Digital Leadership - Feedback Term 1 in Harakeke

 Today I did a quick reflection with the Harakeke Team in order to determine if I am on the right track with my digital teaching in class. Feedback from teachers are as follow: 

What worked well: 
Starting from the start (how to log into Seesaw).

Reflecting quickly after the first few lessons (and adjusting).

Learning was spot on. 

Teachers were available to manage and support students while Alida teaches. 

Having the time during the week to practice what we learned on Monday.

Lessons were the right amount of time (30min), students were able to maintain what they learned. 

Students were able to teach each other later in the week. 

Shifts happened after each lesson.

Were the lessons helpful to the teachers? Yes, especially learning how to use captions to voice record, and creating slides with recordings. 

What did not work well?

In the last lesson (when Alida came in late) the speed of the lesson was too fast. Students could not keep up. 

(Teachers would like to have a redo on this lesson)

What could I do better? 

Extension for early finishers. 

What would you like to learn? 

Creating open-ended activities on Seesaw. 

Having rewindable videos to explain what we learned e.g how to log on, or how to create a slide.

We then spend a bit of time refreshing our memories on what we need to remember to keep our Seesaw professional:

Approve posts within 24hours

Comments or captions linked to the LI

Photos of students to be uploaded. 

Check that there are posts for all students. 

Check which parents are not connected, especially new students. 

Use folders to organise work.

This feedback was very helpful for me especially the last conversation we had around how we could use Seesaw to share our work. We scanned through some functions of Seesaw e.g. the highlighter, voice recording on a label and creating frames. This made me think of whether there is a need to look into different ways of sharing work on Seesaw. Now that everybody has a good idea of HOW to create on Seesaw, we might look into WHAT to create. 

So what?

I realise that there is value in these lessons. That I should never be late, not even 5 minutes. 

Next steps: 

Create rewindable videos on lessons already done. 

Come up with a bank of ideas on how we can share on Seesaw. How can we utilise Seesaw to make our sharing interesting. (Perhaps create a site)

Continue with lessons in class, our next focus will be on how to build digital learning into their construction inquiry. 

Digital Leadership

 As one of my goals, this term I organised an open afternoon for whanau to come and familiarise themselves with how our students find and share their work on their devices. The main reason for this was because we realised during lockdown how hard it was for parents to support their children with their work. Not all parents are confident in using digital technology. 

Michelle helped me to create a pamphlet to send home to encourage parents to come. 

We arranged it for a Friday afternoon. I thought nobody would come as it was the Friday after our whanau conferences on Wednesday but was surprised that 4 parents came. (I know some people will say, only 4? But I'm a half-full glass type of person).

It was such a successful afternoon that I am excited to have another one in term 2. 

This was our little programme: 

Students created a little Seesaw post with their parents to see how easy it is to do. 

It was great to see how engaged the students and parents were. Feedback from the parents was: 

"This was really good, thank you for inviting us"

"It was good to see how she access her work as she usually just do it on her own"

"This was very helpful, thank you". 

Things that I can do better next time: 

Make a bigger effort with promoting the afternoon. 

Share our experience with other students and encourage them to invite their parents. 

Have a little prepared activity on Seesaw available, so that they can see how they can access the video clips and templates.