Digital Fluency Intensive Session 1: Loads of tips for how to use Google effectively!

Today was such a useful session. We learnt so many new tricks and tools to use in Google Drive.

 An important quote from today: "Effective teaching is the key" 


Google groups

A very useful tool to use when you have large groups to email.
- Can be looked at in groups and emails
- Set up global contact group
- Create one email to share with this group - eg whole class

I will find this useful when I need to email my whole hub and/or team.


Options for how you want to use it.
Q&A forum
Web forum - interactive discussions
Email list - good for group emails
Collaborative inbox - topics/tasks assigned to members



Google drive 101
- Invest time to show learners how to set up their drive
- Create the doc in the folder that you want it in
- For marking/finding doc purposes get learners to use initials as front of doc name
- Teach learners to ‘copy’ and ‘paste without formatting’ - command shift V
- Don’t underline anything - this means that it is a hyperlink.


Formatting Google docs
- Add titles by using pull down
- Make sure you press enter before you press heading 1
- Insert - table of contents



These tips all seem so simple but something I would never have discovered on my own.





Voice typing

- Tools - voice typing - change accent
- For learners - read your doc/writing/reading to your google doc
This offers learners so many opportunities for reading. Some ideas that came out are:
- Ways to re engage with a text they've just read.
- Reading and then noticing the pronunciation of words.

Google docs cont

- If you want to direct someone to a certain part of a document - click the -hyperlink of the table of contents you want - eg summary and copy that link
- Table of contents could be dates for each piece of work - 1 doc per learner
- Search docs - command F
- Coach learners around sharing a digital docs - game where they share docs and add to each doc a different answer until they get theirs back


Add ons, extensions and scripts
This is something I was quite unfamiliar with and I am now so excited to start using.
Some awesome addons and extension ideas. 

Time to be creative!


















I had a lot of fun playing around with Google docs and exploring new ways to create a poster. It was a lot of fiddling but could definitely be a useful tool in the classroom, especially for those more visual learners.

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