Gaylene Young Professional Blog

Just when you feel like you're pretty confident in your digital skills, you become immediately humbled by learning something new from the very programmes you use almost daily. I'm currently sounding like a broken record when i'm intrinsically chanting, 'Gaylene, work smarter, not harder'!   As a teacher, you can easily become overwhelmed with the pressures of teaching in a digital classroom.  The students are super clever, and pick up concepts quickly.  It's vital we stay ahead of the game. Google Keep  is now become my best friend.  It is going to help me manage both my home and work commitments.  I've already downloaded it into both my husband's and my own iphone. Did you know that if you set a reminder to buy something from the store, you'll receive alerts so you don't forget.  It's great for lists, information, recordings, planning collaboratively as you can take images, texts, voice recordings... it has sharing capabilities that

One of the new skills I have learnt while attending the Digital Fluency Intensive programme here in Taipa is creating an infographic through google doc's.  I never realised how more visually eye catching it is to read as opposed to the normal boring word document.  They can be used for posters, newsletters, visual aides....actually if you can think it, you can no doubt make it.  I've discovered you just have to jump in and give things a go. Here is an example of my first attempt. Nga mihi to Dorothy Burt and Kerry Boyde-Preece. Looking forward to next week's session.