Digital Fluency Intensive - Session Two

WORKFLOW

Learn

We began today's session with a presentation from Dorothy Burt which focused on the "Learn" element of the Manaiakalani "Learn, Create, Share" model. Developing an intentional, focused, and evidence based programme that works to help with teacher effectiveness and accelerating learning outcomes for our students. The "Learn" element focuses on the acronym RAT; to recognise, amplify and turbocharge our practice.

Connecting this to my inquiry into Reciprocal Reading I will continue to look at ways in which we can use different digital tools to encourage student discussion and conversation, as well as continuing to develop our dive into T-Shaped literacy in which we give students  different text types, and learning opportunities which can allow students with a variance in learning styles to work in a way which suits their strengths.

We also focused on developing a better understanding of how we can apply more smooth, and deliberate workflow choices in order to use our time more efficiently, as well as help us organisationally. 

Google Keep

A helpful app that can allow for quick note taking in collaboration with the other apps that we use

• Making lists (to-do, students to see etc.)

• Adding images

• Using a voice recorder to quickly make notes that will be transcribed, and recorded (helpful!)

Gmail

A reminder to use the filters and labels to organise incoming emails so that the main inbox does not become overcrowded

• Allow dynamic emails so I am able to interact with comments, and docs directly from my email

• Include a signature for ease of use & a more official appearance to emails.

Google Calendar

Using Google calendar is an excellent way of tracking, and planning events 

• Synching calendars with notifications allows for better time management

• Following other calendars means it get easier to organise meetings/google meets with others by being able to see when they are free without asking.

Priorities

Google Drive has a function where you can group different docs/files from Google Drive organised ahead of time; it will be of particular use when writing reports, and planning using online sources.

Google Meet

Over the last two years we have used Google Meets for our remote learning program. It is something that I have become very familiar with over the last two years, but it was good to experiment with the breakout room feature which we did not use a lot, due to the fact that the rooms cannot be recorded. It may be something I look into doing more of in class as it means students can still be observed.

Here is a recording that we did in which we discussed some of the work that was done by Manaiakalani students during the lockdowns in 2020.