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DFI day 6

Today we went over our own class sites so heres the breakdown of how that went:

We went over our own class sites and were adding to them, I myself am at an early stage of using chromebooks in class, so this was a cool lesson in which I got to work a little more on my class site.

Class site:

There is still so many things that im learning about class sites, I have done them before but now that im a senior teacher the use of a class site and chromebooks is more prominent over ipads and using devices sometimes.

*I was a junior teacher up until recently so the devices used in class was mainly Ipads.

There are still little things I need to go over so im more confident in creating or adding to my class site but I am having fun for the most part.

 

Feedback:

I didn’t mind the feedback from my core group today, in fact it was really welcomed. I was nervous about it but I was willing to put it out there to get feedback and it was awesome. I also got some tips from todays lesson about my class site too eg the 3 click tip, the accessibility for students as well as colours and how they capture people into exploring the class site. I look forward to further play around with the things we can do on the class site.

DFI class 4

Forms:

This morning I got to actually have a proper play with forms, I have made 1 or 2 in the past but haven’t actually had a proper look at all the different options you have available. It was fun and I can’t wait to use forms to inform me of what my students interests are.

Maps:

It was interesting to see and know that theres so much you can do with maps, in fact I found myself playing around with all the different options and buttons to see what they could do or what would happen, then my sausage fingers kept swiping up or zooming in or out too far.

There is so much I could do with maps especially with my students, I look forward to trying some activities with them using maps eg. distance, pinning locations for dream holidays or locations to see and visit, to just drawing lines.

Sheets:

Sheets was probably the harder of all the lessons for me today, but I will get there, having to play around will let me know what is what and how or what to do when I use them in the future, also, there is so much to take in too. What I did enjoy though were the shortcuts, glorious glorious shortcuts, they save so much time especially if you have to do things such as names, or months, that was definitely one of the things I did manage to remember.

Where to from here?

Well, im going to keep playing around with sheets and see where I get to, although I found it a bit hard to grasp everything that was happening I managed to list down a few things I want to get better at so watch this space!

 

DFI class 3

This week it was a bit full on for me but it was very useful none the less.

I made a youtube channel. (for the lesson, not for.. yeah.. haha)

We navigated through making a youtube channel going through the settings and the expectations of what the purpose of of our channels were about.

I went down a rabbit hole, a really big rabbit hole, got lost, found my way back, got lost again, and again and managed to open lots of tabs of the same thing and had a minor meltdown!

In the end I found my way and made sure never to ever do that again, but the lesson in itself was great, I can see how much effort is put into ones channel.

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