EXAM DAY!!!
Can I become a certified Level 1 Google Educator?
Woohoo! Yes I can! Quite surprised as was a bit worried that I was rushing it a bit but if you using a lot of the tools, most tasks come as pretty straight forward. The theory at the beginning definitely required careful reading and I was glad I re-read each one before I continued on.
Summer learning journey
Cool opportunity for keen kids to encourage blogging over their school break. Definitely something to remember.
Google Classroom
Some benefits but I feel that google sites and Hapara provide a much more user friendly service for myself and my students.
Ubiquitous
I can see the huge benefits of allowing students to have access anytime, anywhere. BUT! We must keep our own sanity as teachers, professionals, parents, partners etc and draw a line that allows us to cope with the ever-growing pressures of this career. Sometimes it is great to respond to emails or give feedback/feedforward at crazy hours because it suits you at that time. But don't let it then become an expectation by others. We need our space and time away from these pressures.
Congratulations Dom!
ReplyDeleteI agree that we as teachers need to be mindful of how much we are available to our students and families outside of school hours and not to expect students to do too much home work.
Thank you for all the great chats on our car trips to DFI and help during class. We will continue to collaborate and share ideas I am sure.
Great post Dom and CONGRATULATIONS on your exam result! Couldn't agree with you more about the ubiquitous learning and it was great to discuss this today. Agree also with your sentiments of thanks, DFI has been great!
ReplyDeleteYou have such an in-depth blog! Congrats on passing your google cert!
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