My first map, some blog analysis and being connected

This is my first map created from a spreadsheet. My Digital Fluency class all chose from a list of places they would like to visit. I chose San Francisco, home of my favourite author, Christopher Moore. 

We learned how to analyse the statistics on student blogs. I chose Kohl-lee's blog because I taught her as a new entrant. She is now in Year 7 at Tautoro School and has had over 2000 visitors to her blog. Click on this link to have a look.



Today we talked about the value of being connected educators. I am lucky to be part of a Manaiakalani cluster as we are given many opportunities and ways to connect with each other. Connecting with each other is a great way to share resources and ideas. It gives me the opportunity to identify new strategies and refine my practice.
I also stay connected globally through Twitter. My twitter handle is @AmandaBingham4.

Enabling access with Google Sites

This week at Digital Fluency we worked on our Class Sites. I am trying to make my site more visually appealing and easy to use. 
We had an opportunity to present our site to the class and receive feedback so I took that opportunity.

We use a "Must do, Can do" programme in Room 3 so I have added some buttons to my site so students can easily access their "Can do" activities.

Screencastify, Chromebooks and iPads

This is my first attempt using Screencastify. It is a bit clunky but I can see it will be a useful tool in the classroom and I'm sure I will get better with some practice. I think my students will enjoy using this tool to explain their learning.

We worked through the Digital Dig which I talk about in my video and I learned some useful new keyboard shortcuts for the Chromebooks.  There is even a shortcut for seeing all shortcuts! 
Try it - ctrl + alt + /.

Khismira Lal, a year 1 teacher from Point England School was our guest speaker at the Digital Fluency Intensive Course today. She works in a 1:1 iPad class and gave us lots of new ideas to use in class. The best tip for me was to save everything as a video rather than a project so it can be saved to and used in Google Drive.