DonnaY: February 2019

Thursday, 28 February 2019

Inquiry 2019

For my inquiry this year I was thinking about looking at the best way to differentiate my cyber smart program in schools where I have classes of students that have already worked with me for a year. In 4 of my classes, I have students that have already had a year of cyber smart in 2018 but have a new teacher this year who is a new 1:1 pilot teacher. But there are students also in the classes that are completely new to Chromebooks and the cyber smart curriculum. There is one class all the students have worked with me last year but the teacher is new. I gave these students a google form survey asking there ideas and choices of what areas of the cyber smart curriculum they would like to cover or revisit.
I started off just working with the new students and decided to change to trial a year 1 and year 2 program. As I felt the year 2 students were missing out on good learning time. Having had a good look at the cyber smart curriculum there where many import aspects the students had not covered yet that I could incorporate into a year 2 program. As the students in the year 2 are capable of following instructions, leading their own learning and are very familiar with Chromebooks and google apps it seems to be working OK.

Friday, 15 February 2019

Gmail Updates

About a week ago, news began rolling out from the G Suite Blog about an update to Gmail that introduced a highly-productive new feature: a right-click context menu from the inbox view.

From this menu, you can now right-click (two-finger click) any message in your inbox and get a myriad of quick options without ever needing to open the actual message.