Maps and Data...

Looking at 'My Mapping' brings home the fact that all those lovely trips that were planned for this year will all. now, be a few years away!! So hearing about where everyone has enjoyed being in the past - lets me know I'm definitely not alone!!

I tried to complete a map of a road trip around Europe - as with all my posts, it's not yet finished!!

Week Three and Lockdown is OVER!!!

Sadly the DFI is still online. Amazingly nothing seems quite as tiring as when we were teaching online - even today's DFI feels easier.

Today, I have been learning how to create a slide show as a quiz. I managed to get just one question completed and a second on the way, but hopefully, by the time anyone gets to read this - I'll be finished. It's not pretty, but I felt it was more important to get the 'structure and backstage stuff' done before I forget what I'm doing!

I'll share it here....

I'm paddling faster!

Week Two

This week, more than ever, I have an appreciation of the student's journey. I'm sitting doing my DFI in one of our 'break out rooms' and a number of my students (essential worker's children) are in class. They have sat there all day - they look exhausted, as I'm sure I do too! The amount we are all learning is remarkable. We're doing things this week that I wouldn't have thought possible just a few weeks ago. We're becoming more adept every day.

I'm thinking that the recording function could be used not just as the 'rewindable learning when you didn't quite get it' but also for the 'I'm not taking things in right now - I'll re-wind it later when I'm fresher'

I won't do this again... without editing it first but... hopefully here's my first recording:

And here we are again!!

Covid cut us short,,, but we're back on the journey of digital learning and I need it more than ever!!

Teaching online is a wonderful experience - I'm sure - but it's hard work when everything you do is part of your own learning! I want to take my kids learning beyond just the google meet and then sending them away to do the tasks I've set. So, I need to upskill and in a short time frame.

I've set my self the goal of teaching my kids at least two things from each DFI. This week it's going to be the voice typing for reading mileage. How good is that?

Next, it will be to show them google docs for creating using tables. Let's see if they can make a better job than me!

Clearly - my next step learning is to find out how to put my screenshot in here!

For another day...