Kia ora koutou,
Today I had my first DFI (Digital Fluency Intensive) session were we covered a wide range of content. I really enjoyed the variation that was in the session today. We learned about the kaupapa and pedagogy of Manaiakalani (learn, create, share), google chrome, drive, groups and docs. We also had the opportunity to create our own poster/DLO using what we learned.
The manaiakalani pedagogy of learn, create and share has been embedded into our school pedagogy since my career began 6 years ago. The biggest learning curve I had initially with the learn, create and share model was the lack of devices and age of students I had at the time (Year 0-2) but after termly professional development through Ako Hiko I developed a stronger understanding and how it doesn't need to be digital and the empowerment creating and sharing gives our learners.
For me the biggest takeaway today was using Google Drive workspaces to organise planning and sharing slides for the current term.
Finding things in my google drive is something that can be quite time consuming, I do have things organised by year and term but there ends up being a lot of folders! Being able to open google drive, click priority and scroll to workspaces when teaching in the classroom I think will be very helpful.
I will be creating more workspaces for projects I am working on within our school as I think this will help me to stay organised and prioritise what needs to be done first.
Google Chrome Shortcuts
Two shortcuts I learned today that I think will be useful in the classroom are:
Ctrl shift b - to show bookmarks bar. This is something I find most new learners to devices do not have visible but it is a lifesaver for having links to your site and blog on.
Ctrl and number - to switch between tabs on chrome. I am guilty of always having many tabs open so I will find this helpful (even if it is only for the first 9 tabs)!
Google Groups
An amazing tool for teachers working collaboratively as it allows students to share work with all their teachers in one go. My team leader has already done DFI and had this set up for our team and it has been great!
Google Docs and Creating
After all our learning we had the opportunity to create. I created a document evaluating and integrating ideas around the theme of games that our learners will be able to use during Reading next week. It was great to learn and refresh myself on some tools within google docs such as explore, page set up, titles and headings.
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