NZ MIEE Hui 2019 notes day one

These are my notes from Day One of the Microsoft Innovative Expert Educator hui held in Auckland. Amazing speakers and a great weekend connecting with like-minded kaimahi.

Getting the most out of being an MIE - Sonja Delafosse

Tips on getting the most out of being an MIE

You get out what you get in

Join the global FB group

Open the One Notequick start guide

Get involved with global connect plan

Earn a place at E 2Sydney March -26 - follow on FB

NZ selection process

Get involved in social media

Tweet meets

#MSFTeduchat

Use Microsoft Educator Centre - encourage school to do as a collaborative PD

New website in January

Become a trainer

Microsoft Education Blog https://blogs.microsoft.com/

set up learning events and teachmeets in NZ, use flipgrid, teams

Could do own learning marketplace

Get involved with SDGs , WE schools -bring global learning into the classroom

Service learning and global learning shows students they can make a difference

What is the mark you want to leave in this world ? What is your personal philosophy?

Digital technologies curriculum and integration - Chris Dillon

DT by 2020 should be imbedded into school programmes

Not compulsory but are expectations

Not about devices but how they work and solving problems

Leading Local Curriculum Guide

55 % of NZ GDP based around tech in 2 yrs time

Need to be trained and need to be training

Instead of being compulsory, they have added tech notes to NZC

Need to meet requirements

Need to cover all areas of tech

Hangarau has changed too

Over Year 1-10 should have skills in all five areas, developing skills in context

offer a variety of contexts and recognise links cross-curricular

school's responsibility to ensure DT is covered

Needs to be resourced and have PD provide support

Computational Thinking

about what computers do but doesn't have to be on a computer

Algorithms-well described set of instructions

recipe not necessarily algorithm -not always choice in there so just instructions

coming up with solutions, not just finding an answer

solves a problem or completes a task

BBC-learning - What is an algorithm video 

jigsaw , car, animation,, exemplars in curriculum -all examples of Computational thinking

Bubblesort Ted Talk

sorting, looking for patterns, Dewey system

leave out unimportant info

how we look at the world is an abstraction

Algorithm design - identify instructions in order

Hello Ruby-resource for younger students

Computational Fairy Tales online

More resources on his slide deck

Previously Progress outcomes. Not therefore reporting on assessment. Give us a roadmap . Report on Achievement Outcomes not Progress Outcomes.

Focussed on outcome but it is about how you get there

Where can you get help

DTTA dtta.org.nz

Makes links to SDG and translated to Māori

Kia Takatū - National Digital Readiness

Toolkits

NCEA

Cracking the code with real STEM projects - Pip Cleaves

Build learning experiences in which students learn for their future not our past

Stem.T4L - send resources out for a term trial

Immersive VR - under 13 unable to make the distinction so can't use immersive

3D printing and filming can be DT

Learning challenge

Project based learning - structured and explicit

REAL Rigorous Engaging Authentic Learning

80% projects have to leave a legacy in school or community - not putting the project in the skip

Design Thinking with REAL

NSW-curriculum in folder 48 projects there (in hui OneNote)

Literacy mapped once finished

Bring in experts

Legacy project

Create own challenges

Robotic kit

helper robotic -guide to school - My robotic helper

maths science geography music

Blue bot better batteries

make grid of community - code journey to school

Not as authentic - fighting  fires

Micro bit best place

Make micro pet first, collect data , draw map , out to parents

ozobot - design thinking

forces and Motion

hard to get real

Create and perform song

Makey Makey - Scratch

Can make comments on Scratch

Use Tynker instead as you can turn of commenting

EV3 Mindstorm

Lego Spike

Ready for Robocop

How cool is my school -VR

Then older A place of my own Year 9-10

3D Printing -Toystory- first-steps into design thinking

Digital architect -

wheelchair what does school need, draw up plans, design in minecraft, export to 3D printer

All achievable STEM projects

Film kit -School newsroom - use greenscreen

coding kit

CoSpaceEDU TynkerMinecraft - create mods for Minecraft

Makecode Arcade - Make code - charge to use arcade -raise funds

Minecraft SurvivalBackpack

Tight loose tight - start narrow, open up, tight assessment

drone Kit  - going out

Tello edu drone -create community on floor and put person in for fire service to find

Have Youtube channelStemT4L.

