Today has had a variety of challenges which I have thankfully gotten through with a lot of help from my friends, both old and new! I am aware that I need to go back over everything that I have learnt with a particular focus on google meet and google calendar as these are the things that I need the most frequently in my day-to-day school life. I need a lot of take up time to embed these digital skills so my notes and the slides that have been provided are going to be well used.

I enjoyed the gmail section and have already made a start on deleting subscriptions and adjusting other settings such as the background.  I will be continuing to reorganise my gmail site over the next few days to simplify and clean out some areas. I also need to add an email signature. It was good to find out that google translate is available if needed and that frequent email messages can be turned into templates.

I would like to compile a list of shortcuts from each session and keep them handy for easy reference as I know that I won’t be able to remember them all!

When wanting to look back at the speaker notes and slides I will try to use the ‘s’ key shortcut for easy access.

The Hapara hot tip was also useful and I will check the teacherdashboard.com to ensure that I can see all my classes as they are confirmed then use the pencil icon to rename them in a more user-friendly format.

Organising my bookmarks and cleaning up the bookbar is another priority. I would like to colour code my bookmarks get rid of unnecessary text.

Google Keep looks useful and I am thinking of it as being a bit like a parking bay for keeping things handy and I can see that it could be useful in the future but will get through some of the other stuff first:)

I had difficulty with uploading my screen shot and have not yet written my blog, I am now starting the blog and will upload the screen shot when I am finished:)

Today I learnt a lot and will be processing it over the next few days. I found a lot of information really useful but especially enjoyed the Google Drive component and did some rearranging of my files. The tip on adding numbers was really useful and I am using dates at the beginning of some files as well. It was good to learn how to do a screenshot and it is something I will definitely be using regularly. I need to take a look at all of my bookmarks and reorganise them as well as revising the information on citations, smart chips and how to change all headings at once. I now have four pages of scribbled notes to digest and embed in my practice. It was also good to see how to remove a background from an image and that is something I would like to try. My ‘create now’ work was pretty basic as it needed to be a handout rather than an interactive document due to its core purpose, next time I will work to create something with more visual scope and interactivity.

Thanks to all the wonderful presenters for their patience and expertise, it was a really valuable day of learning:)