Another inspiring day of learning facilitated by a fantastic team.
First up was;
The Manaiakalani Pedagogy: with Ako (Learn) as the key focus for today has students and teachers at the centre. There is no place for dynamics that occur within a hierarchy learning structure as it is about learning together and learning from one another. It fits so perfectly with culturally responsive practice.
Gmail Inbox
Cleaning up 2,350 emails is not as huge a task as I first thought now I know about archiving and labelling.
However choosing the best option of the many available and letting go of all those thousands of emails has left me feeling very very nervous. I think I'll do that on the weekend along with using unroll.me and customising my inbox organisation.
Google Keep
What an amazing tool both for professional and personal use. I regret not having this throughout the period of lockdown. To be able to save things like images and articles with a simple click and automatic saving of things like this across devices means ready access anytime and anywhere. Adding a note to an email, having ready access on my phone means Google Keep will become a necessary part of my life from now on.
Google Calendar
I realise how we gave up on the staff calendar a long time ago because we ended up in such a mess. We will re-instigate this now with the necessary controls mentioned today such as restricting direct access but having a shared doc for people to suggest additions. We didn't have those checks and balances hence the mess and a huge reluctance not to venture there again until now.
Taming the Tabs
I think I have learned the solution to having multiple tabs open and ending up with 3 views of myself in a "Meet"!!! I've had anxiety attacks since our last DFI hoping that I wouldn't expose my ignorance again. Hopefully Onetab will help me restore some level of dignity!
Blogging
I am learning more and more about the power of blogging but had to navigate a lot of tabs and tools to finally achieve a result with recording my feedback. A big mihi to Helen Parata who exerted the utmost patience in helping me get there in the end.
I can't wait for the weekend to keep playing and practising all the wonderful gems that have filled my brain today. Although we are running out of time to prepare for the return of our children's to school after a long period of lockdown I really felt I should have been at school to support everyone.
However the stimulation and excitement of learning today leaves me inspired and delighted I didn't miss out on DFI 2.
Nga mihi ki a koutou
Kia ora Raina,
ReplyDeleteGreat to hear you are finding the learning valuable. Being a learner can certainly be humbling. I agree google keep is a great tool for all those link lists. I find the checklist works well as I tick off the list.
Ngā mihi,
Maria
Happy to help Kataraina. This is what being part of a wider community such as Manaiakalani is all about - learning alongside and supporting each other, so we can ensure the best success for our learners. If we don't take risks as leaders how can we expect our students to do so with their learning. I hope you can share your challenges and successes with your staff and students.
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