3d printflowers and colour to attract bees - 60sec documentary

STEM projects should all have tech in them

Merge cubes  - christmas around the world

Workshop 1 - Digital Readiness - Rosalie Reiri

Kia Takatū as an assessment tool

Video of story of Maui and Mahuika

what can we do to push through boundaries

Mahuika - Maui grandmother - to get rope Maui used her hair

Te Pō- one main issue in school

Opportunity in DDDO

Issue -vandalism

This is in the darkness

Te Wehenga - Strategize ideas

Pause to select best solution currently

Te Ao Marama - Create a digital outcome using your solution

A website is more eLearning

Be good to have badges for Kia Takatū

Te Whakaata

Draw design

Workshop 2 - Ngā Motu - Whetu Paitai

Got asked to build te reo world

hard to do for outcomes

hardware barrier sometimes

first barriers to teachers is convincing parents and other staff

barrier - outcomes in te reo

Teacher package -

in standard Minecraft there is no Māori language 

Now there's instructions in Māori

Eventually want to doMinecraft in sign language

World of Ngā Motu

Can't teach te reo in isolation

All characters named after children or friends

Words used in here make sense in this world - relate world to item

Textures

things iron are still there

don't want to confuse so just some custom items

first lesson is personal glossary

build glossary and and take a picture -  goes into their portfolio

Can build up and print out

building the world , capture it, own it

has a level of control

can build islands

got piwakawaka, tuna, moa

sound for moa from Te Papa

Narrative of settlement

Waharoa - whole entrance

Marae atea open space

Get to explore marae safely -where is space -tikanga

Go to the NPC and learn with the students

Papa and Rangi and children in wharenui

niche knowledge based in English

knowledge has to be woven into te reo Māori

Protection, armpits put children under arm to protect

myth and legend wrong -they are narrative

e.g. Maui

purpose of model is to be representative

hook of Maui was their representation

Built that world with that in mind

All the places are nameless

If you want to engage in te reo this is not enough

use the community to come and help build

Take to our iwi

tikanga - correct way of doing things

No inherent tikanga in Minecraft

Creation of own tikanga

lessons in te reo

3rd lesson build space - explore parts + recreate

Kauri, totara

in the future want more ecology

eat birds

swamplands - harakeke

from pa and build own hapu eventually

build North Island in 1: 10 space -build up eventually. NPC to describe tikanga of their area

Workshop 3 - Developing effective collaboration skills through Minecraft - Trent Ray

Where can I take Minecraft?

Give agency and scaffold

knew they loved playing Minecraft

set up club on how to do basics

levelled out learning

had 100 students working closely

large grid paper then designed and allocated which parts

Already had face to face to sort colours, mines etc

Mesopotamia - remembered so much more

collaborate-to build a community

Create Utopian society

How do I know they are contributing

futurelearningacademy.com.au

What are our strengths and weaknesses first

Plan what to do before going on Minecraft

Resolution

see cyberbullying need digital conflict resolution

learning protocols in digital spaces

Roles and responsibilities part of planning

Need awareness of themselves first - one could be bossy

A good leader understands these around them

Should you assign groups?

Depends on what you want them to do

building future capable learners - when assessing progress it doesn't matter

If product is important then it may matter

If have understanding they will be assessed on collaboration they can work better together

Giving them planning tools

Microsoft white board better sync than OneNote

steps to success - be accountable of what needs to be done and in what order

self regulation

Strategic-priorities

Post it notes

Weekly meeting

build a toolkit together

Setgoals

Reflect

Then we can assess

Design a new idea

Either redesigning existing - go on  the Minecraft site and  get another education lesson

Group 2 on One Note

Really important to have structure of goal setting and reflection

Group 3 landmark relevant to them their awa

Give them scenarios of what goes wrong and say how to solve

Pepeha in Minecraft

Microsoft Tips

As an MIE Expert I am lucky to attend some amazing sessisons with other MIEs and with Microsoft staff. We had a Microsoft Teacher Talk in Christchurch where we were given an overview of Microsoft products and the chance to throw some ideas around.
Having used most of these products for a while, I didn't take copious amounts of notes, but as always there were a few tips that I found really useful and wanted to share with others, so here they are.

OneNote - I use this all the time, but am always learning something new.

