DFI

DFI Day Three: Media 

Create 

Creativity empowers learners - it is all about the hook. We watched a short clip, "The heART of the matter" which was about a school were creativty was embraced, encourged, and ultimately flourished. This is the aim I have in my classroom, one where students are able to be their creative selfs and learn in the process. We also explored youtube and the protcools that need to be in place to keep pur learners safe on this platform, as well as looking at ways to enhance video making in class. I really liked that the focus of this was it is what you do with your resources opposed to how many resources you have - I shared some of these ideas with our Performing Arts teacher as she does some film making as part of her programme. 

Google Draw

I learnt alot during the google draw section of the day. I was unaware how much you were able to do on it. I made the image on the side bar, I couldn't find a phtot at the time so my bitmoji was a good substitute, however, I will aim to update it once I can find/take a photo that will work. I really liked the mask and replace image functions, and I can see how handy these will be when creating things for the classroom, and online, so that the formating is kept the same. I also like that you can use it to create mindmaps and charts - I will defiently be using google draw for this. 

I would also love to use google draw next year and have the students make self portraits, by taking a photo of themselves and then drawing over it. 

Here is an example of some resources about different conflicts in New Zealand that I am going to use for the display in my classroom. 

Digital Pepeha 

I also learnt today how to create voice bites and insert them into a google slide. It could be such a great tool for having students voice over their work, or to add in teacher instrctions into slides for our more auditory learners. Here is the digital pepeha I created, with voice bites using 'mote'.