Day 3 Digital Fluency

Todays focus around media and its impact on learning/teaching was a really interesting topic. Learning some finer details around Youtube was an interesting session. Only just realising I had a Yourube channel with videos already uploaded on the channel was definitely a surprise this morning....

Some of the cool features I learnt to use more effectively were      

• How to use the playlist feature on Youtube to collate all the relevant videos I might need 
• Creating different channels wher eI can post different videos (for the subjects I teach)
• Turning off the comment feature on Youtube (only use videos for viewing purposes, not its commenting features)

I have already set up a simple playlist for the rules of games we regularily play (makes it easy for me to find, and I can share this playlist with students to refresh their memories on the rules, concepts etc.)

I am planning on setting up a fitness channel for my class. This is where I am aiming to regulairly post content around key exercises points, different kinds of workouts, nutrition, etc....   

For our creating component today, I created a Digital pepeha using Google slides. While doing this I learnt a couple of cool points to do with slides and how to navigate slides a little easier. 

• I learnt some shortcut keys (Ctrl+Shift+Up/Down arrows=Moving your layers forwards and backwards, Crtl+D=Duplicate what you are higlighting)  
• How to grab the embedding code off Google Slides (hopefully it is similar for other videos, Google apps as well)
• Using the explore feature to quickly have access to the internet without having to switch tabs (very handy when working on something and time could be a contraint)

I also had a look at the formatting features on Google slides, and can see how these can be used to make our slides look appealing. This is something I am going to show my students so they can work on their presentations.
  

This is the slide presentation I created for our create component today!!