Getting your online workflow right.

Today at our Digital Fluency Intensive course we were focusing on how best to manage your workflow.  Getting this right, being organised and methodical in your online practice can really help you feel confident teaching in a digital environment.

For teachers new to digital teaching,  establishing good online practice for your own workflow will serve you well when it comes to creating and managing your online learning space. 

The google suite helps you to be super organised, so on our course today we explored how to make your gmail account work for you by utilising Google's priority inbox, setting up filters and rules, personalised settings and add ons.  Working hand in hand with google's mail box is google task, google calendar and google keep.  All wonderful extras that enhance your workflow and help to save time. 

We did have a glitch with technology which was a real disappointment and meant we couldn't execute our Google Hangout session successfully.  This is a good reminder to triple check your IT provider has considered all potential issues.  On this occasion the problem lay with N4L's recent upgrade which meant that anyone outside the school's email domain address couldn't use Google Hangouts.  We troubleshooted a couple of ideas like creating everyone a school email address but as soon as they started to share their screen on a different profile their connection was lost.  Thankfully everyone was very understanding and it meant they had a fun homework activity to try with their peers.  Although the IT provider had been given a heads up about our requirements months prior, this was a good reminder to myself that you have to repeat two days out with a note about N4L changes.   To all our DFI participants thanks for your patience today.