Day Four - Online at home - Dealing With Data

A great day in strange times.  A really good background reflection on the place and the future of on-line teaching at time when that is all that is happening around the country.   I liked Dorothy's comment, referring to post-Covid 19 and the return to school - "There is no normal".  So really timely PD to be involved in, and we are lucky to be here with this great bunch of people - Thanks everyone!
I enjoyed the link that was made between sharing and finishing learning; meaning the opportunity and imperative to share helps students complete and show their work.  We all like to show our work only when we are finished, and the routines of sharing with others, and the access to an authentic audience, motivates students to complete their learning projects.
Today I added to my skills with sheets - it was great to find shortcuts like dragging lines to freeze rows and columns, dragging cells to duplicate formulae etc.  This helps both professionally (managing attendance data as a Dean,  budget sheets in my SENCO role, the potential to teach my junior Maths students these skills) and personally (using household budget sheets, costing building projects etc.).
A good day - I'm sure I will get better at managing my microphone in these hangouts - sorry everyone!

Day 3 - Media

Wow, another full day of non-stop learning.
CREATE - reflected on the way my senior GEO students prefer pencil and paper creations over their digital tools - but I can learn how to teach them more possibilities.
I practiced some new skills with drawings and slides which I can immediately use to improve my presentations so that's a leap forward.   It'll be great for planning documents, IEP schemes etc.
Alos I think I can make use of playlists in my You Tube Channel, with ready access for students to GEO clips etc.  Thanks everyone for a great day!

 

Day Two - Workflow

Another day of non-stop information and learning about Google tools.  Some great stuff, starting with Ann's presentation about Manaiakalani pedagogy.  She really emphasised the SAMR progression where ideally our use of digital tools creates a new way of learning, a new task that would not be possible without our digital capability.  The challenge this morning was the multi-sensory message - talking, slide-show, chats all happening at the same time.

Like last week I learned some useful shortcuts and tools that will help my efficiency - from my DFI Notes doc:

• Pin tab - right-click tab and choose “pin”
• "Keep" - I can make my work to-do list on my phone! Just what I need!
• Put unread emails on the top of the list.
• “Priority” in Drive - create workspaces with tabs, bookmarks.
• Organising tabs and folders.

- all small things but I can use them all every day!

With students, the hangouts may be useful with my senior GEO students, if we close the school for coronavirus!

Three old BOIC teachers looking a bit possum-in-the-headlights today.


 Later we tried recording a hangout but the Apple recording wasn't quite set up properly.  It was an Apple design fault I am sure.

Mmmm .... the question is "what have I learned that might help in my personal life?"   To be fair, I use Google less and less in my personal life.  My whole work day is using these tools more and more, so less and less seems an important focus in my personal life.

Day One - Core Business

Today was the first day - my hurried notes about the things that seemed really useful and important to remember:

• Groups can work well as a store of messages - don’t have to file them myself.
• All apps are #####.google.com
• Shift-Z - can put the file in another place as well.
• Control-shift-V -    paste with clear formatting
• Use “title”, “headings”, “table of contents”
• Send un-formated text to students and ask them to assign questions to their classmates. (They can highlight useful text to help answers)
• Images .png have no background

I was interested to learn that learn/create/shared pre-dated the digital revolution we are all being swept along with in 2020.  I enjoyed making notes as I went along of ideas and learning that leapt out at me during the day.  The short-cuts will help my efficiency once I get into the habit of using them, like no-longer having to copy a doc to put it somewhere else!  I really liked Dorothy's description of students using voice-typing and assigned questions and comments in a doc to engage with others in their class.  These could work well in our small group work in the Learning Support Centre here at College.

And this was fun! .... my other life   :)

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