• You can pull text out of an image by right clicking on the image and right at the bottom there is "Select Text from Image". I didn't see it there when I had the Onetastic addin disabled, so you may need to download and enable it to have this option.
• Use the Learning Tools Dictate feature to scribe audio from a video. Run the video on YouTube while recording and it will write the text for you.
• If you right click an image and "Set Picture as Background" you can annotate it without it moving around.
• Don't forget to use the Audio recording for feedback. You can annotate at the same time and it links the audio to the annotations. If you are having problems with work on multiple pages, go to File>Options>Advanced>Printout and untick the "Printouts on Multiple Pages" box.
• Remind students to copy their written work before they highlight or make changes, then you can see the progression.
• In the Class Notebook you can distribute sections and pages to a small group within your class.
• You can add a Teacher only section to an aleady made Class Notebook. Under Class Notebook go to Manage Notebooks, choose your note book and Enable Teacher-Only Section.
• Use OneNote for Teacher Appraisal.
• Only comment for improvement is it would be nice to have the full functionality of the Word spell check within OneNote.

OfficeMix - I haven't used this yet, but some of my colleagues have, with good success. Keen to have a closer look when I get some time.

• Download this  into Powerpoint - not available for Mac yet.
• If you write in the notes section of your Powerpoint, these will come up when you record, so you can read them while you record.
• If you want to take a small section of a video, you can do a Screen Record into your powerpoint, or you can right click and save it as a short clip for later use.
• When you upload to OfficeMix make sure you save the settings for students to sign in, then you will get analytics.

Snip   - I use this all the time, and love it!

• Download and have it sitting on the side or top of your screen for easy use.
• Use it to create little snips to explain short concepts.
• Great for annotation of screen clippings.
• Use the whiteboard to draw on then save.
• The library in Snip saves all your snips for quick access.

Sway - love this alternative for presentations

• Great for collaboration of Authors.
• You can share and enable students to duplicate your Sway so they can add to it. Share>More Options> Duplicate.
• Drag and drop photos in to make a quick newsletter for parents and community.
• Good for portfolios. Can show the before and after of art work with the slider.
• Use like a blog for a school trip, share with parents so they can keep updated.
• You can use this offline, download the app from the store.
• It is Mac friendly, but one teacher mentioned that students couldn't edit on their phones.

Classroom and Teacher Dashboard - a quick discussion was had about both of these, although no-one was using in any depth. Definitely in the beta stage where we are experimenting and seeing what works. It was good to hear that Microsoft have been working with KAMAR to get these linked together.

Tasks - This looks good to use when planning a group event such as Prizegiving or a production. Good to be able to allocate tasks to staff. It would be good to be able to allocate tasks to more than one person.

Forms - I have done a couple of surveys and quizzes using Forms - so far so good.

• You can now add points to questions.
• You can turn the link into a QR code which I like.
• Great for surveying the community.
• Good visuals - yu can see it updating if you do it live.
• You can export as a spreadsheet.
• You can delete a particular student response, if you have set the survey for students to sign in.
• A few things that are still needed - the ability to co-author, to duplicate and to stop people voting more than once.

Educator Community - I have learnt so much on this site!

• Plenty of Courses and Resources.
• Loving the new layout and look.
• The 21st Century Learning Design Pathway comes with it's own OneNote which has rubrics to code your activities to see how well you are using tehnology.
• There are webinars to watch.
• It's a good idea to use your home email to sign up, this makes it easier if you change schools. 

I ran a quick session on using StaffPad - an amazing app for SurfacePro that is a great tool for teaching music. 

Overall, a great session and I have a few more tips and tricks to add to my bag. I am keen to give OfficeMix a go - that will be a holiday project.

New Office 365 Apps

My waffle menu has been filling up recently with new Apps for Office 365. It sometimes is hard to keep up and I'm not sure what some of them are for, but I've been delving (intended pun) into a few recently to see how they work and what I might use them for.

Delve

Firstly, Delve has been improved. I used this a lot before, when I kept losing documents, but now it has even more features that I am loving. The search feature is still there but being able to look up documents from a specific person is really helpful and it is great now that I can have favourite documents, not just boards. This is so helpful if you are working on a document frequently and want to have quick access to it. If you haven't been into Delve, I suggest you start now!

