Digital Fluency Intensive : Week 1 Blog Post

Life long Learner.  

It's probably not a surprise when I say I love learning, and today, I absolutely loved it.  I ask myself why I love learning and it is about being challenged about what I know. 

There were a few things I learnt and was challenged on today!

My school has been part of Manaiakalani Outreach for few years now - it was great to hear the why. I realised how much I didn't know about Manaiakalani. It was interesting to hear how learn, create and share evolved - I've always wondered how it started. I especially enjoyed hearing about the journey. 

I would describe myself as digitally competent, and I generally learn by trial and error. Press the button and see how it goes. Self-taught.  But my biggest learning?  I wasn't efficient in how I did things - I didn't realise this. I learnt few skills to improve my workflow and efficiency - I love being able to save time.  It made me very happy that I can create multiple headings with one click!  This applied to the separation of personal profile and school profile as well. It was so much easier than when I originally did it - the People function made it so much easier and saved me so much time. 

But my favourite part was removing the background on pictures to be able to create an infographic on a Google doc. My use of Google Doc  was challenged.  When you say Google doc you don't immediately think infographic. Here is my creation based on our Learner Profile. 

So what? 

There are few things that I'm thinking of implementing with the staff - Groups and Voice typing. Groups will be great for us to keep track of communication and Voice typing had great benefits for our learners - I can think of scenario where some of our teachers are teaching the importance of full stops and this will be a great tool to use!