Digital Fluency Intensive - Using digital tools to improve sports at Pt England School

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

2. Drive / Work Spaces

• 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

3. Web Forum

• explore this space to discuss and create lessons to critically analyse current events, articles, use for research studies

4. Voice Typing

• 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

5. Google Documents

• 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

6. Visual Graphics

• 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.