DFI Week 4

Today started with some tips in Hapara, that was great to be able to make groups within my class.
We then went into making forms. Let's see if I can get that in here.


We then went into Maps, and that was quite overwhelming with many cool tips to try.
I located four places I had lived and inserted a couple of photos in.

Google sheets, wow a lot of information! I got to go off into a beginners bubble for this which was great to navigate the basics of sheets. I think I can now load my class and get the average of scores and even add a graph! There is a lot deeper you can go in sheets, I think I will stick with the basic for the mean time and master them first.

We went into Blogger to be able to look at stats behind our blog. Like how many visitors, what countries they are from. Even what device they are using. The most popular post. My blog is pretty much brand new and does not have very much data. But it shows me I need to blog more. This should change soon as Donna has set up my class with their own blogs and they are getting introduced to them next week. We have a class blog that has a few posts and we were blogging quite often but then lock down happened and it came to a stop and we moved to class site.

So I have added in the form I made and a map I made. That was a little tricky, but I am confident that next week embedding into my Blog will be much easier.

I can't wait to use forms with my class. I will try this one as a test dummy and see how we go.

DFI Week 3

Wow, another full day of great learning.
I created my own YouTube channel and created a playlist!!
Watched an interesting deep dive on going live using drones etc. I learnt how to use Google drawings, which I knew nothing about. I can now insert a image and even change its shape and background. I can now add audio to a Google slide. I spent quite a bit of time trying to save the audio recording to my drive without much luck. Jumped back in the chat with Dave and 2 seconds later, easy. You just drag it into your drive, amazing!

The audio recording I did was on how to teach my class to do voice typing. So I will be sharing that slide with them tomorrow.
This may seem really simple, but it was a life saver for me, control D, mutes and un-mutes your mic in a Google hangout. I am so happy Venessa shared that with us in our group today.
I learnt quite a bit about Google slides, which I really do not have much knowledge of, so that was also handy.
In a team meeting earlier this week, someone said "how do you copy a file into more than one place", I piped up shift Z, I was quite proud I had remembered that learning.
Anyway, I am now going to attempt to add my audio slide into here.

DFI Week 2

Wow, that was a full on day that flew by at lightning speed.
Google keep, I had never heard of it, but what a handy extension. I have set up the app on my phone. Great for lists as Dorothy said, but also for taking photos of texts. That was super handy for me, it set off lots of light bulbs as to what I can use it for.

Setting up a hangout through Google calendar, I got a little flustered as I did not have my mouse plugged in and I could not copy the email address from the notes tab in our hangout. So I physically wrote it down. But I though, no Michelle, you need to find a better solution. So I plugged in my mouse and as soon as I right clicked it gave me the option to copy email address. Phew, problem solved.

 Our create task today was to set up a hangout with someone in our bubble, record the session. We had a list of blog posts we could choose from to talk to in our hangout. I chose this clever young man Eziaz from Pt England School who made a word chain with his mum. He seemed genuinely pleased with his efforts as he should be. All the feed back was positive, even people suggesting they will try it.  So it was great learning for my bubble buddy Ross and I can now confidently embed a video into my blog, ( well as long as I have my notes next to me).
Also from last week through till this week I no longer have to look at my notes for screen sharing! whoop, that makes me very happy. Also learnt today from Venessa that if you want to share a video in screen sharing you need to choose the Chrome tab option to get audio. That will definitely help with sharing videos with my learners. Lots of tips to increase workflow, email tips, tasks, calendar tips. I even put a signature on my work email with the school logo, impressive!
So all in all another great session.
Michelle Neki

Create week 1 DFI

What I made today in create time, to help my students use voice typing.

Week 1 of DFI

Wow, what a full on, great learning day. I did not know how much I didn't know.
I learnt many things today. Simple but effective, like initials at the beginning of a title for a document. Makes it way easier. Voice typing, I can't wait to have my class back and to get them using that tool. That is what I used my create time for today was to make a document that the children can follow to voice record themselves.
I customized my browser, adding my favourite colour and a photo of myself.  I can now confidently share my screen, thanks to Venessa Davan (facilitator) for getting me to do it quite a few times, so now when I am sharing on a google hangout with my class I don't have to look at my notes any longer, (very happy about that). Learning about Google groups was interesting as well as organizing  my drive.

My class are year 2 and 3's. Maybe 5 have their own devices and rest use school ones. I feel more confident already and have lessons planning away in my head around Google Docs after today's learning. I think confidence will grow as the weeks go on. I have taken lots of notes today so that I can remember when I re visit.

I must say I never used the explore tool much in the past, I had forgotten how awesome it is, and more great learning about that.
Look forward to next week!