DFI - Session 9

Wow! What a roller coaster ride! Thoroughly enjoyed coming to DFI on Friday's and learning about all the things. It is refreshing to break routine and get out of the school. I learnt a lot more than I thought I would and am more confident with the G-Suite and my use of Chromebooks in lessons. Today we did the Google Level 1 test and I thought it went really well. I felt I got most of the multi-choice questions right. In the 2nd section I thought I nailed it! I flew through! Thought it was quite easy. I checked that everything was completed and submitted and failed… So I am quite confused. We were given three weaknesses to work on before we resit. One of my apparent weaknesses is Google Classrooms… having used google classrooms since 2014, I am fairly confident that I did this section correctly. I feel quite lost as to where I went wrong. I will not be able to join the others with making the google badge permanent at the tattoo studio on Gladstone Road this afternoon. Looking back, I did not check the sharing rights of files that I shared with students, so perhaps there is more that I skimmed over as I followed the instructions to the letter. I was unsure about whether the pages I made on sites had to be sub-pages to the Title Page or their own separate entities, the question did not specify. Not sure if I will sit this again as I am confident with the application of the G-Suite in the classroom. DFI has changed the way that I operate. I can’t see myself walking round with a USB anymore. I have stopped using word processor and our department Chromebooks are being used more than once a week and we are seeking more. In a conversation yesterday our Principal said he would be keen for the school to get a drone! If that isn’t progress I don’t know what is. I don’t think a drone would help with our level 3 integration standard, but we should definitely get a drone!

Also, I smashed it:

Thanks Maria, Cheryl, Matt, Steph, Dorothy and all of Cohort 2 for the good times!

Signing off.