I am a teacher at Bay of Islands College and this is my professional blog.
Friday, 24 April 2020
Day 7! A great day at DFI again - focusing on Devices today. Great to see again a little of the history of Manaiakalani, and the progression that brought us to CBs in our College. As a device user I am certainly in need of improving my shortcut skills, and the Digital Dig is an excellent lesson structure to help our students get the most out of their devices.
Today I really appreciated Dorothy's clear and concise walk0through on Hapara dashboard. I am not a fluent user of Hapara and I am beginning to see more and more uses for it. So, later in the day when we were getting into the session on ipads, which are the devices used in Yrs 1-3, I carried on with exploring and learning a little more about Hapara, with Kerry's and others' help. Every DFI I have gone away with more than one practical, doable addition to my digital skills and today was the same - I now know how to place files directly into student folders through Hapara, a really useful thing to know for me.
Our Chromebook Digital Dig session also led me to learning how to use the snipping tool with a shortcut, and I took the time to practice this.
The last session was about using screencastify - luckily I have been using this a lot since we have been teaching from home, but the add-on for me was exploring the Cybersmart resource, lessons, resources etc, as I prepared for my screencastify video.
So an excellent day - and another small step up the fluency ladder, with direct benefits to my daily distance teaching work at the moment. Thanks everyone!
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