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| 'Hanging out' at Ōtaki School |
Wow! What a full on day. Today definitely lived up to the 'Intensive' part of the Digital Fluency Intensive.
We started out with WWW - What's working, What's not, and What do you need help with. It was so exciting to hear so many of our attendees connect with the content from Day 1, and hear about the things they had tried out. I know there are several people who asked about using Bookmarks, but I didn't catch up with them during the day. Will try and catch them during the week.
We connected with the Learn aspect of Learn, Create, Share and then it was straight into the deep dive around Google Keep - This is a fabulous app which I haven't really utilised as much as I could. I'm thinking I might transfer the sticky notes I've got on my desktop to Keep notes, and share them with the various accounts I use across the cluster.
The rest of the day was focused on 'Workflow' - things we can use to streamline our digital world. We looked at Gmail, Calendar and Hangouts. There are some great ways we can work smarter rather than harder.
After lunch we connected with a couple of ways of 'Taming our tabs' it was exciting to see people connecting with this and how they could use it in their classrooms.
Our Create aspect of the day involved connecting with the Summer Learning Journey and having a hangout to discuss examples of students learning. It was so nice to see the teachers out under the trees at Ōtaki School working on this task.
The final part of our day was when people shared on their blogs. I love going through and reading the content of these posts. Allowing me an insight into which areas of the day the teachers have really connected to, and feel will have the greatest impact in their professional life, classroom and personal life. It's also an opportunity for us to identify where we may have missed the mark, or identify anyone who would like some specific support with things from the day that we can catch up with during the week.
Overall, it was a fabulous day with some very tired brains at the end of the day. Kylie's blog post has a great illustration which captures how a lot of the participants were feeling at the end of the day!
