DFI Day 2

The second day of DFI was fun. I am now the proud owner of a very complete and collective google calendar. It now consists of my personal school timetable, school events, all my DFI meetings and other school meetings. I am planning on showing how to plan out google calendar to my students to help them plan out their term better.

Here you can see me with my Google Meet buddy. This guy.

In addition of working on my google calendar, I have streamlined by chrome bookmarks and figured out how to filter my chrome tabs. This has its benefits when I am working with multiple student documents at the same time. This would also be beneficial to my students, as they struggle juggling multiple tabs.

My gmail has been cleaned up and organized, and I now no longer have to go fish for an email in my inbox. I have a group for my faculty and also all my senior leaders at Bay of Islands college. Having all these individuals labeled and grouped will save me time in the future, and I am pleased about that.

Our last task was to work through a student blog and break it down for a viewer.

The learn, create and share pedagogy was highlighted in the google meet blog breakdown section, where we unpacked a students blog.  We had the opportunity to learn from a students blog, create our own breakdown of their blog, review their feedback on their blog and then share our own blog about how we executed this.

I am looking forward to our next DFI meeting.

DFI Day 1

So, I've started the DFI course this week. I was warned that it is intensive, and so far I fully agree.
I have learned that Manaiakalani is empowering teachers and students to learn, create, and share. Through these three steps both the educator and students benefits from learning and teaching.

Here you can see me sitting like a goof.

I have learned that there is a lot more to the Google suite than I thought. I feel more confident now, and learned that there are so many tools, extensions and add-on's that can benefit both me and my students. For instance, I will try out the voice to text feature in google doc, both for myself and with my students. I am also planning to get my Y10 students to create their own posters on a lesson.

Here is my sample of what a poster could look like.

I am looking forward to using what I have learned and having my next DFI lesson in a weeks time.