DFI Day 4 Paparore School

Another busy day with the fantastic and super knowledgeable Manaiakilani team at the far north Paparore primary school.

Listening to Dorothy's opening comments about how human beings  have been sharing thoughts and knowledge with each other for  thousands of years , using the technologies of the time from painting on caves , to tablets, paper scrolls and now with the use of modern digital trechnology such as Bloggs.

I know we all know this but interestingly Dorothy mentioned how students should get intio the habit of finishing their  work including their blogs. By getting into the habit of completing work they will  become more profficient and eventually make better employees.  Working on the Gateway programme, helping students become work ready and eventually into employment is very close to my heart.  Ironically just the next day after hearing this korero I went to pick up a student from the tyre shop where he is doing his Gateway placement. The student wanted to leave but the employer insisted this student finish what he was doing, using the tyre machine to fit a new tyre to the rim  and then place the wheel back on the vehicle and make sure it was put on good and tight. Just the lesson Dorothy was talking about.

  Next we went over some really relevant material to mewhich I think will help me in my mahi,  such as forms which striaght away I could see a use for. That is putting the Mahi Mihi Oranga into a digital format which will make it much faster and hopefully more appealing to students to use. We then moved onto google maps which I thougjht was fascinating, great graphics and so many fun and exciting things can be done with these apps, not to mention saving time and energy. We then moved onto google sheets and this too was highly informative I learnt a huge  time saving technique, that is that you can import multiple students information striaght  from the School Management System  directly onto a spreadsheet. This used to take up quite a bit of time because I used to manually input data for each individual student now it takes just minutes and with practice should take just seconds.

Even though the DFI course is full on and there is still alot to learn, it really feels as though its opening up a whole new world of ways to become more proficient in my work, learn and express ideas and thoughts in so many ways. Absolutely fantastic. 

Having lunch break on the expansive and beautiful 90 mile beach with Kirsty Bryan, my DFI buddy from Bay Of Ilsands College on our first visit to  Paparore school in the far north.

Practicing using google sheets and graphs

Gateway 

Practicing with google maps, didn't turn out that great but kind of got the gist of how it works.

Lots of uses and potential plus. Love the graphics.