learning as I used it. The small bubbles we were in were useful to get personal help. I usually found it hard to ask questions when we are in a big group, and being in a small bubble made it much easier for me to ask questions. 

There are things I still haven't had chance to practice, and there are things that I know quite well. Maybe in the coming holiday I'll have more time to play with those as things have been busy since lockdown. I will continue to use these useful tools whenever needed.
Labels:

Comments

  1. Vicki @ ManaiakalaniSeptember 20, 2020 at 8:34 PM

    Kia ora Gabrielle,

    Congratulations on completing the DFI! It was great to have you in our bubble group. I'm glad you enjoyed the create activities, they are such a good opportunity to put your new learning into practice.

    Enjoy your well earned break at the end of the week!
    Vicki

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Reflection from DFI course - Day 4

 Today our focus was on Google Maps and Spreadsheet. I found google maps easy enough to understand because I use it very often, whenever I travel a bit far. We learned how to mark places with different icons and colours (had some fun changing up colours and icons) and I have marked places I often go. However, I struggled with Spreadsheet quite a bit because I never really use it, only occasionally. So our create activity was to use some blog data to analyse. This is my spreadsheet that I made and the next one down is the graphs to go with it. The hardest part was knowing which part to select, and meaning of these code languages that popped up every time I tried to do things. I got there in the end though. This was really useful for organising and managing student data, which I am not quite good at yet. I think the graph will serve very useful especially. 
1 comment
Read more

Reflections from DFI - Day 8

Today's focus was on a computational thinking and coding. I had some time to explore programs like Flappy Coding, Scratch Jr, Lightbot. Lightbot was very similar to Beebots we had at school, and I remember we did a PD session talking about using directional language and computational thinking.  While coding games like Flappy Codings were the most fun when I tried, it wasn't something my students were able to use, because they need to be able to read the coding words, and get them used to the language beforehand. I tried downloading Scratch Jr as well, but I found this one very confusing. I wanted to have a go a bit more but I ran out of time. If I want to use this in class I need to know how to do all the stuff there, so I decided to make the Lightbot activities students can do. I tied this in with letters and building words as well as coding, which I thought was really cool. If they get it and getting used to the challenge, I could add more conditions in like, "Pass at le...
1 comment
Read more