Today around 60 school leaders, teachers and a new facilitator(!) began their Manaiakalani Outreach journey with the Digital Fluency Intensive Online course. Wonderfully led by Vicki Archer, Stef Parker and other experienced facilitators we began with Core Business and covered a range of topics under the pedagogy topics of Learn, Create and Share.
This weeks topics included:
LEARN
- Connecting with each other
- Connecting with Manaiakalani
- The basics of Chrome, Google Groups and Drive
CREATE
- Exploring the use of a Google Doc to create a newsletter, poster etc instead of Google Slides
SHARE
- Post my Google Doc creation here on my new blog:
and answer the four FOCUS questions:
1. What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy? Every time I hear Dorothy Burt tell the story of the background of the Manaiakalani Programme I pick up new things. Today it was the progress the Manaiakalani schools made with such limited technology to start with. Such courage.
2. What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional? Sooo much! Although I have a pretty good basic understanding of Google Suite, all the tips that were shared today by our facilitators were noted down in my notebook (soon to be transferred to Google Keep) to share again with the teachers I will be supporting.
3. What did I learn that could be used with my learners? Name every doc, slide etc with your initials first.
4. What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life? Sooo much again! Loved the idea from Kerry to make your work account a different colour/theme to your private account so as not to mix them up.
Kia ora Meryn,
ReplyDeleteSo glad to have you on this journey with us. I think taking part in the DFI as a new facilitator will give you such a great understanding of our kaupapa and pedagogy. Using students initials to name docs is such a great routine to get our learners into, especially at the start of their journey using devices, and makes life so much easier for our teachers! Did you know you can increase the weight of the lines of your table, to give a bigger gap between the cells?
See you Wednesday!
Vicki
Kia Ora Meryn,
ReplyDeleteAwesome to have you on the DFI journey with us this term. No doubt you'll pick up lots of little tidbits, and Manaiakalani ways of doing things. As with ever evolving technology there's always new things to learn!
Nga mihi
Stef
Kia ora Meryn,
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing your learning of day 1. I find I record the new things I learn right in the blog post as I go through the day - might be worth a try.
Great to have you with us.
Ngā mihi,
Maria