DFI Day 2:  Creating with Google Meet 

*Apologies for the shorter post today - too many glitches to work out with my first post and setting up my blog on Blogger.  Everyone, in the cohort, is using Edublog at this time, but I opted for Blogger as my current students are still grandfathered in using Blogger.  This led to a few bumps in the set-up week. I missed some of the create time for a mini-private session with Vicki, facilitator from Manaiakalani.  I had to restart my blog.  It happens. 

DFI Day 2:

Google Meets:

Today was an opportunity to relearn how to record a conversation about student learning evident through student blog posts.  The snapshot below was our task today:

I met with fellow ŌC yr 7/8 teacher Saph Taylor to discuss Rael's beautiful poetry

Please remember to be kind - this is our first attempt at running a Google Meet Discussion in a while and it is amazing what you can forget to do when you aren't in the practice of doing daily like we were in lockdown last year. For instance -the video is a very rough recording of our discussion, mistakes and all, including me forgetting I need to turn my headphones on to hear Saph! 

Wish me luck that this works!  

Ok so.. Upon watching and reviewing.  Next step.  Learning to record with sound - hah!

Problem - we think this occurred as I did not turn on my headphones right away.  Ugh... it reminds me of some year 12s I had in Canada who were learning to film.  These two girls were highly academic in their courses, but as such, they never really allowed themselves the time or space to play and learn with the technology, until their Genius Hour course (I really wish I had access still to my early class blogs to show you).  They learned via trial and error that you can't move the camera (iPad) around and fix it in editing, and that it is difficult to get good sound on a windy day!  Today reminded me being a learner takes time.  Sadly- we did not have the chance to "repeat and refilm" our conversation for today's post.

Lesson learned - 

Students will usually need more time than we imagine for new learning or ways of showing their learning.