DFI - Week 3

This week was an online week for DFI. We worked on Google Meet for the day! 

The theme of today's session was Media. We learned about many different types of media, within Google and beyond. 

Here are my three takeaways for the day: 

Youtube Playlists:

My class enjoys singing and dancing along to YouTube videos. They are such a handy tool to have as a teacher. 

I've now created a playlist that includes many of our classroom favourties. If you are a junior school teacher and you haven't heard of Loopy Tunes Music, go and check them out. They are always a winner in my class! 

Google Draw: 

We made a slide for our blogs or class sites today called "All About Me". 

A trick I learnt that I didn't know before was just the masking tool to turn an image into a shape and the use of the shift key to keep the image or shape correctly proportioned. 

Creating a personal slide theme:

We learnt how to create a personal slide theme in Slides. Creating a personal theme was a simple as opening a blank google slide, clicking on slide and then "Edit Theme". 

I can now use these slides for my lessons as the slide theme includes all the templates that I think I will need for the lessons in my classroom (and if I change my mind or think of a new idea I can always edit the theme later on once I have used it in practice). 

As a side note, something that I always find challenging as a junior school teacher is finding a good font for my children. Very few fonts are simple enough and with the letter correctly formed (no added flicks or "funny" letter a's or g's). Any suggestions would be much appreciated? 

Kia kaha!