Digital Fluency Intensive Day 4 - Devices / Chromebooks

Devices - my kind of day. As a facilitator I work mostly with learners and Chromebooks. But this year I am working with a new entrant class and iPads. This is very exciting. Scarey - but exciting. Lots of new learning!

Whilst I am using my MacBook every waking minute of the day in my job, I very rarely touch a Chromebook keyboard. I very seldom take over any learner's keyboard. I mostly point to assist them and get them to click, drag, etc etc. So working on a Chromebook in Slides was pretty novel for me.

The first thing I noticed on the Chromebook that was how small the slides were and the text even tinier. I must pay attention to the slides I make from now on and ensure that any text is highly visible and not too small.

So today on the Chromebook I particularly liked the Digital Dig and grabbed some more shortcuts that wold be great to have in my arsenal. My aim is to use a Chromebook more often while preparing material for students and practise the shortcuts to get them embedded into my brain.

Playing with Screencastify and commenting. We noticed that there was a tick box in Screencastify that allows others to comment.

Maria and I commented on each other's Screencastify video we made today and you can see how the comments behave if you pop the video out and play it in its own window.
The comment is also viewable in Screencastify when you open the video.

So we discovered another feature of Screencastify today. It's great to have the time to play and discover like this and then to test it. Now we are asking the question - how would learners use this? My initial thoughts are to use them exactly as we would comments in Docs, Slides etc - to to connect and communicate, to give feedback and feedforward.