Last Manaiakalani Intensive Day

Today we had a brief overview of opportunities that are offered to us by Manaiakalani, which was very exciting and inspiring. Afterwards, we had a few hours to refresh and study for our google exams.

After 2 hours and 58 minutes I had past my Google Level 2 exam! Perfect! Soon you will be able to see my badge along with my Apple and Manaikalani digital fluency badge on the side of my blog.

Another interesting part of todays course was having a sneak peak at the draft copy of the digit technologies progressions, which will soon be added to the curriculum.

Finally my certificate arrived after I had to get it resent 😞

Day 6, Manaiakalani Intensive

Agenda:

Connecting with each other

Connecting with Manaiakalani

Learn: Digital content introduction

10:00 Morning Tea

Learn: Digital content introduction

Hapara Teacher Dashboard and Blogger

12:30 Lunch

Create: Making meaning of content

Share: Embed and Rewind Content

3:00 Weekend

Today we spent most of the day going over sites and creating a new professional site we can use for the new teaching criteria, which are coming out in July.

The main new learning for today was learning how to image map using coding. A neat way to start learning how to get your head around html coding, although I thought it was quite time consuming compared to using google draw. If you have a look at my embedded site (Below) you can see the main buttons which I created on google draw and the one I created using image mapping. I decided to keep the google draw buttons, as I did not have to edit the image as much. so the image mapping washed out the colours a lot.

Day 5, Manaiakalani Intensive Day

Agenda:

Connecting with each other

Connecting with Manaiakalani

Google Certification Exams

Learn: Digital content introduction

10:00 Morning Tea

Learn: Digital content introduction

Hapara Teacher Dashboard and Blogger

12:30 Lunch

Create: Making meaning of content

Share: Embed and Rewind Content

2:30 or 3:00 Queen’s Birthday Weekend

Today we stated looking at using sites and how to use them in the classroom. We use Magpie's Baking Day as a start to creating a week unit around bread.

To brainstorm ideas for our unit the year 1 - 3 teachers used padlet. a neat tool for grouping and sharing ideas with a team. Using what we came up with I created a quick draft on google docs for my site.

Some key things to remember when using google sites to keep it aesthetically pleasing are to use a white back, keep to 3 colours, use the same font and use the rule of thirds. This is just a simple guide for creating a website and can be changed.

Here is my unit for Magpie's Baking Day you can click on the buttons to look at the different activities.