DFI Presenting: Otaki....Remotely!

Today I had the wonderful pleasure of presenting to our Otaki whanau in the Kapiti Coast. This time I did it as way of a Google Hangout, which was quite the experience! It is a weird feeling talking away to your computer, looking at some faces, hearing nothing but your own voice (because of wearing headphones) and not sure if you're connecting with your audience.

As always I enjoyed working with Vicki and her team. They are an awesome bunch who are passionate about their teachers and learners, who they serve. I am always left so inspired working with these guys and learning from their expertise in Te Reo Māori!

Some key thoughts from this session:

• what policies and procedures do you need to have place to be able to 'go live' in the classroom
• what CAN you live stream and what SHOULD you live stream?
• what should you stream via delayed coverage?

DFI Presenting: Northland

Today I went to the beautiful paradise of Taipa in the Bay of Islands to help Kerry with the Northland Digital Fluency Intensive. I travel up to this part of the country often to holiday with my family in Coopers Beach - so this was a very nice change to the normality of Auckland!

Kerry is doing an awesome job leading this DFI course and is very blessed to have Vanessa working with her to deliver content. I thought that they worked well as a team.

I had the pleasure of not only delivering the deep dive into How To: Live Stream but also to present the Manaiakalani connect portion of the day - Create: Manaiakalani Pedagogy for DFI 2019. A couple of key points and ideas that struck a cord with the teachers in Taipa were:

1. It's all about the hook - a significant driver for engagement has been the intentional use of modern technologies to enable creativity.
2. We want out children to be creators of content - not just stealing/borrowing work that has been made from the internet.
3. This quote was hugely impactful and was a perfect conversation starter: “Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.” John Dewey
4. Site, Sound & Motion: how can we better use this as a teacher tool to help our children engage with learning?
5. If our children create they can then share...and by sharing they are now connecting with a real audience who can learn from the post, comment and help develop the thinking of our children.

Click photo to see entire Create Presentation.
Attribution: Dorothy Burt & Manaiakalani Team

The Manaiakalani Story...Our Story

At the end of 2018 we had the pleasure of working with Steve Adams and his amazing team to tell the Manaiakalani story. This was our chance to explain our story rather than have other groups create movies on what they understand about us.

This first movie is the full story, explaining what Manaiakalani is and who we are.



As part of this I was asked to talk about the tech side of Manaiakalani. We focused on why we use tech in the classroom, how we do it reliably and responsibly and what gear we use.

DFI Presenting: Otaki

Today I had a heap of fun flying down to Otaki in the Kapiti Coast and working with Vicki, Makaore and their awesome teachers.

This visit really inspired me, in two key ways. Firstly, I was so warmly welcomed into the learning community that Vicki and Makaore are helping to shape down in Otaki. They really reminded me of my childhood, where I grew up in Palmy before moving to the very busy, fast paced life of Auckland, 10 years ago. They reminded me again of the simple reason why we are teachers...it's all about the kids. It's all about doing what ever we can to connect our beautiful tamariki to learning in such a way that they continue to learn, even as adults.

Secondly, I was so inspired by their passion for their heritage, their culture and their language. There were so many times during the day where they would break into animated conversation in Te Reo Māori, laughing and enjoying learning together, that I wish I could speak Māori and join in too. Don't get me wrong - they didn't do this to leave me out, but did this because it was natural and normal for them. This reminds me of all out kids at PT England who should be doing the same. Talking, conversing, LEARNING in their own language. This has truly inspired me to think of ways that we could be doing this more at PES... what would this look like? How could we make this happen? What community connections could and should we be looking into to have our children speaking more and naturally in their own languages?

DFI Presenting: Northland

Today I felt very blessed to work alongside Kerry Boyde-Preece at Northland College in Kaikohe to share my expertise around live streaming at school and in the classroom.

At Pt England school we have decided to live stream using Youtube. We had looked into other platforms but feel as though Youtube provides the best solution without making you use proprietary software or websites. At the moment we are live streaming school events like Cross Country, Production, Fiafia and different sports like Rugby and Rippa Rugby played on our sports field.


In the below presentation I have shown three different ways that you could live stream.

• using the Teradek Vidiu Pro multicast streaming box
• using a drone - like the Phantom 4 Pro made by DJI 
• or even the camera on your laptop.

Have a look below and please comment on ways that you are live streaming.