Agenda Day 2- Workflow

Today is my second day of DFI and I am really excited to get more knowledge and information that can enhance my knowledge and I can implement new things in my class for teaching and learning.

The Agenda for today's workshop was to :-

• Connecting with each other- To learn 
• Connecting with Manaiakalani - to Create 
• Resources shared      - Shared

The workshop started with Karakia by Vicki Archer. Our facilitator Vicki gave as some tips and tricks that we can use in Hapara teacher's dash board that we use in class. I learned about the function of the use of star on Hapara that is useful for me to add the class in my class list. Later, we were put in digital bubble groups where we shared our knowledge and understanding what we learned till then and how we were implementing our learnings.

Connecting with Manaiakalani

This session was facilitated by Dorothy. She explained the pedagogy of Manaiakalani. So today's focus was on Learn/ Ako.

Deep dive in to Google Keep:

I learned today about Google Keep. I added this as an Chrome extension from keep.google.com. We can put notes, reminders and its easily accessible. we can collate notes reminders. It can capture your thoughts from any device. we can use it anywhere to put our notes and keep them on fingertips type in our content. we can add collaborator to keep notes. We can use a place location reminder . we can change the color. we can put google keep on phone we can use this for getting the text from the image. Tt can grab the text from any picture text and we can use on google doc. 

It is utilized to grab the text from photo from any PLD. I can also add voice memos to hear and keep notes. It can also  be intenerated with google doc on the side we can write feed back 

we can add sticker to the students work for feedback. Google keep is really helpful tool to keep reminders for professional and personal life eg. to make a shopping list:)

Chalk'n talk with  Amie:  

I have Organized my Gmail. I had changed the theme of my Gmail. I have learned that we can change or schedule email timings and we can customize that according to the time and date. Advance option ability to create templates. I have added my signature to the email. we were given time to explore our email and made some changes that we have learned. 

Google Calendar Maramataka:   By Vicki Archer 

We can assess calendar from calandar.google.com. I have used google calendar to send meet  invites to my students during hybrid learning. I used this tool for recording my lessons that can be seen by the students who were away at that time and they could hop in and check what was done in class and the recording and the document that was shared during that lesson stays there. 

I learned today we can add breakout rooms by using Calendar.

Deep Dive: taming your tabs

 How we can keep on the tabs and tracks them efficiently? because every opened tab use the processing power.  Learned how to make a bookmark bar and a folder and pinning a tab is very important not to lose the content. For my today's session I have pinned my agenda of DFI so that I can't loose it. I have added one extension one tab to my chrome that is a very helpful tool to put more tabs at a single place.

Learned about the priority workspace that I can make on drive.

I have sent an Google calendar invite to Manpreet and than I had selected one blog Baby Possum. We had discussed about the post from the Manaiakalani mail out. 

• We discussed about the teaching design behind the post. 
• What was the learners response in the post content?
  
• Who responded to the post how it will enhance the learning of the child?

DFI -Core Business Agenda, Online Term 3 Tuesday Cohort: 2022

 Kia ora! My name is Alka Rani. I am a Science and Chemistry teacher in Tamaki college. My school's focus is to enable teachers digitally strong so that they can use the every new technology in their teaching and learning process. As part of this initiative, I too have got an amazing opportunity to attend the Digital Fluency Intensive course. 

Today's class was started by doing Karakia by Vicki Archer, followed by the Introduction of the DFI facilitators. We were put in the different digital bubbles so that our mentors could help and guide us wherever we needed.

There were four objectives defined in today's session which were DFI deep dive, Chalk and Talk, Explore and levelling.

Amy Williams introduced Chrome browser software application for assessing information from web. As part of exercise, we setup profile and changed profile picture.

I also updated my profile pictures in Gmail account.

Deep Dive in Google Groups- I learned about the Google groups. These are the organizational groups and a group email id is setup in which email id's of the people can be added/removed by group admins. It is a great way to communicate and find info and is a nice way to keeping info and communication. People notified when they are added in google group when you are added to google group its set up.

I got to know that I am part of eleven groups:)

Why to use or advocate Google groups:  

1. One email address to whole group and adding of members would not impact the email address.

2. There is a privacy of each individual.

3. Easy place to share resources within the group.

4. Admins can can directly add members to the group without sending invitation.

5. Admins can grant admin access to other members as well. 

 

Working on Google Docs

I learned to put initials at the beginning of the doc. I copied  one text and paste without formatting it

and we can control sharing permissions as well. I was amazed by the use of Voice tool that was completely new to me and I found it very helpful tool where voice can be converted to text very easily. 

Create space using Google Docs 

I made a document using Google doc, in which I first inserted a table and then changed the color of the page and used explore button to attach pictures and learned on how to merge cells and add row up and below. I really liked the idea of using google doc for whole class as a group where all students can contribute their ideas. 

Overall that was an amazing sessions with lots of information that I can use in my classroom for learning.