DFI Week 2- Workflow 11/5/21

 

I really appreciated the WWW review at the start of the day. It was excellent to reflect back and then be able to refresh my mind and then collect a few more ideas and tips that I had missed in the first session. I wasn't aware of the "explore" function which will be so very useful.

Manaiakalani Pedagogy session with Dorothy Burt- Learn, Create, Share- It was highly useful to spend more time delving deeper into the Learn, Create, Share. The RATE acronym was useful. I particularly liked the Treaty of Waitangi example which will be a useful framework to use when planning Inquiry topics. 

Google Keep- This is going to be amazing. I love the features of taking photos and the feature of it turning the text on the photo into text. I love the checklist features. I think being able to take photos with notes when I am on courses or at meetings will be so helpful. I think having reminders while also be very helpful-especially when I have daily checklists. The voice recording feature will also be helpful. Also being able to transfer the keep notes into google docs. I am going to transfer my checklists- to do lists- I love that you can colour them. too.

G Mail- I am very OCD with organising my emails and filing my emails. The icons on the side I had actually never noticed, particularly the contacts icon- which I will find really useful. 

Google Calendar- it was great to refresh and remind how to set up a entry. Appointment slots will be so very useful for meetings- team meeting. We can only use it for people with google accounts and I have looked at sending invites to Junior Team events.

Google Meet- It was great having another session on Google Meet to refresh on the updates. I really liked the etiquette poster. That will be helpful if we have to teach remotely. It was great to go back and do another Google Meet with a colleague to practise presenting and to also make a recording that used a video. We needed to have another go at recording our google meet, but that helped with working out the tricks and knowing how that menu bars and tabs work. So I need to remember when I am presenting to press Present now and then click tab.

How to embed a video on your blog:

-First change your settings in share and make sure 'anyone with the link can view'

-Double click on the video

-Next go to the 3 dots and go 'open in a new window'.

-Next go back to the 3 dots and hit 'embed item' and when the box comes up copy that text.

Then go to your blog and hit the pencil drop down in the top left corner and go to the HTML view and then paste the text you copied in there. Go back to the compose view and voila.  (Thanks Mr Gold for your notes)

Its been another fabulous session today. So many helpful tips. It has been reassuring that I had already learnt (only a few) tricks along the way with emails and using google calendar.