Today was a looong day I had to go to town in the morning, and get back in time for teaching P7 English at 2pm. I was really tired and just as I thought the day was over and I could collapse in bed, I remembered that I had told some teachers I would do a session with them about using computers.
After running home for a drink, I felt better and although I hadn't planned out the session it went really well! Teacher Charles really wanted help with using his email so we practiced basic things like logging in, finding how to create a new message, entering recipient and sending.
I then showed him how to attach
photos and documents. I told him to send a picture from Google images to teacher Rachel who was sat with us too. They loved searching through Google and the outcome was a moving image of a dancing Skrillex cat... They were very amused and excited at this.
We then learned about using Microsoft word to create tests for students and other documents. It was nice teaching something I am so familiar with and don't usually have to think about, as it made me strip back to the basics and show them things like what bold text was and how to underline haha. I showed them how they can use specific tools to make an exam paper for students like making dotted lines for answers etc.
I worried that they wouldn't take everything in all in one go and forget some things I showed them so I sat and made a big poster with tips and explanations on to go on the wall in the staff room so they can see it whenever they need to!
I also told them that if they sent an email every morning to one other teacher, their typing (which is currently very slow) will improve so much and they will become fast. I used the example of English teenagers being like machines when they type as we are on computers so much tweeting and Facebooking or occasionally actually doing school work, that we become ridiculously good at typing!
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