Week 3
This week we started by focussing on the importance of and definitions of creativity. This is important to my teaching practice as my specialist role focusses on expanding creativity in a primary school environment.
We can use streaming to share our students' learning and give the students the opportunity to learn how to live stream themselves that is rewindable and sharable.
Equipment:
The VidiU Pro Teradek transfers the film to different platforms. We need to be mindful about whether to live stream live, use a delay, keep public or private and think about which platforms to broadcast on.
Youtube has levels of control including disabling or monitoring comments. It will
also show the quality of the connection before streaming
Drones:
Be aware of legal guidelines and practise common courtesy regarding privacy and consent from non-school participants.
Youtube
Covering Youtube fundamentals we noted that children should not have their own channels as we cannot control their sharing settings and the legal age to own an account is eighteen years.
Google Drawing
Exploring Drawing.This tool is helpful to make graphics, easily integrating other Google tools such as photos, slides, docs, blogger, sites and the search engine itself. I was so happy to learn how to manipulate the images underneath the masking shape tool! I've been wanting to know how to do this since I started using Google draw.
I still really miss using Photoshop and would like to find a programme that was somewhere in between its huge range and Draw's web accessibility.
Google Drawing
Exploring Drawing.This tool is helpful to make graphics, easily integrating other Google tools such as photos, slides, docs, blogger, sites and the search engine itself. I was so happy to learn how to manipulate the images underneath the masking shape tool! I've been wanting to know how to do this since I started using Google draw.I still really miss using Photoshop and would like to find a programme that was somewhere in between its huge range and Draw's web accessibility.
"So Much more than a presentation tool" I find Slides the best tool to use to create share and assist learn due to the platform it provides for graphics, photos. I am now excited by the knowledge of how to insert Youtube clips into slides without inserting Youtube rabbit holes... 
Screencastify
This extension looks excellent for documenting and sharing rewindable learning and has similar caveats to streaming- users need to be careful what is recorded and posted. I found the icon to be very subtle so will be very careful when using it to record the screen.
Blogger
I find regular blogging difficult even though it takes very little time. I feeling this is due to the temptation to blog using the tools above to create visually impressive content, which takes time! The blogger app does not work on my phone (or others' apparently) so I am very appreciative to Dorothy and Gerard teaching me how to use gmail to draft blogposts that can contain images directly from my phone's camera roll (not drive) phone. This will enable me to draft as I teach🙂, keeping the haring of learning moments fresh.
One of the things I really liked about this session was the creativity. I really like being able to get students creating, especially in art. This is very much what makerspace is all about too.
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