Digi Digest 2

The Bayfield Digi Digest

It has been a busy two weeks for the digital team. The highlight of which was the Interface Xpo last Thursday where we picked up many ideas. We attended workshops on Onenote, coding, Adobe and spent an awesome hour with Mindlab recreating a plant moving in accordance with the sun using electrical engineering! 

Digital Literacy Survey
Thanks to those of you who have filled out the Digital Survey. We now have 99% percent response rate. We are impressed with your digital fluency and enthusiasm to learn. We have begun analysing the results and are planning to tailor our training sessions accordingly. (See Onenote training at this weeks Techie Brekkie below.)

 How comfortable are you using Onenote on a daily basis?                                                                                     
Digital Literacy Survey
Just in case you are in the 1% who hasn't had a chance to fill out the survey, see link above.

Techie Brekkie

Thanks so much to those who attended the first techie brekkie. We hope you found it useful. You are all invited to   our next brekkie this week

When: Thursday 7th June, 7.30am
Where: Staffroom 
Focus: One note


Frances Valintine - Mindlab
We were lucky enough to hear Frances Valintine, creator of mindlab speak at the new Tech Futures Lab in Newmarket last week about her vision for the future of NZ schooling and what part digital technologies will play. NO surprises to hear how critical digital skills will be for our students. See link below to an article which sums up her sentiments.
The Future of Work and Education

Mindlab offer a postgraduate programme designed specifically to enable teachers with digital age skills, see details below. They advise the demands of the course are made easier by enrolling with collegues and working collaboratively on assignments. Let us know if you are interested. It would be great to get a few of us enrolling together.

 Postgraduate Certificate in Applied Practise (Digital and Collaborative Learning)
32 Weeks (16 weeks face to face sessions) 4-8 pm
Newmarket/ Point Chev locations
16 weeks online webinars
July, November and March intakes.

Digital Passports
How is everyone going with their digital passports? We are happy to run another session if it would help to motivate you to keep going.

Digital Passport Link
To avoid $40 fee enter the promo code at check out 
BAYFCONT1220
(You will need your teacher registration number when logging in)
                                             

APP of the Week


There are so many great new apps and digital solutions being created all the time that we decided to use the Digi Digest to share a selection of them with you.


 Awesome to see the senior school is now embracing Seesaw! See the infographic they have sent us about our usage which will no doubt increase considerably with senior school posts. Please let us know should you ever need any help with anything. Don't forget Seesaw offers a huge amount of support across several platforms.
Seesaw Facebook               seesaw@seesaw.twitter             Seesaw Instagram                           

There are literally thousands of ways to use Seesaw in our learning spaces, see the link for a few of them, 100 Ways to Use Seesaw our Learning Spaces







Matariki is coming up (6-13 July). Check out Twinkl for some great learning space resources. Log on through the following link using the details below:

Website: https://www.twinkl.co.nz
Email: michaelap@bayfield.school.nz
Username: Titoki
Password: bayfield
She Can Code

Our wonderful girls who code!



That's it for now. 

Comments

  1. kerri10 June 2018 at 21:09

    This is so awesome! Looks really good and some excellent ideas. Thank you for all your work around this and the efforts to support out teachers.

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  2. kerri24 August 2018 at 15:27

    Love the She Can Code! our children are being well prepared our digital landscape!

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