DFI - Session 8

Today we met Matt from Auckland. Really glad that he showed us You Tube stuff, as it included a playlist of videos of what to be familiar with for the assessment. 11 episodes roughly 42 minutes long. That is a solid Netflix season right there, I got this! Having spent time doing some work at Matt’s school and knowing some of his colleagues it was quite cool to see the videos of Point England School. I found some of the editing stuff a bit more tricky as it was unfamiliar to me. The polyline was new and I can see the benefits of using it.

I created a ‘pick a path’ story on slides. I used lego man images that didn’t have a background. Matt had suggested the white crisp look to sites so I applied that look to these slides and it looked great! Creating those ‘pick a path’ scenarios with either forms or slides takes a ridiculous amount of time, fortunately it is easy to link the slides.

Here is an update from last week where we used a timeline graph to track our blog views. Josie is enjoying Fiji while we are here working so she will need to update me with her data later on.



This week i changed my maths site. I am trying to create a departmental site that all teachers can use. I think the easiest way to have all staff contribute is to have shared Google drive folders where resources can be added for each topic and achievement standard. I have started embedding these folders to each page and have created banners for navigation in google drawings. Why I think a department site would work better than each teacher doing their own thing is that I can’t see anyone other than myself in our department putting in the effort to create an effective site that students use. Perhaps I can meet them halfway. Speaking with senior management, a suggestion was made that once the folders have been populated with student resources, by all teachers, we can link the site in the schools student and parent portals.

We had a discussion at lunchtime about compensation for the work that we may be asked to do with sites and Hapara going into next year. Hopefully I have not bitten off more than I can chew.