DFI Week One - Core Business
Our introduction to DFI this week provided background into the creation of Manaiakalani and included lots of tips & tricks to help us to be more efficient when using Google Suite. I especially enjoyed hearing about the journey before the devices were 1:1, and how it could work in the context of a NE Classroom. I have also been loving the 'Pin Tab' tip that was passed onto me by a colleague who has previously completed DFI. This saves our team of teachers alot of time throughout the day!
Before today I have mostly used Slides as my go to for formatting documents, but enjoyed learning more about formatting headings and subheadings, especially for the whole document to make the process alot quicker. This is going to help me both in a professional sense at school as well as formatting my assignments outside of work.
Our Team of New Entrants respond really well to visual cues - so I really enjoyed creating an infographic and learning how to use a table to format it. This will not only prove valuable for our tamariki but will also support my personality type that usually takes a long time formatting creations in order to make them perfect! The simple infographic I created will be put to use in our class as of Monday, fingers crossed it saves us from picking up all the jerseys at the end of each day...
Caitlin,
ReplyDeleteI love listening to the origins story, each time I learn something new, and I've heard over a dozen times by now. It's amazing to think they were able to make so much difference with the lack of technology they had.
Your infographic is clear and to the point! I think this will be great in a NE classroom, visual and easy to follow. Well done.
It was lovely to meet you today and I look forward to working along side you over the next 9 weeks. Have a lovely weekend and see you next Friday. :)
Venessa
Caitlin your blog post is a breath of fresh air! I do enjoy learning from expert junior teachers who embrace professional learning for themselves, even when the content is not directly applicable to our youngest learners. It is so interesting to read how you have applied this to your professional workflow.
ReplyDeleteGreat infographic. I do hope it was a success with the tamariki!