Today was an awesome intro day. It was good meeting a large variety of people with such varying expertise in different areas. I found the day pitched just right so I did not feel bored or that things were moving too fast- great effort from the facilitators.
Some new things I learnt:
1)How to properly use headings/subheadings on google docs so that you can later on create a table of contents.
2)Introduced to add-ons, extensions and scripts- wow! And I thought I knew everything there was to know about google docs and drive. Looking forward to exploring and using these.
3)Command F is a great short cut to look for something on an online pdf etc.
4)Organising students work -using 1 doc for writing/reading/maths etc. with dates and headings as well as contents page to keep from making hundreds of docs.
5)Voice Typing: great app so that children can work on Oral Language skills- instead of just reading and writing.
6)Micro Teaching whole class how to get onto their drive create a folder-name the folder - open a doc in folder and name the doc with name initials first.
7)Paper to digital: A game to teach children how to share docs with each other: get a piece of paper- T dictates a sentence starter and child finishes the sentence- the paper gets folded swapped around and T gives another sentence starter- fold and swap again, repeat a few times- children read the story out loud. Do this on drive sharing docs with the person next to you etc.
8)Using google docs to make posters, parent notifications, invitation cards, data sharing, graphs, summary of learnings etc.
Hi Samantha,
ReplyDeleteGreat to have you on the DFI Journey with us. It's nice to know that the day was pitched at a comfortable pace/ level for you. Also cool to read about the things you got out of the day. Was there anything you learned that you might try to implement straight into your workflow or teaching practice?
We used google docs to create a poster for our research into an endangered animal for inquiry. Ta
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