DFI - Week 9 - accreditation

Accreditation opportunities

When I did PGCE Applied ICT & QTS teacher training in the UK I gained British Computing Society - ECDL (European Computer Driving Licence) Level 2 

and Certiport's MOS (Microsoft Office Specialist) - Advanced Word, Excel, PowerPoint.

I paid the $10 fee myself at the start of this DFI course and have passed the Google Certified Educator Level 1, I am now looking at further accreditation. I found today's Opportunities slide deck interesting to see the other Educator certs available.

Deep Dive: External Recognition Opportunities

1. Google Exam: An opportunity to gain a globally recognised award for teachers.

2. Review content from the Google Training Centre Modules. 

3. Apple Teacher Exams Apple Learning Centre

4. Screencastify Master the Screencast

5. WeVideo Education Ambassadors

6. BookCreator Certified Author

7. Hāpara Champion

Google Certified Educator Level 1

Level 2 passed

I expected the $25 exam to have practical scenarios and to be harder. I think the multiple choice / drag& drop questions would be harder for ESOL students because it was more about reading comprehension and catching the red herrings.

Microsoft Minecraft Edu PD

I have started to experiment with the delivery of Computational Thinking with Minecraft Edu. I've had a discusion with the HoD Maths to swap ideas on how I can integrate our DTEC CT curriculm so that it chimes in with the Y9 (measurement and number) and Y10 (statistics) maths topics. So I was pleased to see Cyclone is doing more PD with teachers for using Minecraft Edu. Here is a MinecraftEdu with maths for next Wed. We have an open evening hui at that time for senior subject selection, so hopefully they will share links to a webinar video / resources.

My initial thoughts are to integrate with our Droneblocks.io coding of Tello Drones to measure and calculate perimeter, area and volume (for Y9) and to use drone racing results bivariant data (for Y10 statistics). But the MinecraftEdu will be ideal for Y7-8 students.

CS Unplugged @ Home

I'm always impressed by the mahi of UC Computer Science Education with Tim Bell, so I was pleased to see today's tip of CSUnplugged@home. I will share this with our feeder school HPS's DTEC co-ordinator.

DFI - Week 4 - Dealing with Data

Google Forms

Here is a simple Google Form for students to sign-in to our online classes. The timestamp in the Responses Google Sheet will help show when they arrived. The form has a simple Yes/No option to upload work to be shared / reviewed. If they choose yes it progresses to the section with two ways of uploading, via G Drive or add a text share link. 

I cannot embed this form here because it has an upload option. 

The branching sections options based on the user's input (e.g. if they choose a particular radio button) has given me an idea to create a finite state automata like a choose your own adventure branching narrative. I have previously asked students to use Code.org App Lab to make these. But perhaps a Google Form could be easier. They could plan it with a LucidChart which could also to teach flow charts. I know this has been popular to do in Google Slides.

I found this video on Youtube: https://youtu.be/creCud8dbFk

Hapara Hot Tips -

I appreciate the slideshow still want to work through a range of Hapara Tutorials

MyMaps - Drones Airshare

Mymaps.google.com is very useful. Here is a drone flight map I made which has approximately the same info for safe drone flight, which I found using the AirShare app. I had to go through a process to allow the Mavic Air 2 drone to be able to fly within the school area (under Shielded Operation).

Drones & AI

I am currently using Droneblocks.io with a Tello Drone. This is useful because they have a simulator for students to practice and test out their coding first before they launch the missions on the real drones. My big hairy audacious ambitious project is to get senior NCEA students to code AI with OpenCV so the drones can use facial recognition. This Youtube video covers similar content to the paid DroneBlocks curriculum.

The YT algorithm then fowarded me to a cool open source project to 3D print an open source robot and use arduino and RaspberryPi to make an AI robot with the inMoov Project.

These would be cool applied Computational Thinking projects. My WHS STEM colleagues already do a cardboard robot hand and Aleta Chowfin at Grey High already has a focus of coding and making something like this. However, I still have a challenge of repairing / servicing our school's 3D printer.

Google Sheets

I thought the intro to sheets was quick and comprehensive. For my own analysis of student NCEA data I was given a good tip to try Google Data Studio. https://datastudio.google.com/

Super Spreadsheets 4 - share link

Blog Posts Analysis of Molly's Blogs from 2016-2021

based on Molly's blog http://pbsmelel.blogspot.com/2019/03/blog-post-data-analysis.html

Sheet data

Column Chart

Stacked Column

Blog Posts Comments - Feedback Tips

Positive, Thoughtful, Helpful - Constructive feedback to encourage discussion, 

Compliment Sandwich - 2 Likes and a wish.

Blogging - Writing quality blog comments - Kerry

Ngā tākupu papai - Quaility blog comments - te reo

Uses standard HTML hyperlink tag structure:

<a href="insert URL here">Insert display text here</a>