Seeing it through their eyes.

Struck by the sudden realisation that as a complete newbie to a lot of the digi work we are doing (feeling behind the 8 ball most of the time) my plight is exactly that of some of our struggling students. It's over your head most of the time and you struggle to keep up. It's no wonder they give up. However being able to rewind the lessons is great, basically to learn at your own pace. Why didn't we have this when I was at school….( oh that's right we didn't have computers) hell with that sort of help I wouldn't have ended up a teacher lol.

A fresh, new world (week 1)

 I was quite nervous starting this session, mainly because I have had little in the way of degi tech experiences. Meet, used it once. Google Doc’s, mucked around with a bit, not really enough to create anything noteworthy. Drive, managed to produce that cupboard that you close quickly before everything cascades out. Finding files within doc’s, just a hit and a miss.

I produced a start for a design brief in 1/10 of the time it took me to do the originally on word, once I saw it demonstrated it was straight forward and I’m sure I have only scratch the surface of what can be done.

Year 5 and 6 Geometric designs

String and pin designs

Simple single line designs	Simple double line design	Complex multi line designs
This design is made by running your string or thread from one pin to another only ever using a pin once	Like the simple design this is made by running your string or thread from one pin to another using the centre pins as links to the pin on the other side	This design uses a number of double line designs repeated to make a more complex looking design

So, day one, confidence growing, learning a lot. Still a lot of questions but I will head to school tomorrow and talk to a few of the first cohort teachers.

Using split screens-I noticed others working on tasks and still in meet.

Creating my blog - I have had a blog page set up for me but it won’t allow me to enter       anything without going back into a setup window ( blog name, url etc)

So next week it will be all go.

Recap

Didn’t really realize how far back the roots of this program run. I think even today its a great step forward, but back then it would have been a monumental shift.

For those who were inspired to push this through, what amazing people. The barriers they must have faced, people, money and politics.