Thursday, September 23, 2021

External Recognition Agenda Day 9

The final week of the DFI course! Day 9

What has worked for me over the last week?

I used the Deep dive into Tech resources useful to encourage and invite my students to choose Digital Technology as an option for next year. The video resources were a great hook as well as the slide that showed which jobs did not exist in the past 10 years. The Google Educator level 1 slide deck was useful in brushing up on the skills in preparation for the exam.

Today - Friday 24th is the day of the Google Certified Teacher Level 1 examination. I have looked over the slides provided by DFI, so watch this space!


This was a 3-hour exam, I have to say I did thoroughly revise and this paid off. I managed to complete the examination in 42 minutes and passed! I am officially a Google Certified Teacher.


External Recognition Opportunities


Here is a links to upskill on other tools:
  1. Google Exam: An opportunity to gain a globally recognised award for teachers.

  2. Review content from the Google Training Centre Modules. 

  3. Apple Teacher Exams Apple Learning Centre

  4. Screencastify Master the Screencast

  5. WeVideo Education Ambassadors

  6. BookCreator Certified Author

Hāpara Champion

Sharing via Social Media and Display names

The below links were added to all my Blogs.


I am going to use this list of DFI term 3 blogs to read and comment on the blogs. 

Once I receive my Google Certified Teacher badge and DFI badge I will upload this onto my blog. Here is how to do this.

DFI Slam | screencastify of the below

Mote add aduido to slides and vocie comments for students

Trusted contacts 

Body Synth

Auto Draw - start drawing stuff and it will automatically finish the dreawiung and it can be downloaded as well

Rapid Doc Creation - If you type docs.new will open a new doc!

Read and Write Google Chrome - Who needs extra support. Free version is limited. Speaks in an Ozy accent!

Google Arts and Culture - Take a portrait and see if there is anyone who looks like you!

Incredibox - backing track for screencastify's etc

Burst shots for Iphones

Korerorero - App for learning Te Reo Maori app in conjuction with Auckland University. Puts sentence structures in real life

Gboard - Te Reo Maori macrons and dictionary

Chrome Music Lab - Songmaker is cool, someone can add and then build onto it

Adding captions to Slides - command+shift+C

Photpea - awesome online photoediting space 

Maths Whitebaord - Clever tool for high schools. Can draw on them and add equations 

Text Blaze - Can create custome snippets (keyboard shortcuts) that work anywhere in Chrome

Immersive reader - use on Ipads and chromebooks as well as Ipads. Can change the font, speech and has a picture dictionary good for someone who struggles with literacy

iPhone 2 Mac - To free your camera roll

Location Sharing on Google maps - share your location for a specific period of time

You can add co-hosts to Google Meet

Built onto all Chromebooks is a QR reader

Turn Art into music using Music Lab

ControlAlt Achieve for students - Google (timers, flip a coin etc)

Google Search:

Put words into speech marks to only search those words together rather than individually

Search tilde 

Google Doodle







1 comment:

  1. Congratulations Satchet!

    It's been fabulous having you on the DFI, and it sounds like you have taken a lot away that you can apply to your teaching practice.

    I look forward to connecting with you again in the future Satchet :)

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