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Reflections on DFI course - day 2

Today we learned about Google Keep, Google Meet, Google Calendar, and how to create events and hangout meets. I already had a Google Keep in my phone which I constantly used, but it was the first time for me to look at the PC version. While I knew how to do all the basic things, one thing I found really handy was that I could save anything I find online to Google Keep while I am browsing, which I couldn't do on mobile app.

As for Google Meet and Google Calendar, I have done most of the things we were doing when we went to lock down, and I already knew how to record myself and how to present my screen. One thing I learned was to present my tap instead of my whole page. This was a useful tool to use if I wasn't trying to show others multiple taps at once, and I could also change the tab I was presenting quite easily with a click. 

I learned how to get email about blog comments, which I find really handy. For me, one of the wondering was... why couldn't they just make this into an app where you can get a notification through the app on mobile, or email using the email used by the user, without us physically setting it up? I know a lot of blogging apps do that, and this isn't the most convenient or user-friendly way of doing it. However, it made more sense when it was a class blog, where we needed to add more than 10 people who will receive the notification.

As a create task,  each of us made a Google Meets link, and chose a blogpost to talk about what the students were learning. 



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  1. Vicki @ ManaiakalaniAugust 4, 2020 at 9:47 PM

    Kia ora Gabrielle,

    Sharing a tab is such a useful tool in Google Meet, especially if you are wanting to share sound with those in your hui.

    Did you get the recording of your create task? It should have save automatically in your Google Drive, so you should be able to search for it, even if you didn't get a notification.

    Looking forward to catching up on Friday.

    Ngā mihi nui
    Vicki

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