Digital Fluency Intensive Week 2 - Workflow

Today was Day 2 of the DFI. I thought I was prepared for the intensity of the day after last week, but found it soon to be another day of information, deep diving (and occasionally coming up for air), clicking, thinking, processing and doing. I really had to get my multi-tasking on.

I loved seeing the group growing today. There was a lot of shared talk and asking each other for help. The collective knowledge in the room is immense and it is good to see them asking for help and others offering help.

Cathy and Gina

What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?

Reiterating the recognition of effective practice came through strongly here. This section of the day I feel is one of the most important for our cluster. With the challenging start to the programme in our area we need these types of sessions with teachers to expose them to the kaupapa and pedagogy to deepen their understanding. Even though we have covered this information in our staff meetings we need to keep revisiting the key messages of the Manaiakalani Programme. Every time teachers hear this they should be able to take a little bit more away with them. I really like the railway track analogy and the strong message of recognising effective practice.  

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?

Thank you Maria for showing me how to use the Zoom accessibility function on my MacBook so I can magnify part of my screen while presenting on a screen. I can see how useful it will be for me to use in class with teachers and students. 

Helping to get screen recording going with small groups in the afternoon was useful for me to use Quicktime again. I use Screencastify lots so good to get the use of this tool nailed.

Once Perky's group completed their recording she and I searched on how to screen record in Windows and she did a quick test to see if it worked... and it did. Pressing the Windows+G keys to bring up the "Game Bar".  Instructions are here for PC users. 

What did I learn that could be used with my learners?

Taming tabs will be something that I will bring back to the surface in classes. Bookmarking is covered when bookmarking blogs, class sites but some of my classes need their Drive, gMail bookmarked so they can get to it quickly. I can see a session on this then get them into moving files into folders. Many of the classes I work in have files just sitting in Drive and not in their Hapara folders. 

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?

Google Keep for recipes - thanks Maria! I have used Google Keep quite a bit to curate stuff but haven't used the photo snapping that grabs the text and puts it separately under the photo. This was a Wow! moment. Making use of the voice notes function in Keep in the phone app is going to be a game changer. I don't think we use the collaboration function fully in Keep either but maybe that's because we use Google Docs and Trello (locally with our team) and share our thinking that way.