Senior Leadership Day July 2019

Our fabulous leadership team met today to work on our three-year strategic roadmap. We are focussing on achieving our school vision of ‘enabling confident & capable learners.’

We also did some professional reading on well-being for staff & students. We plan to do some self-review on well-being using the NZCER Well-Being at School tool. Our professional reading included ‘Assessing & building wellbeing’ by Sally Boyd.

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DFI Session 1 The Principal Becomes the Student

The Principal Becomes the Student I've previously dabbled with the Google suite of apps and used Google Drive out of necessity in my professional life but to be honest I still feel more at ease and in control using Microsoft Office products to create. Today's first DFI (Digital Fluency Intensive) session had moments "Whoa! Can I keep up?" and "Yeah, I've got this!" I have to say that in this first session I have learned truckloads & today's day out of school has not felt like a chore. Here's a few of the things that Dorothy Burt, aka Mrs. Manaiakalani, has put me (and my esteemed colleagues) through in our very first DFI session: 1. 'Marie Kondoing' our google drives. Yes, these are in desperate need of a tidy up and reorganization. It will make life simpler, faster & easier. Make folders, colour code & have calendar years on them. Simple!!! 2. Useful tips and tricks. This included keyboard short ...

DFI Session 8 Media

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DFI Session 9 Ubiquitous & Google Educator Exam

"Whew!" is all I can say!!! The Google Educator Level 1 exam was intense but, as the screenshot image above shows, I passed. Completing the exam was two hours, 58 minutes and 33 seconds of intense concentration, intense completion of tasks and a bit of googling on the side to find out how to do tasks I couldn't automatically do. The parts of the exam that got my blood pressure rising to places it should never go were: creating You Tube playlists filtering data in descending order in Google Sheets The final thing to stump me was performing tasks in the Google Omnibox. What the #@%& is the Google Omni box? I asked my facilitator & was promptly told to google it. I thought to myself through gritted teeth 'What the #@%& do you think I've been doing for the last seven minutes!!' After reading and watching YouTube clips I discovered that the Google Omnibox is just the search bar - something I frequently use!!! Anyway, r...

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