Digital Fluency Intensive - Core Business

Today was my first session in the Manaiakalani digital fluency intensive course (DFI). I found it really interesting learning about the origins of Manaiakalani and how the pedagogy has continue to develop since it began in 2006. I learnt about why the Manaiakalani trust was formed and the reasoning behind learn, create share and the important role devices play within the pedagogy. I found it interesting how forward thinking and innovative Manaiakalani was when it was first formed and how relevant the initial goals still are today. 

My confidence within google drive and google docs has improved. I have enjoyed learning about simple tips that have the potential to drastically improve my capability and workflow as a professional. For example;

• Creating 'google groups' - this will be useful for my 'PALs' student leadership group
• Simple google docs features such as; voice typing, various extensions, using headings and adding contents pages and the 'explore' tool in google docs. 

Additional features of google docs that I found would be useful for my students was the 'word cloud generator' add-on. 

I created a word cloud today based on my students answers to 'What are the biggest problems in the world today'.

I thought this was a really interesting and fun tool to display student voice and opinions. 

A further feature I learnt about today was called 'talk and comment'. I think I will find this really useful when giving students feedback. 

I have found the session today really relevant to me as a teaching professional. I have enjoyed learning about tips and shortcuts and how to get the most out of google docs. I am looking forward to learning a lot over the next 8 weeks of the course.