Session 2 - Digital Fluency Intensive

Today was our second session in Digital Fluency - Workflow. I feel that my laptop is a whole lot more organised after this session!

Looking at Google Keep was useful. I have used this in the past to save art ideas and I can see I will use this in the future for reminders and lists of things to do. I am amazed by the function that allows you to take the text out of an uploaded photo!

My tabs are better organised now. I changed the naming of all of the ones on my favourites bar so that they all fit on it. I pinned my regularly used sites so that I don't have to worry about opening new tabs for them.

I have made tweaks and changes to both my Gmail account and Calendar. I have added a signature to my emails and have personalised the appearance of my account. Being able to unsend a message was a light bulb moment for me and I changed the timing of this from 5 seconds to 30 seconds! That will stop me sending messages with forgotten attachments, as I often realise as soon as I've sent it! It was good to colour code my Calendar dates so that I could see clearly School dates from personal dates. I also changed the date to New Zealand format.

The big learning today for me was Google Hangouts. It was great to have a turn at this and I feel that I will need to have a couple more hangout sessions to really cement it - especially sharing screens so that the other members of the group can see what I'm looking at. Using Quicktime was new to me as well, but I managed to download and share it with my group members on my own. It would be beneficial for me to have another go at Hangouts and then feel confident to use it with my learners.

I look forward to next week's session.