Film Editing workshop

I took part in a film editing workshop run by Harley Alexander for the Te Hiku Cluster. Harley is an award-winning filmmaker based in Northland, New Zealand, who has worked for major broadcasters and video production agencies in London, Auckland, Sydney and Hong Kong for over 25 years.
The workshop was a great way to pick up some skills around movie making and editing.
The workshop covered setting up albums, iMovies, manipulating audio separate from video, and other editing aspects.
Now I just need to find some time to play around and experiment with using iMovies.

Online Digital Fluency Intensive: week 1

For term 3 of 2020 I was asked to take part as a coach for the Online Digital Fluency Intensive. This is Professional Development offered to teachers who work within a Manaiakalani Outreach School. It is a fantastic opportunity to join a professional learning group to learn together, following a programme designed to meet these four key goals:

• Our teachers are supported to acquire fluency using the basic tools our young people use for learning
• Our teachers are supported to acquire fluency using the basic tools required for effective teaching, planning, assessment and professional learning
• Our teachers are supported to understand how digital technologies used effectively can have a significant impact on accelerating achievement outcomes
• Our teachers are supported to understand how the Manaiakalani pedagogy and kaupapa has been co-constructed over more than a decade to maximise the impact of effective teaching and learning in a digital learning environment. https://dfi.manaiakalani.org/

I am working with 5 teachers in a 'digital bubble'. They are from different schools and different year levels all across New Zealand. 

It was a full-on first day, but highly enjoyable. They learned lots of new things and I did too.

Post Lockdown ponderings and Professional Development

Over the lockdown period I took some time to re-evaluate my skill level and decided to do some online courses. 

I decided to start off with something that is relevant for my job as a Manaiakalani facilitator. Something I would use, teach and support others to use. I started working through the modules in  Screencastify: Class is in session 🎓. I finally did the test today and achieved the Master Screencaster certification.

The other one I am working through at the moment is the Apple iPad Certification. This has been valuable for me getting familiar with the new iPad I have purchased. It required me to learn about tools I had never used much, such as Keynote, Pages and iMovie.

Some other ones I am interested in doing are Scratch Jnr: Teach and any other coding ones I come across, as some of my teachers are wanting to focus on coding next term.