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Blog Post D.I.3

Blog Post

19 / 05 / 2017.

DI Session 3.

These are some of the skills I have learnt and understood from this Friday’s PLG.

An Introduction to Calendars.

• Creating events.
• Inviting other people to events.
• Editing my calendar.
• Sharing my calendar / events with others.
• Accessing the calendars of colleagues.

Mail in my browser.

• Using “themes” to reset the background to my mail.
• Using “Undo Send” in my mail. Adjusting the time limit to the maximum of 30 seconds.
• Not leaving the mail site, or I Will lose the Undo Send option.
• How to do quicker searches, by using the words ”sent” and “from” to access or retrieve mail.
• Using the “archive” option.

Google Hangouts.

• Created an event on my calendar for Thursday 25 May 2017 @ 7:45am.
• Named this event “Digital Intensive”.
• Invited James Hopkins to hangout.

Google Hangouts Follow up.

• Could not connect initially. ( Google Hangouts denied access)
• Set up a new event for a different time on the same morning.
• Successfully connected with James.
• Initially had visuals but no audio.
• I then realised that the Activboard speakers were connected. This effectively cancelled out all the sound.
• Removed the connection and had a successful conversation.

Cars of the World

Manaiakalani Digital Immersion Intensive :
Day 2.
These are some of the skills and learning experiences which I have practiced today:

• Creating Google Forms- to be used for, amongst other things - questionnaires, quizzes, surveys, opinion polls etc.
• Using various types of questions: eg. Multiple choice, check boxes, short answers and paragraphs.
• Sharing newly created forms with the group.

Created form

Google sheets

• Using a created form  (questionnaire), information was collated. 
• This information was then entered into a spreadsheet. (Google sheets)

Google Maps

• The map below was created using the information from the spreadsheet.
• How to embed a map onto my blog.
• How to publish this new post on the blog.

Room 3 becomes a 1:1 Learning Room!

                                                      Room 3 becomes a 1:1 Learning Room!

Term 2, 2017 has seen the introduction of 1:1 i pads in Room 3, Years 2 and 3.
We have enjoyed  learning about the i pads and the kawa of care that goes with the responsibility of managing these digital devices.
We have also enjoyed learning how to take photographs with our i pads.
We learnt, among other things:

• How to focus, when taking photographs.
• How to avoid getting too much light in your photograph.
• Setting up your background.
• Making the object your centre of the photograph.
• Avoiding blurry pictures.
• Removing distractions in the background.
• Using landscape and portrait options. 

An exciting introduction with lots more interesting developments to follow!