DFI - Week 2: Workflow

Well, bit of a mindblowing day!!  I feel like I have learnt heaps of things and I am hoping that I can remember them.  There has been lots of time saving  tips that I can see will help me save time during class and in my personal life.

Some of my takeaways from today are:

I need to dabble into to rewindable learning so that I can start collecting some rewindable learning and catching my teaching practice.

If technology is just a tool then it is a waste. We need to make sure that it is just not a teaching tool and that we are turbo charging our teaching and giving students the best possible teaching and learning experience.

Google Keep

1. Take photo  
2. Then click use photo
3. Tap and open photo
4. Click grab text

This will then take all the text from the photo and put it into Google Keep and then you have the text from photo.  I think this will be great to grab text from journals to help students develop the idea about creating pictures in their mind when they are reading.


Here are a few of the short cuts that I managed to get down in a very hectic and busy session with Tanya.

Shortcuts in GMail:


GT - Opens Sent
GD - Opens Draft
GS - Starred Emails
C - Opens a New Message
/ - Search

Shortcuts in Calendar:

D - Day
M - month
G - go to date
C - create new email
S - settings
J - goes to next week
A- Agenda

I found using Quicktime really hard to use.  I think screencastify might be easy.  Will have a go at doing this again to see if I want to use this in the rewindable learning.

Adding pictures to blog you can create a drawing and insert them into blog.  Will have to have a look at this and have a go.

Another day down and my brain is feeling very full!

DFI Week 1 - Core Business

This was my second experience doing the first day of the course and I have to say I still found it interesting, informative and very engaging.    Great to know that we have a DFI website where we can go to find all the information.

It is always nice to hear the background of where Manaiakalani originated from and how we are now part of this incredible journey. 

Today I learnt lots of tips and trick to make life a little easier.  I loved the right click on the tab to then close all the tabs to the right.  I always seem to have a problem with this and the kids in my class give me a hard time about them.

Another sneaky tip that will be very handy was Command Shift T - Opens the last tab on a MacBook and Control Shift T - opens last on chromebook.






I created a Doc that I am going to share with my learners and we are going to look at what we do in our class to learn, create and share.  It will be interesting to see what they come up with and how it differs to what I think.

I think any little tips that save time will help me manage the busy life teachers have.  Even if it is only something really quick it will save time over the duration of our year.

I think we are going to have a great learning experience during the next nine weeks and I look forward to working with everyone.

See you all next week.