DFI Week 1

The first week of the Manaiakalani Digital Fluency Intensive has been a great affirming experience. It has given me confidence to know that what I am doing is best practice, and that I am not doing things in a slower or longer way when it comes to the use of digital technologies within my own teaching and organisation.

I found it great to take time out and spend energy on exploring the tools on google, and enjoyed creating an interactive document that can be used in my classroom. Im looking forward to crowd sourcing with other educators during this term and beyond.

It was great to practice skills and learn deeper functions of google docs, such as functions of the explore tool and page setup functions. I think these will be useful in setting up interactive documents for my students on my class website.

I intend to update my own professional profile with google, and to add a personal profile to my laptop in order to better seperate the two digital environments. It is exciting for me to start this professional blog as part of that process as it is the first time i have participated in any personal blogging.