Today, our North Rhins Partnership Digital Leaders came together to take part in a digital literacy training workshop. To ensure that everyone has the required skills to support their fellow pupils, the children undertook a series of training activities. Here are the skills we practiced and developed as part of our training:
Logging In:
- Logging on to our computers and logging into our Glow Accounts
Websites:
- Setting our favourites bar to display at all times
- Adding a web address to our favourites bar for easy access
Blog:
- Creating a new blog post as a contributor
- Saving our draft ready for approval for posting
QR Codes:
- Creating and downloading a QR code for a website (BBC Bitesize – Computing Lessons)
- Accessing our download folder to retrieve files
Emails:
- Accessing our email account
- Adding a recipient to an email
- Adding a subject and attachment (BBC Bitesize Computing website) and sending an email
- Creating folders in our email account
- Flagging and pinning an email in a folder
Although Scott couldn’t be with us today, we are sure he will be keen to support us as soon as he is back.
Our leaders are now busy planning Digi Skills clubs and events to help improve the whole school community ‘s digital literacy. Look out for the minutes of our meeting to find out more about what we got up today. Watch this space!
UNCRC Rights of the Child:
Article 15 Setting Up and Joining Groups, Article 29 – Aims of Education
