Digital Immersion.  Day One - 5.5.17

Today is the first of nine Fridays attending a Manaiakalani Digital Immersion Intensive training.   We (12 teachers from a variety of schools in the area, and I) began to familiarise ourselves with google docs, apps, and Hapara.

Here is some of the add-ons we looked at:

http://www.blindtextgenerator.com/lorem-ipsum

Talk & Comment - Instead of typing out a comment, voice audio.

Docutube - Insert Youtube clips into documents rather than the link

Lucidcharts - insert charts and diagrams into google docs

Extensity - for managing extensions

Grammarly - For checking plagiarism

https://bitly.com/ - to shorten URLs

Easy Accents- Quick and simple way to add macrons

Select and Speak- Voice to Text Engine (works with Google Docs)

It was great finding out new ways of using docs (I’m a bit old-school, apparently).  There are a lots of ways I can improve how I use google docs and I am challenging myself to make changes.

Had fun sitting with Ben.  Great discussion about what we’re doing in our classes. He even had to help me take this photo - Thanks Ben. 

 

Before we left we had to create a venn diagram showing what part of our learning was for our own professional learning, and what parts would relate to our classroom teaching and learning.