DFI Day Two - Workflow

Hello again,

Today we started Day 2 with a Google Meet session with Dorothy who was back up in Auckland.  Her session focussed on the Learn/Ako pedagogy of Manaiakalani with the acronym of RATE.  R for recognise, A for amplify, T for turbocharge and E for effective practice.  A key message is that great teaching + digital affordances = acceleration.  Or in another way, the teacher enables the learning in the digital world for students to collaborate, make choices, create and share.

As well as revisiting Google Meet, we also browsed through Google Keep, Gmail, Calendar and taming our tabs - phew!  Once again, I'm fairly familiar with these tools, but delving into them again has been beneficial, especially as there always seems to be something new to explore - thanks Google!  One thing I did streamline somewhat is my bookmarks, some I left as just the icon, and some with shortened names.  Oh and I did pin a few of my extensions for easy access.  

So all in all I am pretty happy with my workflow, but I am sure will continue to make changes where and when I need it to suit me.

See you all next week!

Google Meet - Impromptu Recording!

Kia ora Bloggers!

Today we had learning around using Google Meet.  Whilst pretty au fait with using this tool because of Lockdown Learning, it is important to keep up to date with using it.  We chose a blog to look over - just to acknowledge and thank Kayla from Ohaeawai School - what a cool blog!

Thanks Sonya for being my Google buddy and asking some important questions, which I had forgotten to mention :-). Our wee video is not super high class, as mentioned in my title - very impromptu!

Digital Fluency Intensive - Take 2!

Kia ora everyone,

Welcome back to Term 3!  It is week one, and I am lucky enough to be back on DFI to complete the course interrupted by Covid and the Lockdown.
I am learning alongside a new group of teachers from various schools around Christchurch - it is nice to be connecting with colleagues again, sharing thoughts and ideas.

So today has been Core Business - origins and pedagogy of Manaiakalani, and touched on tips and tricks of Google Drive and Docs.  The origins remind us that Learn Create Share provides a 21st century model to engage, empower and raise achievement of our learners - through the use of digital technologies. Revisiting the tips has been beneficial as it has reminded (and cemented) some cool ideas to be used back in the Hub.

Today I particularly enjoyed going back through my Add Ons and Extensions, Google docs word processing and creating a multi modal poster, that I may potentially use in my Literacy!  It is not finished yet, but this is what I have so far...

See you all next week for Day 2.