DFI: Session 2 Workflow

Today was the second part of the DFI - Digital Fluency Workshop that I am completing in nine sessions. Excellent, high quality material on learning more ways to become an effective teacher by using digital tools to deliver knowledge and content. Here's a checklist of what we are covering in the coming weeks: Google Certified Educator Checklist Level 1

The focus of today was around boosting workflow to turbo charge learning. We have access to google slideshows that explain in detail how these spaces work:

• Connecting with each other / Reflections
• Hangouts
• Manaiakalani Pedagogy: Learn Create Share
• Google Keep
• Gmail
• Calendar
• Tabs
• Practical: Hangout with a small group
• Blog Commenting

These are some personal notes I have made for myself to remember for future use. All information is found on our DFI agenda that has multiple links to numerous slides around each topic. It's awesome.

Google Hangout (Google Meet)

This is great and requires practise to remember it's great use.

You are able to talk face to face with a group of people, share knowledge of work from your laptop that people can view, make comments in the chat space while you're talking online. You can record and save the hangout on your drive.

I could use this app to communicate with coaches, outside agencies, meetings and groups of students.  An example of a topic would be to create an effective captain's speech.  We could share and analyse examples of captain's speeches before creating our own.  

Hangouts and Drive: Rewindable video

What is effective teaching in my area? Manaiakalani Pedagogy

• Effective teachers make the difference
• Not a facilitator but teaching alongside students and to students
• If it’s worth learning and teaching - it’s worth creating a rewindable resource. This is an example of what is turbo charging teaching.
• A new way of learning, removes barriers, creating solutions to problems

Google Keep

Download the APP on your phone. Another fantastic resource. It's a lot more than taking notes. One way to use this with students or for personal use is to take a photo of a portion

Strip text that is needed for your learning: e.g. use authentic text, take a photo of an article or part of it, press the 3 dots and click on next (it copies and pastes the texts).

Archive - birthday gift, digitise life story e.g. handwriting each year

Pin list to be at the top e.g. school to do, sports to do

How do you keep a copy of this in archives?

Label everything and archive them to be hidden away

What is effective teaching in my area?

Effective teachers make the difference

Not a facilitator but actually teaching

If it’s worth learning, teaching - it’s worth creating a rewindable resource i.e turbo charging

Removes barriers, new ways of learning - make it a life changer…solutions to problems

GMAIL

Need to set up emails to be pre-sorted as they received so important messages are read and responded to, filed and archived.
Other notes:

• Archive emails - do not delete, you may need past information
• Label, label, label emails
• Important and unread - learn how to sort these
• Use filter to help sort emails
• Once I've already read
• Note to self - tidy email inbox
• Schedule emails e.g. if working at 11:30pm at night, can schedule email to be sent at 7:00 a.m. 

Google Calendar
I currently use 2 calendars:
School Sports (visible to all - tournaments, games, important sporting events)
Sally - personal for appointments, other events

More information can be found here: Calendar: Rewindable Video

One Tab
You can amalgamate all tabs that you have opened under one called 'One Tab'

For Homework: 'CREATE'

Create a calendar event with Marie from Panmure to practise a 'hangout/meet' time.

Connect on the 'hangout' before session 3.