Soundtrap

As a music teacher this one particularly interested me. We are looking to change from Mac to PC soon and our main composition tool has been Garageband for a long time. I have been looking at Soundtrap as an alternative to see if it would cover what we need.
Things I like about it:
It's easy to use. The interface is clean and simple and I think junior students would find it really easy.
It's online - no more losing files on laptops. You don't have to be an Office365 user to connect.
It's collaborative. You can join up with someone on the other side of the world and write a piece of music together.
It has Soundtrap for Education which gives access to all the Premium features as well as specific education features such as creating groups and classes - see pic.
Things that I'd like to see improved:
I'd like to be able to save it somewhere else, as well as in Soundtrap - I'm sure there will be a limit on space eventually.
In order for it to be used with our senior students we would need to transfer it over to a DAW to focus on more in depth editing tools. This means I would want it to be able to export MIDI or .wav files to take into a program such as Logic Pro.
The other thing is to get our heads out of Garageband and see the new opportunities this will create. I can see huge potential here with students being able to access this from home (as long as they have internet - and yes, some don't) and also the collaboration feature. Here is a review from another teacher, extolling the same virtues. I love it.

Classroom 

I am having a play with this at the moment. Due to the fact that we are halfway through our school year, it is a bit hard to change over to this when everything is already set up in my classes. In particular, we have OneNote already set up with our classes and starting a new one is just too much work at this stage. That is unfortunate because this OneNote has a Teacher Only Section!!!! Yes, a section for me to put my notes in about the class. I love it!
It's almost worth moving everything across...
Another staff member and I have been playing and have created a class for each of us to play in as both student and teacher.  We have been sending messages and creating assignments, as well as working out where things come and go to. Love the ability to send a private message to a student within the classroom.
Some of the things I'd like to change would be the conversation thread adds to the bottom, not the top and also being able to email the whole class that the Classroom has been activated. I suppose this could be done via a message. Still more to play with, but I can see the positives and look forward to using this.

Power BI

What a great tool for the mad statistical geeks among us. Such a great way to collect and present data. I used this to write up my Department report at the end of last year and found it easy to use and really useful in presenting the data I needed. I know that it can do a lot more than I used it for, and as a
mathematician, I get very excited by data, so I'm keen to spend more time on this to get the most out of the tool and use the data to improve learning. The graphs look pretty too! (I have left off the title and x-axis names in this graph as they identify students).

Flow 

I have just got my hands on this and have already created a flow for my email attachments to go straight to a folder in my One Drive. It's great being able to link up some of my other accounts as well and am looking at some of the possibilities to do with my Twitter Account. There are lots of templates to choose from and I am sure as I browse these I will find more flows that will save time from some of those annoying tasks! Check out this review. You do need a work Office 365 account to login and try it out.

Planner 

The latest addition that I am hoping to get my hands on soon. I can see this being a really great tool for those that work in teams. Being able to create tasks, allocate staff to them and move them through phases of completion is great. I can see it being used for my students working in groups and looking at good project management skills. Looking forward to having a play.


I think the biggest problem at the moment is the time to look at all of these, and to work out what is best for what I want to do. It is easy to be overwhelmed with technology so I have had to take a step back, look at the big picture, and see how these tools can save me time and work in the best way for my students. I'll be picking a few bits out of each and making the most of them.

SurfacePro 3 vs SurfacePro 4

As an MIE Surface Expert, I have been privileged to get a SurfacePro 4 to play with and have been doing so for just under a week now. It has been well worth the wait for this and I am enjoying the differences between the SurfacePro 3 and the SurfacePro 4.

The most obvious difference is having Windows 10 up and running from start up. I am used to Windows10 from my own personal laptop, so it is nice to have it at work as well (most of school is on Windows 8). It also means I can use the dictation in the OneNote Learning Tools!

The keyboard is a big improvement. The keys are spaced out and it is more like a laptop keyboard. Finally the space bar and the larger touchpad are actually in the middle of the keyboard.  I like the backlit keys (although it took me a minute to realise the screen wasn't getting brighter, but my keys were!!!) and overall I think this keyboard is awesome!

The bigger screen looks nicer. It does mean there is no windows link on the screen but for me this is no problem due to the fact that I wasn't really using it anyway on my SurfacePro 3.

The specs say that it's faster - I didn't have problems with my SurfacePro 3 so I can't really tell the difference at this stage.

Storage - same as my Surface Pro 3. As I use mostly cloud storage, having only 128Gb is not an issue for me. You can add a card to increase storage which some people might want to do.

The Surface Pen works better - more like a pen than a stylus. Apparently you can get a Pen Tip kit as well, to change the tips. I don't think I'll go that far.  I don't like the eraser being at the top therefore having to flip the stylus, I preferred the SurfacePro 3 pen better in that respect, but I'll probably get used to it in time, it's only been a few days!

• Press and hold the eraser - opens Cortana

I haven't used Cortana much, so will have to work on this - not sure I want to talk to my computer much in my classes....

