DIGITAL FLUENCY INTENSIVE
Digital technology to improve sports education at Pt England School
An area that I greatly desire to improve in, is to become more digitally savvy, particularly in my role where communication is key to how sports can run more efficiently at Pt England. For 9 weeks, I will be a part of the 25th Cohort to complete the Digital Fluency Intensive Course (DFI) that is facilitated by the staff from the Manaiakalani Education Programme.
The topics we covered today:
- Overview of the course
- Manaiakalani origins
- Streamlining communication
- Chrome
- Drive
- Explore - Chrome extensions
- Google Docs
- Skills list
- Add-ons and Extensions
- Create visual media
Key learnings and tools that I would use from today's session:
1. Group Email Communications
This is an alternative to creating groups from your contact list. It is creating one email address e.g. teachers@ptengland.school.nz where messages are sent to every teacher under a topic and every response goes out to everyone. This is one way to keep information and communication about a topic in one space. With the permission of our senior management team at school, I would like to create group emails for
- netball coaching staff
- rugby coaching staff
- house captains & their teachers
- organise my drive folders into subjects e.g. AIMS, Tamaki Cluster, Rugby, Staff meetings etc into different work spaces
- colour code and look at numbering folders
- make all folders visible
- file folders under years e.g. 2020, 2019, 2018
- explore this space to discuss and create lessons to critically analyse current events, articles, use for research studies
- your voice automatically records what you say. A useful tool I could use to records reflections of a tournament, highlights of a game.
- to save typing lots of information, this can record what I say. I would need some time to train myself on how to do this
- heading titles
- Explore tool - very useful to tag and connect research material to key words, quotes, facts etc - it automatically creates a footnote with reference to the source
- remove.bg website - great to use to remove the background of an image and re-use the clean image for visual work
- using tables in google documents to create visual documents
I am looking forward to the next session. In the meantime, I will endeavour to try a few things that I have learnt today.
Thanks for this post Sal- I'm taking notes to use for my planning for next time :) Great that you finally have the opportunity to do some learning around things that interest you - usually you are too busy supporting others!
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Hi Sally, Thank you for this post. It is so valuable to see your reflection on how you can use each thing you have learned to elevate your current approaches. Looking back now have you implement many of these ideas and how did they go?
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