DFI day 1: Core business

It has been wonderful to start the DFI course today. 

On reflection it was interesting to realise my prior involvement and connection to Manaiakalani listening to Dorothy. I realised that I have absorbed a reasonable amount of insight during my years as an RTLB without being directly involved as I am now. I now have a fuller understanding of the Learn, create, share approach our school is using and why. I know we have Hapara at our school but as yet I have not used it so this will be added to my to do list.

During day one I have become more familiar with with the features of the Google suite. In particular the editing functions in documents were very helpful. The work we did around titles and subtitles as well as explore were previously unknown to me. I have also found the voice to text works for me best in the UK English version!

Previously I have used the colours in the calendar but did not know how to do this in folders. During the day it did seem my file format is well set up. I think colouring the folders is probably the next step in refining and improving my system for the future.

My creation for today involved me using some of my newly acquired skills to begin formatting a dual school leader poster and interactive guide to assist our school in implementing our PB4L rules and student leadership roles as well as enhancing playground behaviour.

This term our school has started our journey with PB4L. My hope with the above idea is that the students can create hyperlinked content to support developing school leaders in their roles. This is particularly important during break times. 

As yet we have not refined our school rules but we do have our strong faith values which will underpin them. With the poster I intend to switch out clip art for actual pictures of students modelling the key words. 

In time i'd like the students to create video clips that we can hyperlink to each keyword. The videos will demonstrate students exhibiting the required behaviours. Any extension of this could be video guides to playground games and activities.

Today has provided me with a greater insight into the Google suite which will assist me at home and here at school. I grew up using MS office and whilst over the years I have become more familiar with Google it has been fantastic today to have time to explore it more fully with our expert course guides. I have been conscious for a while that I needed to upskill so this is a great opportunity.