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DFI - Session 1: Core Business

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Today has bought some key understandings around Manaiakalani and the basics around digital fluency using Google. Although being a digital tech teacher at a Manaiakalani school, I had only a limited vision of how that was beginning to be unpacked in some of our classrooms. I am looking forward to embarking on this journey as a part of the team and sharing the learning on a broader spectrum through Digital Tech. Google has many tools and functions that enable educators to become more efficient in the way we explore, store, retrieve, create, and share learning.   I came into this course already feeling a bit of an expert around using Google (being a digital tech teacher), however, I found heaps of cool tips and tricks to make the creation of Google Docs more exciting and user friendly.  Generally speaking Docs has been a word processing tool and I've tended towards using Google slides for anything visual.  Introducing Voice Typing to students could potentially be a way of al...