As a teacher within Manaiakalani I have been given the wonderful opportunity to accelerate my learning in Digital Fluency. This is not only a personal opportunity for growth, it will provide me with the knowledge and skills to influence the learning outcomes of my students.
Session One
It is great to have this opportunity to accelerate my acquisition of digital fluency.
Already in one session I have discovered:
Those little google extensions, tools such as a timer, dictionary, slide player. With a click of a button it pops up.
How to create Docs inserting pictures into a table, with each box having background colour and by making the lines invisible by making them the same colour as the background (had never thought of that) by golly it looks fabulous. No longer will my Docs look jumbled. For someone that was never a 'pretty border and lettering person' this is going to be a fast and effective way to make newsletters, posters and resources looks professional.
The moment I had a wee giggle to myself was the organisation of folders and documents in drive, and Gerald's comments about drive being like a desk at school, reflective of either a tidy desk whereby items can be found easily or the messy desk whereby frustration and lost items become a regular occurrence. By opening up the folder you intend to keep the document in before making the new doc it will already be organised. Yes I was one of those messy desk girls, everything crammed in, with no organisation at all. The organisation tips may indeed change my life!
Using headings, subheadings, that link up with to table of contents when creating a Doc was new learning today. Also command F to find any word on a webpage, wow if I had only known this while I was studying.
I can feel my confidence growing already.
What am I taking back to Room 3 this week?
Naming their work inserting their name and their title.
Opening up a Doc in their Maths, Literacy, Inquiry folder.
Create any Docs I make this week with tables and images.
Already in one session I have discovered:
Those little google extensions, tools such as a timer, dictionary, slide player. With a click of a button it pops up.
How to create Docs inserting pictures into a table, with each box having background colour and by making the lines invisible by making them the same colour as the background (had never thought of that) by golly it looks fabulous. No longer will my Docs look jumbled. For someone that was never a 'pretty border and lettering person' this is going to be a fast and effective way to make newsletters, posters and resources looks professional.
What am I taking back to Room 3 this week?
Naming their work inserting their name and their title.
Opening up a Doc in their Maths, Literacy, Inquiry folder.
Create any Docs I make this week with tables and images.
