Digital Fluency Session 6 - Work Flow - Go Slow to Go Fast

Today's main idea is about how we can use technology to help our workflow. Not so we get hung up on it but to use it efficiently. The idea of 'Going slow to Go fast.' 

Things to remember children can make videos of strategies to refer back to when implementing a strategy if they forget a stage or step.

As part of Manaiakalani, we are looking at Empowerment...

Empowered is another word for an agency for teachers and learners that parents relate better to. Who doesn't want to be more empowered?
Technology is not just a tool, it can be used to transform learning.
If it is life-changing it is more than a tool.

Decile 10 school entry children have 32 million more words compared to a decile 1 student. 1/3 transient children. 1/3 life long members - by continuing to run this programme this helps students, families, regardless of the situation families face.

   

Devices help to empower the whole families as parents can access the world from home, doctors shops...Through the internet, you can make appointments.
Buy clothes on special/sale without stepping outside with sick children.

Work Flow

Organising Tabs - Too many open at one time and multiple windows with lots of tabs slow the computer/chrome down! There are many options to help with this. You just need to pick the one that works best for you.

 

One tab Extension - This gathers and records all your tabs collected for your current session. So if you are presenting you don't need to have all your extra work to be done later tabs open.

Toby Mini - Groups your tabs so if you have a regular meeting you can open those particular tabs only quickly.

Tab Cloud - This also groups tabs and you can name each group.

Personal - Startup tabs. This is found through the setting in the top right corner, the three dots and settings.

Google Emails - There are many ways to help make these more efficient. Your calendar can be up beside your email or google keep. Both of which I use and find very helpful. This is a feature located on the right and you can have your task ready to go too. Google is always coming up with new features so watch your Google suite.

The idea of having a favourite picture as your background also is refreshing and can give you a new perspective, or provide for a difference between work and personal.

Hangouts - I like being able to share my screen during a discussion, and I can see many possibilities with Hangouts/Meet with children meeting and developing questioning skills, whether for checking understanding in a book or interviewing people far away.

Calendars - What I really like about Goggle Calendar is even though you have an event on a special calendar you can change the colour so it stands out. My school calendar is purple but I need to see that an assessment so is standing out is in red. As when you have too much of one colour things can slip past.

 

If making an appointment you can check out your calendar against another to find a time that suits you.

Thoughts to think about: If children post 3 Blog posts a week this will help to improve learning - accelerate learning. 

 Translator. Microsoft - can be used to translate text into Samoan, Tongan and many other languages. 

Google translate also now translates many languages.