• Click the eraser - opens OneNote

I had to change where this went for OneNote as I had OneNote2016 installed with the Learning tools and Class Notebook Add in, so wanted the double click to go to OneNote2016. It opens a new window if I already have OneNote2016 open and it also just goes to whatever page I happen to be on in OneNote2016, rather than to a specific quick notes page - it would be nice to have the option to be precise. 

Took me a bit to remember there was a Surface App - very useful if you want to change any pen settings. You could have that single click go to any App if you want and it's easy to change. Not sure why it's not under the general settings though (Settings-Devices-Pen) - having a Surface App just for this seems a bit strange. It might make sense if there was more in the App (apart from a survey), but there's not.

• Double click the eraser - opens screen capture where you can do a whole screen, or a clipping which is good.

But.... I can't configure where it goes, so it automatically opens the OneNote App again, but I'm using OneNote 2016 so it's not much use to me for now. Definitely something that needs fixing!

You can also store the pen on the side of the SP4 easily. This was possible on the SP3 but it seems much stronger now and doesn't come off as easily. I actually don't store mine there, as I have a portable case that came with my Surface Pro 4 kit and it has a pen holder. In saying that, it's a pain unless you are left handed! Really it's storage only as I have to double handle it. When I'm using the stylus a lot, I just pop it to the right of the screen via magnet. I think I will go with the old case I had with my SP3 (although it doesn't fit exactly, may have to do some home maintenance on it or buy a new one *sigh) as I prefer it. It looks nicer and the pen sits in it nicely and doesn't get caught in my bag. It is also a lot more comfortable when using the keyboard with it on your lap.

I like the new login. You can unlock the Surface Pro 4 with your face, iris, or fingerprint. All I have to do is look at it and it unlocks. Love it. It's like magic. My kids tried as they thought they might be able to get into it as they look like me, but they only succeeded in locking me out completely as I mentioned in my last blog. Unfortunately I only got to play with that for a bit before school bound it to a domain and now I have to use my school login. Ah well...

So my time has been spent opening my Notebooks for OneNote, downloading a few apps I use a lot, and getting to know my stylus. I'm having issues with getting StaffPad installed again due to 2 different Microsoft login accounts, but hopefully all will be resolved soon and I can hand back my SurfacePro 3 and be totally reliant on this wonderful machine.

OneNote Learning Tools

My experience of these learning tools after a few weeks has been amazing. I wish I had this support for students many years ago. I can see these just getting better and better and have found the Microsoft team really proactive in replying to feedback and wanting to improve their product (no, I don't work for Microsoft...).

I was very excited when they first turned up and immediately started using them with individual students.
The first student I worked with is a visually impaired student in my class. He carries a magnifying glass with him and uses it to read documents on his laptop. I helped him to download the Learning Tools addin and showed him how to magnify the text in his OneNote for our class. He has found this to be a fantastic tool and it has meant he can read the handouts and collaborative work easily and quickly without having to magnify every word .

Another student in my class has dyslexia and uses a lot of spoken commands wherever he can. Being able to have the example and the handouts read out to him has meant a lot. He is keen to get this feature on the phone app as well. He says it would be great to scan something with OfficeLens while he is out and about, then have the OneNote Learning Tools read it for him while he follows the text. I know this is something OneNote is keen to implement - we can't wait!

Another girl I have in Year 11 (age 15) cannot read. She is now using OfficeLens and OneNote to enable her to access the work from all subjects at school. Rather than teachers having to read work to her, she now is becoming independent by scanning the handouts herself in OfficeLens and then using the Learning Tools to read for her.

I love the way it becomes full screen in the immersive reading mode so that there are no other distractions apart from the text. This is huge for many of our students.

I have been working with our Learning Support Department to start to implement these tools so they can help students. Initial feedback is excellent, with staff keen to learn to use OneNote so that in the future they can start using these tools.

Things I think need to happen before we can really roll this out over the school:
It needs to work online. Many of our students do not have their own devices and so online is their only option.
Would love it for iOS so all students can access it.
I would like dictation to work on more than just Windows10. Not everyone is up to date yet.
As students have said, they are keen to also have it on their phones, so they can use them anytime, anywhere.

Links to excellent articles/resources:
Office Blog
Technet Blog
And the most important, the Suggestion Box for OneNote. I only found this in the last week. It's  a great idea and I will be making more suggestions either through here or on the Feedback tabs in the addins.

Looking forward to using this more and more.